Music like Mira Calix

Chantal Francesca Passamonte (28 October 1969 – 25 March 2022), known professionally as Mira Calix ( MIRR-ə KAY-liks), was a South African-born, British-based audio and visual artist and musician signed to Warp Records.

Although her earlier music is almost exclusively electronic, from the 2000s onwards she incorporated writing for classical instrumentation into her musical works and expanded her practice to include multidisciplinary performance, film and multi-channel installation artworks. She often stated that she considered sound a sculptural material.

Calix was born Chantal Francesca Passamonte in Durban, South Africa on 28 October 1969. She was raised in Durban in a liberal middle-class family of English and Italian descent. She grew up learning ballet and listening to jazz and classical music. She moved to London in 1991. She began to work at a record shop and took up organising parties and DJing. She worked at the labels 4AD and Warp Records, where she held the position of a publicist from 1994 to 1997. In the late 1990s, Calix married Sean Booth, who is a member of electronic duo Autechre. The two separated in the mid-2000s.