About
Alice Boyd is a British composer, sound artist and audio producer. Her work explores our interconnectedness with the natural world. She often uses the voice, ambient electronic textures and novel field recording techniques, which unveil the hidden sounds of our environments.
In 2023, Alice released her debut EP ‘From The Understory’, created as part of her artist residency at the Eden Project - the world’s largest indoor rainforest. Since then, her music has been featured on BBC Radio 6, BBC Introducing and BBC Radio 3’s ‘Secrets of the Scottish Rainforest’, and she has performed in botanical gardens, ancient woodlands and music venues across the UK.
Over the couple of years, Alice has developed a love for field recording, travelling the UK capturing the unique sounds of different locations, seasons and environments. She presents a monthly episode of Ffern’s popular podcast ‘As the Season Turns’, has hosted episodes of BBC Countryfile Magazine’s ‘The Plodcast’ and gave a TEDx talk on listening as a tool for change.
Alice enjoys creating sound worlds for audio projects. From radio documentaries (‘Lithified’ for BBC Radio 4) and podcasts (Wellcome Collection’s ‘The Root of the Matter’), to poetry (’The Secret Life of Ponds’) and sound walks (Poltergeist’s ‘Ghost Walk’).
Photo by Michelle Sanders
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Photo by Michelle Sanders
“Alice’s music beautifully reframes the urgent climate crisis into an opportunity for reconnection with nature.”
“Alice’s work is visceral, playful and innately communicative.”
“A perfectly judged tangle of synthetic and human voices, silences, field recordings, and unearthly gurgles that challenges as much as it immerses you... From The Understory feels like one of those precious first albums that contains the untapped energy of everything that could happen next. ”
“I’ve been on a number of interactive audio walks ... and this is definitely the best. Special mention must go to Alice Boyd who did the unnerving, ghostly sound design as well as all the original music.”
“Alice Boyd’s sound design ... struck me as the real heart of the thing, and is about as good a bit of storytelling through sound as I’ve seen this year.”
Supporters
Thank you to PRS Foundation, Arts Council England, Sound and Music and Eden Project for their support.
