Composer-musician Rachel Meyers seeks to create transformative sonic experiences. Intrigued as much by her relationship with the more-than-human world as with human connections, she dwells in unique sound worlds saturated with strings, field recordings, and traditional music. Her work centres on crafting distinctive, otherworldly electronic sounds derived from acoustic sources and found materials, investigating how these transformed sounds relate to and interact with their original physical origins within compositional frameworks.

Rachel is a represented Associate Artist with the Australian Music Centre and has had works commissioned by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Van Diemen’s Band, Next Wave Festival, Liquid Architecture, and Contemporary Art Tasmania.

Rachel is a musician who moves between contemporary classical music, folklorica and sound art. She has worked with a range of artists including Michael Simic (Mikelangelo and the Black Sea Gentlemen), Julia Fredersdorff (Van Diemen’s Band), Fred Smith, Khaled Arman and Siar Hashimi (Ensemble Kaboul), and contributed original work for performances at MONA FOMA, Dark Mofo, Ten Days on the Island, Next Wave Festival, Contemporary Art Tasmania, and most major Australian folk festivals.

Her contemporary string quartet Van Diemen’s Fiddles has completed several Tasmanian tours to critical acclaim and chamber-folk duo Meyers & McNamara is currently recording a new album of original Australian-klezmer music.

Rachel is a founding member of the nascent arts collective Submergency, which seeks to foster deeper connection with water.