Alexandra Spence

Alexandra Spence is a sound artist and musician living on unceded Wangal land in Sydney, Australia. Through her practice Alex attempts to reimagine 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 work worldwide including BBC Radio; Ausland, Berlin; Café Oto, London; EMS, Stockholm; Punkt Festival, Kristiansand; Standards Studio, Milan; AB Salon, Brussels; Radiophrenia, Glasgow; Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid; Sound Forms Festival, Hong Kong; Destroy Vancouver; MONO, Brisbane; The Substation, Melbourne; Soft Centre, and Liveworks Festival, with Liquid Architecture, Sydney.

Alex completed a Master of Fine Arts in sound installation at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, CA. In 2018, she undertook a mentorship in the UK with sound artist David Toop. In 2019, she resided at the Hong Kong Arts Centre, as one of the Asialink Arts Creative Exchange recipients.

Her debut and sophomore albums released on Room40 received critical acclaim in The Wire Magazine, her EP released on Longform Editions was featured in a BBC4 radio series by Timothy Morton, and her release with MP Hopkins on More Mars received a Bandcamp Best Experimental Music recommendation. In 2022 she released three albums with Mappa, Room40 and Canti Magnetici. (She holds the belief that electricity might actually be magic)