Tomer Damsky is a sound artist, composer, choral leader, and educator based in Barcelona, working in and between the worlds of early music, folk, pop, metal, drone, and experimental composition.
As a researcher, Damsky focuses on the intersections between historical sound studies, mystical literature, and reconstruction of archive materials into new sonic formations. As a composer and teacher, she experiments with ensemble dynamics and collective processes. She is a lecturer at the School of Visual Theater and the Musrara School of Art (Jerusalem), and teaches regularly in interdisciplinary platforms worldwide.
She is currently a docARTES PhD candidate at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp and the Ruusbroec Institute for the History of Spirituality, where she develops a methodology called acoustemopoetic composition.
As an internationally active musician, Damsky creates, performs, and designs sound for theater, dance, and film, as well as recording and touring with her own bands. She is the founder, conductor, and artistic director of the Quantum Choir contemporary vocal ensemble, and the frontwoman of Belgian-based doom project Atonia and industrual-pop audiovisual trio Wackelkontakt.