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 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 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 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 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 MoreAmias Hanley is an artist currently living on Wurundjeri Country in Melbourne, Australia. Their practice uses sound and media to explore relations among queer ecologies, attunement, situatedness and speculative practices.
Read MoreChloë is an artist working in the areas of experimental sound performance, improvisation and early music. Her work draws on the sensate qualities of sound through the subversion and deconstruction of solo instrumental performance.
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 MoreCindy Yuen-Zhe Chen lives and works in Sydney, Australia on unceded Darramuragal and Gadigal lands. She uses experimental drawing, listening and sound practices to explore processes of embodied listening.
Read MoreLisa Rae Bartolomei is a multidisciplinary artist and musician working predominantly in the realm of spatially based electroacoustic music for performance and installation. Her practice incorporates elements of site-specific field recording, spectralism and experimental musical composition. Her art veers between a fragile, melancholic, yet beautiful daydream and a nightmarish vision of Armageddon.
Read MoreGillian Lever is a sound artist and composer working across multichannel sound performance, diffusion and sound installation. Her practice examines the intertwined nature of the relationship between spatial sound, the space it inhabits, and the exploring listener.
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 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 MoreMilkffish is the exploratory sound project of Lia Molina, comprised of ambient sound art using field recordings to blend both natural and industrial sounds.
Read MoreAllison is an Australian composer/sound designer of ambient music for video games and her own enjoyment. Originally trained in classical piano (obtaining her LMusA), her focus now lies in creating electronic works designed to relax and foster a love for taking notice of dreams and nature.
Read MoreA moody dystopian tone, confronted by energetic beats and intricate melodies that set a platform for developing ideas for coping. Where a witchy genre sets a delusion of spirituality, the idea references finding balance between discord and harmony with the personal rituals we use as coping mechanisms.
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 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 MoreKezia Yap is a Sydney-based composer who specialises in acoustic chamber, and mixed music (a medium that combines live acoustic instrumental performance with electronic elements). Her work centres around an exploration of timbre and space, and the way that can be extended through the inclusion of electronics.
Read MoreWith a background in classical performance, Alexis Weaver had no idea that her musical interest would settle in the world of electroacoustic composition. She enjoys fusing her traditional musical education with the ever-expanding area of music technology, having composed soundtracks for animation, short stories, radio, and the Sydney Fringe Festival.
Read MoreComposer, cellist and synth coveter, GEORGIASWEBB is a Sydney based musician with an infatuation for complex beats. With her Conservatorium education, she endeavours to apply her music theory knowledge to all things electronic. GEORGIASWEBB is all about using algorithmic processing and intricate immersive development to create otherworldly dreamscapes and music to satisfy your cravings for allure.
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 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 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 MoreSally Golding is a multimedia artist combining film projection, lighting and sonic composition to create expanded cinema performances and participatory installations. Golding’s audiovisual performance work focuses on the experience of the audience, pushing the boundaries of visual and auditory perception through the breakdown of the cinematic system into flicker, waveforms and colour fields…
Read MoreI am a researcher, writer and educator working on sonic communication and geography. Concentrating on shifts in economic and political landscapes, I investigate how these shifts are translated in the sounds that we hear, how we are affected by them, and how we listen and respond. My work is concerned with the ways that sound and communication are shaped by, and shape, our relations to one another, to the architectures and infrastructures around us, to our larger atmospheres and ecologies, and to the forces of power and governance that we experience and intervene in
Read MorePolly Stanton is an audio-visual artist and researcher. Her practice primarily explores listening as a means to navigate and map location and investigate the unseen aspects of place. Occupying the intersection of field recording, sound design, cinema and observational documentary, her work considers how sound can expand our experience of visual comprehension.
Read MoreEchoZilla is a new sonic art project lead by multi-instrumentalist and electronics tinkerer Jodi Moore. We play spontaneous instrumental soundtracks for the films of the imagination.
Read MoreMaria Moles is a drummer/producer/educator based in Melbourne, Australia. Since completing a Bachelor of Music Performance (Improvisation) from the Victorian College of Arts in 2013, Maria has dedicated her time to performing experimental improvised music and playing with Melbourne art rock band ‘Jaala’.
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 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 MoreJulia Drouhin is a French artist and curator living in the bush of Tasmania. She often mixes sound, food and fashion during collective mini-FM or online performances in Europe and Australia. She creates radioscapes, installations and performances from field recordings and found objects.
Read MoreCat Jones is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and curator. Her artworks are realised in diverse forms and include performance, audio, video, photography, immersive and site-specific experiences, visual-tactile illusion and olfaction.
Read MoreAlexandra Spence is a sound artist and clarinettist from Sydney, Australia, currently based in Vancouver, Canada. She works within the fields of improvised music, electroacoustic composition and multimedia installation. Alex is interested in the relationship between humans and their sonic environments, in the connection between sound and its context, and its relationship to experience, feeling, memory and place.
Read MoreScarlett Di Maio is the executive producer of FBi Radio’s multi-award winning experimental program Ears Have Ears: Unexplored Territories in Sound and the Communications Manager at...
Read MoreLeah Barclay is an Australian interdisciplinary artist, creative producer, composer and researcher who specialises in electroacoustic music, sound art and acoustic ecology. Her work has been commissioned, performed and exhibited to wide acclaim across Australia, New Zealand, Canada, USA, Europe, India, South Africa, China and Korea. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and has directed and curated interdisciplinary projects across the Asia-Pacific.
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 MoreBronwen Williams is a trans-disciplinary artist working with sound as a material to interrogate the nuances of cross-cultural living. Bronwen’s sound work uses psycho-acoustic phenomena and the sonic experience of oscillation and vibration to investigate an experience of cultural hybridity that is underpinned by a state of perpetual flux and tension. Employing a range of minimalist sound art tropes, her work offers an embodied listening experience that speaks to her contemporary cross-cultural reality.
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 MoreJannah Quill is a sound and visual artist based in Sydney. Her artworks carve soundscapes through the amplification of everyday technologies. Discarded LCD screens, projectors and consumer...
Read MoreJodi Rose is an artist, writer, producer, and creator of Singing Bridges, an urban sonic sculpture playing the cables of bridges as musical instruments on a global scale. Originally from Sydney, Rose travelled from Helsinki to Vietnam, New York to Singapore and Berlin in her quest for bridge music.
Read MoreFrances Dyson is Emeritus Professor of Cinema and Technocultural Studies at the University of California, Davis, and Visiting Professorial Fellow at the National Institute for Experimental Arts, University of New South Wales.
Read MoreNat Grant is a percussionist, sound artist, composer and teacher from Melbourne, Australia. She works predominantly as a freelance artist and has been employed as a composer and performer in the fields of puppetry, theatre, film, animation, and dance.
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 MoreLouise Devenish is a percussionist whose practice incorporates performance, commissioning, curating, research and education. Her work with contemporary, world and interdisciplinary ensembles includes co-directing percussion duo The Sound Collectors, directing Piñata Percussion, percussing for electro-acoustic sextet Decibel and curating the annual Day of Percussion.
Read MoreThe Sound Collectors are Louise Devenish (WA) and Leah Scholes (VIC). Formed in 2012 to create a platform to explore our shared interest in percussion theatre, The Sound Collectors delight in music that explores the use of text, gesture and physicality with percussion.
Read MorePia van Gelder is an electronic artist, teacher and curator who has exhibited and performed widely across Australia and internationally. Van Gelder develops performances and installations by working with media machines, both custom built heirloom technologies like the audio-video modular synthesiser, and common electronic devices which are opened up and hacked to perform in ways that negate their use or assumed design.
Read MoreVillage Spiritual Sounds, Meditating in the analog underground, Disturbing digital drone, Free improvisation – since 2001. Nicola Morton is a sonic kitsune 狐
Read MoreRomy Caen is an event organiser, studio manager and musician from Sydney. She plays harmonium in the Splinter Orchestra and electronics with musicians such as Jeremy Tatar and Melanie Herbert.
Read MoreIt’s no wonder many confuse Anomie and Sofie Loizou for being two completely different producers/DJs, so prolific are both. In music scenes dominated by testosterone and male bravado, Anomie (aka Sofie Loizou) has worked hard to become a serious force to be reckoned with.
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 MoreFurchick is a prolific DIY noise-art maker who incorporates making things, punk attitude, noise, science and weirdness into her creations. She often focusses on polyrhythms and vocals. She has taken her other sounds from the natural vibrations created from everyday objects.
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.
Australian 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 MoreMelanie Herbert is a Sydney-based composer, performer and installation artist. She performs in 8-piece laptop orchestra Electronic Resonance Korps, as well as large-scale improvising ensemble, Splinter Orchestra. As resident sound artist for Earthcrosser Company, Melanie has been involved in self-devised theatre works such as Room which was showcased at PACT theatre in May 2014.
Read MoreKusum 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 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 MoreCat Hope is an accomplished Perth based musician, composer, songwriter, sound and performance artist whose practice is an interdisciplinary one that crosses over into film, video, performance and installation. Her work has taken her on numerous tours around Australia, the USA, Japan and Europe. Her recordings are distributed and published worldwide, and she has written soundscapes for dance and theatre companies as well as commissions for film and pure music works.
Read MoreMichaela is a cross-disciplinary artist working with installation, sculpture, sound, performance and video. A doctor of psychology, her practice is informed by an interest in the role of psychological and physical agency in creative processes and performance.
Read MoreCORIN is the solo project of versatile Sydney pianist Corin Ileto (Alaska Orchestra). CORIN’s 20 plus years of training as a classical pianist are melded with her own blend of glitchy, ambient electronica in her independent 2014 release Deluge,
Read MoreMonica Brooks has modeled sound works, compositions, and improvisations from piano, computer, field recordings, glasses, radio, and accordion.
Read MoreThembi Soddell (b.1980) is an Australian sound artist, electroacoustic composer and practice-led researcher with an interest in psychology, perception, extreme emotion and the subjectivity of experience.
Read MoreKate Carr is an Australian sound artist based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Her work explores the way we shape, reshape and are shaped by the natural and built world. From desire paths, de-population, decay and renewal, she’s interested in exploring the lived sonic realities and histories of human places.
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