This conversation will explore the significance and power of the collective voice, choral music, and carrying a voice amongst many. Artists Clarissa Connelly and Sian O'Gorman will discuss the trajectory of developing their own voice in relation to collective singing, and whether or not it can impact relational existence in a world that encourages individualism.

Clarissa Connelly is a composer, producer, and singer. Her debut for Warp Records, World of Work (2024), is an experimental pop marvel of entangling melodies and sharp instrumentation. The production melds crystalline folk with louder moments that are fuzzy with shoegaze textures of distortion, echo, and delay – yet the voice takes centre stage amidst the sonorous sounds she produces. The timeless yet contemporary sensibility of Connelly’s music is alluring; it’s not surprising that bells ring out as a throughline in World of Work, as her work beckons and entices, mirage-like – almost a fantasy but real as can be.

NYX is a London-based collective of artists working at the intersection of choral music and

electronic music performance. Led by music director Sian O’Gorman, their work explores

connections between the body, architecture, and nature to create music that bridges the ancient and the futuristic. Sian O’Gorman’s background informs much of NYX’s work. A former member of the New Zealand Opera Chorus and National Youth Choirs, she holds a bachelor of music in performance voice and a bachelor of applied sciences in design. Her compositions combine precise vocal direction with electronic tools, shaping NYX’s operatic, psychedelic, and deeply human sound.

Radna Rumping is a writer, artist, and curator based in Amsterdam. Her work is relational and collaborative, dealing with public space, experimental archiving, ways of gathering, and conditions of (in)visibility. Radio and sonic explorations have run like a thread through her practice: in 2015 she co-founded Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee, an online radio platform dedicated to the arts and between 2010 and 2020 she hosted the radio show Future Vintage at Red Light Radio. Her writing is often made public through sound – in the form of audio essays, mixtapes, and live readings.