About

Uma Dingemans is a musician and anthropologist based between Naarm/Melbourne and Djaara Country/Chewton, Victoria. Her off-grid upbringing in the Chewton bushlands where daily life depended on solar power, rainwater and close attention to more-than-human inhabitants , shaped her sensitivity to the sensorial dimensions of place. This lived experience continues to inform her exploration of sound as a way to understand and pay attention to social and ecological relationships.

Trained in Anthropology, classical music, jazz and improvisation across cello, piano, keyboards, and guitar, Uma works with instrumental performance, composition, field recordings, digital processing and spatial installations. With an interest in sonic anthropology, Uma uses anthropological research methodologies, ethnographic observation, interviewing and site-based research in her compositional process.

In 2023 Uma received the SIGNAL Sound Commission, where she composed Entrainment, a site-specific work combining instrumental improvisations and digitally processed field recordings from Flinders St Station and the North Bank of the Birrarung River.

Recent studies at the 89 Sound Art School in Struer, Denmark have expanded her interest to circuitry and electronics.