composer of experimental music
SOPHIE STONE
Biography
Sophie Stone is a sound artist and composer of experimental music based in Folkestone, UK. Her interests include: open notation, drone and ambient music, quiet music, improvisation, modes of listening, experiences of silence, longform music and collaboration.
Sophie’s music has been realised at festivals such as Ideas of Noise (Birmingham, UK), Electric Spring Festival (Huddersfield, UK), Margate NOW (Margate, UK), Soundwave Festival (Santa Ana, CA) and Sound Thought (Glasgow, UK).
In 2019, Sophie participated in Wandelweiser’s ‘Composers meet Composers’ mentoring programme (Neufelden, Austria) with Antoine Beuger, Emmanuelle Waeckerle, Marianne Schuppe, Jürg Frey and Joachim Eckl.
Recent collaborations and commissions include the multi-organ piece syntheses (2022) for the Amsterdam Wandelweiser Festival at Orgelpark, two pieces for BL!NDMAN [drums] Parliament of Angels 2023 residency called hollow (2022) for ensemble and peripheral (2023) for solo player, and reverie (2023) for Prague Quiet Music Collective.
In 2024, Sophie and collaborator Thomas Green (drum&ink) were artists in residence for Ashford's Create Music Village, with the community project Ashford Sounds.
Sophie completed a PhD in composition with Dr Lauren Redhead (Goldsmiths, University of London) at Canterbury Christ Church University in 2022.
