Hayley Suviste

Hayley Suviste is a sound artist and composer who works with field recordings, archival 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.

Hayley is currently working as a Graduate Research Assistant for Dr. Manuella Blackburn and is also working with the New BBC Radiophonic Workshop to help produce the Sound of the Year Awards. Alongside this, Hayley co-runs The Manchester Ear, a soundwalk initiative which aims to get communities involved with listening to the environment on excursions in and around Manchester.

​Hayley’s music has been featured on BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show & Unclassified and has been played internationally at festivals, competitions and sound conferences, including Phonurgia Nova Awards 2020 (Paris, France), ICMC-NYCEMF (New York, United States), Matera Intermedia Festival (Matera, Italy), Festival DME, Sustainable Cities Symposium (Libson, Portugal), BEAST FEaST (Birmingham, UK), MANTIS (Manchester, UK), Mixtape: International Women’s Day (Dundalk, Ireland), MUSLAB  x  I K L E C T I K (London, UK), Convergence 2019 (Leicester, UK), EASTN-DC (Manchester, UK), New Music North West (Manchester, UK) & MUSICA (Manchester, UK).