Dee Fry is a London based neurodivergent musician, composer, vocalist, songwriter, community musician, & sound & visual artist. They create intricate new music, textural songs and immersive autistic-led projects that combine ethereal compositions, circular vocal harmonies, performance, & visual elements into sensory soundscapes, for which they coined the terms and artistic concepts “StimScapes”,(or Stim-Scapes), and “Autistic Folk-Songs“, work that is otherworldly yet welcoming.
Drawing on elements from art-pop, post-rock, experimental, ambient, folk-song and electronica, to contemporary soundscapes and live improvisation, they compose, record & perform layered sonic-song explorations through vocals & instrumental performance on electric & acoustic guitars, piano, keyboards & synthesisers, while integrating field recordings, sampled objects, recycled & found sound, audiovisuals & adapted technologies.
Dee’s creative practice explores music-visual somatic relationships between neurodivergent multisensory and temporal experience, embodied listening, & “stillness as an active presence“, through reverberating recurring themes of Regulation, Resolution, Release, Repetition, Decay, Stimming, Sustain, Cyclical Time, & Waves of Delay. They create StimScapes, music, songs, films & imagery in relation to their experience of “ND Embodiment”, or what they describe as “Orbiting” – “circuits harmonising aütmospheric dark & light & the natural rhythms of cyclical waves, divergent energies and sensory experience“. An ongoing exploration which always aims to be what they term an “ND+ affirming eco-musicology“, their practice encompasses solo compositions alongside collaborative projects with a diverse range of interdisciplinary musicians and artists.
Selected collaborations and projects include:
Selected Collaborations
With artist Jon Adams + Flow Observatorium KoCreate on their project ‘Watching Waters’ installation (2022), including piece “Wolves Iceni Skies Waters” Stimscapes Songs EP music & film.
With artist Elinor Rowlands on their project ‘Biodivergent Sites and Sounds”, (2023) live music-making / stim vocals / composition work including piece “Hymn from the Canal”.
With artist Ivan Riches’ improvisational quartet in immersive installation ‘Surroundings’ (2019) including performances at the South London Gallery (2017, 2019) and at The Young V&A (2017) and at Plough Arts (2019),and;
With the Eyes In Their Hand Quartet (2023 – ) and ‘Forced Displacement’ album (2023). Review at Disability Arts Online: The Folly of War and the Beauty of Song: ‘Forced Displacement’.
On Blue Planet Odyssey Global Media & Theatre of Digital Arts @todadubai immersive exhibition presented online and at The Theatre of Digital Art, Dubai, and film and publications (2024).
With Cities and Memory: collaborations with Miyu Hosoi’s Observatory Station installation at the Barbican Centre at the Feel the Sound Exhibition (2025), and with the Spring Project and Sonic Heritage Projects (2025), and Metropolis project (2026 TBC).
On The Sound of Anthropocene, (2024) The New Museum of Networked Art.
With All Aboard’s Research Panel project with Revealing Reality and TFL’s Accessible Travel Panel, inc. piece “Too much information too little information”(2024).
As part of Together! 2012’s exhibition ‘Reflecting Ourselves Disabled Women’s Self-portraits” (2026 RBurnout)
On the compilation The Sound of Us V2 by Club Together Club (2025)
With Drake Music’s Connect & Collaborate project including performances at the Institute of Contemporary Arts,London (2017),and Parallel Festival at Olympic Park, London (2017).
As singer. keyboardist, guitarist co-writing / performing in various art / rock bands @pihiroshima Party In Hiroshima.
With artist Sharon Gal’s electric guitar ensemble ‘Feel The Noise’ (2018) at Great Hall, Goldsmiths University.
Artist-led Projects
As Dee Fry Servals, the living & evolving Song Cycle projects “Sustain Release Chorus Attack Decay Delay”, “Stimscapes and Autistic Folksongs”, “Longitudinal WAVE Songs” & “Stim Music (delayed)” in partnership with RFA. StimScapes EP + film on Spotify, Apple Music YouTube, AmazonMusic, Soundcloud. Bandcamp (- present)
As Resident Artist, co-founder and creative lead at Resources For Autism‘s Making Music Group at the Fellowship, Lewisham Hub, Lewisham and Southwark (2024-present)
On National Autistic Society’s ASSIST Music project.(2018-2019) Co-founder – based at St Charles Square, Ladbroke Grove and K-Town Studios, London.
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Recipient of Sound and Music’s COVID-19 Composer Awards (Winner 2021)
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BSc (Hons) Social Sciences (1st) 2006 (Open), PGDip Psychological Research Methodologies 2010 (Open)