Chantal Michelle

Chantal Michelle is a composer and interdisciplinary artist whose work engages with the spatial and tactile properties of sound. Her practice incorporates feedback systems, multichannel speaker arrangements, and psychoacoustic phenomena to explore how perception can be altered, disrupted, or reconstructed. Her projects include site-responsive installations, hand-blown glass instruments, conceptual scores, and recorded material. She has presented work internationally at venues and institutions such as Fridman Gallery, Cafe OTO, MUTEK, and Het HEM, with releases on Shelter Press, Dinzu Artefacts, and others. Michelle holds an MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.

During her time in Los Angeles, Chantal Michelle will continue her exploration of psychoacoustics and the tactile dimensions of sound. Working with hand-blown glass objects and multichannel compositions, she will develop site-responsive works that interact with the acoustic and architectural characteristics of Villa Aurora.

Selected Works and Performances
2026 I All Things Might Spill (LP, forthcoming), Shelter Press
2025 I Manipulations, live performance for hand-blown glass objects, various wind instruments, and electronics; first presented at Silent Green, Berlin
2024 I ℎ− 2− ℎ− − 2 ℎ− (LP), Dinzu Artefacts
2024 I A Vulnerable Landscape, site-responsive quadraphonic installation for air, hand-blown glass, and aluminum; forthcoming publication and LP on Signal Noise
2022 I Pulse, Puls-ar, Procession, multichannel sound installation and live performance; recording released on Dinzu Artefacts

Selected Awards
2026 | Artist-in-Residence, GMEA (Centre National de Création Musicale d'Albi-Tarn), France
2025 | Work Grant for New Music and Sound Art, Berlin Senate Department for Culture
2025 | Grant Recipient, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, USA
2024 | Artist-in-Residence, Fundaziun Nairs, Switzerland
2023 | Grant Recipient, Sonic Art Research Unit, United Kingdom