Ryoko Akama

A Japanese-Korean working with installation, performance and composition, residing in Huddersfield, UK.

Her works sculpt domestic appliances and scrap wastes with invisible energy, especially interested in heat, magnetism and gravity, into kinetic contraptions. her works are site-specific, infusing both aural / visual occurrence as one entity, creating ephemeral situations that magnify silence, time and space. Interested in nature of relativity, culture and ecosystem, her artistic practice examines environment, architecture, immigration, conflict and fluidity of being.

She also composes and performs alternative scores and text works in collaboration with other artists and musicians worldwide. She is a member of the lappetites, electronic musician collective since 2000 and a member of the 9-piece band a.hop.

She is an artistic director for ame c.i.c., supporting DIY culture and underground art/music scene. She also co-runs the independent publisher mumei publishing and melange edition.

Clara de Asís

Clara de Asís is an artist and experimental composer engaged with the correlations of acoustics, temporality and the praxis of attention. Her work addresses questions regarding sound perception and how it is shaped by specific social and material contexts. She uses electronics and sound synthesis along with idiosyncratic combinations of found objects and traditional instrumentation; and creates works of different formats encompassing performance, audio pieces and installations.
https://www.claradeasis.com/

Photo by M. Winter