Dolunay Solmaz is a sound artist and electronics engineer, currently an MFA student in Sound Art at Columbia University. Her practice explores the instrumentalization of technical tools and the material agency of technological systems. Motors, inductor microphones, hydrophones, and sensors are reimagined as active subjects that shape sound through their physical properties, interactions, and limitations. Her work has explored networked music, auditory illusion, and interactive systems, while her recent practice focuses on sound sculptures and performative environments that examine how sound is experienced through material, spatial, and bodily relations.
Her work has been presented and exhibited at Cité Internationale des Arts Paris – İKSV, The Watermill Center, Arter, Harvestworks NYC, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and the University of Illinois School of Music. She has also participated in conferences and events including NIME (New Interfaces for Musical Expression), OSHWA (Open Source Hardware Association), ManiFeste IRCAM.