Biography
With a degree in Contemporary Art from Nottingham Trent University and more recently a distinction in UCL’s MA in Designing Audio Experiences she brings a strong understanding of psychoacoustic perception and spatial audio technologies to her practice. Her work, Peripheries (2024), was a site-specific sound installation at Marshgate, UCL East. A polyphonic choral composition, blended with field recordings from the building itself, to create plural listening perspectives and illusory auditory perceptions, encouraging a deeper awareness of sound and space through embodied listening.
Amanda Butterworth is a sound artist, composer, and performer whose work explores sound, space, and deep listening. Drawing on her background as a vocalist, yoga teacher, and trained actor, her research explores themes of embodiment, phenomenology and deceleration, creating immersive artworks that foster deeper connections to our environment, rather than offering an escape from it.
Under her alias Mücha, she has released seven solo albums, including Hello Caller and Fall on Frequency Domain, both critically acclaimed. Fall was praised in The Quietus by Noel Gardner for its rich textures, ‘Liz Fraser-Ish’ vocals and intricate sound design. Hello Caller, was named Album of the Day by Foxy Digitalis.
Collaborations include projects with Glen Johnson of Piano Magic and electronic artist Datassette. Notable performances include support for Sleaford Mods in 2019 and solo sets at Café Oto and Iklektik. In her live spatial audio performance, Conversation, at the 2024 Open City Documentary Festival, Butterworth and collaborators Diego Ramos Gutierrez and Mikolaj Tchorzewski improvised with Max MSP to create a sonic dialogue, blending voice, guitar, and 3D-processed sound.
Open City Documentary Festival 2024
Iklektik 2022