Nadia Struiwigh

For Sydney-based Dutch artist Nadia Struiwigh, ambient is a way of life. It has always been her vehicle for conveying memories and emotions in slow, absorbing, drawn-out movements that blur the lines between techno, industrial and something else altogether. It is at the heart of IAMBient, where she offers online sound healing and spiritual coaching sessions, and it often soundtracks the Twitch channel she runs from her studio. It also forms the backbone of her albums on Central Processing Unit and Denovali Records. But she can also do deep, sleek, beat-driven music that makes a physical impact, as her Oooso EP for Nous'klaer Audio showed: pressurised drones, throbbing pads, static-laced synths and lumpy drums that keep ascending in a linear meditation on rhythm and movement.