Interviews

GRAND RIVER, materialising the complexity of intimacy through sound
Interview by Ana Prendes Aimée Portioli, aka Grand River, is a composer and sound designer whose experimental electronic music conjures up an atmospheric depth over

JENNIFER WALSHE & JON LEIDECKER, thoughts on collaboration
Interview by Estela Oliva Composer and performer Jennifer Walshe has been coined by the Irish Times as the ‘most original compositional voice to emerge from

JORDAN EDGE, on exploring trans-species sonic fictions
Interview by Ania Morkrzycka Working across experience design, performance and sound art, Jordan Edge moves between explorations of inner and outer sonic worlds in search

LEA BERTUCCI, the vibrating body: sound & energy in sonic art practice & music composition
Interview by Luca Nasciuti Lea Bertucci is an artist, composer and performer with a body of work that investigates and is informed by acoustic events

OISEAUX- TEMPêTE, sprawling soundscapes of beauty & transcendence
Interview by Christoper Michael Oiseaux-Tempête are a French experimental group who have been consistently pushing the boundaries of contemporary music for over a decade. The

BREAKFAST, stimulating awareness by bridging the digital & physical worlds
Interview by Juliette Wallace New York art collective BREAKFAST name is born from the search to combine content and container in art, science and technology.

NAOMI RINCÓN GALLARDO, affective excess within ‘assemblages of entangled embodiments’
Interview by Agata Kik The practice of queer and of colour feminist artist Naomi Rincón Gallardo deals with interspecies existences that are “exposed to heteropatriarchal

ALEXANDER TUCKER, synthesising sound & image, folding time & space, giving life to the dead
Interview by Agata Kik First and foremost a visual artist, Alexander Tucker describes himself primarily as a painter, the artist is also known as a

GAMUT INC, building synergy between automation & creativity
Interview by Olya Karlovich From the metronome to music boxes and mechanical pianos — people have been experimenting with automating instruments since the old days

LING TAN, artistic participatory methodologies through social engagement, performance & politics
Interview by Daniela Silva Ling Tan is a contemporary artist whose work explores the intersection of technology, ecology, and human behaviour. She is known for

MERCHE BLASCO, establishing a non-hierarchical relationship with technology
Interview by Olya Karlovich It all started with improvisation. When 20-year-old Merche Blasco was looking for a hobby to switch off from studies in communication

LAURA HUERTAS MILLÁN, fiction as a psychotropic for collective healing
Interview by Ania Mokrzycka Approaching storytelling as a technology and a site of knowledge and fiction as a form of power, the French-Colombian filmmaker and

ELENI IKONIADOU, vocalities entangled in nonhuman history
Interview by Agata Kik Born in Athens and based in London, Dr Eleni Ikoniadou is an academic, writer, theorist and curator. Previously in the role

PETER BURR, digital art at the intersection of technology, ecology & society
Interview by Daniel Silva Peter Burr is an American artist who explores the complex relationship between technology, society, and the natural world. One of his

OKKYUNG LEE, improvised music experiments & cello-coloured compositions
Interview by Agata Kik Letting sounds speak, strings sing, the South Korean-born artist Okkyung Lee is probably mostly known for her improvised interactions with the

DAMSEL ELYSIUM, an ethereal & fearless approach to artistic expression
Interview by Charlie Clark Catching a glimpse of the ethereal Damsel Elysium, you’re transported to an otherworldly realm full of flowers and ruffles. Despite their