**Nicola Serra**, founder of East London's experimental music festival **https://dronicafestival.com**, presents new and archival material.
In this episode, **Dronica** meets **https://www.loubarnell.co.uk**.
Lou is an award-winning vocalist, sound and performance artist. She is one of Sound and Music's **https://soundandmusic.org/compose/new-voices-2022/)**, and Manchester Jazz Festival Hothouse Residents 2023. She was winner of the **[2021 Oram Awards](https://www.oramawards.com/**, supported by The PRS Foundation and BBC Radiophonic Institute in recognition of innovation in sound and technology.
Lou’s work gives language to her alienating and disorientating experiences of being a neurodivergent woman. It communicates her synaesthetic experience of sound, hyperfocus and sensory overload.
This show is dedicated to Lou's Practice and the focus of her practice led PhD called *Live Dreaming*. This concept reconsiders her body as a mirror, reflecting and refracting parallel states
