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Described as a "vanguard" by British publication Mixmag and "fearless" by Hyponik, Berlin-based Zoë Mc Pherson is a French-Irish multimedia artist whose practice absorbs elements of performance, sound design, installation art and DJing. Additionally, Mc Pherson runs the SFX label and interdisciplinary conspiracy with their long-time collaborator Alessandra Leone.

Their breathless third album and AV show "Pitch Blender" released in 2023 is a tight set of cybernetic dancefloor experiments that flicker between the rave and the art space. With a club-topped-up remix EP consisting of smart takes from artists AYA, Jana Rush, Scratcha DVA, MC Yallah, Kasimyn, and Jessica Ekomane.

Since the release of their immersive 2018 debut album "String Figures" and its acclaimed 2020 follow-up "States of Fugue", Mc Pherson has performed across the world, appearing at Berlin's CTM Festival, Berghain, MUTEK Mexico, ICA in London, Bourse de Commerce in Paris, MIRA in Barcelona, The Hague’s Rewire festival, Elevate Festival in Graz, Novas Frequências in Rio de Janeiro, Nyege Nyege in Jinja, Uganda, Norbergfestival in Norway and Les Nuits Sonores in Lyon.

Besides an intense touring schedule, they work with spatial sound and continuously present different immersive sonic pieces, amongst those with a residency and tour at world-famous MONOM (the world's first 4DSOUND system), Montréal’s PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art, Berlin’ Silent Green.

Not to mention their love for curating events. In 2022-23 they worked alongside bULt, in Almaty, Kazakhstan's largest city, to invite musicians to perform and hold workshops at a brand new queer-run club. In 2023 they co-curated a festival focused on artists with disabilities with an experimental-club music program at Brussels’ Lavallée!

A seasoned collaborator, Mc Pherson worked with renowned French sound artist Jessica Ekomane. The two performed a special project at Berghain's Halle broadcast by ARTE TV, and their first recording was released on Ostgut Ton's "Fünfzehn + 1" compilation. On the other end of their creative spectrum, Carbon 96 finds Mc Pherson teaming up with US techno producer and DJ Ciarra Black, and the duo's effervescent debut "Carbonated" was released on Peder Mannerfelt Produktion earlier this year.

One of their most recent project however is 3OK, a frenetic project that was conceptualized in Uganda and matches Mc Pherson's sci-fi sonics with singeli pioneer Jay Mitta's breakneck beats and Malian veteran DJ Diaki's unmistakable soundsystem energy.



CREATIVE DIRECTION


SFX.IRL | events in Berlin | 2024
bULt x SFX | music, club and workshop curation at bULt queer run club | Almaty, Kazakhstan | 2022
XquisiteForce.collection/01 | Compilation in support of the people of Beirut | 2020
XquisiteForce.AV | collaborative audiovisual project | 2021
SFX | label platform and community | Berlin DE | 2020
String Figures festival at Beursschouwburg | Brussels BE | 2018
LAMF -  european experimental artistic laboratory | Lyon FR | 2013


SPATIAL SOUND


AMBISONICS LIVE SET FOR ELEVATE FESTIVAL | Dom im Berg, Graz | 2024
WOMEN, LIFE, FREEDOM | 4D Sound installation | MONOM, Berlin  | 2023
WOMEN, LIFE, FREEDOM | 4D Sound installation | Dom im Berg, Graz  | 2023
WOMEN, LIFE, FREEDOM | 4D Sound installation | ZiMMT, Leipzig | 2023
WOMEN, LIFE, FREEDOM | 4D Sound installation | Cosmo, Venice | 2023
WOMEN, LIFE, FREEDOM | 4D Sound installation | Stone Nest | London UK  | 2023
WOMEN, LIFE, FREEDOM | 4D Sound installation | 3537 | Paris FR  | 2023
WOMEN, LIFE, FREEDOM | 4D Sound installation | Monom Spatial sound festival | Berlin DE | 2022
IN ABSTENTIA | Multichannelsound installation | Silent Green Berlin DE | 2021
ON HOLD | Multichannel sound installation | Aljhambra Berlin DE | 2021


SOUND INSTALLATIONS


DISTINGUISH BS | Sound installation | Siestes Electroniques | Toulouse FR | 2021
FUTURECORE 2000 | Sound installation | Kraftwerk Bille | Hamburg DE | 2019
String Figures | Aberration | Galerie Irrgang | Berlin DE | 2017
Rainforest | STUK | Leuven BE | 2016
Reitir | Siglufjordur IS | 2016
«Seismographic Sounds. Visions of a New World» | Bethanien | Rojava sound installation & conference at CTM festival | Berlin DE | 2016
Museum night fever | Brussels BE | 2014


SOLO RELEASES 


LAMELLA  | SFX | AV piece | 2023
[SF04RMX] PITCH BLENDER REMIXES | SFX | 2023
[SF04] PITCH BLENDER | SFX | LP/Vinyl | 2023
ON FIRE | SFX | AV piece | 2022
ABYSS ELIXIR | Pendulum Recordings | EP / Vinyl | 2022
[SF03] GROUNDING IN OUTER SPACE | SFX | AV piece | 2020
[SF02] TENACE | SFX | AV piece | 2020
[SF02] STATES OF FUGUE | SFX | LP/Vinyl  | 2020
[SF01RMX] STRING FIGURES | SVS RECORDS | EP/Vinyl | 2018
[SF01] STRING FIGURES | SVS RECORDS | AV album / LP / Live show | 2018
IRIZAJN | Self-release | Tape EP | 2014


COLLECTIVE RELEASES


MTY-Air Mama Told ya | 2023
[SF04RMX] PITCH BLENDER REMIXES | SFX | 2023
The Wire | Below The Radar Special Edition: SHAPE 2021 | CD | 2022
Ostgut Ton | Fünfzehn + 1 compilation | “Iteration” Jessica Ekomane & Zoë Mc Pherson | CD and Vinyl | Ostgut Ton | 2021
Oscillate & Shimmer | Klahrk | E-merge Stgy by Klahrk & Zoë Mc Pherson | LP | SFX | 2021
KMRU & Aho Shan + Myriam Bleau + Zoë Mc Pherson | Digital | Hot Desk | 2020
XquisiteForce.collection/01 compilation | “Hayati” by Simon Grab, Dali de St Paul and Zoë Mc Pherson | SFX | Digital - 2020
LV VA 12-1  compilation | “ALVA“ by Zoë Mc Pherson | LAVALAVA records | Vinyl | 2020
KSH03 SONIC RESISTANCE. A compilation for Rojav | Ishtar #2 (for Rojava) by Zoë Mc Pherson feat. Gernas Maao / ORAMICS, Kashev tapes | CD | 2020
Plafond 5 by Rupert Cerveaux & Zoë Mc Pherson | BAKK PLAFOND SERIES | Vinyl | 2019
Weaponize your sound compilation | “Thumb Governance” by Zoë Mc Pherson | OPTIMO | LP | 2019
LI$016 compilation | Low Income Squad | Tape | 2019
ROJAVA compilation | Female:Pressure | Solidarity Digital release | 2016
Mind the gap compilation | Gonzo Circus | CD | 2016


REMIXES


Use Knife remix | LP  | 2024
L Twills VOX remix | [Freedom/Fiction] REMIXES | LP | 2020
Gillie Mc Pherson Dark Dream remix | ER001 Euphonic Rythms | LP | 2020
Contagious remix | MORPHINE | Vinyl | 2019
Christina Vantzou N4 remix | Digital | 2019


SELECTED PERFORMANCES


MUTEK festival | Mexico | 2023
REWIRE | The Hague |  2023
BERGHAIN Saule | Berlin | 2023
ICA  | London | 2023
RSO | Berlin | 2023
Bourse de commerce | Paris | 2023
Scopitone festival | Nantes | 2023
Insomnia festival | Trømso | 2023
MIRA festival | Barcelona | 2023
Novas Frequências | Rio de Janeiro | 2023
LEV festival | Gijon | 2023
Bogotrax | Bogota | 2023
4GB Festival | 2023
BERGHAIN Halle | Berlin | 2021
CTM festival | Berlin | 2021
POSITIVE EDUCATION festival | St Etienne | 2021
LEV festival | Madrid | 2021
INKONST | Malmö | 2021
MUTABOR | Moscow | 2019
CONCRETE | Paris | 2019
ROOM 4 RESISTANCE | Berlin, DE | 2019
PALACE  | St Gallen | 2019
ZVUK | Алматы | 2019
BOILER ROOM | Berlin | 2018
MEAKUSMA FESTIVAL | Eupen | 2018
DE SCHOOL | Amsterdam | 2018
H0L0 | NYC | 2018
DUBLAB | LA | 2017
NOTTINGHAM CONTEMPORARY | Nottingham | 2016
SCHIEV FESTIVAL | Brussels | 2016
LES NUITS BOTANIQUE | Brussels | 2016
MENGI | Reykjavik I 2015


RESIDENCIES


MONOME | Berlin, DE | 2022
AFROPOLLINATION | Kampala, UG | 2022
SHAPE | 2021-2022
PALACE | PL | 2021
PHONETICS | St Denis, FR | 2021
SVS | Canfranc, ES | 2021
INKONST | Malmö, SU | 2021
PALACE | PL | 2020
LYL RADIO | 2020
NOODS RADIO | 2020
RED BULL STUDIOS | Berlin, DE | 2019
RED BULL STUDIOS | Amsterdam, NL | 2019
SVS | Lisboa, PT | 2018
RMC | Copenhagen, DK | 2018
BEURSSCHOUWBURG | Brussels, BE | 2018
ELEKTRON MUSIK STUDION | Stockholm, SE | 2017
BEURSSCHOUWBURG | Brussels, BE | 2017
RAINFOREST | STUK Leuven, BE | 2016
STUDIO DES VARIETES | Brussels, BE | 2016
MUSICMAKERS HACKLAB | STUK Leuven, BE | 2016
REITIR | Siglugjördur, IS | 2016

TALKS, WORKSHOPS


Ableton live for beginners workshop | Berlin | 2024
Sound design workshop | mediale Architekturdarstellung - mAD  | Hannover, DE | 2022
Audiovisual collaboration workshop | CAMP  | Pyrénnes, FR  |  2022
3D sound Workshop | Almaty, Kazakhstan | 2022
Artist talk | All_Go_Rhythm___Gallerie Oqbo | Berlin, DE | 2021
Ableton workshop | Palace, PL | 2021
Artist talk | Arts formation UK | 2021
Field recording workshop | Almaty, KZ | 2019
Artist talk | Creative Coding | Utrecht, NL | 2019
Artist talk | Feuerwache Köln, DE  | 2018
Artist talk | Aberration | Galerie Irrgang Berlin, DE | 2017



SOUND DESIGN


MAISON TASKIN | Mixed Reality Fashion Film | 2022
ELASTIQUE | Creative agency for brand communication | 2022
FUTURECORE 2000, all beats are beautiful | Dance Performance by Gloria Hockner | 2019
WITHIN | Installation by Tarek Atoui at Kunstenfestivaldesarts | 2018
VOX | Dance piece by  David Hernandez, scenography by Zdravka Kirigin |  2019
In Dreams for Klara radio BE | Rework of Dion Mc Gregor’s dreamworld |  2018
AZ | Dance piece by choreographer Aki Iwamoto | 2018


AWARDS


SHAPE artist  | 2021
First price ‘Les Octaves de la musique | category electronic music | 2019
Best music video at Berlin Independent Film festival | 2019
Best experimental video at Berlin Music Video Awards | 2018
Vimeo staff pick | 2018
Associated artist at Beursschouwburg Brusselsfrom 2017 to 2019


PRESS


https://zoemcpherson.xyz/Press


RADIO SHOW & MIXES


Bi-monthly show ‘Pulse sur-mesure’on Refuge worldwide radio :
https://refugeworldwide.com/artists/zoe-mcpherson

Bi-monthly show ‘Pulse sur-mesure’on LYL radio :
https://lyl.live/show/pulse-sur-mesure

https://zoemcpherson.xyz/MIXES