I am an independent audio-visual artist, published researcher, performer and sound designer residing in Boorloo/Perth, Western Australia. I’m interested in exploring the intersections of history, place and self through digital audio-visual work. I create my work using aspects of place – such as field recordings, maps and information sourced from geospatial and weather datasets – and my personal reflections as an observer as ways of exploring the multi-layered intersections of time, history, ecology and geographical features existing within a place. By exposing the multiple layers of narrative that inform place, my works invite an unearthing of the past, meditations on the present and contemplations of the future.
I’ve presented at international and national conferences and published academic writings on soundscape composition. My PhD thesis, completed in 2023, The cartographies of place: Approaches to audio-visual composition incorporating aspects of place, based on how the ephemerality of sound reflects the ephemerality of being, and the fragility inherent in any relationship with place, was awarded the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) School Research Medal.
I am a long-standing committee member of the Australasian Computer Music Association and in 2025 became one of the editors for ACMA’s journal, Chroma. I am a peer reviewer for the annual Australasian Computer Music Conference and have also reviewed for New Interfaces for Musical Expression.
I’ve performed and has exhibited works nationally and internationally as samarobryn, and also regularly performs at venues around Boorloo/Perth. Some of my past commissions include State Library of Western Australia, Tura New Music, the Difficult Listening Project and the You Are Here festival. I was selected for the 2024 Digital Fellowship program through Creative Australia, and has also performed at various festivals including JOLT, WAMFest, Fringeworld and Strange Festival. As a sound designer, I’ve worked on various shows including Michelle Hall’s The Dirty Mother, Daisy Sander’s Night Dancing, and Georgi Iver’s You’re So Brave.
My pronouns are they/them.