About
Alice Boyd is a South London-based musician, sound artist and audio producer whose work invites people to listen more closely to the natural world and our place within it.
Working with voice, field recordings, composition and interviews, she creates songs and sound works that explore our connection to the landscapes we call home. Her projects bring together environmental sound and human stories, documenting ecological change and the people, practices and traditions imagining more hopeful futures.
Spanning live performance, music releases, sound installations and broadcast, Alice’s work has featured on BBC Radio 2, 3, 4 and 6 Music, with performances and presentations for organisations including the BBC Proms, National Gallery, Kings Place, Kew’s Wakehurst, Barbican Conservatory, TEDx and the Eden Project, where she was artist-in-residence.
She created the BBC Radio 4 documentary Shifting Soundscapes, presents Found Sounds for Ffern’s podcast As the Season Turns, and co-produces BBC Radio 3 Unwind’s Sleep Tracks. Other recent collaborations include the RSPB, EarthPercent, Knepp Wildland and TOAST. In 2025-26, she supported Yann Tiersen on his European tour.
Photo by Caitlin Warren
Photo by Michelle Sanders
“Alice’s music beautifully reframes the urgent climate crisis into an opportunity for reconnection with nature.”
“Beautiful”
“Such a perfectly realised amalgamation of concept, melody and landscape is vanishingly rare, but Boyd achieves it with an easy grace.”
“Alice’s work is visceral, playful and innately communicative.”
Residencies, awards & support
Arts Council England
Supported Alice’s artistic development through a Develop Your Creative Practice grant and, more recently, the development of Shifting Soundscapes Live through a Project Grant.
Britten Pears Arts - Artist Residency, Snape Maltings, 2026
A residency developing Shifting Soundscapes Live, with field recording across the Suffolk landscape and an accompanying public workshop.
Hurst Artist-in-Residence - Weber State University, Utah, 2024
A residency exploring the soundscapes of northern Utah through field recording, composition and workshops with students.
Eden Project - Artist-in-Residence, 2021–22
A residency in the Rainforest Biome gathering environmental recordings and plant activity data using a handmade electronic device, which later formed the basis of From The Understory.
Sound and Music - New Voices, 2020–22
Selected for Sound and Music’s artist development programme, supporting the development of new work combining music, environmental sound and technology.
Sound and Music - Dimensions Award
Awarded additional funding and mentoring through Sound and Music to develop The Isle of Arden.
PRS Foundation - Women Make Music, 2022
Supported the creation and production of From The Understory.
Photo by Caitlin Isobel Warren