About

I am a Latvian-British composer, songwriter and performer, and music producer. Since graduating with an MA in Composition (London College of Music and Media, UK, 2000), I have worked as a composer, songwriter and performer, focussing on interactive media and the use of music and performance in interactive and dramatic narrative- driven multimedia environments.

I work with electro-acoustic composition and performance: a mixture of contemporary classical, choral, ambient, folk and alternative pop. Through my work, I explore the field of dynamics and emotion, with the focus on bringing out meaning, narrative and drama. 

I work with sound art and electroacoustic composition in the context of integrated media projects for live stage performances, as well as creating and producing interactive soundscapes incorporating spoken and sung voice, soundscape and electroacoustic music for delivery in a gallery environment.  

I have long had a particular interest in research on the interface between performance and feminist theories and practices, and the use of music and performance in interactive and dramatic narrative-driven multi-media environments, which I have developed through practice-based research projects at the Swedish Interactive Institute’s Narrativity Studio, at the Media Lab, University of Art and Design at the Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, the Cambridge University Moving Image Studio [now DIGIS], and now the Center for Excellence in Artistic Research (CEFIMA) at Norwegian Film School. Many of my projects focus on giving women a voice – whether Viking women (Old Norse Edda, 2007), the 14th century Scandinavian queen Margrethe 1st (game research project ‘Queens Game’, 2023), or exceptional but little-known talents like 17th-century artist and naturalist Maria Sybilla Merian (‘Marvellous Transformations’ 2015/17). I have worked as a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge on reconfigurable, chance-driven music for practice-based interactive projects.