Fia Fiell is the moniker of Vietnamese-Australian synthesist, pianist and composer Carolyn Schofield, born and based in Melbourne/Narrm. Her tactile, intricate and improvisatory compositions for multiple keyboard synths derive from meditations on deep listening, growth and transcendence. Silk-gentle and immensely powerful, the sound worlds she creates seem to spirit-forth from immaterial planes – bathing audiences in a nebulous melange of lush melodic cycles and spectral drones. Time and rhythm are approached as if elastic – like an organic membrane breathing and pulsing autonomically.

Her recent deep listening work for Longform Editions, ‘Endless Filament’, presents a distinctive and dynamic approach to drone music through a constant flowing, unfurling and building of tones and subtle melodies; an approach that contrasts with the lo-fi improvisatory and cyclic melodic language of her debut album ‘All In The Same Room’ – described in Bandcamp’s Best Cassette Releases of 2018 as coming ‘awfully close to perfection’.

Between live appearances and her recorded work she has been met with critical acclaim and devoted audiences in electronic, experimental, and contemporary classical worlds alike; earning her appearances at events presented by Berlin Atonal/Dark Mofo, Room40, Rising Festival and Resident Advisor, support slots for celebrated artists such as Merzbow, Laurel Halo, Loraine James and Rashad Becker, and large-scale commissions for Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio, the Australian Art Orchestra, Melbourne Recital Centre, Play On and more.

Schofield has collaborated with artists including members of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard (for Hear My Eyes), Jonnine Standish of celebrated Melbourne duo HTRK, trumpeter Peter Knight and guzheng artist Mindy Meng Wang. She's also a member of acclaimed art-rock trio Jaala and dance duo Rolling Mass (together with drummer/producer Max Kohane).