Born in Bogotá - Colombia, Lives in Leicester - United Kingdom

Art form:
Interactive Sonic Environments (on-line)
Sound compositions

As a woman, I use my non-linear thinking to travel through ideas about the creative use of technologies. This is represented in my digital multimedia scores. As an artist, my expression is inextricably linked to urban life and to the intangible presence of the "sublime" in its everyday routines. Sound has been my main resource for relating to the intimacy of the environment. Underground public transport systems have been the context of my recent work. They determine the paths for, and are catalysts of, real and symbolic migrations. Their powerful sounds and technological infrastructure involve us, changing both our perception of space and time and our memory in relation to place. I am interested in what is constructed in our memories by listening while travelling, and in our options for building collective memories using new media technologies, in the search for identity and place.

An Interactive Sonic Environment: London Underground
http://bartleby.ioct.dmu.ac.uk/~xalarcon/project/interactive.html

Linking Urban Soundscapes via commuters' memories (In progress)
http://www.ioct.dmu.ac.uk/projects/ISE.html

Lisa Barnard is a vocalist and performance artist. Barnard has dedicated her craft to exploring the open field of vocal expression through music, spoken word, dream work and sound art. Barnard received her BA in Performance Studies at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Barnard is currently studying dream work and Egyptian mythology/divination with Ione and Andrea Goodman. She has been studying music and performance in the Hudson Valley for the last eight years, collaborating with local musicians, actors, puppeteers, Deep Listening Institute artists and visual artists, including Pauline Oliveros, Linda Montano, Al Margolis, Monique Buzzarte and Weave.

Florence, Italy

Performance art

I was born in Siena, Italy and now live between Firenze and New York. Traveling is a great gift.
My research is a journey towards self-knowledge. My tools are foreign exchanges, music, dance, art, astrology. My training comes from academic traditions and from oral traditions. I teach Italian folk music and dance and Florentine Renaissance art (New York University in Florence and Vassar College, NY) and work as a licensed tour guide in Florence, Italy. Both my performance work and my teachings are the fruit and the seed of my spiritual quest whose direction is in the accommplishment of wholeness. RESIDENCY PROJECT: "The Dance of the Sun", a dance piece based on the symbology of numbers 3, 7, and 9, and on the motion of planets. This piece was first presented at opening of the art exhibit ASTRALIA in Venice, Italy, May 2008.

Toronto, Canada

composer cellist vocalist

I have a way of adapting to many contexts. A way of finding a common language or point of departure,
I am listening. Listening to me is peace. I improvise sound, accompanying myself with the glistening drones of my cello, I sing long vowel tones to create invisible architecture and pentrate space like a dancer moves or a line is drawn on white paper. I live beside an urban space across the water.
The soundscapes I move between daily are distinct.

New York, USA

Visual Artist

As an artist who creates work that is almost exclusively about women, my identity as a woman and an artist is intrinsically linked. My work explores issues of beauty and universal womanhood. By painting the many faces of women I am able to connect to archetypal beings who celebrate women's energies, thoughts, dreams, memories and spirit. As I create this art I reveal apects of myself and my connection to womanhood. The work speaks in the language of multitude and I feel immense reverence in being able to translate my individuality as a woman artist into something far greater than myself.

New York, USA

avant-turntablist, visual artist

I am at the threshold of a new phase in my career and have learned a few things about myself as a woman and my work. Being involved in the sound art realm which is dominated by men and owning a men's clothing store in Williamsburg, Brooklyn has opened my eyes to the possibilities of communicating with men. Like a wolf in sheeps clothing, I have had the opportunity to work along side some very exclusive "boys clubs" and because of this my work has recieved even more attention than it would have without the cache of male names. The lessons I have learned is to be strong enough in my femininity and to keep focused on my work which isn't neccesarily feminine unless I'm commissioned to make it so, but is still relevant to my growth as an artist.

Minnesota, USA

music and sound art

Singing, walking and listening to sounds of the environment are at the heart of my work and life. In terms of music, I perform as an improvising vocalist who enjoys collaborations. My sound art usually involves walking, often with others, as a way of mapping people’s relationship with place and how that links up with memory. I am excited that place now has a wider meaning, reaching into virtual space, which helps with that sense of isolation I can feel at times. As a woman it’s hard not to get frustrated at inequalities that still exist. Yet, in my work, it may be that being female makes it easier for people to trust me and share their walks and thoughts with me.

Maine, USA

Vocalist, Writer, Composer, Performer, Ceremonialist, Healer, Astrologer, High Priestess

Artist Statement

In my astrological chart, the Sun, representing identity, is conjunct Neptune, planet of pure vibration and flow: ephemeral, ever-changing, subtle, overwhelming; confusion and fantasy; universal love and compassion. While this means that my identity is changeable and indefinable, it also means that I am best expressed in sound, in a spiritual, universal language.

I sing, allowing a spontaneous flow of sound connected to my imagination. I sing as a healing medium, with Neptunian sensitivity and compassion, and I sing to evoke character and landscape, to manifest a vision.

In poetry I express the subtle and ephemeral, and in my book, Lightning Holds My Hand, I transmit what I received from a vast, wise dimension of myself.

Combining extensive theatrical experience with my role as a priestess of the Ministry of Maat, I create sacred ceremonies and blessings , applying all my arts, including Astrology, in a spiritual domain.

Ione is a noted author, playwright and poet whose works include the critically acclaimed memoir, Pride of Family Four Generations of American Women of Color, Listening in Dreams and This is a Dream! She is the playwright and director of Njinga the Queen King and the dance opera Io and Her and the Trouble with Him and director and writer of Dreams of the Jungfrau, a 20 minute experimental narrative film shot high in the Swiss Alps.

A dedicated educator and counselor who specializes in dreams and the creative process, she conducts seminars and retreats throughout the world. She is also an improvising spoken word performer and sound artist who performs with Pauline Oliveros and other artists in the United States and Internationally. Ione is the Director of the Ministry of Maåt, Inc a spiritual organization specializing in women and community with goals of world harmony and balance. She is also the Artistic Director of Deep Listening Institute, Ltd.

Tanya Andrea Stadelmann and Nicole Skeltys

Australia

Film making and music composition

The Jilted Brides are a collaboration between two Australian artists - Tanya Andrea Stadelmann and Nicole Skeltys. Tanya is a singer, video artist and photographer, who has shot and directed short films (including Cannes screenings) and video projections (including for the Sydney Opera House). Nicole is a song writer and producer, with a long background in electronica. Nicole's previous electronic releases have been nominated for Aria awards and her previous femme-tech duo B(if)tek were once described as 'Australia's greatest electronic innovators'.

We formed as a psychedelic/folk/electronic duo in December 2007. Tanya sings and creates video projections for our performances, Nicole sings, plays keys and writes and produces the songs.

As we travel across North America, we are performing and also filming and recording the places and people we meet, including interviews with 'underground' American artists and musicians who
inspire us, and are also visiting sacred sites.

our websites:

http://au.youtube.com/tanyaandrea

Nigeria

WRITER OF FICTION, novel, short story, poetry.

To me the identities of Woman and Artist are almost
synonymous in the sense that Woman is the fount, the
source of creativity, the creative impulse which her
Artistic self then moulds and fashions to express her
inherent, innate creativity in various ways.
To be Woman is to be Artist.
To be Artist is to be Woman.

New York, USA

Art Forms: Oriental Medicine including acupuncture and herbology; Homeopathy, Jungian Sand Play. Fiction, poetry, essay, and interview. Editorial midwifery. Student of voice and cello. Priestess, Ministry of Maat.

I am drawn to creative experience within which I can fully express myself as a spiritual being . As a healer, I experience the act of compassionate listening, of “diagnosis,” through story and touch, as a kind of still and sacred art form. Within each patient I encounter the entire universe. Having practiced Oriental Medicine for nearly two decades, during the past several years my other great passions, writing and music, have resurfaced. My novel, The Ravens’ Bridge, set in Prague in three layers of time, is an exploration of what it is that can actually travel and survive through time and historical trauma. Musically, I love to sing and have just begun to play the cello. Everything that motivates me to create is literally inspired by my continually evolving awareness of my female incarnation. Whether writing, healing, or sounding music, I desire and continually seek a profound connection to the lineage of female being.

Malaysia

Video art, sound & improvised music

I work with video and sound (mostly using the human voice) as my artistic practice. My work is mostly personal, starting from the very private self and moving towards understanding humanity in general. I believe that as human beings, we share the same human nature and face similar human problems. We have a common ground. Therefore, to understand oneself is ultimately to understand others, whom we live and work with everyday. This inquiry requires great effort, courage, persistence and genuine honesty, in which sometimes is not easy, as our modern human lives have become quite complicated and confusing. Along the way, we have forgotten “how it all get started” and the very thing that is dear to us. “Finding the true nature of the self and bravely giving it a voice” is what I’m interested in art making.

New York, USA

Digital Imaging, Digital Holography, Multimedia

My identity as both a woman and an artist is embodied through the archetype of the Green Woman. She is shape-shifter, a mover between worlds, a co-creator with Nature. Her work is intended to provide connections, doorways, portals into the Natural world.

Through a series of interlinked and evolving projects I am presenting to the world a form of shamanic vision, like a web of living thoughts that any of us can dream. Using new technology, holograms, digital images, high resolution stereo video and holographic sound I collect elements recorded from natural sources or communications from the natural world and distill them into forms that are a part of the extended energetic realm of the Green Woman. Each project is designed to provide portals into other realms, fresh visions of essential parts of our being, images of power that make statements about the beings they record.

New York, USA

TRANSMEDIA SOUND ARTIST.

Using film, music, installation, electronics, paint, circuits, invented instruments, traditional instruments, performance art, poetry, costumes and movement I create physical singing theater.

My current project:

The communal eating of the body of God is a theme found in many religions. In my Opera Symphony I play Corn Mother, the Penobscot cultural heroine who allowed herself to be dismembered and eaten so that her people could live. The Mother Symphony is a critique of modern consumerism and gluttony. I use hunger as metaphor for abusive power relationships. With drawings, costumes, music, projected scores, texts and orchestration I show how the human body evolved. Both Native Americans and scientists agree that all life forms are descended from one organism. The Penobscot people of Maine called her "Corn Mother;" evolutionary Biologists call her, “Thermaplast,” the heat loving, sulpher eating modal bacter that lived in hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor 3.6 billion years ago. Mother Symphony will underline the processes that transform food and water into life. I will condemn the culture of death that draws people into fatal addictions and self-negating choices. The Human Intestine contains 100 trillion microorganisms all coexisting and working together. The diversity, fragility and ecology of the GI tract is something ignored by most Americans. The human intestine is a fragile environment. Each person is the steward of his or her internal ecosystem. As one doctor has said, “the American diet leads to American diseases.” Using paintings, films, text and orchestration I will conjure ancient organisms whose descendants we are. Reaching back into early earth history and the co-evolution of plants and animals, I will make a visionary plea to the healing world of plants and I will invoke the ancient Penobscot mythic animals and heroes to help me generate an iconography of self transformation. In this era of post- post- feminism the time is right for a fully orchestrated multimedia salute to our supernatural creative hero, Corn Mother.

California, USA

I am a composer, performer (piano, spoken voice, electronics) and scholar engaged in exploring issues of form and the feminine voice by finding new modes of expression through reflection on the body, women’s rituals and myths through my recent works: electroacoustic opera/installation We are All Sibyls, with Judy Chicago, Sedna for Zeitgeist, video/spatialized electronics and collaborative electroacoustic collection Sea Nymphs with flutists Anne LaBerge and Jane Rigler. I focus on collaboration, process, transformation and transcendence in performance through intensive focus on the moment, voice and virtuosity in conjunction with multi-media and spatialized electronics and work collaboratively with performers and artists to create new works that challenge technical, musical, and personal limitations to enact the subconscious and perhaps engage larger, spiritual influences to emerge. As curator of the International Women's Electroacoustic Listening Room Project and Women in New Music Festival I present and research works by women composers throughout the world.

New York, USA

I am a visual artist/ writer/playwright and poet.

I am interested in documenting the world of women through my visual work, plays and poetry. The ability to document the lives of women, give them a voice through the arts is very important to my process as an artist.

As a woman I was able to find my voice through visual mediums as well as written expression. I see myself as a vehicle for telling the women’s stories through art.

I use women’s mythology from around the world as an underlying theme for most of the work that I do, particularly using the visual mediums.

My written work has more to do with contemporary issues that women are confronted with on a daily basis, survival issues: food, shelter, the lives of their children, careers and marital situations.

I further identify myself as an international woman artist because I am a woman of the world, looking to share and learn from my female contemporaries.

British Columbia, Canada

Sound Art, New Music, New Media

Statement of Identity as a Woman and as an Artist:

Female, girl, daughter, grand-daughter, niece, aunt, mother, great-aunt, woman. Identity … My passed – down family name could be Lillidottr. Or Persson. Ancestral hopes for Daughter and Son both reside in me, and have that dance together of giving and receiving, nurturing and expressing, holding form and going forth.

Where my art leads me is to sound; sensing it, hearing it, being inside it, wanting to know how it works, sounding with it, becoming it, and becoming through it. My art leads me also to music, another story perhaps, hearing it, sensing it, sounding it, playing it, creating within it, being moved by it. In my art in sound and in music, there is a third story; that of being and connecting with others; how, why, and where that happens compels and motivates me. I investigate, compose, collaborate, perform, improvise, listen. I also instigate, curate and organize sound and music events, give workshops, and sometimes write about sound and music.

I am a member of the electroacoustic ensemble LaSam, a solo and ensemble improvisor (flute, voice, electronics and other things), and the New Music curator at Open Space Art Gallery in Victoria, Canada.

I am participating in the Residency as both Tina Pearson and Humming Pera, my avatar in the virtual reality platform Second Life. As Humming Pera, I am a composer and performer with the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse, an international group of artists connecting virtually to investigate and create new forms for sound and visual works made possible with this way of connecting.

New York, USA

Drawing

As a woman and an artist I identify with the myth of Persephone. Like her, I find wisdom in the dark places. “River Library” is a series of drawings made on paper with sediment from some of the Earth’s major rivers. Mud embodies the earth’s history, functioning like text to provide a trace, a memory of its existence. The process I use reenacts this history, for the drawings have their source in chaos, in the unformed darkness of mud. They develop by unfolding from disorder into order and form. The layering of sediment in the drawings parallels the formation of sediment in the depths of the rivers. Mud contains life, death, and stuff, encompassing the unwritten history of nature and culture. Ancient civilizations inscribed their histories on tablets they made with the sediment from the rivers alongside which they settled.

“River Library” – as both a metaphor of and a witness to our history – echoes and embodies those first libraries.

Australia

inter-media artist living and working by the South Pacific in the rainforested Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia. I compose music and sound; create paintings, exhibits, and installations; dig up earths and natural materials from desert and volcanic regions; collect Pacific shells, rocks, and artifacts from around the world; play numerous ethnic instruments; and combine any and all of these into creative works large and small. My studio is in the historic Barracks at Bomaderry, an hour's drive down the South Coast. My creative training is intensely experimental and exploratory, and so evolves my practice. Most recently I am producing performance-installations and solo exhibits, a large ongoing environmental project called Attunements, and a series of deep earthy pigmented works, rich in volcanic ash and bush-fire charcoal, called Dirt Poundings.

New York, USA

I work in many mediums, according to what inspires me in the moment. Currently, I am working on a series of sculptures that are large, steel, tusk-like structures, each wrapped with one big spool of coloured yarn. Through them I explore the inner nature of the phenomenal world and its outer reflection. The journey feels slow, uninhibited and free. I love working on a large scale again. I envision these wrapped works evolving into outdoor pieces that speak to the idea of creating 'sacred space', within which, the heart may soar.

Visual artist, priestess, mother… It is these facets of my being that I wish to explore more deeply here. I delight in the idea of aligning with the essence of the Divine through creativity. I am inspired by the possibility of celebrating the sacredness in each moment, as I hold space for my two small children to grow and thrive. I learned early on to honour my creative flow, for it nourishes and replenishes me. Art-making for me is ritual, within which I dive deeply and find empowerment. The wellspring of my imagination reconnects me with my authentic Identity. I adapt my art, so that I maintain clear vision, while not being able to work on it continuously. I discovered that the gestation of an idea on the inside is rich too. I surrender; there is no rush. I am grateful for this awareness. It conjures a feeling of inner peace.

New York, USA

Guitarist and Composer

My identity as a woman and artist is a playful, nurturing, warrioress who plays a kick-ass guitar.

I am a composer and guitarist. Within these modalities I consider myself an expressionist in sound. I often use the ancient Greek modes and incorporate an occasional Indian Raga with organic drones and textures for the melodic content of most works. It is important to me to be highly attuned to the moment we are all creating. I open the 12 strings of my guitar to channel and invoke my muse and any willing and available spirits that want to come along for the ride.

Lorah first picked up the guitar at age 12 when she began her studies at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and later continued at the American Institute of Guitar in Manhattan. As a vital element of the 80’s East Village Music and Art scene Lorah has lead several bands and has been involved in many Off-Broadway and multi-media performances. In 1989 Lorah became interested in the effects of music and sound on the healing process. This led her to several pilgrimages to the Mediterranean and England. Here she explored ancient sacred sites, capturing on tape the ambient rhythms and resonant textures of primeval temples. Feeling a deeper connection to the holistic nature of sound Lorah formed the groups Ritual Motion and Sacred Fire for the presentation of these new found ideas. At some point in the mid 90’s Lorah connected with Ione, the world of Deep Listening and Pauline Oliveros. Some of Lorahs performances have been at The Knitting Factory, Rhythm Fest, Lincoln Center Out Of Doors Series, and the Woodstock Renaissance Fair.

Current project:
Critically-acclaimed author and Tarot reader Michael Yaccarino has teamed up with his cousin Composer and recording artist Lorah Yaccarino on the creation of a Tarot inspired sonata. Dealing with the feminine attributes of strength, desire, vulnerability, and passion each passage is an enthralling adventure with mystical dimensions.