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Lucy Strauss is a musician and researcher drawing together viola performance, DIY machine learning using audio and bioelectric signals, and interactive performance system design. With these practices, she seeks to deepen understanding of musicmaking with new and old technologies.
Lucy has performed in improvised and experimental music projects at Pony Books (Gothenburg), the TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival, Mixtophonics Festival, 8EAST Cultural Center & NOW Society (Vancouver), De Tanker (Amsterdam), Hundred Years Gallery (London), and Theatre Arts (Cape Town). She also enjoys contributing to interdisciplinary collaborations with fellow artists. Notably, she was the interaction designer for Denise Onen’s sounding the body as a sight at The Oscillations Exhibition 2024 (Akademie der Künste, Berlin). Also notably, Lucy has coded, composed and played for installations by artist Mia Thom at Everard Read Gallery, Act of Brutal Curation Gallery, and Eclectica Contemporary (Cape Town), as well as the 2022 Biennale de l'Art Africain Contemporain (Dakar). Lucy has presented workshops on composition (University of British Columbia), improvisation (Canadian Viola Society) and interactive music technology (Bowed Electrons Festival & Symposium).
Lucy learnt to love improvising at the MusicDance021 artist residency (ZA). She further developed her improvisation practice at 8EAST & Now Society (CA). She learnt to compose music at the University of Cape Town (BMus) and perform viola at the University of British Columbia (MMus). For two years, Lucy was an Artist in Residence at the University of Johannesburg (ZA). She is currently a CHASE-funded PhD researcher in Arts & Computational Technology at Goldsmiths, University of London (UK). Lucy is based in Gothenburg (SE) and London (UK).
