a.hop

a.hop (nine in Korean) is a nine-person international sound art supergroup, founded in 2020. They create acoustic and electronic sound in live performance, installation and recording, video, photography, projections and kinetic sound sculpture. The collective explores language, experiences of culture, memory, geography and global time-zones. Each member lives in a different country across five continents. For AE25 Lynette Quek (Singapore) and E Millar (Boorloo) will perform live and incorporate sound created by the other seven members.

a.hop have presented works internationally at Festival Tsonami (Chile, 2023), Juckpulver (DE, 2022), LUFF Festival (CH 2022), Audiograft Festival (UK, 2021), Roam festival (UK, 2021), Radio Tsonami (Chile, 2021), Museo del Estallido Social (Mexico, 2021). The group’s first album was released digitally on Superpang in 2021 and they have two upcoming albums due for release in 2025.

Lynette Quek is an audiovisual maker, from Singapore. She tinkers, constructs, and performs.

Incarnations of her work include audiovisual installations, composition through sound manipulation, as well as cross-disciplinary performance with technology and objects. Her work is project and site specific, at the same time engaging audience as activators, varying across the medium of video, performance, sculpture, electronics, and expanding. Lynette has presented her works in Singapore, Taiwan, across the United Kingdom, Europe, and Central America; in various forms including installations, web-based works, and performances.

Elizabeth Millar is a sound and multi-disciplinary artist. She has performed and presented works in Australia, Canada, the USA, Mexico, Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam. She works primarily with acoustic and electronic sound, texture, repetition, duration and structure. She creates sound sculptures from small electronic components and found materials, composes and performs text and video scores, and collaborates across the disciplines of installation, choreography and videography.

Ryoko Akama is a Japanese-Korean artist working with installation, performance and composition. She creates kinetic sound contraptions using domestic appliances and scrap materials, and activates them with the invisible energies of heat, magnetism and gravity. She composes and performs alternative scores in collaboration with other artists and musicians internationally. She is an artistic director for ame c.i.c., supporting DIY culture and underground art/music scene. She co-runs the independent publisher mumei publishing and melange edition. 

Verónica Cerrotta is an Argentinian sound artist, listening to place and everyday environments. She uses field recordings in the composition of soundscapes and performance of experimental music. She has several pieces published in compilations from Argentina, Brazil, Spain, ​​Chile, Peru, and the UK. She currently lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she does sound design and cultural production work.

Anne-F Jacques is a sound artist based in Montreal, Canada. She is interested in amplification, oblique interactions between materials and construction of various contraptions and idiosyncratic systems. Her particular focus is on low technology, trivial objects and unpolished sounds. She regularly creates installations, performances and ephemeral interventions and gives workshops about domestic appliance hacking. 

Bonnie Han Jones is a Korean-American improvising musician, poet, and educator. Her work is committed to an interdisciplinary approach that incorporates text, sculpture, and video, but grounds itself in an improvised electronic noise and sound practice. 

Liew Niyomkarn is a sound artist and musician based in Brussels. Coming from sound experimental practice and performance, her work focuses on listening practice and conveying memories through sound.  She uses field recordings to detect time,  (non)-human voices, everyday routines, text, archival sounds, and different tuning systems in nature – to combine them with a sonic palette and the properties of sound itself such as sounds of spaces – she presents her work in the form of live performance and sound installation. 

Suzueri (Elico Suzuki)  is a Tokyo-based sound and visual artist. She plays circuitous and restless performances using pianos combined with self-made instruments. Her recent interests have centred on the exploration of the gaps and narrative aspects between the interaction of instruments and particular embodiment.

Valentina Villarroel is a sound artist and educator. She is trained in bioacoustics with a focus on human and animal well-being. She explores sound as a viewpoint for history, and in that sense she has become a soundscape artist. She mostly works and tours in the Biobío Region of Chile. Her work is concerned with nature, flora, fauna and geography, and the ways they intersect with eco-social conflicts.