Composers
Caterina Barbieri
Italian electronic music composer, Catarina Barbieri, creates dramatic musical experiences that play with perceptions of space; weaving together irregular rhythms and shifting melodies – with intense emotional affect.
Nyokabi Kariũki
Kenyan composer Nyokabi Kariũki creates sound from a diverse musical palette; with influences ranging from classical to choral, field recording to (East) African musical traditions. Her music centres experimentation, improvisation and explorations into how sound has been used to keep the African memory.
Gwen Siôn
Welsh composer, Gwen Siôn creates contemporary classical, vocal, found sound and electronic compositions. Gwen’s practice explores relationships between sound and environment, ecology, mythology, ritual and synaesthetic crossover.
Sarah Kierle
Sarah Keirle-Dos Santos is an field recordist, electroacoustic composer, lecturer, and performer based in Manchester. Her acousmatic and interactive works, primarily explore the connection between people and their environment.
Nabeelah Hafeez
Creative practitioner, poet and photographer working alongside museums and galleries to create interpretive pieces with a focus on identity, layering history, home and belonging, unpicking the human experience through word play and imagery. Nabeelah’s acclaimed exhibition Through My Father’s Lens weaves together poetry and photography as an intergenerational conversation of time, love and loss.
