Biography

Jasmine Guffond is an electronic musician and sound artist. Over the last 15 years she has performed live at various music and electronic art festivals including, What is Music?, The Now Now, ISEA, Klangbad, Sonic Architecture, Electrofringe, Full Pull, ICAS Suite, Wien Modern, Hybrids Art Australia, Adelaide Arts, CO/POP and more. Collaboratively with Torben Tilly, MINIT has recorded music for CD, 12inch, and 7inch vinyl releases with the Sigma Editions, Staubgold, Tonschacht and Preservation labels. Jasmine works as a live sound engineer, sound designer and composer for film, and has exhibited sound installations of varied scope based on the use of processed acoustic, electronic, and found sound sources.

As Jasmina Maschina she produced her debut solo album, The Demolition Series in 2008 for the Staubgold label. After touring extensively throughout Europe, China, Australia and New Zealand, in 2010, she released a split LP/CD, City Splits : No.1 Berlin with ‘golden diskó ship’ on Monika Enterprise and in 2011, her second full length album, Alphabet Dream Noise. Based on her personal style of gentle guitar picking, abstract electronics, drone and inventiveness, fragile layers of sound swirl magnificently around your ears, seducing you into a unique sound world like no other.

SOUNDCLOUD_JASMINAMASCHINA

She’s not only a talented vocalist and guitarist, but her electronic prowess is miles ahead of expectations. 5/5

Heathen Harvest Periodical / 1st October 2011