Phoenix, Sydney / Gadigal Country 2025. Photo by Jordan Munns
Jasmine Guffond is an artist, composer and electronic musician investigating the intersection of sound, technology and political infrastructures through live performance, recording and installation. Research based artistic projects provide sonic experiential platforms to encourage listening as a mode of socio-political investigation and explore what sound and listening may contribute to the production of knowledge. Jasmine's work has been presented internationally at galleries, art institutions and music festivals including opening for CTM festival in 2020, a commissioned work for the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) Acousmonium, premiered in Paris at Présences Électronique in 2022, and an installation for Zentrum für Kunst und Medien (ZKM) in 2025.
Jasmine's live performances encourage deep, embodied listening, exploring sound as a physical force—felt through low-end frequencies and extreme dynamics that range from barely audible, to moments of intense volume. A slowly evolving visceral encouter, as much interested in sonic phenomena as the emotive power of music. She has released solo records with the Sonic Pieces (2015, 2017), Karl Records (2018), Editions Mego (2020), OOH-Sounds (2024), and LINE / Boomkat Editions (2025) labels. Interested in the interplay between human and machine agency in electronic music making, extra-musical concepts also influence her aesthetic process. Her 2024 album Alien Intelligence explored themes of machine autonomy through Max/MSP programming and a Serge modular synthesizer, a process that questioned an assumed central position of human subjectivity in socio-technical assemblages. Her 2025 album Muzak for the Encouragement of Unproductivity, is a poetic inversion of Muzak’s traditional role in stimulating seamless productivity in the workplace. Sonically addressing notions of efficient, maximum productivity, inherent to capitalist cultures, and their negative effects from labour exploitation to the impacts of over-production on the environment, Muzak for the Encouragement of Unproductivity aims to provide a reflective space in which to consider the benefits personally, globally and environmentally, of slowing down.
Jasmine earned her master’s degree from the Sound Studies department at the Berlin University der Künste (UdK) in 2015, where she also taught from 2021 to 2024. She completed her PhD in 2021 at the Australian University of New South Wales, Art, Design & Architecture department, where she undertook practice-based research, investigating sound and listening as critical modes of inquiry into online surveillance cultures.