Sounding Here is a stage for fresh collaborations, premieres, and trying out new things as an artist at any stage of their career. Opening up the idea of what experimental can mean, event curator Christine Cornwell invites artists who keep sound at the core, but the series often presents “more than musical” ideas. This event celebrates art that lives, grows, and breathes throughout a festival-in-an-evening atmosphere.
Claire Dickson (USA)
Claire Dickson (solo) performs her original compositions fusing song, vocal experimentation, and electronics.
Dickson is a vocalist and producer composing emergent, embodied song. Her work utilizes microphones, pedals, synthesizers, field recordings, acoustic instruments, and draws from lineages of improvisation, extended vocal technique, sampling, and deep listening. Her two solo albums, Starland (2022) and The Beholder (2024, New Amsterdam Records), have been praised as “enticingly atmospheric… growing in depth and substance on return visits,” by The Wire, and DownBeat highlighted her “striking – at times wordless – lyricism.” Her new EP Through (2025) uses electromagnetic microphones to capture the hidden language of city electronics, weaving ATM hums, router ticks, and synthesizers into tactile, shimmering songs. In March 2026, she will release her third full-length album with New Amsterdam Records. Photo of Claire Dickson courtesy of Olivia Noss.
Listen on Bandcamp
https://clairedickson.bandcamp.com/album/the-beholder
Sealf
Sealf are Thomas Myrmel (USA) – Voice, tbn, electronics and Jonathan Nagel (DE) – Cb, electronics. They describe themselves as a sonic salve for an abrasive era. Sealf is the joyous product of the universal coincidence where electronic wizard Thomas Myrmel crossed paths with bassist and soundsmith Jonathan Nagel. Together they explore the farthest reaches of song form, deftly weaving melodies with soundwalls and trilling frequencies drawing the listener into a sonic meditation sculpted into Myrmel’s evocative lyrics.
Gustavo Cabrera
Gustavo Cabrera is an Argentinian, Salvadorean, American and Dutch violinist and composer who prefers to not have to divide himself into different nationalities, although they each do represent different chapters in his life. Each different corner of the world he has lived in, has influenced and taught him different sounds, rhythms, and ways of thinking about music. From soloist with classical orchestra, tango or Brazilian melody driven, or Turkish or Irish jigged dances, he has immersed himself through genres as a performer and experimented as a composer. This concert provides the space to seek where his acoustic manipulations (electronic?) will take him. Where once each country seeks to limit its own culture, each genre tends to cross over the lines.
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