LUX NOVA

David Sloly is a creative technologist, audio and broadcast producer whose work has explored the intersection of sound, music and emerging technology for more than three decades.

His career in audio and broadcasting includes creating, producing and presenting work for the BBC, MTV and Radio Caroline. His work has received industry recognition including a Sony Gold Award and a MOBO. He was part of the launch team at Heart FM in London and later became Executive Producer and co creator of Steve Jackson’s Morning Glory at Kiss FM, where the team developed ambitious broadcast stunts and experimental formats that pushed beyond the conventions of radio.

Alongside broadcasting, David was closely involved in the transition to digital audio and DJ technology, testing and prototyping early digital DJ and broadcast systems in the UK and Ibiza. His electronic music practice has included performing at Pacha Ibiza, Space Ibiza and Café Mambo, teaching at Point Blank Music School and writing on DJ practice.

David also studied at STEIM in Amsterdam, the pioneering centre for experimental electronic music, new instruments and performance technology. His wider experience includes international broadcast training and youth initiatives supported by the OSCE and NATO in conflict affected regions.

At Lux Nova, these strands converge in a practice concerned with the relationship between scientific data, sound and composition. Scientific observations and complex datasets are translated into audible material, which David edits and shapes through electronic composition into finished musical works.

Central to his approach is the idea that music can offer more than an intellectual encounter with scientific data. By transforming observations of phenomena that exist beyond our immediate senses into music, he seeks to create experiences that allow the listener to feel a deeper connection with the universe and a sense of their own place within it.

The data therefore becomes not simply information to be represented, but source material for an emotional and perceptual encounter with phenomena that might otherwise remain beyond direct human experience.

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Annette Sloly is co founder of Lux Nova, bringing together a lifelong engagement with music and the arts with more than fourteen years of professional practice concerned with human perception and response.

Growing up with music in her family, Annette studied piano before taking up the violin, which became her principal instrument, and spent thirteen years playing in ensembles ranging from Baroque quartets to large orchestras. She also sang in choirs, with repertoire ranging from contemporary music to Bach. Years of playing and singing in concert halls, cathedrals and more intimate settings gave her an embodied understanding of instrumentation, resonance, timbre, harmony and the physical experience of sound within different acoustic spaces.

Her wider creative background spans performance, storytelling and writing, with experience in television and radio, followed by ten years working across the arts and creative industries.

For more than fourteen years Annette has worked as a Performance Anxiety Coach and Senior Clinical Hypnotherapist, specialising in performance anxiety across creative, professional and public facing settings, working with performers, professionals and those in public facing roles. Her practice is concerned with the relationship between attention, emotion, physiological state and human experience, drawing on psychologically informed, neuroscience informed and somatic approaches.

At Lux Nova, these strands converge in her exploration of the relationship between scientific data, sound and human perception. Annette works with patterns and relationships within datasets as they are translated into audible material, listening critically to how that material is perceived and felt.

Central to her approach is maintaining a meaningful relationship with the source data rather than imposing a predetermined musical interpretation upon it. She seeks to balance fidelity to the source with creative interpretation, while exploring the capacity of sound and music to create emotional connection with phenomena that might otherwise remain beyond direct human perception.