Helen 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 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 MoreI am an acoustic ecologist, sound artist, composer, musician and educator. I seek spaces with limited anthropogenic sounds including infrasound interactions. With an ongoing quest for sonic immersion and creative compositional devices with authenticity and inspiration I delve into an organic landscape of sound.
Read MoreDalbergia Duo (Anna Rutkowska & Julianna Siedler Smuga) is a unique female marimba/percussion duo from Poland, performing various music written for two marimbas/percussion sets. We perform pieces already written by great composers of classical, film and contemporary music. Moreover we cooperate with composers form around the globe who also write pieces for our duo.
Read MoreJulie Herndon is an Oakland-based composer and performer working with internal/external space through song, electronics, text, graphics, and improvisation. Julie is currently pianist and vocalist in H/I Ensemble and a doctoral candidate at Stanford University.
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 MoreJudith Shatin composes with digital, electroacoustic, multimedia and expanded acoustic technologies. Founder of the Virginia Center for Computer Music, she has created music from recordings of wooden looms (Penelope’s Song), all kinds of tape (Tape Music), of a sculptor at work (Tree Music), sounds of a working coal mine (COAL, a folk oratorio).
Read MorePraised for her equally fierce and bold dramatic performance style, Sylvia Hinz is one of the leading recorder players worldwide, specialised in contemporary music and improvisation.
Read MoreMaritime-born artist, Lisa Lipton is a multidisciplinary visual artist, musician and director who received her B.F.A. from NSCAD University and M.F.A. from the University of Windsor. Her projects explore the potential for crossing genres of film, mixed media installation, performance, theatre and music.
Read MoreI am a musician, composer, sound and radio artist. I play a number of instruments, including double bass, guitars, and the piano. I use my field recording archive to create organic electro-acoustic soundscapes for my compositions and performances.
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 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 MoreAustralian percussionist Vanessa Tomlinson is active in the fields of improvisation, solo percussion, contemporary chamber music, installation and composition. She is particularly well-known for her improvisational language that incorporates sonic investigations of found objects, nature, and toy instruments…
Read MoreCooper is a designer, harpist, organiser, teacher and mum. She’s ferocious with strings and sticks, her sound inspired by synthesizers and broken boom boxes. She plays the chinese guzheng and pedal harp – more often than not with drumsticks and violin bows – snapping, crackling, popping and stabbing. Her investigations into context and how it can energise a performance have led her to map spaces and construct situations.
Read MoreLaura Altman is a clarinetist, improviser and composer, born and based in Sydney. She has been an important young voice on the Sydney improvised music scene since 2007, playing with groups such as The Splinter Orchestra and Prophets, and collaborating with Australian improvisers including Jim Denley, Dale Gorfinkel, Monica Brooks and Peter Farrar. Laura has toured Australia and Europe with a range of projects including the internationally renowned trio ‘Great Waitress’, featuring Brooks on accordion and Berlin-based pianist Magda Mayas.
Read MoreMonica Brooks has modeled sound works, compositions, and improvisations from piano, computer, field recordings, glasses, radio, and accordion.
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