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Adéráyọ̀

Adéráyọ̀ (she/her) is a Nigerian-born, Glasgow-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans music, movement, moving image, and live performance. Her work explores queerness, migration, the mind, memory, and emotional healing, often combining sound, movement, and visual storytelling to create immersive interdisciplinary experiences. Adéráyọ̀ uses her voice not only for lyricism but also as an instrument in […]

Music Space Residency

Shona Brown

Shona Brown is a Glasgow-based flautist and music producer whose work explores atmospheric and emotionally resonant sound worlds for flute, voice and electronics. Her solo practice blends contemporary classical, ambient and electronic music with subtle folk influences, creating spacious compositions shaped by breath, texture and stillness. She has released solo work and performed nationally, including […]

The Bridge Awards Residency

Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh

Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh is a viola player and composer exploring the tones of gut strings and wood in both amplified and acoustic contexts. Influenced by improvised, experimental and early music styles, she has released three solo recordings focused on exploring the instrument – Oreing (Fort Evil Fruit 2017), The Rounds (KRUT 2021) and Live At […]

Subsidised Winter Residency

New Sounds Academy

Deadline: 11 March 2026
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JOON

JOON is the electronic solo project of Maltese songwriter, producer, and sound artist Yasmin Kuymizakis. Her debut album Dream Again was released in 2021 on Italians Do It Better, combining cushioned beats, woozy electronic textures, and melodic songwriting with messages of hope and vulnerability. In 2023, JOON expanded her international presence, performing at major festivals […]

Cryptic Residency

Tatsuru Arai

Tatsuru Arai is an artist who fuses classical and contemporary music with AI and computer technology. His work explores cosmic and natural phenomena through sound and visuals, aiming to express a universal beauty beyond emotion and culture. His project Face of Universe links Earth’s ecosystem with solar nuclear fusion, tracing the evolution of life and […]

Cryptic Residency

SHHE

SHHE is the alias of Scottish-Portuguese sound artist, musician and producer, Su Shaw. Based in Dundee, her work explores themes of identity and connection at the intersection of sound and space, environment and ecology, and research and performance. Sound works, performances and installations have been presented at V&A Dundee co-commissioned by MSCTY Tokyo, Sonica Glasgow, […]

Cryptic Residency

Saba Aznarashvili

Saba Aznarashvili is a musician and producer based in Kutaisi, Georgia, and a member of the band Izmir. His practice blends post-punk and darkwave with Turkish and Persian melodic traditions. His experience includes composition and sound design for inclusive dance projects such as Tune Space and Cities Move. He recently curated the participatory workshop You […]

Cryptic Residency

Martin Green

Martin Green is an accordion player, writer, and broadcaster based in Midlothian. He is the artistic director of Lepus Arts, who produce music, theatre and radio. In 2019 he won the Ivor Novello Composers Award for Sound Art for his large-scale binaural installation Aeons along the River Tyne. He has made several programmes for BBC […]

Cryptic Residency

Ban Lei

Ban Lei is a sound and visual artist based in Geneva/ Shanghai. After training as a classical musician and having a career in new technologies, Ban Lei has moved away from pre-existing musical rules, equipment for expected use, and electronic sound effects to obtain an “objective” or “neutral” creative context. He makes his own musical […]

Cryptic Residency

Aurora Engine

Aurora Engine (Deborah Shaw) is a composer, harpist, and pianist based in Edinburgh, crafting immersive sound worlds that blend electronics, live instruments, and found sounds. Inspired by the natural world, birdsong, tides, and human voices, she tells stories through sound shaping textures that explore tension and unpredictability. Her debut album, Secret Knock (2024) brought sound […]

Cryptic Residency

Alex Smoke

Alex Smoke is a musician and composer working across various fields of sound, including electronic production, sound installation, and instrumental composition. A Cryptic Artist, his work focuses on creating immersive experiences that engage the listener’s consciousness, blending traditional concepts with contemporary techniques. Initially trained in classical cello, drums and singing, then progressing to electronic production, […]

Cryptic Residency