Josephine Macken is a composer and improviser who lives and works on Gadigal land (Sydney, Australia). Her work centers the concept of ‘interference’ as both a vital compositional tool and an aesthetic framework for articulating her practice. This materialises in her work through mediations of disclosure and secrecy, disturbances unfolding within and across modes of sound production, feedback loops, subversions of agency hierarchies and an unyielding preoccupation with the uncanny.

Score Samples

Still -or- Invitation at Dusk (2019-20)
for soloist; alto flute, alto voice & electronics

Burial (2019)
for mixed quartet;
c trumpet, clarinets, percussion & double bass