Rafaele Andrade is a Brazilian composer, conductor and musician based in the Netherlands, known for her electroacoustic instrument Knurl – a self-built instrument merging electronics, 3D printing, and creative coding that has become the nucleus of her artistic world. She creates music for film, theater, and live performance, moving between intimate acoustic writing and electroacoustic soundscapes, reimagining music through interdisciplinary artistic practices and self-developed technologies. Her work reimagines music through interdisciplinary artistic practices and self-developed technologies.
Winner of Alpine fellowship music Prize, UNESCO/IFPC, nominated for Crystal Pine awards for the soundtrack Dead zones, Andrade draws an international trajectory between experimentation and accessibility – bringing new sounds to curious audiences and curating different formats of presenting them. Her works have been performed in Hong Kong, Italy, Sweden, Canada, Brazil, Paraguay, England, Ireland, Germany and the Netherlands and Belgium.