visobelblack@gmail.com

Vanessa Isobel Black (Visobel Black) is an Australian–British composer, singer, violinist, visual artist, and tarot reader based in Oslo since 2017. Classically trained in violin and voice, she holds a Bachelor of Composition from the Sydney Conservatorium — including studies at the Hochschule für Musik, Freiburg — and a Master’s in Music from Western Sydney University, where she also taught and lectured on feminist aesthetics.

Guided by a relentless curiosity, she has worked across a wide range of styles – from orchestras, choirs, and chamber ensembles to internationally touring doom metal band Lycanthia, folk-punk, and experimental theatre – with an interest in dissolving boundaries between genres.

Her compositions and improvisations explore the spatial, physical, and emotional force of reverb, interpreting vibration as a ghost performer — an unseen alchemist unveiling hidden conversations. She is currently creating electroacoustic works, interactive installations, and music for soloists, vocal groups, and chamber ensembles, with recent commissions from NeoQuartet and SISU Percussion Ensemble. Drawing on feminism, trauma, nature, and folklore, she merges sound, movement, text, and visual art into immersive narrative worlds where memory, myth, and magic meet.