Biography

Amanda Butterworth is a multi-disciplinary artist working across sound, performance and narrative. Drawing on her background as a vocalist, yoga teacher and actor, her practice explores listening and embodiment as creative acts, informing ambitious sonic work that is at once intuitive, improvised and open to chance encounter.

Whether making site-specific spatial sound installations or performing live at Café Oto and Corsica Studies under her electronic alias Mücha, Butterworth’s work is animated by a sensitivity to listening and movement. Combining field recording and poetic compositional techniques with an ear for experimental documentary, Butterworth is forging new avenues for sonic storytelling.

A self-taught musician and producer with her roots in the rave (what she calls “the ultimate embodied experience of music”), Butterworth sees listening as the heart of a unique practice drawn from seemingly disparate sources. “The kind of movement practices I'm interested in are embodied listening practices,” she explains. It was the writing of Pauline Oliveros that threaded her practice as a yoga teacher and dancer in both Japanese Butoh and Skinner Release Technique, to that of her music and sound work.

In 2024, her spatial sound installation Peripheries was installed in the 7-storey entrance hall of UCL East’s Marshgate building, blending polyphonic choral composition with field recordings from the building itself, to create plural listening perspectives and encourage a deeper awareness of sound and space.

“I am quite a spontaneous person,” she continues. “I work a lot with chance. Setting up an environment, listening to or observing things that come up and curating what I find is emerging." Working with her ADHD and dyscalculia has allowed Butterworth to hone what she calls “immediate forms of expression” that emphasise process over fixed outcomes.

At once experimental and technically astute, her previous collaborations include projects with Glen Johnson of Piano Magic and electronic artist Datassette. At Open City Documentary Festival in 2024 she presented the live spatial audio performance, Conversation, alongside Diego Ramos Gutierrez and Mikolaj Tchorzewski. In 2025, she co-founded DIY arts program Deep Assignments with Matt Spendlove, to provide a platform for debate and performance.

As Mücha – her long-standing alias for what she describes as introverted, minimalist and deeply personal electronic music - Butterworth has released seven albums. These include the critically acclaimed Hello Caller and Fall on Frequency Domain, been remixed by Surgeon, supported Sleaford Mods and performed live at Café Oto, Iklektic and alongside Overmono at the closing series of Corsica Studios in early 2026.

These streams of Butterworth’s work are now coalescing in an artistic practice that leans on embodiment and listening as both methods and themes in her work, offering a unique perspective on emergent connections between sound art, place and narrative.