Alexandra Spence is a sound artist and musician living on unceded Wangal land in Sydney, Australia. 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, analogue technologies and object interventions.
Alex has presented her art and music in Australia, Asia, Europe, and North America including AB Salon, Brussels; Ausland, Berlin; Café Oto, London; Cave12, Geneva; Liveworks Festival, with Liquid Architecture, Sydney;
Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid; Punkt Festival, Kristiansand; Radiophrenia Festival at the CCA Glasgow; Sound Forms Festival, Hong Kong; Standards Studio, Milan; The Substation, Melbourne; & Volume Festival, Art Gallery
of NSW, Sydney.
She regularly collaborates with MP Hopkins as Banana,
and together they co-run the Sydney sound series Humming Grotto.She has released her music with Room40, Longform Editions, Mappa, Canti Magnetici (solo), More Mars & Infant Tree (as Banana), receiving Bandcamp recommendations and reviews in the likes of The Quietus and The Wire Magazine: "Her sense of field is broader. It's as if she is trying to capture a whole landscape of sound entire... We ought to spend more time with Alexandra Spence, with our ears simply & honestly open.”
(She holds the belief that electricity might actually be magic)
Photo by Lydia Trappenberg