“A big part of my practice is the incorporation of live processes and phenomena – I am hugely interested in sound as phenomena, and the vibration and resonance that surrounds us in our daily lives, and this interest extends out to the magic of energetic phenomena.”
https://foxydigitalis.zone/2022/06/23/aqueous-tactile-an-interview-with-alexandra-spence/
Alexandra Spence is a sound artist and musician living on unceded Wangal land in Sydney, Australia. Her work combines field recordings, musique concrete and spoken word elements to create immersive sound worlds evoking environments, histories and materialities. Alexandra’s live performances include a diverse array of amplified objects, field recordings, sine waves, spoken fragments of text, acoustic instruments, hydrophone recordings and tape loops.
https://alexandraspence.net/about
“For the past few years I’ve been interested in bodies of water and the connections between bodies and water. The sea has always felt like home, and having lived on both the east and west edges of the Pacific Ocean it has become a place of connection for me.“
https://alexandraspence.bandcamp.com/album/blue-waves-green-waves
Alexandra’s 2022 Room40 release ‘Blue waves, Green waves’ can be deceptive on a first listen. The foregrounding of field recordings in the first track ‘Water Bugs’ places the listener in such a convincing environment that the later synthesised and (more conventionally) musical elements seem as natural and inevitable as the bodies of water we initially hear. Eventually, human sounds, speech, rustling, coughing, are introduced into the mix. Rather than a simple audio collage, the combinations of these elements feel more like a memoir, a more subjective and ambiguous offering, a deeply intuitive communication of Alexandra’s phenomenological concerns.
chance meeting 