Bea Dawkins is a Sound Artist living, composing, and researching in Aberdeen. She is an active member of Scotland’s sonic arts community and plays a leading role in the support and development of the experimental arts in her city as well as further afield. Being ever-keen to learn new ways of composing, her artistic practice spans many media such as electroacoustic, audiovisual, live coding, algorithmic composition, installations, Arduino and similar electronics programming, sound design and works for instruments and electronics.
She has been the coordinator for various Aberdeen arts organisations such as SERG (Sound Emporium Research Group), sonADA, and Shift-Enter where she facilitated monthly sonic arts concerts, fortnightly workshop sessions, podcasts, as well as fortnightly research support group sessions. Currently, her focus is on community arts development, making the arts open and accessible to all for the purpose of social healing. She is also a teaching and research assistant at Aberdeen University’s Music Department lecturing primarily in electronic composition and sound design. In her spare time, Bea enjoys spending time with her cats and doing long-distance runs.
