‘Monk at the Border’ by Maria Sappho is a magical pieceDominic Rivron, International Times
pioneer of ‘trans-species listening’The Radiophonic Broadcast
an immersive and imaginative album of experimental music makingSun and Violence, on The Waste Land
Maria Guerra Sappho is an artist, improviser and researcher exploring experimental instrument-building and artificial intelligence in creative practice. Winner of the NIME Best Installation Award, the SHARE Prize and the BBC Daphne Oram Award, she is a Lecturer at the University of Glasgow.
Maria Guerra Sappho is an artist and researcher exploring techno-social communities, experimental instrument-building, and artificial intelligence in creative practice. Her work navigates diaspora, ecology, cultural memory, and postcolonial histories. She has performed with Mogwai and the International Contemporary Ensemble, and is a board member of the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra. Her works include the AI opera Incheon, The Ostoyae and Zemi. Her awards include the NIME Best Installation Award, the SHARE Prize, the BBC Daphne Oram Award and the AiiA AI Prize. She is Lecturer in Creative Sound Design and Composition at the University of Glasgow.
Maria Guerra Sappho is an artist and researcher exploring techno-social communities, experimental instrument-building, and artificial intelligence in creative practice. Her work navigates diaspora, ecology, cultural memory, and postcolonial histories through posthuman feminist and techno-moral lenses.
She is Lecturer in Creative Sound Design and Composition (Music) at the University of Glasgow, and completed her PhD at the University of Huddersfield within the ERC-funded IRiMaS project. She leads SYZYGY, a Mixed Reality ecological storytelling installation funded by Immersive Arts UK, co-founded Chimère Communities, a network of grassroots AI art hubs, and founded the Underground Intelligences research network.
Internationally recognised as a composer and performer, she has performed with Mogwai and the International Contemporary Ensemble, and is a board member of the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra. Her awards include the NIME Best Installation Award, the SHARE Prize, the BBC Daphne Oram Award, the AiiA AI Prize and the MANE Emerging Composer Prize. She is co-author of New Directions in Musical Collaborative Creativity (Oxford University Press, 2025).
For press, bookings and commissions, please get in touch through my University of Glasgow profile. Technical specifications are available on request.
