We are a team of artists, musicians, researchers, academics, bioacousticians… and birders!

Ania Mokrzycka (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist and a doctoral researcher at Loughborough University London. Her practice-based research investigates how practices of submersion with(in) the ocean can generate other modes of listening-sensing and relation, transforming processes of artistic making. Situating listening outside the rigid dichotomy of aurality and visuality, her work engages transdisciplinary methodologies and draws on theoretical frameworks that foreground the radical indeterminacy of space-time-matter.

Luiz Ribeiro Fonseca (he/him) is a doctoral researcher at the Institute for Creative Futures - Loughborough University London and a Techne Doctoral Training Partnership scholarship holder. He investigates sonic practices in Brazilian ecological activism, questioning how sound making can intertwine climate collapse with colonialist, capitalist, and techno-scientific ideals.

Vitória Croda (she/her) is a PhD student at the Institute for Creative Futures of Loughborough University. She researches strategies of resistance to data colonialism in Latin America, more specifically on how to build alternative futures taking grassroots social movements as inspiration.

Karina Townsend (she/her) is a creative technologist and intrepid sonic adventurer. Her practice explores hearing loss and concepts of isolation and connection via DIY super-sensory devices.

Inês Nolasco (she/her) is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Earth Species Project, working in computational bioacoustics and animal communication. Her research focuses on developing machine learning methods to improve conservation efforts and biodiversity monitoring and understand how animals communicate. In doing so, she aims to foster greater empathy and acceptance towards other life forms.

Courtney N. Reed (she/her) is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) working between the Institutes for Digital Technologies and Creative Futures at Loughborough London. Her work explores how bodies and subjective embodied experiences are honoured, conceptualised, and collaborated with in music performance. She is interested in meaning-making processes when working with ambiguity, metaphor, and non-dualism in digital musical instrument design.