I am Carmen Pomet (b. 1995, Cáceres, Spain), a queer artist and researcher working across sound, performance and installation, currently completing a Master's in Computer Music and Sound Art at the IEM in Graz.

In recent years my practice has centred on live performance, often shared with other artists, laptop at hand on stage. Alongside this practice, I develop interactive installations placing often the audience inside the work itself, activating or completing the piece through their presence. Across both contexts I explore sound in space: public squares and enclosed rooms, spatial and 3D audio systems, embodied improvisation, and environments shaped collectively in real time. These modes of practice bring forward questions of perception, agency and social relations, this means, how we experience, construct and negotiate the spaces we share. This type of sound practice has led me to work with hybrid systems connecting physical and digital elements: live sound processes, custom-built electronics and sensor-based practices that respond to presence and movement, generating environments where sound and space are continuously in flux. Wherever possible, I work with open-source software.

Alongside this, I work as a composer, collaborating with renowned ensembles and solo artists across Europe on pieces that often involve scores and a consensual negotiation between performer, stage and multimedia elements (video, light, electronics, etc). In my compositional practice I am drawn to the transformation of material across scales —how fragmented micro-gestures accumulate into or rupture into larger formal structures- and to the relation between human performer and machine. This includes expanding the instrument's sonic possibilities while sitting with its limitations on both sides: a machine can play faster than any human, but it does not easily listen (some AI approaches are nevertheless succeding here).

My work also draws from underground and queer aesthetics, non-mainstream pop, jazz and improvisation —areas where experimentation with form, identity and relation was already political, connecting directly to my background also in political science and philosophy, where questions of gender, power, structure and collective negotiation are central.