Core members
Joss Smith - co-artistic leader / composer / performer
I’m a Welsh composer and performer who works within various media, ranging from purely sound orientated works to electronic music, instrumental theatre and performance art. A linking factor between these different approaches is the use of expectation and insistence to build tension and subvert the compositional trajectory. For Ear Transplant, I’ll play clarinets + auxiliary instruments as well as conducting and embracing performativity.
Photo credit - Niklas Ottander (Spektrals)
contact: JS.eartransplant[at]gmail[dot]com
Matthew Grouse - co-artistic leader / composer / performer
I’m a composer and performer originally from Yorkshire (UK), currently living and working in Copenhagen (DK). I enjoy interdisciplinarity and often work at an intersection between music for instruments and voices; electronic sound; text; video; and performance. My music regularly engages with a re-contextualisation of everyday sounds, objects, and automatic, repetitive behaviours to reveal the latently musical and bizarre in the familiar or even mundane. As a part of Ear Transplant, I play guitars and live electronics in addition to embracing performance that uses the voice, the body and objects.
Photo credit - Rogier Boogaard
contact: MG.eartransplant[at]gmail[dot]com
Jónas Ásgeir Ásgeirsson - accordionist / performer
I’m an accordionist and performer based in Copenhagen (DK), originally from Reykjavík (IS). I enjoy playing with the boundaries of instrumental performance as well as creating musical narratives. For Ear Transplant I will be playing my accordion(s) and other instruments, as well as exploring extra-instrumental performance.
Photo credit - Tómas Örn Tómasson
contact: JA.eartransplant[at]gmail[dot]com
Irene Bianco - percussionist / composer / performer
I am a percussionist, who works in the field of contemporary, experimental and free improvised music. I also enjoy composing and work with electronics, field recordings and curious sounds in my practice. As part of Ear Transplant I will play percussion and perform using different objects and media, as well as collaborating to shape our programmes and events.
Photo credit - Adèle Tornberg
contact: IB.eartransplant[at]gmail[dot]com