At Sound and Music, we champion the creation and discovery of new sounds that shape the world we live in.
As the UK’s charity for new music and sound, we’ve spent over 15 years supporting thousands of composers and music creators.
From bold commissions to transformative artist development programmes, we provide opportunities for creativity to flourish and groundbreaking music to be heard.
Through our alumni network, we celebrate the diverse achievements of composers we’ve supported. These artists—spanning genres, styles, and mediums—are pushing the limits of what music can be, shaping the modern world of sound in extraordinary ways.
Their stories reflect the vision, curiosity, and ambition we champion every day.
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Alumni Spotlights
Our monthly Alumni Spotlight series shines a light on the incredible journeys of artists who have been part of Sound and Music’s programmes. From emerging talent to established innovators, these stories celebrate the creativity, resilience, and achievements of composers and sound artists breaking new ground. Join us each month as we share their inspiring contributions to the world of new music.
Nneka Cummins is a British-born Nigerian-Bahamian composer whose vibrant sonic world blends groove-driven rhythms, extended techniques, and sampled electronics into richly textured soundscapes. Drawing inspiration from Afrofuturism and deconstruction, Nneka creates flowing, organic melodies that challenge and reframe what contemporary classical music can be.
British-Japanese composer, pianist, and producer Ben Nobuto offers his insights on music and career development, in partnership with Classical Music. Ben's music explores themes of attention and fragmentation, drawing from internet culture and popular idioms in a playful, ironic and surreal manner.
Arowah is a multifaceted artist known for their fluidity across various genres, including jazz, punk, experimental, classical, disco, and dance. Their work is deeply rooted in the role of an artist as a philosopher, community builder, and healer, seeing their work as a meditation on the intersection of the social and the spiritual.
Eva, an aspiring young composer passionate about creating atmospheric soundtracks for video games and films. Eva’s compositions are deeply connected to narratives, as she believes music plays a crucial role in evoking emotions within a story. Through her journey on In the Making and SoundEscapes, Eva transformed her passion into tangible accomplishments.
Jennifer is internationally recognised as one of the leading fiddle players and traditional composers to come out of Scotland in recent years, influencing and inspiring players all around the world. Her style reflects ages of musicianship that have been passed down aurally from her heroes in Orkney. For over three decades, Jennifer performed as one half of the celebrated duo ‘The Wrigley Sisters’ with her twin, Hazel.
Jamie’s creations explore the intersections between sound, technology, and perception, often blurring boundaries through collaborative projects and immersive installations. His pieces have been performed, exhibited, and created in many contexts, ranging from an abandoned grain silo to concert halls and opera houses, reflecting the broad range of his creative explorations.
Gwen Siôn is a one of a kind artist. She is interested in the relationship between sound and environment, ecology, mythology, ritual and synaesthetic crossover, particularly the dynamic between colour and musical notation. Engaging in acts of translation and transformation, she interprets landscape in musical terms, exploring how composition can be used as a means of mapping space and the cultural, ecological and socio-political significance of space.
Alice Boyd is a British composer, sound artist and audio producer. Her work primarily explores our interconnectedness with the natural world, often using the voice, ambient electronic textures and novel field recording techniques, which unveil the hidden sounds of our environments. In 2023, Alice released her debut EP ‘From The Understory’, created as part of her artist residency at the Eden Project – the world’s largest indoor rainforest.
In 2020, Alice joined Sound and Music’s New Voices programme, marking a pivotal moment in her creative career. We documented Alice’s journey as she prepared for her artist residency and performance at the Eden Project, home to the world’s largest indoor rainforest. Using hand-made Arduino technology, she captured the subtle changes in conductivity of plants as they photosynthesised, translating these signals into pitch, frequency, and ultimately melody.
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