Crystyn Hunt Akron, Chris Noelle

Crystn Hunt Akron is an interdisciplinary artist moving between art, music, new media, fashion, dance and performance. Awarded the Spanish Culture Prize and International Art Prize in collaboration with Sol Pico – Barcelona. Graduated from the Anton Bruckner Private University Linz AT (2006) in jazz and pop singing and music and media technology. The avant-garde pop album Fat Black Spider under the moniker Madame Humtata was her first release as a solo musician back in 2010. For setting it to music with an 80-strong wind orchestra in the Teatre Calderón d ́Alcoi she received the renowned Anton Bruckner composition grant. After further collaborations in Spain, the USA, Switzerland, London, Berlin, Canada and Austria, Crystn Hunt Akron continued with her electro-acoustic composition installation Ebriphon – a cargo ship Symphony – as part of the European Capital of Culture Rijeka 2020. With her work on PLASTICPHONIA – music from the ocean, she is dedicated to the lasting examination through music composition with poignant soundscapes made of washed-up plastic waste from the beaches of our seas.