Laetitia Sonami is a sound artist, performer and researcher. Sonami’s
sound performances, liveāfilm collaborations and sound installations focus on issues
of presence and participation. She has devised new gestural controllers for
performance and applies new technologies and appropriated media to achieve an
expression of immediacy through sound, place and objects. Best known for her unique
instrument, the elbow-length lady’s glove, she currently performs on her new
instrument, the Spring Spyre which is based on the application of neural networks to
real-time audio synthesis. Upcoming projects include the completion of a composition
in collaboration with Zeena Parkins as well as a live-film with SUE-C, the fourth in
their series. Sonami has received numerous awards among which the Herb Alpert Awards
in the Arts and the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Awards.