XR21 Collective
Composer and Sound Semiotician
Dr Gilbert Gabriel is a professional musician and academic. His work as a songwriter, film music composer, and producer has been featured around the world on TV, Films & Radio. His studies in music, film and sound include Dartington College of Arts, Goldsmith's University, Westminster University and Berklee Music College where he completed a Masters in Film and TV Orchestration. In 2012, Gilbert completed his doctoral thesis exploring the semiotic power of soundtracks with professor Theo Van Leeuwen.
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XR Artist
Brooke Einbender, a.k.a. “Mindbender Art”, is a pioneer in the exploration of XR (extended reality) art & community-based VR (virtual reality) collaboration. She’s establishing new frontiers at the intersection of where art and technology meet in the context of its impact on human consciousness. She creates mind-bending experiences purposed to harness spiritual energy; transporting the viewer to different inter-spatial dimensions. Her work blends several disciplines into one - painting, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, projection-mapping, and video.
Amy Edwards (UK)
Cellist, Composer and Educator
Amy is a highly skilled educator and musician. Amy has played the cello since she was a child and has lived and breathed music ever since. She believes that music is our world's common language and is a vital tool in life. Amy has enjoyed working with the Games Development learners developing immersive environments for their projects. Whilst music is Amy's first love, education is a close second. Amy completed her MA in Education in 2020, and her next step is to research the development of immersion in education and how this can positively impact learning.
Peter Marsh (UK)
Journalist and lecturer
Between 1983 and 2013 Peter worked as a reporter at the Financial Times, interviewing people in businesses and research groups in 30 countries. He has lectured on manufacturing, economics and technology in cities spread across five continents. Peter’s best known book is “The New Industrial Revolution: Consumers, Globalisation and the End of Mass Production”. In 2014 he started Made Here Now, a website about innovation in UK manufacturing, and which closed in 2025. He has also conducted radio interviews on a range of topics.
Composer, Sound Artist
Jamie Farrington is a composer and sound artist based in London, UK. As a composer, he writes contemporary experimental electronic music for film, game, dance and installations, whilst his work as a sound artist often revolves around the manipulation and destruction of recorded audio in various media formats. Jamie studied BMus Electronic Music at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
Dana Jacobson (USA)
Ex-New York City Ballet
Dana is a dancer and certified fitness trainer currently based in Los Angeles. During her seven years in the corps de ballet of the New York City Ballet (2009-2016), Dana danced in over 100 choreographies by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Peter Martins, Christopher Wheeldon, Alexei Ratmansky, and Benjamin Millepied, to original music from the likes of Paul McCartney to Igor Stravinsky. Dana has a BA in Dance from Columbia University and a Personal Trainer certification through the National Strength and Conditioning Association.
Jérémy Oury (France)
Immersive and XR Artist
Jeremy Oury combines audio and visual skills to make singular digital forms presented as fulldome, architectural mapping or in the theater. He focuses his artwork on exploring illusions from geometric distortions, on the synesthesia between sound and video, and on immersive forms that place the viewer at the center of a minimalist virtual universe disrupting his perception of space. His artwork was awarded in international video mapping festivals and fulldome festivals and his work has also been shown in many digital festivals. He also works with theaters companies and digital art installations with the artist Apach and the ARCAAN collective. Full bio.
Amanda Mullinger (UK)
Flautist, Composer and Educator
Amanda is a composer, flautist, and multi-instrumentalist who graduated with a First-Class Honours degree, specialising in performance, jazz, and music in education. Her professional experience includes international tours with a big band, scratch orchestra, flute choir, a bossa nova group and conducting mixed-age choirs. Her performances also include solo loop pedal sets under the moniker The Kins and with the new electronica group Dreamadelica. She is currently integrally involved in the creation and development of The Boy That Climbed the Stars.
Musaab Garghouti (UK)
3D generalist, animator, video editor and motion graphics artist
Musaab has 20 years of industry experience creating 3D and video content for all media formats, across multiple platforms. Before moving to academia he worked on integrated campaigns for major clients such as PWC, AXA, Audi, Babcock and Unity. He enjoys teaching and researching the latest digital arts industry technologies. His recent interests include photogrammetry, motion capture, raytracing and their use in real-time immersive environments.
Charlotte Eaton (UK)
Professional dance/movement artist, educator and researcher
Charlotte is a performer, skilled with bringing together dance, movement and acting in live and filmed performance. She has lectured at universities and colleges since 2018 and enjoys co-creative and collaborative working environments with peers, students and members of the community of all ages, experiences and backgrounds. She trained at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance for her BA (Hons) and MSc Dance Science, and is currently completing her PhD with the institution. She is particularly interested in the use of somatic improvisation within choreographic process and performance settings.
Aidan Hoyle (Poland)
Creative Strategist
Aidan Hoyle is a Creative Strategist & Business Advisor. He works with creative artists and dynamic technology companies to help fulfill their vision to bring an app, audio-visual experience or event to the respective audience or market. He advises on branding, content and bringing products to market for composers that include Gilbert Gabriel and Steve Lambert.