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.
Xavier has presented work for the Barbican Centre, Southbank Centre, the Royal Exchange Theatre, Leeds Playhouse, Brixton House, Watermill Theatre, Cambridge Arts Theatre, Iklectik, Hope Mill Theatre, KokoTeatteri, Theatre Deli, The Cockpit, Applecart Arts, Alphabetti Theatre, the Edinburgh, Brighton, Camden and Ventnor Fringe festivals, VAULT, Passage, and FIAT Montenegro.
👇🏼 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 2019. Twin violin bows play an amplified metal stand, while audio jacks reacting to touch adapt the soundscape. Photo credit: Helen Darby.
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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| 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 |