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Gillian Katungi is an artist and director based in Glasgow. She expresses as and through PAIX, which means peace. Paix experiments with new forms of expression and finds freedom in the space between established forms. Their offering is currently expressed through audio and visual. With a desire to re-envisage and create new paradigms, their artistic process pursues decoloniality, emotional honesty, and playful exploration without judgment – creating space for what can emerge and flourish when black intersectional experience and expression is centered. 

Georgina MacDonell Finlayson is a Scottish violinist, composer and community arts practitioner, with a particular interest in collaborative multidisciplinary performance. Often inspired by folk music, landscape and the climate crisis, her creative work combines everything from contemporary classical and electroacoustic music, to original folk composition and arrangement, and creating and performing music and sound design for live theatre. 

Ellie Higgins is a performer, writer and theatre maker from Fife. Her practice is concerned with investigations into live and mediatised performance, focussing on human connection. Ellie most often creates intimate, interactive and site-specific performance. Currently she is developing her multi-media, one woman show ‘Walk’ for the Edinburgh Fringe 2023 and her one-to-one, audio based performance for library spaces ‘The Best Of’. 

Parasol is an aspiring sound designer with a passion for theatre sound. With a background in recording art and sound design, Parasol has self-studied various sound-related courses to expand her knowledge and expertise. She have experience in a wide range of audio and sound work, including music and sound effect design. However, theatre sound design remains her favorite and she is eager to pursue a career in this field. 

Marie-Gabrielle Koumenda is a French-Cameroonian singer-songwriter who performs under the artist name Djana Gabrielle. Lately, in addition to her solo project, she has been combining her love for music and theatre, and has been working with Imaginate, Lyra, Magnetic North and National Theatre of Scotland. She aims to be more involved in theatre work in Scotland, as a musician, composer & sound designer. 

Rebecca Di Rollo is a queer percussionist, freelance music practitioner and self-taught sound artist. Rebecca has previously created sonic accompaniments for animation, film and immersive theatre. Rebecca also facilitates music workshops for young people, with an emphasis on using accessible techniques. Rebecca firmly believes everyone can play music. 

Originally from Japan, Shiori Usui is a BBC Proms commissioned composer, improvising musician (playing inside and under grand piano and noise vocal), and performer based in Dundee. Shiori is currently developing a sensory theatre show for/with disabled young people in hydro-pools, using sound and music as core materials of the work. 

Hannah Read is a DJ, producer, and performer based in Glasgow. She is a resident DJ at La Cheetah and runs Events Research Programme, a monthly subscription-based events series that focuses mostly on local experimental musicians. She likes to make weird music about institutions. 

Eve Allan is a Musician, Sound and Video Editor, and Theatre Technician. Recent work includes ‘Home is Not the Place’ and ‘Twa’ (Made in Scotland 2022), and ‘We Need to Talk about Safe’ (Sophie Goode and Corinne Salisbury). Currently studying Music at Napier University, Eve plays in local alternative rock band “HÜSH”.