Newcastle University

Sound artist Susan Stenger was born in Buffalo, NY. After intensive flute studies in Prague and New York, she specialised in performing the music of John Cage, Christian Wolff and Phill Niblock. She was a founder of acclaimed wall-of-guitar group Band Of Susans and all-bass art band Big Bottom, and has collaborated with an eclectic range of artists, including dancer/choreographer Michael Clark, writers Iain Sinclair and Alan Moore, and scrap-metal percussionist FM Einheit.

In 2006 she was commissioned by Forma Arts and MOCA Lyon to make an exhibition- length sound installation, which became the 96-day-long Soundtrack for an Exhibition and explored song form on multiple levels of genre, time and detail. As part of Newcastle’s AV Festival, Stenger’s sound piece Full Circle inhabited the domed entrance to the Civic Centre in March 2012. Her new AV installation, Sound Strata of Coastal Northumberland, is a featured exhibition at the Laing Art Gallery until April 6.