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Come to a YSWN event and meet other women, girls and non-binary people who share your interest in sound and music technology.
Whether you’re a complete beginner or already doing your own thing, all are welcome. At our workshops, you can try out an activity and learn new skills – from making beats with live coding to making your own electronic instrument. Meanwhile, our socials are informal meetups where you can chat, share tips and have new ideas in a friendly, encouraging setting.
Many events are free or involve only a small charge to cover the cost of materials. So why not find out what’s happening?
We value and promote mentoring and knowledge sharing. Do you have an idea for a workshop that you could deliver to YSWN members?
Workshops so far have included soldering noise instruments and contact mics; live coding using ixi lang and TidalCycles; sound design in Ableton Live and much more.
Or you might like to offer a talk about your artistic practice or a technical skill that you use, informal session or space to explore an idea, host improvisations, instrument making or something else…
YSWN commissions freelance work from artists, artist leader educators, administrators, project managers, consultants and others in roles that are essential for longer term sustainable work.
If you would like to be in our pool of paid associates please read our Call for Paid Associates (Word version / PDF version) and Skills & Diversity Audit and send in your application. We’d love to hear from you. We are really keen to hear from people of underrepresented ethnicities and people with disabilities. It is not a guarantee of work as roles depend on funding success, fundraising and the size of the pool.
You can view profiles of our current Associates to see what kinds of skills they offer here. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact us.
Amy Beeston is a sound artist whose work encourages others to listen more deeply to their everyday environments. Her practice is highly interdisciplinary and often collaborative, allowing her to repurpose scientific studies in human hearing and machine listening to create ecologically-minded installations and participative sound works. Amy collaborates with Móti artist collective (Orkney) and SONA sound art collective (Sheffield), and is a co-founding member of YSWN.
Cherry Styles is an artist and zine maker based in Huddersfield. With a background in community arts and education Cherry’s skills have most recently found her working with Kirklees Libraries, Lawrence Batley Theatre and Support 2 Recovery. Committed to building inclusive and accessible spaces for creativity and connection, Cherry has led Equality and Diversity training for YSWN.
Eleanor Cully Boehringer is a sound artist, composer and singer based in Newcastle upon Tyne. Her practice involves audio production and draws on poetry, image and documentary narratives as source material for new pieces of music. She writes and perform music, teaches one-on-one vocal lessons and runs creative workshops. She is particularly interested in making recordings of small spaces and embedding songs into rooms.
Emily Johnson (aka Emily J Electric) is an Ableton Certified Trainer, producer, musician and performer. She co-founded Equalize Music Production with Liina Turtonen, with the goal of making the audio industry more inclusive and diverse. Emily runs the Sheffield Ableton User Group and is an experienced music tutor and workshop leader, with a particular interest in helping people achieve their creative goals through confidence and mindset.
Helen Papaioannou is a composer and performer based in Sheffield, whose work ranges from her solo project for electronics and baritone saxophone (Kar Pouzi), to ensemble compositions, music for moving image, and improvisation with a range of collaborators. She is also one half of the multi-instrumental Sheffield duo Garlic Hug and has been a member of various other bands including Beauty Pageant and HOKKETT.
Jessica Blaise Ward is a composer and musician with a background in teaching and education. She is currently a Senior Lecturer and the Lead Songwriting Tutor at Leeds Arts University on the Popular Music Performance Course. Jessica is interested in music of the 1980s alongside the development of synthesisers. Her current research investigates the 21st-century digital music style synthwave.
Jung In Jung is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher originally from South Korea. Her work focuses on the intimate relationships between sound, movement, and space. Using hacked game controllers, she created various interactive sound and dance performances that were presented at Sonica, NEoN Digital Arts Festival, MIVSC São Carlos Videodance Festival, Athens Video Dance Project, and Vivarium Festival among others. She has a PhD in choreographic sound composition from the University of Huddersfield and is currently a postdoctoral researcher in interactive engagement at the research centre InGAME: Innovation for Games and Media Enterprise, Dundee.
Katie King, a versatile musician, songwriter, and producer, is dedicated to advancing equity in the music technology industry through her founding and leadership of Women in Music & Technology. She holds a first-class degree in Music and Technology, with research focused on challenges faced by women and gender minorities in the field. Katie’s musical journey began at 15 and has taken her to festival stages including Reading, Leeds and Madcool, and studios such as Abbey Road and Maida Vale. Having worked extensively with diverse young people, she is currently forging a career in music publishing at Sentric Music.
Kelly Jayne Jones is a Manchester based artist making work that combines performance, installation and sound. Self taught, her practice includes sound installation, dance, gesture, sonic drawings, stone sculpture and film scores. She is interested in creating a multi-sensory experience that creates possible conditions for communication and exchange. Creating contemporary zones bordering quantum fictions, where communion may have the potential to explore our inner dimensions. She is currently exploring animist ideas around the breath and spirit of mountains and rivers and how we can reconnect with our planet by means of ancient and modern rituals.
Mia Windsor is a composer, improviser and educator based in Leeds. Mia writes pieces that involve intricately reconstructing instrumental timbres using software she has coded. She regularly runs workshops with YSWN including sessions on music production, sound recording and performance using live electronics. She also makes pipe organ drone music, writes about the creative potential of artificial intelligence in music and plays synth in the band Static Caravan.
Phoebe is a university lecturer, specialising in music technology, songwriting, and creative live performance. Phoebe began playing the cello at the age of eight, going on to perform with multiple orchestras in Manchester before studying composition and music production at Leeds College of Music. Phoebe has since worked and collaborated on library music featured on Audio Network, worked and performed with 808 State, opened Manchester International Festival, and featured on TedTalks. Phoebe has also performed on multiple Manchester Jazz festival stages, as well as being a featured artist on the BBC Introducing stage.
Rivita Goyle is a singer-songwriter, composer and producer. After reaching the semi-finals of the UK Songwriting Contest 2014 with her song, ‘Fly Away’. Rivita went onto study World Music at BIMM, followed by a master’s degree where she researched ethnomusicology in film scoring. Her sound blends inspiration drawn from both her roots and research, with an ability to engineer and produce across a range of genres. Rivita has been featured on many outlets, including the Rolling Stone India platform.
Ryoko Akama works with installation, performance and composition. She sculpts daily tools and scrap wastes with simple electronic devices and invisible energy such as magnetism or gravity into kinetic contraptions, magnifying silence, time and space. Interested in non-western cultural thinking, her practice examines environment, architecture, cause and effect, sociological structure and pattern. She composes and performs a diversity of alternative scores in collaboration with other artists and musicians worldwide. She is an artistic director for ame cic and co-runs the independent publisher mumei publishing and melange edition.
Sarah Hutton has worked in the business sector of the music industry for more than 30 years, with 21 of those years spent teaching future musicians and music technology students about the music business. Her areas of expertise are the record industry, music publishing, artist management, contracts, copyright and rights, marketing and promotion, event management and artist/band/music producer business development. She currently works as a music business consultant, trainer and mentor.
Sarah Statham is a musician, events promoter and music tutor based in Leeds, West Yorkshire. She currently writes, records, releases music and tours as Fig by Four, plays bass in Crake and provides live drums/SPD-SX for Living Body. Sarah teaches from her studio and collaborates with various educational and community music initiatives. She is part of the CHUNK DIY collective and GREAAT (Gender Rebalance Equality Action and Advisory Team).
Satnam Galsian is a British-Asian vocalist based in Leeds. She currently performs with her band Kinaara as well as creatively exploring the interplay between north Indian and western music traditions with a variety of artists. Satnam also delivers various community-based programs that promote health and wellbeing through music.
A huge music fan, Sophie Cooper has worked in various roles as a musician, curator, educator and creative project facilitator. She has been involved with YSWN for several years, supporting education and training projects with the organisation. As part of the UK underground DIY scene she promotes regular shows in Todmorden, West Yorkshire under the name Tor Bookings and is the founder of Tor Festival.
Supriya Nagarajan is a UK based vocalist and composer who creates cross-cultural cross-genre concept-driven immersive music work. She has toured the globe and created work for festivals including hcmf//, Ultima Oslo and Iceland Symphony Orchestra. She is a PRS/Jerwood composer and an alumna of Sound And Music’s New Voices 2018. She is the Artistic Director of UK arts charity Manasamitra, and a passionate advocate for fair access in the music sector.
We are keen to hear from organisations who would like to support women in sound. This can be through offering financial resources, internship opportunities and/or in-kind support including equipment, software, meeting/workshop/studio space, and marketing materials.
YSWN can offer industry partners consultancy services and training on supporting women in the sound and music workforce. To discuss how your organisation could benefit from an association with YSWN, please contact Heidi Johnson, Development Manager at info@yorkshiresoundwomen.com.
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