ACE V!S!ON is a non-binary Scottish-Malawian poet, musician, and actor whose lyrical prowess and powerful yet nuanced delivery leave a lasting impression. Moving fluidly between witty rap, poignant poetry, and subtle vocal expression, their work has been shaped through years of creating within the Glasgow arts scene. ACE’s multidisciplinary practice includes co-directing Hip-Hop Education through […]

Susan Bear is an artist, multi-instrumentalist and producer based in Glasgow, Scotland. In June 2024 she released her second album, Algorithmic Mood Music – a collection of ten shimmering indie-electronic tracks written, performed, produced, recorded and mixed by Susan in her home studio, and released on Lost Map Records. The album featured three singles which […]

Originally from Florida, Simone Seales is a Glasgow-based cellist and performance artist working with free improvisation, live looping, and poetry within their own performances and across theatre and dance. Their practice centers play, silliness, connection, and exploring sound as a way of embodying emotional states of being. Their creative influences come from Black feminist leaders […]

Alliyah Enyo creates vocal-led experimental compositions, most often performed in site specific spaces which allow her to harness and respond to natural echoic phenomena. Their style drifts seamlessly between choral, ambient, medieval, folk, leftfield r&b and neo-classical music. Inspired by electronic music pioneers, Alliyah harnesses historical analogue processes, taking a particular fascination in creating tape […]

Sara Wolff is a composer, songwriter and sound artist. Her practice explores listening and noisemaking as ways of connecting people to place, memory and one another. This takes the form of composition, songwriting, storytelling, community practice and skill-sharing, performance, and visual experimentation. She leads Sound Pals, a regular guided listening walk exploring the sounds of […]

Working under the name Action Pyramid, Tom Fisher’s projects vary from site-specific sound installations for galleries and museums, to experimental sound works, radio productions, documentary and music. Utilising a multitude of recording techniques, often aimed at exploring and re-interpreting the seemingly unnoticed and unheard elements of our surroundings, he looks to present compositional and spatial […]

Agnès Pe develops her artistic practice at the intersection of sound experimentation, digital artifacts, and subversive pop culture. She works with sound as raw material, exploring its ability to challenge conventions, provoke dissonance, and generate new narratives. Her work focuses on forgotten sound infrastructures, technological errors, and obsolete devices, which she rescues and transforms into […]

Ryu Hankil is a computer musician, improviser, and writer based in Seoul. Ryu Hankil has long explored the possibility of generating another kind of music through non- musical objects. His questions and practice regarding how an object’s inherent vibrations can constitute a musical context led him to realize that the speculative power of sonic thinking […]

Yan Jun is musician and poet, born in Lanzhou in 1973 and currently based in Beijing, He works with field recording, voice, electronic feedback and body movements on his many conceptual projects and live performances.

Cara Tolmie works across performance, music, installation, collaboration and teaching. Her practice explores the relationship between voice and body and plays with different ways of both reinforcing and distorting the bind between the two. Through repetitive, uncanny and mesmeric uses of her voice and body she invites audiences into experimental listening situations that explore what […]

Han aka Boosterhooch is an experimental musician, sound artist and healthcare worker based in Glasgow. She runs Events Research Programme, contributes to Communal Leisure, and makes strange industrial music about everyday things, with releases on GLARC and The Trilogy Tapes. She has facilitated workshops with Strange Field, GLOSS, Radio Buena Vida and Music Broth, and […]

Joel White is a writer and researcher based in Glasgow. He is involved with groups in the city that organise around mutual aid, migrant solidarity, prison abolition and anti-racism. His writing has appeared in Guardian, Wire, Tribune and the LRB blog. He co-runs the record label GLARC. As of September 2025, Joel is a Wellcome […]

Originally from Hyderabad in India, Ankna Arockiam moved to Glasgow in 2011. Since then, she has graduated from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland with a degree in Vocal performance. Ankna has completed her PhD, exploring young Western classical musicians’ musical, cultural and social identities in Indian cities. She currently lectures at the Royal Conservatoire of […]

Nakul Krishnamurthy is an Indian artist who works with Indian Classical music and explores new ways of conceiving it at the intersection of Western Classical, experimental and electronic music traditions. Using procedural approaches and electronic music making techniques, his work experiments with and attempts to reconfigure the structural foundations of Carnatic and Hindustani musics to […]

Tom Mudd makes music with computers. Recent work revolves around physical models: digital synthesis processes based on physical simulations of acoustic objects and instruments.  

Mariam Rezaei (she/her) is a multi-award-winning composer and performer. Her work is at the intersection of hip-hop and new experimental turntable practices combined with a grounding in new music aesthetics and philosophy. Her music has recently been described as “genuinely ground-breaking” (LCMF 2022, London Jazz News) and “high-velocity sonic surrealism” (LCMF 2022, 4* The Guardian).  […]

ladé (DJ name: ALADJI) is a Scottish-Nigerian producer and DJ blending experimental sampling, internet culture, and diasporic sounds into playful, surreal, and genre-defying music. Their work moves between ambient, club music and experimental hiphop, using humour, satire, and emotional texture to create immersive sonic worlds.

Active in the experimental music scene for more than twenty-five years, Ali Robertson has toured his work across three continents, becoming a regular on the international music festival circuit. Most well known for his work in the free improv performance duo Usurper, which he and cartoonist Malcy Duff performed as between 2003 and 2023, Ali […]

Inge Thomson is a musician, composer, performer and producer who grew up immersed in music on her native Fair Isle. Her main instrument is the piano-keyed accordion but she is increasingly drawn to experimenting with different sounds and instruments. She has an active solo career as well as working closely with the Karine Polwart band […]

Ray Aggs is a Glasgow-based multi-instrumentalist and songwriter. Best known for their distinctive guitar work influenced by West African highlife and post-punk, they also sing and play violin. Aggs, a specialist in euphoric post-punk, has gained international recognition with collaborative touring projects Trash Kit, Shopping and Sacred Paws. Creating zines and coordinating workshops encouraging women, […]

Counterflows is an internationally acclaimed Glasgow-based contemporary music festival that celebrates challenging and thought provoking work in the context of what might be called experimental music; supporting marginal music practice within a wide array of different genres and approaches to music and sound.  Taking place annually, the festival features artists from Scotland, UK and around […]

EHFM Co-Director, record seller at Underground Solu’shn, and resident for Miss World at Sneaky Petes, FEENA is active and prolific in the Scottish scene. She prioritises community spirit to promote local sounds beyond her home city’s borders, with appearances in Bristol, London, Aberdeen and Glasgow. A release on Scuffed Recordings, mixing on the NTS and […]

Murray Collier is a musician, engineer and producer who lives in Glasgow. Murray produces music under the aliases Grim Lusk, Dip Friso, Sunny Balm and is part of the duo Pussy Mothers/ Echo Party, performing extensively throughout the UK, Europe and Australia.  He has worked on recordings for artists such as The Soup Dragons, Bill […]

Julio Napoleonka (JNK) is an emerging artist and the child of a Fashion Design father & Social Sculpture mother. Responding to phenomena of structural legitimization, rituals and the body as political territory and unconventional translation methods. Working across Austria, the UK and the Internet in the form of video art, costume design and live performances. […]

Mele’s work embodies stories from the collective voice, creating visceral and sensory collaborations. Most recently her theatre production GRIN (Made in Scotland Showcase) was presented at Battersea Art Centre, alongside the film production, screened at Theatre Centre Canada and part of Cultura Inglesa Festival in Brazil. In 2021 Mele was commissioned by Scottish Dance Theatre […]

Sam Welch is a Glasgow-based mixing & mastering engineer. As both an artist and technical practitioner, Sams’s work ranges from hip-hop mixing (Snoop Dogg’s Rise to the Top) to Scottish Traditional Music (RURA’s in Praise of Home). He holds a first-class BSc(Hons) degree in Music Technology as well as a Master of design with distinction […]

Sonia Killmann is a multimedia artist from Belgium who focuses on the relationship between sound and environment. Sonia’s works include field recordings, ambient electronics and saxophone, which Sonia plays with “Failed System Test” alongside Aidan Lochrin. The composer specialises in creating immersive experiences and is inspired by the works of Alvin Lucier and Kaitlyin Aurelia […]

Laurie Pitt is a drummer, tutor, producer and DJ based in Glasgow. He has toured internationally with bands, and helped set up a recording studio in Ghana with Green Door Studios. He has an interest in experimental music and is studying music BMus at Glasgow University. Working with Sound Lab, he has taught drums, percussion […]

Radio Buena Vida is an online community radio station based in Govanhill that platforms emerging and established talent across all independent genres of music and the arts from Glasgow, wider Scotland and beyond. Their mission is to provide a platform for under-represented voices and create a community where artists, DJs and hosts can learn, explore, […]

Cass Ezeji is a singer and lyricist from Glasgow. She has over ten years of experience in the DIY music scene in Glasgow and has sung in several critically-acclaimed bands. She has toured internationally and played events including Tate Britain, Barrowlands, and Williamsburg Musichall. Her areas of interest are caring for the voice and self-discovery […]