John Macedo is an artist and performer from London. He has incorporated everything from acoustic instruments and environmental sound to analogue, digital and DIY electronics into recorded works, live performances, film, sound installations and workshops. He has a pluralistic approach which explores connections and relationships and revealing the hidden potential in all sounds, environments and technologies, often in intimate, immersive and intuitive ways.

He performs live solo and has collaborated with a wide variety of musicians and artists including Phil Julian, Graham Dunning, Tom White, Colin Webster, Yoni Silver, John Butcher, Cath Roberts, John Edwards, Michael Speers, Steve Noble, Sue Lynch, Lee Fraser, Kate Carr and Adam Bohman, to name a few. He has had work released by Infant Tree, The Tapeworm, Hideous Replica, Sound Holes, and Beartown Records as well as releasing small run and object editions on his own label, The Black Plume Editions. He has performed and presented work in the UK, Europe and US and has led workshops and produced collaborative, educational and community-based projects for Whitechapel Gallery, South London Gallery, Artsadmin and New Contemporaries. He also programmed SOLO:DUO:TRIO, a concert series of experimental and improvised music at Cafe OTO in London from 2016-2020.

Image by Fabio Lugaro (John Butcher & John Macedo duo from 2016)