Samantha Simmons is a New York–based sound installation artist, selector, and producer whose work explores how recording technologies reshape memory, perception, and collective listening. Coming from a painting and drawing background, she approaches sound through a visual lens of shape, line, color, and texture.

 

Her practice is rooted in the idea that audio recording allows listeners to encounter sounds beyond their original time and place, offering access to that of another's listening experience. She describes this continual circulation, recontextualization, and transmission of sonic material as recycled listening. Working with samples, and archival fragments, she combines personal recordings with the listening histories embedded in existing sounds. Through layering and recomposition, she constructs sound work that dissolves and reforms memory, reflecting how listening is continually reshaped through technology and shared experience.

 

She has performed internationally while contributing to platforms NTS, Dublab, WFMU, Red Light Radio, Kiosk Radio, and The Lot Radio. Her installations have been presented at CTM Festival.

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Samantha is a recipient of the DAAD Performing Arts Award in 2021, and the MusikFonds Award in 2022.

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