Alexandra Spence

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Alexandra Spence is an artist and musician living on Gadigal Country in Sydney, Australia. She creates performances, compositions, and installations based on (everyday) sound and listening.

Through her practice Alex reimagines the intricate relationships between the listener, the object, and the surrounding environment as a kind of communion or conversation. Her aesthetic favours field recordings, analog technologies and object interventions (she holds the belief that electricity might actually be magic).

Alex has performed and presented work worldwide, including the Vancouver Art Gallery; Late Junction on BBC Radio 3; SoundCamp Festival, London; Ausland, Berlin; Musée Guimet, Paris; Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow; Contemporary Musiking Hong Kong's Sound Forms Festival, HK; Ftarri, Tokyo; Metro Arts Gallery, Brisbane; Museum of Contemporary Art ARTBAR, Firstdraft Gallery, and Liveworks Festival with Liquid Architecture in Sydney.

Alex completed a Master of Fine Arts in sound installation at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, CA. In 2018, she resided briefly in the UK to undertake a mentorship with David Toop. In 2019, she resided at the Hong Kong Arts Centre, as one of the Asialink Arts Creative Exchange recipients. Her 2019 debut album Waking, She Heard The Fluttering, released on Room40, received critical acclaim in The Wire Magazine and The Quietus, and her new EP, Immaterial, released on Longform Editions, was recently featured in a BBC4 radio series by Timothy Morton.