Assistant Teacher (2025)
Artist, Visiting Lecturer in Sonic Practice (UK) 
London, UK
Adrianaminu.com

Also serving Glasgow, Scotland and Bucharest, Romania

Adrianaminu at gmail dot com

Adriana is an experimental sound artist that has researched ways of unmasking her neurodivergent body in order to fuel and support mad, erratic and unhinged ways of performing and composing with voice.  In her PhD she reconnected to her voice after a ten-year break from performing, coming up with her own ways to listen to and express the struggles, tensions and disengagements that a body that hasn't felt itself in years brought to the surface. Halfway through her six years doctoral research she found Fitzmaurice Voicework and has been changed, supported and challenged by it ever since. 

Adriana is passionate about creativity and about the poetic, ambiguous and imprecise ways of using sound to express and create new artistic configurations. Adriana loves supporting performers that are looking for ways to channel their intensities and excesses into creative outputs and might be battling with the challenges intense sensations pose.

Using her Fitzmaurice training combined with her artistic practice, Adriana is developing workshops around somatic autonomy that use voice-body creative improvisation to slowly, safely and pleasurably open up to sensation. 

Adriana loves holding complexity and contradiction being a big fan of 'do less to do more' AND of the restless need to move, vibrate and generate activity that neurodivergent bodies sometimes have. These contradictions inform her teaching style and are a constant inspiration for the deeper neurodivergent-informed pedagogy she practices. 

Adriana's work is primarily ADHD-led and informed by her experience as a diasporic woman. She has been in academia for more than 10 years and is a rigorous thinker that uses small doses of Euro-centric philosophy combined with decolonial studies, crip, queer and feminist thought to activate and fuel her practice. A big fan of practice research/research creation - she challenges what counts as 'legitimate knowledge' each chance she gets.

Adriana occasionally teaches Experimental music practice at University of Glasgow and is slowly establishing a freelance practice in London where she moved to with her husband mid 2025. She is a fierce collaborator, a wild free thinker and a loving soul. 

PhD in 'Erratic and Erotic voice-led composition' - University of Glasgow/Royal Conservatoire of Scotland; MDes in Sound for the moving image - Glasgow School of Art; BSc in Music Technology - Birmingham City University/Birmingham Conservatoire

Languages: English, Romanian

Specializations: Experimental creativity, Neurodivergent performance, Diversity/Inclusion, Singing, Cross-sensory improvisation, Artistic Practice Research and pedagogy