Meet the Judges

Previous Judges

Jonathan Higgins

Jonathan Higgins is a composer and performer whose music focuses on misusing noise as a creative and generative tool. He works across a variety of different media and performs regularly as an improvisor using custom hacked CD-players. His approach to music making mostly consists of breaking things (usually on purpose).

Jonathan has released music on the labels Flaming Pines, Fractal Meat Cuts, Classical Remix, The Dark Outside, and DAAM. This music has been broadcast worldwide, on national stations such as BBC Radio 3 and 4 as well as local, community and web stations like NTS, Resonance FM, Colaboradio, and Listen Camp. He has received support and commissions from The PRS Foundation, Sound and Music, The Marchus Trust, and Wild Plum Arts.

Rebecca Legister

Rebecca is a Printmaker, Illustrator and Designer. She is passionate about community arts and engaging others through creative outlets. With a background in visual arts, she is new to sound art and is very excited to see how expression and themes are explored through sound.

Matti Gardner

Matti started off playing a number of instruments, but left traditional performance behind when he studied Music Technology at the Universities of Huddersfield and York.

Combining interests in composition, interactivity and algorithmic creation, past works have explored and exposed Twitter’s uses and place in the media sphere by visualising and sonifying its real-time data, or generated short pieces from audio feedback and radio chatter.

He now teaches Sound Art at Morley College, collaborating with and helping students to expand on their existing experiences in the subject.

Camilo Salazar

Camilo is a sound engineer, radio producer, musician and educator. He is the Studio Manager at Morley Radio, the community radio station of Morley College London, where he also lectures in Sound Engineering. Camilo has produced over 60 podcasts series and radio shows including the Maximum Reinhardt Show, The Imposters Club, The Strangeness of Dub and a special series for The London Waterloo Festival. As a sound engineer Camilo has worked with jazz and classical musicians including Grammy Award winners Snarky Puppy, Bill Laurance, and Jacob Collier. He is an active promoter and curator of sound art and is the founder and curator of The Engine Room International Sound Art Exhibition and Competition.