Amble Skuse: Artist Talk

The ninth of YSWN’s online seminar series Level Up in Audio featuring artists and audio professionals sharing their practice and insight.

On 17 September 2021 musician and artist Amble Skuse talked about her work, which incorporates found sound, voice, electronics and location to explore ideas of identity and power. Using technology to engage with disability and gender in innovative ways, her projects include an opera, We Ask These Questions Of Everybody, drawing upon the testimony of PIP claimants and composed through remote collaboration and soundwalks discovering cities from the perspective of a wheelchair user. She also discusses her work using body sensors, including performances incorporating her EEG readings and current work exploring the potential of MiMU gloves.

The seminar was the ninth of a series of online events featuring musical artists and audio professionals running throughout 2021 as part of Level Up In Audio. This YSWN project aims to inspire, grow and sustain the skills and creative opportunities of women and people of minority genders who have an interest in music and technology and whose work and professional development have been curtailed by the coronavirus pandemic.

YSWN’s Level Up in Audio project was supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.