Aja Ireland is a British sound and performance artist working at the intersection of experimental music, sonic choreography, and visual technologies. A recipient of the Oram Award (2018) and founder of Queer Noise Club, she is connected to the DIY scene and intermedia art. She has collaborated with Joey Holder on projects shown at the British Art Show and the Athens Biennale.

Her work is built around intensely charged sonic material: noise, industrial, deconstructed club, and future trap. She operates through distortion, rhythm, and varied textures. Her live act is based on hardware: drum machines, processed vocals, analog effects — with her own body as a medium of expression. Sound collides with costume, light, and movement. Visually, she draws on aesthetics of mutation and hybrid figures, developed in collaboration with designer LULALOOP.

The album Cryptid (Infinite Machine, 2025) was created in a period of withdrawal and loss, in response to burnout and grief. It was never meant as a concert piece, but as a personal archive. Critics described it as “an auditory experience intertwining noise, future trap, and experimental bass” (Kaltblut) and “a sonic archive of resilience, healing, and defiance” (Beatburguer).

“I wasn’t making music with the intention of sharing it; I was making the sounds I wanted to hear, the ones that would pull me out of a deep fog.” – Aja Ireland

For fans of SOPHIE and Arca — but rawer, more visceral, less “pop.” She has performed in Poland, including at Ephemera Festival, presenting her material live.