Hayley Suviste is a sound artist and composer who works with archival recordings, field recordings, electronic hardware and live instrumentation to create long-form pieces, sonic installations, and multimedia art projects. From her background in Electroacoustic Composition, Hayley has established a unique sound art practice through which she explores topics of community, cultural identity, and heritage. Inspired by the rich tradition of oral history, she creates intimate sonic explorations of voice and space which animate broader sociohistorical themes.
Her latest work Edgeland, commissioned by Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, will be premiered on 22nd November at 3pm as part of the festival and aired on BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show. The work is an exploration of Manchester’s shared green spaces and shines a light on the activists, academics, and local people who have taken up the daunting fight against corporate interests in the city in the name of biodiversity, urban ecology and community wellbeing.