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Alexandra Spence is an artist and musician from Sydney, Australia. She makes installations, compositions and performances based on (everyday) sound and listening.
Alex's art and music explores the idea of listening as active practice, examining the ways in which our individual notions of place and identity are shaped and mediated through sound. Through her practice she attempts to reimagine the intricate relationships between the listener, the object, and the surrounding environment as a kind of communion or conversation. With an interest in resonance, vibration and everyday sound, her aesthetic favours small sounds, subtlety, quietude and unusual sound sources. (she holds the pseudo-scientific belief that electricity might actually be magic)
Alex has performed and presented work in concerts, festivals, symposiums and galleries in Australia, Canada, and Europe, including the Vancouver Art Gallery; Destroy Vancouver; Engineroom International Sound Art Competition, London; SoundOut Festival, London; Ausland, Berlin; Le Cube, Paris; Musée Guimet, Paris; NOW Now Festival, Sydney; SoundOut Festival, Canberra; UNSW Galleries, Sydney; and Siteworks Festival, Bundanon (w. the Splinter Orchestra).
In 2016 Alex graduated from the Master of Fine Arts interdisciplinary arts program at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, and participated on a field recording residency with Francisco Lopez in South Africa. In 2017 she was awarded the Freedman Foundation Travelling Scholarship for Emerging Artists, which has led her to Europe and the UK to perform, and to study with David Toop and Chris Watson in the first half of 2018. She was recently selected as one the emerging artists for the SITUATE Art in Festivals Lab 2018.
Alongside Rebecca Bruton she is the co-curator of Tidal~Signal Festival, which operates from a core set of anticolonial feminist ethics, and seeks to disrupt patterns of gender disparity in music programming of all genres, it currently takes place in Vancouver, CA.
Website Bandcamp Soundcloud
Alexandra Spence is an artist and musician from Sydney, Australia. She makes installations, compositions and performances based on (everyday) sound and listening.
Alex's art and music explores the idea of listening as active practice, examining the ways in which our individual notions of place and identity are shaped and mediated through sound. Through her practice she attempts to reimagine the intricate relationships between the listener, the object, and the surrounding environment as a kind of communion or conversation. With an interest in resonance, vibration and everyday sound, her aesthetic favours small sounds, subtlety, quietude and unusual sound sources. (she holds the pseudo-scientific belief that electricity might actually be magic)
Alex has performed and presented work in concerts, festivals, symposiums and galleries in Australia, Canada, and Europe, including the Vancouver Art Gallery; Destroy Vancouver; Engineroom International Sound Art Competition, London; SoundOut Festival, London; Ausland, Berlin; Le Cube, Paris; Musée Guimet, Paris; NOW Now Festival, Sydney; SoundOut Festival, Canberra; UNSW Galleries, Sydney; and Siteworks Festival, Bundanon (w. the Splinter Orchestra).
In 2016 Alex graduated from the Master of Fine Arts interdisciplinary arts program at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, and participated on a field recording residency with Francisco Lopez in South Africa. In 2017 she was awarded the Freedman Foundation Travelling Scholarship for Emerging Artists, which has led her to Europe and the UK to perform, and to study with David Toop and Chris Watson in the first half of 2018. She was recently selected as one the emerging artists for the SITUATE Art in Festivals Lab 2018.
Alongside Rebecca Bruton she is the co-curator of Tidal~Signal Festival, which operates from a core set of anticolonial feminist ethics, and seeks to disrupt patterns of gender disparity in music programming of all genres, it currently takes place in Vancouver, CA.
Website Bandcamp Soundcloud
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