Daphne X (she/they) is a sound designer, new media artist, and curator currently residing in Linz (Austria). In her artistic practice, which involves performance, podcast, and installation, she uses the means of sonic world building to design and explore rituals of collective composition, speculative listening, and communal healing.
Her music has been released on labels such as Exiles(HU), Bezirk (UK), tssstapes (IT), and written about in Quietus, A Closer Listen, BBC3,and Bandcamp Daily. She’s exhibited and performed in festivals like Ars Electronica, Kraak and Krama(ATH,GR).
Daphne X works traverse from intimate field recordings to vibrant synthesis, abstract pop music to ghostly instrumentals. Her albums are deeply poetic explorations of everything from Galician folklore to the sound of falling water.
She is the co-founder of Cachichi, a creative studio, curatorial platform and party series, and the host of Sonic Utopias, a sonic world-building podcast that airs monthly on Movement Radio in Athens, Greece.
