Colin Self (b. 1987 Oregon, USA) is an artist, composer, and puppeteer based between Brooklyn, New York and Berlin, Germany. They create music, performances, and new systems for interfacing with the human spirit, across a spectrum between the living and deceased. As many of their practices revolve around the temporary assembly of communities, their work envelops collaborative and dialogical experiments into play. Self has been running XOIR since 2013, an alternative modality of group singing, and co-founded TIAPS, a performance school in 2023 with their collaborator Monica Mirabile. Their most recent commissions include Where The Souls Go (2024), a play commissioned by the New Theater Hollywood, Kompass (2023), a trilogy composed for the Hannover State Opera, and Tip the Ivy (2022), an opera that premiered at Performance Space NY in 2022. Last year they were a resident artist at Callie’s Berlin and will be an artistic fellow at La Becque in Autumn 2024. Their third LP, respite ∞ levity for the nameless ghost in crisis will be out on RVNG Intl. in February 2025.