Ellen Arkbro (b. 1990) is a composer musician sound-artist working with precision-tuned intervallic harmony. Her work includes compositions for acoustic instruments and for synthetic sound, and for combinations of both, as well as installation work. She has presented her site-specific work at Barbican in London, Kölner Philharmonie, Serralves in Porto, Issue Project Room in New York, Oude Kerk in Amsterdam, Silent Green in Berlin, Ina GRM in Paris and Tempelaukkio Kirke in Helsinki. In all of her work, Arkbro focuses on the qualities of harmonic sound that reveal listening as an active process of creative participation, inviting the listener to gradually transform into the sound itself.
In January 2025, Ellen joins the community at Somerset House Studios for a three-month residency, supporting the development of new work commissioned in collaboration with Goethe-Institut London and CTM Festival, to be presented at both Somerset House Studios's Assembly, a bi-annual series of experimental music and performance, and CTM festival in 2026.
