Leonie Roessler
sound installation artist & composer/performer
Leonie works primarily with field recordings, which she uses for live laptop performances, installations, ensemble pieces, and art radio works. She was recently artist in residence for the Berlin Circus Biennale, Forum Wallis Contemporary Music Festival in Switzerland, New Media Society in Tehran, and for The Story of Space Festival in Panjim, Goa. Her works have been performed in The Netherlands, Germany, Iran, Japan, the United States, Spain, France, Belgium, England, and India, and broadcast on radio stations in various countries.
Raised in the Ruhr District (Ruhrgebiet) in Germany, Leonie relocated to Los Angeles as a teenager. She studied classical guitar at Los Angeles City College, and received a Bachelor Degree in Composition along with a Minor in Dance Performance at California State University Northridge in 2010.
She then moved to the Netherlands and earned her Master Degree in Composition at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague in 2013, where she studied with Peter Adriaansz and Calliope Tsoupaki. She then completed a one-year course at the Institute of Sonology, where she focused on Field Recording and the Spatialization of Sound. In 2016 she finished the fourth and last year of the Contemporary Music Through Non-Western Techniques Program at the Conservatory of Amsterdam with Rafael Reina as her principle teacher.
“Innovations in art and music are just as important for the well-being of a city and the communities therein as innovations in areas like technology or economics. Art and Music inspire thought, emotions, and change in general. Art and music, and the places that host, present, and display artistic works and concerts are crucial meeting points. They are junctions where all kinds of demographics can meet, leave the rest of the world outside or bring it in. A home away from home and a chance to experience something completely new. A chance to connect with people one would have never encountered otherwise.”
