About
Alice Boyd is a musician, sound artist and audio producer based in South London. Her work blends folk-inspired harmonies, ambient electronic textures, and field recordings to explore our interconnectedness with the natural world and reveal the hidden sounds of our environments. Alice’s practice includes music and live performance, site-specific audio installations, radio documentaries, podcasts, and compositions for film and theatre.
Since her time as artist-in-residence at the Eden Project, Alice has performed in botanical gardens, ancient woodlands, mountainsides and music venues across the UK. Her music has been featured on BBC Radio 3, 4 & 6 and BBC Introducing.
The practice of field recording weaves through Alice’s work, capturing the unique sounds of different environments. She presents a monthly episode of Ffern’s podcast ‘As the Season Turns’, has hosted episodes of BBC Countryfile Magazine’s ‘The Plodcast’ and gave a TEDx talk on listening as a tool for change. In her latest project, ‘Shifting Soundscapes’ for BBC Radio 4, Alice retraces the steps of legendary field recordist Martyn Stewart to document the changing sounds of our environments.
Alice also enjoys creating the sound worlds for audio projects, from radio documentaries (‘Lithified’ for BBC Radio 4) and podcasts (Wellcome Collection’s ‘The Root of the Matter’), to poetry (’The Secret Life of Ponds’) and installations (‘Messages From The Wild’ at Kew’s Wakehurst).
Photo by Caitlin Warren
Photo by Michelle Sanders
“Alice’s music beautifully reframes the urgent climate crisis into an opportunity for reconnection with nature.”
“Beautiful”
“Such a perfectly realised amalgamation of concept, melody and landscape is vanishingly rare, but Boyd achieves it with an easy grace.”
“Alice’s work is visceral, playful and innately communicative.”
“A perfectly judged tangle of synthetic and human voices, silences, field recordings, and unearthly gurgles that challenges as much as it immerses you... From The Understory feels like one of those precious first albums that contains the untapped energy of everything that could happen next. ”
Supporters
Thank you to PRS Foundation, Arts Council England, Sound and Music and Eden Project for their support.
