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 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 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 MoreCynthia Zaven is a composer, pianist and artist based in Beirut. Her projects combine a variety of media including video, photography, performance and the use of archive material to explore the relationship between sound, memory and identity through interwoven narratives.
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 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 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 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 MoreSadah Espii Proctor (Espii) is a VR director and sound/media designer for theatre and immersive experiences. Named by American Theatre Magazine as one of “6 Theatre Artists to Know” for multimedia storytelling, her work encompasses global stories of women, social issues, and the African Diaspora, often with an Afrofuturist/Cyberpunk lens.
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 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 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 MoreMariana Carvalho is a brazilian pianist, improviser and performer, keen on body, gender and transdisciplinarities. Experiments objects inside the piano and explores corporealities via eutony. Interested in weaving sonic relations in space, installations, expanded sonic bodies, free improvisation, experimental music, theatre, dance.
Read Morecrys cole is a Canadian sound artist working in composition, improvised performance and sound installation. By generating subtle and imperfect sounds through simple gestures, she creates textural works that continuously retune the ear, delicately seeking to both reveal, and obscure the intricacy of seemingly mundane sounds and sources.
Read MoreIrish composer Karen Power seeks to stimulate, engage and interact with audiences. Her work utilises two primary sources; acoustic instruments and everyday sounds, spaces and soundscapes. Karen’s output is diverse – both in its approach and delivery – and her primary aim is to capture and translate the essence of an idea through any artistic means necessary.
Read MoreSarah Peebles is a Toronto-based installation artist, music improvisor and composer. Much of her work explores distinct approaches to performing the Japanese mouth-organ, shō (笙) , unconventional methods of amplification, and digitally manipulated found sound.
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 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 MoreDiana Policarpo is a visual artist, composer and radio presenter (Rádio Quântica) based in London and Lisbon working in composition, sculpture, improvised performance and sound installation. Her work investigates power relations, popular culture and gender politics, juxtaposing the rhythmic structuring of sound as a tactile material within the social construction of esoteric ideology.
Read MoreJudy Dunaway is an avant-garde composer, free improvisor, conceptual sound artist, transmission artist and creator of sound installations who is primarily known for her sound works for latex balloons. Since 1990 she has created over forty works for balloons as sound conduits and has also made this her main instrument for improvisation.
Read MoreHanan Hadžajlić is flutist, composer, music analyst and transdisciplinary art researcher from Bosnia and Herzegovina / Slovenia. As composer, she works in fields of “meccanical music” for acoustic instruments/ensembles, music theatre and real time electroacoustic composition. She is member of ensemble SONEMUS.
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 MoreES is an Italian artist and academic in visual/sonic arts combining interactive installations with creative programming, research-based field recordings, DIY electronics, photographs, and non-linear soundscape compositions.
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 MoreBorn in Belgrade 1979. violinist, sound artists, curator and researcher mostly active in the field of electro-acoustics, instrumental improv & experimental sound related arts. Graduated at the Belgrade Music Academy, then gained PGDip at the RCM, London. In the past years focused on developing own notation system (Violin Revealed, Alternative Guide to Violin’s Sonic Life) integrating intuitive graphics with microtonal instrumental approaches as well as development of cognitive memory in conceptual AV performance.
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 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 MoreSophia Loizou is a music producer, author and AV artist working at the intersection of contemporary electronic music, speculative fiction and the ecological. Central to her practice is an ongoing investigation of sonic fiction as a generative, theory-making device that operates from within sound.
Read MoreDominika Ksel is an interdisciplinary artist, psychonaut and investigator of invisible landscapes living in Brooklyn. The work is an ecosystem that gently deconstructs power and materiality while exploring the interstices of consciousness, history, gender & sexual politics, science and sound.
Read MoreNatasha Barrett (UK / Norway) is a composer, performer and researcher in the field of contemporary electroacoustic music and sound-art. Her works encompass instrumental and electroacoustic concert composition as well as more diverse forms such as sound-architectural installations and public interactive art.
Read MoreYoujin is a Seoul-based sound artist, composer and performer. Recently, she is interested in exploring the possibilities of sound that exist in every material and focused on sound itself. And she expands the range of sound studies into ambisonics and designing sound instruments.
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 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 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 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 MoreTrabajo con el sonido de muy diversas formas. Compongo canciones y piezas electroacústicas, pero también soy improvisadora. Además hago instalaciones en las que distribuyo parlantes en un espacio. Suelo trabajar con otros artistas, también performeando y organizando performances.
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 MoreJessica Ekomane was born in France. She now lives and works in Berlin.
Her practice unfolds around sound installations, site-specific sound interventions and music. Her work has been shown at CTM 2013, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Shangai Electronic Music Week or Ars Electronica.
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 MoreJasmine Guffond is a sound artist and composer from Sydney, Australia, living and working in Berlin, Germany. She has performed live internationally, exhibited sound installations and recorded music for CD and 12inch vinyl releases with the Sigma Editions, Staubgold, Monika Enterprise and Sonic Pieces labels.
Read MoreFrance Jobin is a sound / installation / artist, composer, and curator residing in Montreal, whose audio art, qualified as “sound-sculpture”, reveals a minimalist approach to complex sound environments where analog and digital intersect.
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 MoreRachel Devorah Trapp is an American composer, sound artist, and improvising hornist. Her context-specific works for performance and installation crystallize in sound the habits of being: the daily patterns of ineffable exchange that bind our individual lives together.
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 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 MoreCamilla Hannan is an Australian sound artist who works exclusively with field recordings. She processes these recordings into abstract representations of place and experience.
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 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 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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