2026 ORAM AWARDS WINNERS
eye measure
(Ray Morrison)
eye measure is the musical project of Sheffield-based artist Ray Morrison, who creates experimental computer music through live coding. Their work pushes simple structures towards density, intensity and unpredictability, leaving space for mistakes and unexpected results. Ray co-runs Pattern Club Sheffield, a workshop and event series exploring algorithmic patterns across a range of disciplines.
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May Swoon (Neo Ukandu)
Neo Ukandu is the figurehead behind two projects, May Swoon and Friends Are Evul, crafting experimental pop and indie-electronica from noise, glitch, hardware samplers and self-built synth patches. Working from a place of DIY unpredictability, Neo is on a mission to bring experimental electronic music-making to their disabled peers.
Outsider (Joni Newham)
Focused on combining analogue dub techniques with advanced digital synthesis across production and live performance, Outsider bridges the worlds of queer club music and experimental electronics through a practice that also ventures into DJing, software development, visual design, writing, publishing, and label curation.
Rachel Devorah Rome
Rachel Devorah Rome is an American improvising electronic musician, researcher, and educator based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Rachel’s work is interested in superhuman prolongation; supramachine opacity; the re-signification of archaic tools & materials; and parallels between the physical properties & social meanings of spaces.
Semay Wu
A Scotland-based composer, sound artist and cellist with thirty years' practice in free improvisation, Semay Wu has worked across dance, theatre, poetry and exhibition audio, and created Sounds Like Scran, an online audio cookbook for Manchester's communities. Her solo work builds on live-sampled cello, voice, tape and everyday objects, released across Raspberry Hotel (Akashic Records, 2022) and Sharmanka & Unsteady Stones (scatterArchive, 2023–24).
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2024 ORAM AWARDS WINNERS
The Silver Field
(Coral Rose Kindred-Boothby)
The Silver Field is a sound world of Coral Rose Kindred-Boothby. Voice, tapes, bass, samples, synthesis, strings, reeds, drums, small sounds, big sounds, sunlight, moonlight, a lot of water. Using her modular synthesiser and other self-built electronic instruments, she weaves together song-soundscapes, creating a rich and dream-like tapestry of sound.
Dali de Saint Paul
The raw vocalist has been experimenting since 2012; a prolific collaborator, her frequently-improvised approach blurs sonic lines between instruments, destabilises spatial and linguistic borders, she embodies a polyphonic, politicised act of womxn through the ages. As a curator and organiser, she’s an active cultural actor of Bristol’s experimental music scene.
Lola de la Mata
Lola de la Mata is a conceptual sound artist and performer (theremin/voice/violin/sculptural glass and metal instruments) based in Liverpool. Lola centres listening and hearing practices, tinnitus and aural diversity, experiences of chronic illness, and disrupting the embodied etiquette of classical music performances.
xname
(Eleonora Oreggia)
London based musician and conceptual electronic artist from Milan, Italy. She creates performances and interactive installations using light, sound, dust, and electromagnetic fields. Her music features elements of techno, ambient drone and industrial.
Nebularosa label-boss, xname is the creator of REBUS, a novel musical machine that can be played by plucking electromagnetic waves.
Hanna Tuulikki
Hanna Tuulikki is a British-Finnish artist, composer and performer based in Glasgow. Their hybrid approach to sound blends vocal improvisation, voice-processing and composition, with manipulated field recording and electronics to tell 'stories' about reworlding in times of biospheric crisis, engaging with how to meet complex emotions that come with ecological awareness and offering alternative approaches to multispecies kin making.
2023 INTERNATIONAL CATEGORY
In partnership with the British Council
MAYA AL KHALDI
Maya Al Khaldi مايا الخالدي is an artist, musician and composer from Palestine, based in Jerusalem. Maya’s work explores voice and the music of the past and present, working with archival materials to imagine the future.
Her debut album “عالم تاني – Other World” is inspired by Palestinian folklore, influenced by the present, to imagine a sonic future. All songs include either lyrics, melodies, or recordings from the audio archive of the traditional Palestinian music of the Popular Art Center in Ramallah, Palestine.
2023 UK WINNERS
In partnership with PRS Foundation
NATALIE ROE
Natalie is a composer and performer based between Cardiff and the West Midlands. She recently graduated from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama with a first-class degree in acoustic and electronic composition. It was in Natalie's year abroad, studying at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland where she found her love for performing with electronic instruments.
Most of Natalie's performances are centred around the Modular Synthesiser and often include Max MSP patches or Super Collider coding, live acoustic instruments, live visuals and multi-speaker array live spatialisation.
2022 INTERNATIONAL CATEGORY
In partnership with the British Council
RANI JAMBAK
Rani Jambak is a composer, producer, and vocalist of Minangkabau descent from Medan, Indonesia. After completing her Master of Creative Industries Studies at Macquarie University in Sydney, Rani started her solo career. Explore electronic music and soundscape collected in various places in Indonesia.
2022 UK WINNERS
In partnership with PRS Foundation
ELLA KAY
Ella Kay is an electroacoustic composer, sound artist and designer, and saxophonist from Oldham currently based in Manchester. She is influenced by the intricacies of humanity and life, and her work aims to interpret these often complicated areas through the realms of experimental sound. She has recently composed a piece on the theme of protest as well-being. The 9-minute piece debuted, along with many others from excellent composers, at the C40 World Mayor's Summit 2022 19-21st October in Buenos Aires, Argentina to support their C40 Well-being Cities project.
2021 WINNERS
MAGZ HALL
Magz Hall is a radio and sound artist, who works with a focus on expanded radio art in all its forms. She has worked internationally since 2000 having exhibited at YSP, Jerwood Arts, Barbican, Tate Britain, Whitechapel Gallery, The V and A London, MACBA Barcelona, Place Des Artes Montreal and other galleries and festivals with broadcasts across the world. She is a senior lecturer at CCCU in Canterbury where her practice based research focuses on radio and sound art. In 1998 she helped set up the arts station Resonance FM in London, which started broadcasting full time in 2002. Magz went on to set up Radio Arts to promote radio art and artist radio activity. Magz completed a practice based PhD at UAL in 2015, titled Radio After Radio which looked at hundred years of radio art and made expanded radio works for an imagined vacated FM spectrum after switch over.
“I am delighted. It’s fantastic recognition for radio art and sound art I have been making since 2000, it means that I can start research and development on an exciting new longer term project”
2020 WINNERS
LOULA YORKE
Loula Yorke is a composer and performer who uses sound, video and participation to create artworks. Dancing in the spaces where the personal meets the political, her varied and noisy electronic music practice conjours moments of revolt as well as revealing hidden systems of control. Yorke runs femme-centred synth-building workshops Atari Punk Girls, and co-founded the SonitusLIVE curated livestreams.
“I will be able to access mentorship for the first time, and I hope to take my instruments on a mini tour, creating connections and performing to new audiences in other regions of the UK.”
2018 WINNERS
GEORGIA RODGERS
Georgia Rodgers is a composer of instrumental and electronic music whose work focuses on textural and spatial aspects of sound and the experience of listening. In 2016 she was selected as one of Sound and Music’s New voices.
Georgia studied Physics and Music at the University of Edinburgh followed by a Masters degree in computer music taught by Michael Edwards. She is now pursuing a PhD in composition at City University, London, with a particular focus on the perception of sound, space and the human experience of listening. Her supervisor is Newton Armstrong.
Georgia also works part-time as an acoustician for a firm of consulting engineers, specialising in architectural acoustics. She lives and works (and was born) in north London.
2017 WINNERS
EWA JUSTKA
Ewa Justka is a polish electronic acid-technoise artist, self taught instruments builder and electronics teacher based in London.
She is also interested in the notion of materiality of objects, vibrant, ontological systems (human bodies, electronic circuits, integrated circuits: varied range of micro and macro environments and relations between them) and an investigation of modes of quasi-direct perception through extreme light and sound actions, electronics, hardware hacking, breaking, deconstructing, wiring - or, to put it bluntly - designing synths and playing hard techno.