Mara is a composer and curator based in Eora / Sydney. She plays the viola and collaborates with her laptop to create live performances and recorded pieces for film, dance, and gallery spaces. Informed by interactions and perspectives within environments, her work questions the coexistence and understanding between those who inhabit them
Read MoreKathleen Yearwood is a vocalist, composer and electric guitar player coming out of folk tradition and immersed in musique concrete and noise. She invented a form called “Filth Opera” which expresses the life of the poor in an industrialized world. Her compositions long for a time of peace and look forward to the victory of the natural world.
Read MoreHelen Svoboda is a double bassist, vocalist and composer. Her work explores the melodic potential of the contemporary double bass, intricately weaving extended techniques and overtones with vocal tessiture amidst abstract song-writing and vegetable-themed compositions
Read MoreHassina Sakhri is an electroacoustic artist creating visionary soundscapes that are both healing and contemplative, drawing from intuition and the intellect. Her works strike a balance between control and improvisation. Hassina creates sonic art both in stand-alone pieces as well as for meditation.
Read MoreJo (Josephine) Truman is a composer/ performer/improviser and sound artist. She has a BA in Communications (UTS – majoring in sound and writing) and an MMus (Composition – Sydney Conservatorium of Music) with her research thesis on extended vocal techniques in New Music. She has received various awards for her work – a Special Purpose Award and an International Study Grant which took her to Europe where she lived for 19 years, performing in many festivals such as the Le Mans Jazz Festival, the Strasbourg Musica Festival, Heineken Jazz Fest…
Read MoreCasey Moir is an Australian born, Swedish based vocal-artist, improviser, and composer. Intrigued by unconventional sounds and extended techniques, the investigation into the rich sound spectrum of the voice is an integral part of her artistic practice and endeavours.
Read MoreMareike Dobewall is a director, scenographer, musician and composer. She is based in Stockholm since 2016. She studied filmmaking in Berlin, scenography at the Norwegian Theatre Academy and choreography at HZT in Berlin. Her specialisation lies in the creation of spatial sound performances.
Read MoreSarah Buchner is an improviser, experimental vocalist and composer based in Copenhagen. She is working with sonic fragmentation of human expression. She generates her sound through exploring acoustic spheres past common singing techniques, as well as de-contextualizing sounds of daily non-verbal communication.
Read MoreJacqui O’Reilly is a Pākehā artist, researcher and musician from Aotearoa New Zealand, now based in Sydney Australia, on the unceded land of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. Jacqui is interested in the creative act as acknowledgement of what has happened in the past and what could happen in the future through embodiment within the more-than-human world.
Read MoreShirkher is a solo act that delves into a world of experimental and angsty art pop, often being built off of my poetry and certain moods that I want to capture. I make use of quite a maximalist, bombastic production style to confront different ideas and fears, and song structures that twist, turn and invert pop conventions.
Read MoreMaria Bergström is a sound artist working with acoustic & electronic instruments and samples to build soundscapes to tell stories with focused presence as the main goal. Working with topics like mental space versus physical space, silence as something relative, and sound pollution, she is driven by creating human openness and sensory stimulation through sound.
Read MoreLesteria is an experimental vocal and sound artist based in Paris, France. She builds her tracks by compositing field-recorded and found sounds with improvised instrumentation, then adds a blend of vocal layers which represent the compartmentalization of her inner selves. The text of her vocal performance expresses the separation and reunification of layers of self-awareness.
Read MoreKlare Lanson is a performance poet and sound artist, investigating digital tensions and mobile entanglement in relation to mediated screen and sound experience, digital parenting, digital ethnography and networked versions of self. Concepts such as listening, digital disruption, and social wellbeing are topics of her creative practice-based PhD research.
Read MoreNiki Matita is a record entertainer, selectress, experimental sound artist, improviser, performer, researcher, radio artist & presenter, activist and moderator. She works and lives in Berlin. Her sonic work is based on research-inspired notes and texts, voice experiments, plunderphonics and own compositions.
Read MoreAnna Whitaker is a Brisbane based sound designer, composer and audio engineer with a palate for experimental, acousmatic works and surround sound composition. She graduated from Queensland Conservatorium of Music with a Bachelor of Music Technology, and since has designed and composed for productions including Festival 2018, Bleach* Festival, La Boite Theatre Company, tasdance, Brisbane Festival, MELT Festival, and The Farm.
Read MorePerforming as AGF, poetess and new media artist Antye Greie utilizes language, electronics, field recordings, politics & explores speech within the audible depths of anti-rhythmic post-internet assemblages.
Read MoreSound-artist,electronic musician, singer, guitarist, composer/performer of experimental, contemporary, improvised music with her Max/MSP programming for live-sound-processing. She makes music for robots, interactive sound (and video) art, and “Audio Chandelier” multi-channel sound works.
Read MoreArtist, photographer, performer, sound and video maker, Tansy Spinks is currently researching ways of listening, materiality in sound-making and site-specific sound as a live, performative practice. She received her PhD from LCC, (CRiSAP), University Of the Arts, London with David Toop, Angus Carlyle and Cathy Lane.
Read Morecomposer, producer and performer of intuitive and expressive music and sound design, sometimes a mix of the two using her voice, piano, tech and guest musicians. Also instigator and project manager of electronic music charity Delia Derbyshire Day. Based in Manchester, UK.
Read MoreTaana Rose is a multi instrumentalist singer/songwriter who plays guitar and synthesiser, while performing with a Launchpad using electronic vocal looping. Her latest single Unexpected Love is set to be released on the 9th of March 2019.
Read MoreMuzikačaka is one-woman band that does not consider herself inside one specific genre. What is important inside her music, it is the concept. Music was waiting many years for realisation and then first album arose in 2015 in Winter in Haloze, between the frying of a baker’s oven, chopping wood and in virtual and social isolation.
Read MoreA multi disciplinary artist using voice to reconstruct language by rearranging its sounds, patterns, and rhythms in to almost-familiar audio vignettes. Language is featured strongly in performances, writings, and sculptures that examine phrase and word meanings on several levels.
Read MoreBorn and raised in the wild state of Idaho (USA), performer and composer Gretchen Jude has been heard across the globe, from Seoul to Helsinki. Gretchen’s work explores the liminal spaces between natural & artificial, tradition & experimentation, self & other, as she wanders the borderlands of contemporary experience. As a composer, she approaches music composition as ‘a channel for the desire to sing’ (to paraphrase Joel Ryan paraphrasing William Forsythe).
Read MoreErica Bramham is a vocalist, guitarist and composer from Melbourne, Australia. Poetic, inventive and uniquely personal, her work crosses the boundaries between jazz, traditional folk and experimental art music, showcasing her finesse as a lyricist and a captivating performance style that blends song with spoken word, improvisation and extended vocal technique.
Read MorePrimitive Heart is a dreamgaze project by Dani Mari. Dani Mari is a multi-genre music producer and visual artist. Audiences across the world have gravitated toward Dani Mari’s beautifully haunting voice and simplistic elegant lyrics.
Read MoreAndrée Greenwell is a composer, vocalist and sound designer who works across mainstream and experimental platforms in performing arts, screen, and radio. Her catalogue of around 100 scores includes credits for Australia’s leading performing arts organisations…
Read MoreKristina Warren (US, UK) is an electroacoustic composer, improviser, and researcher. Her diverse output — including electronic-vocal performance, non-traditionally notated scores, and scholarship on gender in electronic music — imagines the coherence of seemingly disparate processes, such as noise and individualized listening.
Read MoreLaura Mello is a composer and performer who sees voices as persons in sound, as well as language, gestures and field recordings as musical materials. Originally from Brazil and living between Vienna and Berlin, she plays with languages, field recordings and synthesized sounds to make instrumental compositions, performances, experimental music, radio art and sound installations.
Read MoreA Hydra-headed project (with heads from the UK and Poland) made by a self- taught Polish woman based in Oslo/Norway. It is an imperfect, chaotic, DIY, darkpunk project with noise and industrial/ambient influences. Instruments used are noise machines, bass guitar, vocals. Industrial collages are an illustration to the music.
Read MoreJenny Ruth Barnes has a bachelor of music and a masters in applied linguistics and works in english language learning with refugee and migrant communities in Melbourne.
Read MoreEki Shola is a musical healer, composing music that allows listeners to relax and ease the daily stressors of life. As a physician, she has witnessed how the physical and emotional manifestations of stress and spiritual disconnection can adversely impact the ability to live an enriched and fulfilled life.
Read MoreSky High Diamonds is the musical outlet of Sarah Gatter who defines herself as an experimental DIY sound poet. Inspired by a combination of acoustic sounds, electronic sources, pre recorded and spontaneous sounds, Sarah also develops homemade percussion to explore space and rhythm.
Read MoreCatherine’s multidisciplinary practice addresses communication through voice and language and the interplay between hearing/listening and seeing/reading. Using field recording, digital imaging and the spoken/written word she is exploring an expanded approach to language within species and across species through a framework of everyday experience.
Read MoreComposer and producer of electronic leftfield music. Lives in the woods in Denmark. Early works include recording vocals in a washing machine, building microphones from telephones and recording music through a walkie-talkie.
Read MoreSIRENS is a duo that uses electronic manipulation and looping to create live improvisations. More than soundscapes, these are songs composed and performed in the same moment. Both vocalists, percussionists, and instrumentalists this duo continues to develop their sound but focus on creating honest, simple, emotive music.
Read Morejessica gabriel is a multidisciplinary artist, puppeteer, life model, permaculturalist, poet, clown…tay_ploops is an (un)sound sea grit sighed project: an ongooing exp(lore)ation of lo_fyi sketches from handheld casse-tête tape reek or dings.
Read MoreAshley Shomo is an experimental vocalist who creates unbound compositions with syllables, words, breath and other diverse voice-centric techniques. Cyclopsycho has been Ashley’s primary experiment since 2004. Here, she weaves and manipulates layers of voice, poetry and visual body art to summon adventures into the wild.
Read Moreisabel nogueira is a composer-performer-researcher that uses voice, synths, field recordings and electronic devices to make experimental music, noise and sound art.
Read MoreClodagh has been in an on/off relationship with The Music Business since 1968 when she released her first single “Feelin’ High” at the age of 15, with the band she formed at school, Mellow Candle. While still in her teens, she did sessions for Thin Lizzy, Mike Oldfield, and Jade Warrior.
Read MoreI am an improvising and experimental vocalist that works with synthesized and site-specific sounds. I have collaborated with choreographers, theatre makers), journalists, young people and more recently, constructed works for live music performance that fuse sound design and composed work with future directions in real-time improvisation.
Read MoreRiz Maslen, who records as Neotropic and Small Fish With Spine, has been described as one of the most prominent women composers working in post-techno experimental electronics. In addition to her warm electronic programming, Maslen’s music also embraces folk, psychedelic pop and her interest in experimental filmmaking.
Read MoreHappy Axe uses violin, musical saw and vocals to create layers of sound that are beautiful, unsettling and cinematic. Organic instrumental sounds are melded with digital manipulation, looping and effecting, and sounds are generated live.
Read MoreAstrid Zeman is a vocalist, composer and multi-instrumentalist (guitar, trombone, piano) who creates live, ambient soundscapes using a loop pedal. Through recent explorations of her physical self as an instrument, she has learnt throat and harmonic singing alongside body percussion and mouth manipulations including tongue clicking.
Read MoreKristin Bolstad is a Norwegian composer, improviser, singer and electro-acoustic musician. Her works are often conceptual and with an improvisational and playful character, composed more from a practical than theoretical point of view.
Read MoreI’m a singer who combines beats with performance art and collaborates with producers from around the world. I am a classically trained violinist and also play cello and bass, which I layer to create neoclassical soundtracks for film and modern dance companies.
Read MoreLilian Campesato is a Brazilian performer, researcher and curator interested in investigating experimental forms of music and sound art. Her works explore the use of voice and gesture in combination with interactive electronics and audiovisual resources.
Read MorePatricia Martinez (Argentina) is composer, improviser, pianist, interdisciplinary artist, researcher and professor. Her works has emerged, in part, from an experimental process of ‘stripping-down,’ which involves a degree of risk-taking, in that the resulting piece is left somewhat vulnerable in terms of its expressive identity.
Read MoreSonya’s practice is based around the presentation of exploratory vocal music; from improvisation to pre-composed vocal works spanning centuries, genres and cultural contexts. She utilises a vast range of techniques to highlight the fullest capabilities of the voice, with a particular interest in its capacity to express the inexpressible.
Read Morei am a lo-fi, experimental expressionist; a vocalist and minimal instrumentalist focusing on techniques of improvisation, simplicity, and repetition. i create best when i feel possessed : by my sub-conscious and other muses, but also by my desire to see what is lurking beneath my own layers. i write to create characters, ethereal and haunting experiences, and stories, real and unreal.
Read MoreAmanda Stewart is a poet, author and composer/performer for voice. She has created a diverse range of publications and performances in Australia, Europe, the US and Japan working in literature, music, sound poetry, broadcasting, theatre, film, dance and new media environments. Within new music and sound art, Stewart has developed a unique approach to composition, improvisation and extended vocal technique where she incorporates her own philosophical, linguistic and poetic formulations/constructions (and abstractions) within music, body and voice.
Read MorePamela Z is a composer/performer and media artist working with voice, live electronic processing, sampled sound, and video. A pioneer of live looping techniques, she creates works combining extended vocal techniques, operatic bel canto, found objects, text, processing, and gesture-activated MIDI controllers.
Read MoreDr. Donna Hewitt is a performer, vocalist, electronic music composer and instrument designer. Her primary interest in recent years has been exploring gesture in mediatized performance environments and new ways of interfacing the voice with electronic media. She is the inventor of the eMic, a sensor enhanced microphone stand for electronic music performance which she has been developing and performing works with both locally and internationally for the past 11 years.
Read MoreLa creación como extracción de la mielina hacia el mundo exterior. Teniendo en cuenta que mi inspiración viene del cosmos, podría decirse que la gravedad afecta seriamente mis sentidos.
Read MoreAmbrosia is a sound and installation artist from Seattle. Her pieces aim to subdue the listener into a trance, to provoke thought beyond word. Visually, she expresses intentional...
Read MoreVillage Spiritual Sounds, Meditating in the analog underground, Disturbing digital drone, Free improvisation – since 2001. Nicola Morton is a sonic kitsune 狐
Read MoreIris Garrelfs is a London based composer and artist interested in modes of listening as a way of connecting to the world, exploring interrelatedness, patterns and interaction through improvised performances, mixed media projects and recordings.
Read MoreAs a vocalist working with extended techniques, Alice builds intimate exchanges with her audience. She creates an array of timbres and textures by controlling tension in her throat and alternating the passage of air and vocalisations.
Read Morestray cat | vessel of infinite veracity | supernatural repository | sister of Ophelia | L’Enfant terrible | wayward | illegitimate bastard child | rock & roll outlaw |
member of the the Church of overblown firefox tabs, her spiritual animal is the Tasmanian devil.
Kusum Normoyle is an artist and musician working with voice, feedback and noise for both performance and installation. She is currently a PhD candidate at UNSW Art and Design, Sydney, Australia, under the supervision of Douglas Kahn and is an active member of the Sound and Materials Research Group at UNSW Art and Design.
Read MoreGail Priest is a Sydney-based artist with a multifaceted practice in which sound is the key material of communication and investigation. Her compositions exist in a liminal zone between song and soundscape. She is the founder of Audible Women.
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