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Ess Whiteley (they/he) is a composer, multi instrumentalist, producer and artist. Their work is inspired by the post-internet, eco-futurity, more-than-human worlds, spiritual experience and the liminal space existing between the cyberbody and biobody when human beings engage with the virtual. Ess is interested in speculative world-building, vibrational storytelling, and the capacity of organized sound to make the real mutable. Through their work, they seek to engage inquiry into consciousness and aural/visual awareness by creating aesthetic experiences that challenge, expand, and meditate on everyday encounters with the sensuous. They have performed extensively as a multi-instrumentalist and have toured Europe, the UK, Canada, and the US with various projects.

Ess’s works have been performed, awarded, and exhibited at such conferences and festivals as: MATA Festival in New York, Festival di Nuovo Consonanza in Rome, Italy, Dublin Music Current Festival in Dublin, Ireland, WOCMAT 關於 International Conference on Computer Music & Audio Technology in Hsinchu, Taiwan, MA/IN Matera Intermedia Festival (received Honorary Mention Award) in Matera, Italy, Mise En Music Festival in New York, Echofluxx 18 in Prague, Czech Republic and others. ess was a visiting composer at the Music & Erotics Conference in Pittsburgh, PA, and composer-in-residence at I-Park Inc. in East Haddam, CT, the Dublin Sound Lab, and the Labo de Musique Contemporaine de Montréal (LMCM). Their work and practice is informed by the two years they spent studying Buddhism and practicing meditation intensively in residential monastic retreat at several different Zen Buddhist Monasteries in Oregon, the Bay Area, and New Mexico.

Ess studied at Mannes College of Music Preparatory Division in New York City before completing a Bachelor of Music Degree in Composition and Religious Studies at McGill University in Montréal. Ess is currently a PhD candidate in Composition at the University of California, San Diego, where their mentors have included Marcos Balter, Michelle Lou and Roger Reynolds.

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