Immersive Art Music Projects
For me, music in a gallery is like giving the art a second heartbeat. I love working with visual artists to build soundscapes that stretch beyond the frame, wrapping the room in texture, rhythm, and mood. Sometimes it’s a recorded piece, other times it’s me performing live — shaping sound in real time so the space itself becomes part of the performance.
I’m always excited to collaborate with artists, curators, and galleries looking to turn an exhibition into something immersive, surprising, and unforgettable.
Between Worlds (2025)
The Shapes of Waterlight is an immersive soundscape I composed for Between Worlds, an art exhibition curated by Imile Wepener at NOW Gallery in Centurion, South Africa.
Inspired by the mermaid myth as a symbol of identity, otherness, and transformation, the piece lives in that delicate space between human and unknown. Using found sounds, voices, and layered textures, I sculpted a musical language that drifts between memory and myth, anchored by archival footage from vintage mermaid films that shimmer with nostalgia and mystery.
The voices of fellow artists and collaborators became part of the sound itself — woven into the music as if they, too, were echoes rising from beneath the surface. Together, sound and image created an atmosphere where the gallery became an ocean of its own — immersive, fragile, and alive.
This work is more than a soundtrack. It’s a portal to a place between worlds.
Rain Shadows (2023)
RAIN SHADOWS: A SOUNDSCAPE is an experimental collaboration between contemporary artist Chrisél Attewell and composer Wesley West, curated by Els von Murik and presented with the support of Berman Contemporary.
Created for Attewell’s Master’s exhibition at the UJ FADA Gallery in Johannesburg, the soundscape weaves together recordings from the Cape landscape, studio experiments, and found natural objects such as dried ocean corals, sponges, and shells.
These sounds are paired with West’s manipulated textures and original piano compositions, creating a sonic journey that mirrors the exhibition’s exploration of ecological fragility, human histories, and the metaphorical “rain shadows” of our world. From moments of calm curiosity to pulses of anxiety and mourning, the work blurs the boundary between the natural and the human, the fragile and the resilient, guiding listeners through a landscape both real and imagined.
