Rosie Middleton is a London-based mezzo-soprano specialising in new music. Working across experimental sounds, opera and performance art, she has worked with hcmf// featured artists Laura Bowler and Riot Ensemble, as well as Phaedra Ensemble, Esin Gunduz and the late Mira Calix. She counts the 2020 Michiko Hirayama Prize for experimental vocal music among her awards.

She brings a collaboration with composer Lola de la Mata (@loladelamata) and designer Kelsey Ann Kasom (@kelseyannkasom) to hcmf//, a new work for voice, electronics, movement and ‘sculptural dress’. Centred around this ‘sculptural dress’, which expands, contracts and shape-shifts, the composition is part of a wider series of semi-autobiographical works addressing how memory is stored in the body. Themes of chronic illness, physical restriction and liberation underline this experimental music-performance art hybrid.

hcmf// shorts takes place on Monday 20 November here in Huddersfield as part of hcmf// 2023.