2022 Awardees

Ella Kay is an electroacoustic / experimental composer, sound artist, and saxophonist, from Manchester, UK. More here.

Amble Skuse is a musician and artist, working with oral history archives, interviews, community memories, radio interviews, traditional song, found sounds, live processing, body sensor controllers and acoustic instruments. She makes compositions for instruments and electronics, she improvises using a 6 string Starfish fiddle and laptop, and makes live performance pieces.  More here.

Lula.yxz, at the vanguard of her profession, leading the way for the evolution of music as an early adopter of an interactive midi controller (MiMu gloves); only way to describe her: ethereal artist in sound and aesthetic, one can not help but transcend. More here

Kelly Jayne Jones is a Manchester based artist making work that combines performance, installation and sound. She began working in experimental concrete music and her practice has expanded to include dance, gesture, sonic drawings, stone sculpture and film. More here.

Amy Cutler is an artist, cultural geographer, and live cinema artist who works with ideas of geography and nonhuman others. More here.

Lia Mazzari is a sound artist and performer, whose practice is often collaborative, engaging new audiences through encounters with art in non-conventional spaces, physical and virtual. More here.

Rani Jambak is a Medan-based composer, producer and vocalist. Rani’s work is often concerned with the place of sound in culture and society, and its connecting living and human ancestors. More here.

FRKTL is the solo experimental music project of British-Egyptian interdisciplinary artist and composer Sarah Badr. A classically trained multi-instrumentalist working with live sampling and improvisation, vocal manipulation, field recordings and generative rhythms, she composes emotive, immersive explorations of sound. More here.