Josephine Macken is a composer and improviser currently in-residence at the Akademie der Künste Berlin as a recipient of the Junge Akademie Fellowship. Her most recent work seeks out spatial/sculptural expressions of musical temporalities through an interdisciplinary approach to score-making. Musical qualities – poetry, rhythm, timbre, intensity etc. – are expressed through the arrangement of materials in space using tapestry fibres, knots, frictive surfaces, metal, reels and lines varying in length, thickness and tension. The resulting scores celebrate the vibrancy and musicality of inanimate objects. As an improviser, Josephine synthesises vocal and instrumental practices, using wind instruments to modulate the poetry of the voice and uncannily extend the boundaries of the vocal apparatus.