Gwen Siôn

Bio

Gwen Siôn is an award-winning composer, music producer and multidisciplinary artist working with sound, sculpture, DIY electronics, moving image and installation. She creates multi-instrumental, vocal and electronic compositions, and designs her own handmade electronic instruments and experimental sound devices by recycling found objects and natural materials. Exploring relationships between sound and environment, nature, technology, mythology and ritual, Gwen uses non-traditional composition methods inspired by reading landscapes as scores, alongside extended techniques, sound design, sampling, electronic manipulation, field-recordings and hydro-recordings, and collects physical fragments of the landscape to create her instruments. She is interested in how composition can be used as a means of mapping space and the cultural, ecological and socio-political significance of space.

Gwen has worked on a broad range of music and sound projects, commissions, public installations, exhibitions, performances and residencies throughout the UK and internationally, gaining support from Arts Council Wales, Arts Council England, The Arts Foundation, Sound and Music, PRS Foundation, Opera North, Sound UK, Ty Cerdd, Oxford Contemporary Music, Wales Millennium Centre, Atelier11 Paris, Greywood Arts Ireland, StokkoyArt Norway, UAL, BBC, Netflix, Leland Music, LMVH, Sustainability First and Liquid Listening. Past projects include a multi-disciplinary arts and environmental research project and interactive soundmap created in response to the climate emergency and HS2, highlighting issues of deforestation, habitat destruction and biodiversity loss; a mixed-genre live performance project using handmade instruments made from recycled natural materials; composing sound for underwater installation supporting musical hydrotherapy sessions for children with disabilities and complex needs; and developing an interactive sound installation and original hand-built 12-oscillator polyphonic touchless synthesiser that can be played with shadows. Recent projects include composing for an immersive soundwalk using geolocation technology commissioned by Opera North and Bradford City of Culture 2025; an audiovisual performance and composition for BBC National Orchestra of Wales, choir and electronics; and an immersive theatre-dome performance exploring coastal erosion and rising sea levels using surround sound, stereoscopic dome projections, environmental data sonification, handmade instruments and graphic scores.

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