Chantal Michelle is a composer and interdisciplinary artist whose work engages with the spatial and tactile properties of sound. Her practice incorporates feedback systems, multichannel compositions, and psychoacoustic phenomena to explore the relationship between sound, perception, and physical space. She is interested in the mutability of perception and its capacity to be disrupted or reconstructed. Her projects span site-responsive installations, hand-blown glass instruments, conceptual scores, and recorded works.

All Things Might Spill, Michelle’s first album for Shelter Press (2026), is an examination of sustained tension and the mystifying experience of time dilation in the moments just before a rupture or collapse. The music inhabits a space of instability, and even as it uses continuous tones and defined melodic phrases, there’s an air of irresolution—like a moment of unease suspended indefinitely.

Her work and collaborations have been presented internationally at institutions and festivals including The Museum of Modern Art (US), the Royal Academy of Arts (UK), WeSA Seoul (KR), MUTEK (MX), Fridman Gallery (US), and Café OTO (UK). Her discography includes releases on Shelter Press, Dinzu Artefacts, Superpang, and Somewhere Press.

Michelle was awarded the 2026 Villa Aurora Artist Grant and the 2025 Arbeitsstipendium Ernste Musik und Klangkunst from the Berlin Senate Department for Culture, and was selected for the 2026 GMEA residency in Albi, France. Her work has also been supported by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (US), the Sonic Arts Research Unit (UK), and the Feminist Center for Creative Work (US). She holds a Master of Fine Arts from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts.