Interdisciplinary Artist Vocal Experimentalist Performer Composer
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Voice // Electronics // Musical Instruments // Objects // Field Recordings // Video
Free Improvisation // Participatory Large group Performances // Radio // Collage
My work relates to sound, architecture, live performance and participatory art. It explores embodiment, presence, listening, the psychology of sound and the relationship between people, sound and space.
I perform solo, and in collaborations with David Toop, Steve Beresford, Phil Minton & Feral Singers, Andie Brown, Yoni Silver, Steve Noble, Alex Ward, Charles Hayward, Anat Ben David, Blanca Regina and Lina Lapelyte.
Since 2007 I have been directing/conducting a series of spatial compositions and participatory, large group performances; exploring the inter-relations between people and place. These pieces are site specific,, experimental democratic and collaborative, inviting the public; musicians and non-musicians to take part. This work offers artistic engagement, play, and creative exchange, as a means to learning and bringing together, presenting a shared space and collective ownership: L'esprit d'escalier – for voices in a staircase, Sound Out - for a large group of voices in a public space. Toy Orchestra – for children and adults, Long Drone – for a large ensemble of various instruments, Gals with Guitars – for female guitar players, Feel the Noise for a large ensemble of electric guitars & micro amps.
I am a co-founder of arts radio, Resonance 104.4 FM, and have been presenting and producing many programmes, including the weekly show, Diggers, with Edwin “Savage Pencil” Pouncey, Venus Rising, In Search of Inspiration , and Stereo Cilia, a weekly sound-diary, documenting my journeys in Babylondon; exploring its multi-lingual sonic world and urban sounds .
I released five solo albums and other collaborations with various labels: The Tapeworm, American Tapes, My Dance the Skull, Fractal Meat Cuts, Visible Near Midnight Recordings, Ecstatic Yod , Ash International, A Silent Place Records, Chocolate Monk, Emanem Records, Paradigm Records, Wild Silence.
Most recent solo releases Delicious Fish & The Garden of Earthly Delights.
I perform in the UK & internationally. Past performances include; The V&A, Science Museum, ICA, The Whitechapel Gallery, Arnolfini Gallery, Tate Modern & Tate Britain, MACBA, and Colour Out of Space, Borealis, Supernormal, Supersonic Tectonics and TUSK festivals.
MUSIC
(See more under selected performance)
2025
March-Dec Composer/performer-In The Dark We Play. Lina Lapelyte’s film & exhibition Jencks Foundation @The Cosmic House, London Jan-April The Etudes deck is on display as part of Tarot - Origins & Afterlives exhibition + A public “reading” performance in February. The Warburg Institute, London
January Curator/performer - Surround Sound @Cafe OTO. Duo with Christian Duka
2024
August-October Director, Healing Choir for health & wellbeing, Tin Tabernacle Kilburn, London August Solo @ Café OTO
2023
October Solo – Calling Calling @ Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
May SOUND OUT - Director/conductor . Large participatory performace, Tin Tabernacle Kilburn, London
April Solo - Act of defiance . Eavesdropping @ Cafe OTO
March Ode to Ghost Bird - Solo. EnCOUnTERs: This is Bird Hour @ Cafe OTO
2022
September Etudes by Sharon Gal is added to the British Music Collection and can be accessed in person & online. University of Huddersfield Archives
May Vocal & electronics performance working with 13 speakers, surround sound system by sound artist Christian Duka. Iklectik London
April BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra’s Tectonics Festival – Performing with Andie Brown. Recorded by BBC RADIO 3
2021
October The Golem Rescored – Composing a new score for this cult 100 years old film
September CD launch BUTCHER/GAL/TOOP Until The Night Melts Away @Cafe OTO
March Published Etudes with 2 online presentations, artist talk and a film
2020
October Presenting a new film/performance at Tusk Festival. A duo with YOL
March The Spirit- Performing a live music score in Thibault Delférière's Trilogy at Battersea Arts Centre
2019
September Curator and performer- Sound Matter @ Cafe OTO. With Andie Brown, Mark Wastell & Luigi Marino
2018
October Curator / performer Sound Matter @ Cafe OTO. With David Toop & Áine O’Dwyer
September Curator/ performer SHAPE SHIFTING@ Cafe OTO + Charles Hayward , Yoni Silver, Adaya Godlevsky
July Co- curator / performer : EnCOUnTErs: BIRDSONG @ Cafe OTO. With Lee Patterson & Kate Carr.
Recorded by BBC RADIO 3 Hear and Now.
April FEEL the NOISE - Collaborative performance for a large ensemble of electric guitars & micro amps. Goldsmiths large Hall London
January ELEKTRICK LYCANTHROPE - Curator (with Edwin Pouncey) Performing MELTAOT (with Sav X). Café OTO. London
DELISIOUC FISH - A concert to launch a new release, with Steve Beresford, Tasos Stamou & Thodoris Ziarkas. Café OTO. London
2017
October A premiere of my composition Étude (for 3 voices) performed by the Juice Ensemble. City University London
August Solo Performance. Lost Senses at Guest Projects
July Solo performance. Sonic Waterloo Festival. London
June FORM to FREEDOM – Curator and performer. Iklectik Art Lab. London
Solo + a duo with Andie Brown + leading a vocal workshop. The ART of IMPROVISERS Festival. Café OTO. London
April - Mami Wata with Andie Brown.
February - Solo performance - Bastard assignments/ New Teeth series. London
Solo. Clapton Sessions. The Depo. London
2016
December SOUND OUT participatory group composition for voice(s) and movement. What Happens To Us Wimbledon Space.London
August - Gals with Guitars - Performance to Camera. V22/Louise House. London
May The Ecology of The Voice –This is a voice exhibition. The Wellcome Collection. London
Solo – Fringe, Outsides & Underground conference. Goldsmiths University
2015
December Sound Matter II - Curator + performing a duo with David Toop. Cafe OTO. London
October Premiere of Hearing Colour , a new composition for orchestra without a conductor. Filthy Lucre. London
September Addendum. Audio- visual performance relating to the life and work of R. D. Laing. Freud Museum. London
August Solo performance + directing a participatory vocal performance. Supernormal Festival. UK
June Sound Out - a participatory performance for a large group of voices. V&A Museum. London
2014
Dec Curating a concert of experimental music by women with Jennifer Walshe, Vicki Bennett & my duo with Andie Brown. Café OTO. London
November For Anton Webern – Solo. Audio-visual performance . Kakania. Rich Mix. London
July Sound Matter - Curator and performing a duo with David Toop. Cafe OTO. London
Performing solo and running a vocal workshop at the Optophonic festival in Sheffield.
May Crossing Map, a duo with artist Liliane Lijn. The Exponential Horn: In Search of a Perfect Sound. The Science Museum.London
March Voice & Guitar - BEYOND TRADITION. Curator & Performer. Cafe OTO. London
2013
November Duo with Andie Brown. Colour Out of Space Festival
April Gals with Guitars - The Vortex. London
March Voice Extraordinaire. Curator & performer.Cafe OTO. London
January Gals with Guitars & L'esprit d'escalier at Arnolfini Gallery. Bristol
2012
April Gals with Guitars (acoustic) - Deptford Town Hall. London
2011
October Gals with Guitars (acoustic) - This Is Not a School. 5 Years Gallery. London
July Long Drone - Composition/Performance. Raven Row Gallery. London
May L'esprit d'escalier - Goldsmith's Deptford Town Hall. London
April Gals with Guitars - Collaborative composition for electric guitars. Elevator Gallery. London
2010
July Long Drone performed at Venus Rising event. The magnificent basement. London
February L'esprit d'escalier Composition/performance for a group of voices in a staircase. Old Town Hall, Tel Aviv. Israel
2009
November Toy Orchestra and two vocal performances. Calling Out Of Context festival. ICA. London
July Room to Breathe - Participatory performance. London
April & Sep Toy Orchestra - collective music making & performance. London and Colour Out Of Space festival
June Solo performance - Breaking Voices: Thinking through Practice - University of the Arts. London
2007
September The Happening - Curator and performer in a 4 days,site specific, performance/sound event which included more than
50 participants. V22 Gallery. London
February 2 Solo performances - Christie's Auction House and Thin Cities Festival: Platform for Art. Heathrow Terminal 4. London
2006
November Voice & Electronics - Colour Out Of Space Festival. Brighton
October Duo performance - Abaton Gallery. New Jersey. USA
1996-2006 VOLTAGE - Improvising trio. Various performances. London & festivals
1992-1995 MOUTHCRAZY
1988-1990 Vocalist & Songwriter, Where's Adam
Radio
1998/2002- current Resonance104.4FM www.resonancefm.com Arts radio for London - Co - Founder
Producing and presenting weekly shows; Diggers, Venus Rising, In search of Inspiration and the sound diary, Stereo Cilia
In 2013 I was commissiond together with artist Liliane Lijn to recreate her book, Crossing Map, as a radiophonic sound piece
Exhibitions / ART
Solo
2016
SWEET MEAT - New Collage work. Coffee is my cup of Tea. London
2007
DRAWINGS - Sweet Pricillia NJ USA
2006
We Can Remember it For You - Abaton Gallery NJ USA
The Group -Transition Gallery. London
2004
Pathologic- OLS&CO Gallery. London
2003
The Things I do - Installation & Performance - The Foundry. London
Group Shows
2023
THE IMORTALWEEK Imaginary Landscapes collages,Hoxton Gallery London
2022
SYMBOLS OF THE SUPERNATURAL AND THE REALITY OF THE UNSEEN - Imaginary Landscapes collages @ FIVEYEARS Gallery London
2018
SPACES of MAKING – Collage & text piece for new pamphlet series. The Fringe and Underground Music Group. Goldsmiths University of London
2017
Art of Improvisers exhibition. OTO Project space. London
2009
Colour Out Of Space. Brighton
2007
Summer Show - NOVAS Gallery. Camden.London
2005
August Total ASBO - Pogo Cafe. London
May Circle of Sound - Sound Art at The Foundry. London
February Soul Mining - Three artists show, Transition Gallery. London
2004
Performance to camera - Under My Skin, 60 Seconds,Dark Light film festival Dublin. Ireland+ 291 Gallery + Space Twotentwo London
Love N Bullets -Transition Gallery. London
Neurovision - A&D Gallery. London
2003
NTH art collective - OLS&CO Gallery. London
2001
Three artists show -The Islington Arts Factory. London
2000
Demons& Icons series at the Kaleidoscope Gallery. London
Education
2010 - 2012 community Music - Certificate in Workshop Skills (Music). Goldsmiths University
2018-2023 Visiting Research Fellow (Music) Goldsmiths University London
Awards & Commissions
2019 New Voices artist programme – SOUND and MUSIC
2017 Dance On The Radio commission for the piece Dancing Body Dancing Mind
2015 The Philadelphia Association 50th anniversary commission - ADDENDUM / R. D. Laing
2014 Austrian Cultural Forum/ Kakania Commission- FOR ANTON WEBERN
2013 The Jerwood Charitable Foundation commission for the radiophonic adaptation of CROSSING MAP with artist Liliane Lijn
2013 - Francis Chagrin award for composition. Supporting Gals with Guitars at the Vortex
2012 - Goldsmith's Annual Fund for Gals with Guitars
Publications
2022 'Sweet Meat' collages are published in AMBIT magazine, POP edition
2020 Etudes – A collection of text & colour scores presented as a deck of 78 cards. With Sound and Music UK
2018 Spaces of Making - The Fringe& Underground Music Group. Goldsmiths University
2017 Connecting the Dots - ART of IMPROVISERS Catalogue. Text and images.
2016 SGFA Zine. CRiSAP / Her Noise Archive.
2012 This is Not a School Book - Gals with Guitars text and images. 5 Years Gallery. ISBN 9781- 903724- 071
Selected Performances
Periodic performances - Boat Ting London
2025
A trio with Sue Lynch & Yoni Silver. The Horse Improvising Club, London
2024
Duo with Mariam Resaei @Star&Shadow. Iklectik @Goldsmiths & New Castle
Surround sound duo with Christian Duka AMOENUS Festival, Strasbourg
Duo with John Edwards + Trio with John Butcher & John Edwards. Café OTO
Duo with Yoni Silver. No Computers @Stoke Newington
Horse Music Club Ensamble@ IKLECTIKA2024,London
Duo with Sue Lynch Boat Ting & Bridewell Theatre
Trio with Adam Bohman & Adrian Northover @Horse Improvising Club, London
2023
Trio with David Toop & John Butcher. Café OTO
Solo + Quartet with John Butcher & Langham Research Centre, Iklectik
Duo with Christian Duka. Iklectika 2023 @Iklectik London
Tone Bending- Duo with John Edwards + Edwards/ Butcher/Kanngiesser/Gal Quartet @Cafe OTO, London
Trio with Lucie Stepankova & Greta Pistaceci. Unpredictable series @Cafe OTO
MELTAOT with Edwin Pouncey @New River Studios & Servant Jazz Quarters, London
A solo + duo with electronic musician Tasos Stamou @ Finch Café. London
2022
John Butcher/ Sharon Gal/ David Toop @ Iklectic London
MELTAOT my duo with Edwin Pouncey performing @Rough Trade East London
Lucy Railton/ Caroline Kraabel/ Sharon Gal/ Sophie Fetokaki @Cafe OTO London
2021
A Solo + a duo with Andie Brown. AMA presents. Huddersfield
Sue Lynch' PARADISE YARD @ Iklectik. London
SOLO – Eastern Ear 5 years Anniversary. Norwich
2020
Duo with Sue Lynch @ Iklectik, London
2019
Duo with Steve Beresford @ Iklectik, London
Duo with John Russell. Part of Art Night, London
CANDY SHOP @ Living Kunsthalle. National Theatre, Prague
Trio with David Toop and John Butcher. Café OTO London
CANDY SHOP - Performing Lina Lapelyte’ opera. Fondation Cartier, Paris
Paradise Yard - Performing in Sue Lynch' new composition. Iklectik, London
2018
Duo with Charles Hayward @ OTO Project Space
Solo @ Café OTO Supporting Wolf Eyes/Universal Eyes
ELECTRIC LYCANTHROPE – Curating a night of Black Metal with my duo MELTAOT and EARTH’ Guitarist Dylan Carlson. Café OTO London
Paradise Yard - Performing in Sue Lynch' new composition inspired by the work of Delia Derbyshire. Iklectik. London
Paradise Yard - Performing live music accompanying the premier of a new film by Kim Noce. LSFF @ ICA London
2017
SOLO. Clapton Sessions. The Depo. London
CANDYSHOP– performing Lina Lapelyte’ opera. Museu d'Art Contemporani Barcelona
Trio with Shmil Frankel & Uri Frost. Chanoot Tel Aviv
KAIROS - Anat Ben-David' OpeRaArt. The V&A London + Jerusalem Israel
Trio with Shmil Frankel & Yael Barolsky. Zimmer Tel Aviv. Israel
Performing in KAIROS, Anat Ben-David new OpeRaArt. Stanley Picker Gallery. Kingston University
2016
Solo performance - Mopomoso festival. Iklectik London
Solo performance - Linear Obsessional Live in the Park. London
Presence & Resonance - Running a 2 day workshop with performance. Iklectik London
Music for Falling Leaves - Curator and one of the performers. Iklectik London
Solo performance - No news from Nowhere.London
Solo performance – Praxis. London
2015
Solo performance - Poesia Carnosa festival. Rome. Italy
Solo performance - Embedded Sound Symposium. UEL, London
Feral Singers at The Barbican London.
Candy Shop at Borealis Contemporary Music Festival. Bergen Norway + CA2M Madrid & The Other The Self Festival, Brussels, Belgium
2 performances - Duo Voice & Harp , with Adaya Godlevsky @ Teiva + Trio @ Chanut. Tel Aviv. Israel
2014
Hunky Bluff - Performing Lina Lapelyte's new commission at The Serpentine Pavilion. London
The Scratch Orchestra - Nature Studies - Chisenhale Dance Space. London
The Voice and The Lens - Performing with Lina Lapelyte at the Whitechapel Gallery. London
Performing in Lina Lapelyte's Candy Shop & FM at David Roberts Arts Foundation & Queen Elisabeth Hall. London
2013
The Music Hackspace Performances @ HacktheBarbican - Solo performance at the Barbican centre. London.
Thurston Moore's night of Heliocentric Duo Exchange - Performing with Andie Brown , with Thurston Moore & Dylan Nyoukis,
Byron Coley & Savage Pencil. Cafe OTO. London
Candy Shop - Lina Lapelyte's new opera at COUNTERFLOWS Festival. Glasgow
2012
The Wire magazine's Cage Rattling. Kings Place. London
John Cage's Song Book at Toynbee Studios. London
Feral Singers at Hard Rock Calling Festival. Hyde Park. London
SOUND::GENDER::FEMINISM::ACTIVISM seminar- presenting Gals with Guitars. London College of communication
Tate Modern Turbine Hall - Performing Paulin Oliveros' 'To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of Their Desperation'
2011
Spectrum XII Festival - Composition for voice and strings. Conway Hall. London
Solo performance - Centrum Beeldende Kunst Rotterdam. Holland
Feral Choir at the British Museum
2010
Toy Orchestra and two vocal performances. Tel Aviv. Israel
2009
Feral Choir at Tate Britain
Periodic performances. Boat Ting. London
The Equinox Festival - Playing bass with Pestrepeller. London
2008
SUBERBIA performance night curated by Lee Campbell. The Foreign Press Association. London
OMSK performance night. Cable Street Studios. London
Curator and performer - Piano night at Cafe OTO. London
2007
The Curse of Me - performance night curated by Lee Campbell. The Boiler House, The Old Truman Brewery. London
2003- Current
Periodic performances at Hagada Hasmalit and The Zimmer. Israel
Music Release
UNTIL THE NIGHT MELTS AWAY - A trio with John Butcher and David Toop. Shrike records 2021
SOLO – Live @ Café OTO. Digital download. Café OTO Label 2019
THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS – Solo. Visible Near Midnight recordings 2018
DELICIOUS FISH - Solo. Fractal Meat Cuts 2018
ART of IMPROVISERS - 2 new tracks with David Toop. Unpredictable Series 2017
MAMI WATA - A duo with Andie Brown. Wild Silence Label 2017
VARIOUS: WOMEN FLUX - A duo with David Toop. Psych.KG Label 2017
VOICE STUDIES - Solo. My Dance the Skull 2015
BIRDSONGS - Solo. The Tapeworm 2014
MELANCOHOLIC - solo 7". American Tapes 2012
MELTAOT A duo with Sav X /Bruce.Gilbert. Ash International 2010
THE TAPEWORM COMES ALIVE. The Tapeworm 2009
MELTAOT - First and Second Rites. The Tapeworm 2009
PESTREPELLER - As Wolf. A Silent Place Records 2009
Broken Brain - Women Compilation. Chocolate Monk 2006
The Gathering - For John Stevens. Emanem Records 2003
VOLTAGE 2000. Hand to Mouth 2000
VARIATIONS 3. London Compilation. Paradigm Records 1999
VOLTAGE - Hand to Mouth 1997
MOUTHCRAZY - Open/Openwide. Ecstatic Yod 1996
Work/ training
2012 - current - Teaching voice, improvisation and extended technique.
1991- current Tai Chi (Taijiquan) and Qigong (Chi Kung) - Practice and Teaching
1990-1996 Alexander Technique and Body Awareness with Michal Segal and Jean Gibson
1988- 1995 Freelance Journalist - UK column for HADASHOT newspaper & Israeli Radio
1987 Moving to London from Israel
1985-1987 Music journalist for HAARETZ newspaper
1984-1986 Producer and Music editor. The arts & Culture department. IDF Radio
1983- 1986 Performing with STANZ, a post punk band
1982 Bass playing with MEGAHERTZ
1981-1982 Bass studies with Arnon Palti
1977-1982 Dancing with pioneer dancer, choreograph and teacher; Yardena Cohen
1977-1982 Rubin Music Conservatoire - Music theory, Piano, Composition, Improvisation