Our Rewired artists revealed

Discover the five audio creators who we’re commissioning to make exciting new work this spring.

Following our Rewired callout at the end of 2025, we’re excited to announce the five Yorkshire artists who have been chosen to create new commissions for the programme. Follow us on socials to keep up with their work in progress, and stay tuned for news of the event where we’ll be showcasing all the new pieces!

Thanks once again to our crowdfunding supporters who made it possible for us to offer an extra Rewired commission.

Mary Stark

Mary Stark is an award winning experimental filmmaker and independent researcher based in Todmorden. She is a longstanding part of the Folklore Tapes collective, creating numerous live performances for events such as the British Textile Biennial and Full Of Noises Festival. In 2017 she was a recipient of an inaugural Oram Award.

She has a practice based PhD from Manchester School of Art Research Centre for a project titled Film as Fabric: Connecting Textile Practice and Experimental Filmmaking through Expanded Cinema Performance (documented here). Her shows include the Contact Festival of New Experimental Film and Video, a specially commissioned camera-less 35mm film in response to the Delia Derbyshire Archive and a performance in a makeshift darkroom in Sauðárkrókur, Iceland.

Mary’s Rewired commission will be an expanded cinema performance incorporating 16mm film projection with optical sound from Jacquard weaving patterns converted into playable photograms and fed into a music box, accompanied by a sewing machine.

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Ryoko Akama

Ryoko Akama (pictured at top of page) is a Japanese-Korean artist working across installation, performance, and composition, based in Huddersfield. Her practice uses domestic appliances, waste materials, and DIY electronics to create kinetic sound works exploring noise and silence, time and space, and diasporic socio-political narratives.

Ryoko’s Rewired commission will be a live sound performance exploring how heat affects electronic circuits and sonic instability as a metaphor for environmental fragility under climate crisis. Through heat-responsive electronics and real-time processing, noise, silence, and failure will become compositional elements.

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Naomi Hart

Naomi Hart is a pianist, cellist and composer based in Leeds. Her work is mostly instrumental, and since completing a Masters in Sound and Music for Interactive Games, she now regularly creates music in combination with visual media, often incorporating elements of sound design techniques drawn from video game audio practices.

Naomi’s musical influences include the pioneering techniques of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, and she enjoys employing a range of similar processes to create interesting, playful and immersive musical worlds.

Naomi’s Rewired piece, Save Progress?, will be a dedicated space for people to explore how they may be feeling, moment to moment, in relation to the climate crisis. The game and its soundtrack will aim to give the player a supportive and affirming experience with which to inquire into their own emotions, while additionally providing a means of feeling connected to others who are doing the very same.

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Mayshe-Mayshe

Mayshe-Mayshe is the solo project of Yorkshire songwriter, producer and visual artist Alice Rowan. Her music blends dreamy art-pop, vintage synths, choral vocals and field recordings to create her unique brand of experimental electronica. Mayshe-Mayshe’s live performance is a dynamic live-looped performance, weaving lofi electronica, soft rhythms and intimate vocal harmonies into immersive, layered soundscapes.

For her Rewired project, Alice will collect field recordings along the Yorkshire coastline, using these materials to compose a piece of music written from the perspective of a native species threatened by the climate crisis.

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Anna Ross

Anna Ross is a bassist based in Leeds. After studying Jazz at Leeds Conservatoire from 2021-24, she now works within the jazz and experimental music genres as both a musician (bass and electronics) and a promoter for her event Offshoots. Anna is also an artist, working mainly with gouache, photography and ceramics to document moments of her life. Her work can be seen as part of the Big Love Show book at Hyde Park Book Club (February 2026) and at Left Bank Leeds (March 2026).

Anna’s Rewired project will be an interactive and immersive installation piece set in a kitchen, with recordings strung together into an eclectic piece based around sensory overload.

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Rewired is supported by a National Lottery Project Grant from Arts Council England.