ARTIST SPOTLIGHT

Meet multidisciplinary sound artist, visual artist, poet and composer Allis Hamilton from NSW, Australia, whose work is influenced by folk stories, myths, fairy tales, ancient traditions, and the natural world.

Meet Cambridge-based sound and video artist and composer Amanda Stuart, and find out how her inspirations range from Debussy and Monet all the way through to Star Wars sound designer Ben Burt.

Meet long-time Cities and Memory contributor and Ciat Lonbarde synth whizz Andy Billington, who works under the artist name solo1 and prefers to leave the computer screen behind to get hands-on with hardware.

Meet New York-based sound artist, musician and composer Bill Stevens, whose work featuring spoken word, field recordings and improvisation is inspired by John Cage, minimalist composers and the jazz greats.

Meet Paris-based field recordist Colin Hunter, who has been contributing beautiful sound recordings of nature, sacred spaces and important places to Cities and Memory since the Covid-19 lockdowns. 

Meet Florence-based composer and performer Cristina Italiani, who blends flute and field recordings and improvises with traditional Mediterranean music and music from the Far East.

Meet Sardinian sound artist, Cities and Memory contributor and self-professed unreliable narrator Cristina Marras, as she introduces us to her radio art and spoken word-led practice.

Meet Tokyo jazz pianist and sound artist Daisuke Matsubara, who feels freedom sitting at a piano, and whose sonic journey in life began with Pokemon. 

Meet Plymouth-based musician and composer Daniel Chudley – Le Corre, member of 90s psych-pop legends The Monsoon Bassoon and now a Stravinsky and John Zorn-influenced working under various guises.

Meet Syracuse, New York-based field recordist and acousmatic musician Edward Ruchalski, whose sonic journey started with a guitar aged eight and continues today with radio broadcasts, collaborations and lots of contact mics!

Meet Oaxaca-based field recordist, sound designer and composer Erick Ruiz Arellano, whose brilliant recordings were a centrepiece of our Sonic Heritage project – and find out why the sound of a blue whale\\’s blow is so special.

Meet Hastings-via-Dundee composer Euan Millar-McMeeken, who creates music under the names Glacis, Civic Hall, The Dead Bell and Gallowglas, and who was part of our Sonic Heritage and Migration Sounds projects.

Meet Leeton, Australia-based musician, recordist and sound designer Jason Richardson, who works under the artist name Bassling, whose love for sound began with an unexpected trip to the cinema.

Meet Seattle-based musician and composer Jeff Brown, who joined us for Sonic Heritage and the Spring Project, and whose favourite sounds are middle C and frogs.

Meet Connecticut-based multidisciplinary artist Jeff Düngfelder, who works across film, sound, photography and graphic design, and is one of the longest Cities and Memory contributors, taking part in almost every project.

Meet London musician and composer Jess Bryant, who tells how growing up surrounded by singing, and working as a music therapist have shaped her practice. 

Meet Los Angeles sound artist and field recordist Julian Goldberger, who has been part of more than ten Cities and Memory projects and works under the name Eulipion Corps.

Meet sound artist, musician and sound designer Meghan Fohl from Santa Cruz, California, who draws us into her ambient world of stillness and attentiveness under her artist name Firephly.

Meet Toronto artist Michelle Breslin, a field recordist, musician and composer working under the name Lostworldsounds, whose favourite sound to record is the soothing and terrifying sounds of the wind.

Meet Tallinn-based musician, composer, painter, writer and multidisciplinary artist Paul Beaudoin, whose music explores space, quiet and memory, and for whom the sound of a foghorn has a very special significance.

Meet French painter, sound and video artist Philippe Neau, inspired by water, vibrations, accidents, nature time and space, and a long-time Cities and Memory contributor. 

Meet New Delhi-based field recordist and Indigenous disabled activist Puneet Singh Singhal, whose recordings of the city are about capturing memory in motion and honouring voices that are often left unheard.

Meet Portugal-via-London sound artist and field recordist Rafael Diogo, who has contributed both amazing recordings from remote places and fantastic ambient compositions to the project.

Meet Detroit-based DJ, producer and field recordist Rebecca Goldberg, who is inspired equally by the rhythms of her home Motor City, and the rhythms of the sound of transportation.

Meet Italian musician Riccardo Fumagalli, who performs under as the figurehead, and whose musical journey has taken him from disintegrating Fisher Price cassettes to going from 0 to 100 on plugins.

Meet Edinburgh-based musician Simon Holmes, whose songwriting-based approach to working with field recordings has lit up several recent Cities and Memory projects.

Meet multidisciplinary artist Simon Kennedy, based in Norfolk, UK and inspired in his sound work by the likes of early modernists and movements including Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism and De Stijl.

Meet sound artist and composer Stefan Klaverdal from Angelholm, Sweden, whose gorgeous piano-led soundscapes have graced several Cities and Memory projects over recent years.

Meet Bristol-based composer and musician Tim Saul, a member of hip hop duo Earthling who\’s inspired by Sakamoto, samplers and seagulls.

Meet Ontario sound artist Troy Ouellette, inspired by the sounds of the Great Lakes, and the electromagnetic resonances of VLF recordings.

Meet Úrsula Bravo, a nomadic field recordist and sound artist who works on sound ecology and composition under the name of LES (laboratório experimental do som), and loves to capture the sounds of light storms.

Meet sound artist, recordist and sound designer Yiannis Vlastaris, who describes sound as a way to dissolve identity, ego and time, and who performs under the name John Ov3rblast.