Colin Self (b. 1987 Oregon, USA) is an artist, composer, and puppeteer based between Brooklyn and Berlin. They create music, performances, and new systems for interfacing with the human spirit, across a spectrum between the living and deceased. Their practices revolve around the temporary assembly of communities and envelop 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 Lincolnville, Maine, 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. They were a 2023 Resident Artist at Callie’s Berlin and a Presidential Fellow at La Becque in Autumn 2024. Their third LP, respite ∞ levity for the nameless ghost in crisis was released in 2025 on RVNG Intl.