xvelastín [sound artist]

Xavier Velastín Vicencio

performance+sound artist whose practice spans live art, sound design and composition for theatre, sound installations, sound for video games, sound poetry, algorithmic composition and digital instrument creation. Xavier's work often has a focus on utterance, agency, the environment, technology and the physicality of sound. Xavier is a resident of the Pervasive Media Studios and is currently on a research fellowship with the British Library's Eccles Institute.


👇🏼 Visit the pages below to find out more about Xavier's work across different areas 👇🏼
performing Ghosts at the White Hotel in Salford for Not Quite Light in 2019Twin violin bows play an amplified metal stand, while audio jacks reacting to touch adapt the soundscape. Photo credit: Helen Darby.
performing [whalesong] at Theatre Deli in March 2020. Photo credit: Suzi Corker.

currently developing


  • New Leaf with Mechanimal
  • Boiling Frogs with Sebas H-W / British Library Eccles Centre
  • Club Smiley with Muddled Marauders

currently presenting


  • Scriptorium with Yaza Games: demo out now
  • Deepwood with Mechanimal at Sonica Glasgow - September 2026
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full list of past works and collaborations

Year Name Role Type
2026 Scriptorium with Yaza Games Sound Designer
2025 In Dreams I've Had Of Falling with Virág Pázmány Sound Designer, Audio Editor Short Film
[whalesong] Creator, Performer Sound Piece
MiR with Calum Perrin Creative Technologist Installation
The Animism with Ann Liu Web Developer Website
SpaceJunk with Hours Sound Designer, Composer Audio Play
Deepwood with Mechanimal Sound Artist, Creative Technologist Installation
Unannounced Scifi Strategy with Red Phantom Games Sound Designer
Wild Thing! with Mechanimal Sound Designer




2024 Still Life with Mechanimal Sound Designer, Composer
Crap At Animals with Mechanimal Sound Designer
Symbiosis with Organism Collective Lead Artist Digital Installation
SpaceJunk with Orange Skies Theatre Sound Designer
The Pathogen of War with Black Leaf Films Technologist Installation
Lift with Jordan Daniel Sound Designer
The Pirate Queen with Singer Studios
/ iGame.Audio
Technical Sound Designer




2023 Loddlenaut with Moon Lagoon
/ iGame.Audio
Technical Sound Designer
Megalith with Mechanimal Sound Designer Installation
iGame.Audio Technical Sound Designer
My Uncle Is Not Pablo Escobar with Brixton House Sound Designer
Nano Force with Deep Tech VR Sound Designer
Hello Stranger with Ande Clock Interactive Sound Designer Installation
Golfcraft with OhMyVerse Sound Designer
Zombiescape with Crutche Studio Sound Designer




2022 Beast or God? with Ekata Theatre Sound Designer
The Sleeping Sword with The Watermill Theatre Sound Designer
Left Behind with Alkoryn Studios Sound Designer
The Shoes of Tanboury with Lilac Yosiphon / Southbank Centre Sound Designer, Composer
Squish Space with Barbican Centre Sound Artist Installation
Megalith with Mechanimal (Tour) Sound Designer, Sound Artist
Tracing Waves with Christine Sollie Sound Designer Dance
Dwelling Place with Stošija Zrinski Sound Designer Dance
The Way The World Turns with Oily Cart Specialist Sound Artist
Assembly with Company Three Sound Designer
IXI'IM with Itzatna Arts (R&D) Sound Artist




2021 Hanal Pixan with Itzatna Arts Sound Designer
Tracing Waves with Christine Sollie Sound Designer Dance
Live Illustration Expanded with Camille Aubry Sound Artist Digital Performance
Live at Young Barbican Nights: Isamo Noguchi with the Barbican Centre Sound Artist Sound Piece
The Strawberry Grows Underneath The Nettles with BCAT Sound Designer Exhibition
The Secrets of the Conservatory with the Barbican Centre Sound Artist Audio Walk
[whalesong] with Alphabetti Creator, Performer Sound Piece
Kummerspeck with Lilac Yosiphon (R&D) Sound Designer
The Spring with Madeline Shann Sound Designer, Composer Screendance
Pangea with Limbik Theatre Composer, Audio Programmer Audio Play
Megalith with Mechanimal (R&D) Sound Designer, Sound Artist
two echoes Composer, Mixer EP
Dark Myriads Sound Designer, Mixer Film




2020 Soundtracks for Imagined Worlds Vol. 1 Composer, Mixer Album
[whalesong] with Theatre Deli Creator, Performer Sound Piece
re:forms with SLANT Performer Sound Piece
Forms In Flux with SLANT Co-Curator Remote Performance
Believe with Footprint Project Sound Designer, Binaural Mixer Audio play
Aika Meidän Tullut On with Ekata Theatre Sound Designer, Composer
Gut Feelings with Heinous Whining Performer Remote Performance
Atlantic with emma+pj Sound Designer
Somali Tapes and Camel Tapes with Arnolfini Sound Designer, Mixer Workshop/ Installation




2019 Ghosts with Not Quite Light Creator, Performer Sound Piece
Oedipus at Colonus with Cambridge Greek Play Sound Designer
Me & My Whale, The Vaults Creator, Performer
random with Leeds Playhouse Sound Designer




2018 Recreating the Irwell with Not Quite Light Creator, Performer Sound Piece
Rats with Gael van den Bossche Sound Designer
Unbelonger with Ekata Theatre Sound Designer, Performer Physical Theatre
Me & My Whale, Northern Tour Creator, Performer
On Mother's Day with Ekata Theatre Producer, Composer
Fatherland with Limbik Theatre Composer Audio Play




2017 Unbelonger with Ekata Theatre Sound Designer, Performer Physical Theatre
Efêmera with Footprint Project Sound Designer
Water Bodies with Live Art Development Agency Co-Leader Workshop
Insight with Deliah Seefluth Composer Dance
BEARS with Powder Keg Sound Designer, Composer
Constellations with Laura Woodward Sound Designer




2016 ||:&itbreathes:|| Writer, Performer Sound Poetry
J.E.R.E.M.Y.H.U.N.T with Helen Wyatt Performer Sound Poetry
The Other with Footprint Project Composer, Sound Designer
Endgame: Ariel Composer, Sound Designer Physical Theatre
Human with Deliah Seefluth Composer Dance




2015 When They Disappear with Onion Lullaby Composer
Curious Things with Irina Sengelija Composer




2014 Eva Dentro Su Gato with Natali Bass Composer, Sound Designer
Colour with Omnibus Arts Centre Composer, Sound Designer
Shallow Breath with Fausta Joly Composer, Sound Designer
Constellations with Hannah Jackson Composer, Sound Designer
Dying City Composer, Sound Designer




2013 Boys with Flora Anderson Composer, Sound Designer
The Things Good Men Do Composer, Sound Designer
Women of Troy Composer, Sound Designer
My Boy Jack Composer, Sound Designer




2012 A Sky Burial Composer, Sound Designer
Titus Andronicus Composer, Sound Designer
Good Girl Composer, Sound Designer
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