Friday, January 28 @ Arlington, Virginia’s Artisphere: Mia Zabelka and Mikroknytes?
Doors: 7:30pm; Music 8:00pm SHARP
Artisphere
1101 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, Virginia 22209
$10.00 all ages
INFO: www.dc-soniccircuits.org
Mia Zabelka
Mia Zabelka, composer, violinist and vocalist from Vienna, lives in the Austrian region of southern Styria.
Amongst Jon Rose and Malcolm Goldstein she has the international reputation of one of the most innovative freestyle Violin Players of the World. As a composer and performer of improvised, experimental and electro-acoustic music she has developed a unique language based on the de- and reconstruction of the violin’s sonic possibilities, expanding the instrument using live electronic effects and innovative performance techniques.
She studied music and composition with Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, Dieter Kaufmann, Kurt Schwertsik and Alexander Arenkov in Vienna, creating a foundation on the basis of which she continues to construct and explore the limits of sound and music in a language entirely her own. The violin, voice and her own body transform into sound bodies which are at once organic and primal, screaming, lyrical, composed and explosive.
As a pioneer of electro-acoustic performance and composition in Austria, Mia Zabelka developed the process she describes as automatic playing, continuously exploring sound and music as physical phenomena, always pushing back the boundaries in radical and provocative performances and compositions that question established notions and given structures.
She has given concerts and performances throughout Europe, America and the former USSR. Recipient of numerous prizes and awards, she was a guest of the DAAD’s (German Academic Exchange Service’s) international artists’ programme in Berlin and the Fulbright Commission in New York.
Real-time compositions, improvisations and live collaborations with various international artists including John Zorn, David Moss, Peter Kowald, Phil Wachsman, Alvin Curran, Pauline Oliveros, Lukas Ligeti, Franz Hautzinger, Martin Siewert, Phil Minton, Shelley Hirsch, Fernando Grillo, Eliot Sharp, Wolfgang Mitterer, Francis Marie Uitti, Josef Klammer, Joelle Leandre, Fred Frith, Manon Liu-Winter, I-Wolf (Wolfgang Schlögl), DJ Still, Dälek, Gerhard Potuznik, Rupert Huber, Robin Rimbaud and Electric Indigo.
Mia Zabelka is currently collaborating in Duos with Franz Hautzinger. Lydia Lunch and Zahra Mani, with the Video Artist Mia Makela and in Trio with Pavel Fait and Johannes Frisch.
http://www.miazabelka.com
Mikroknytes
Since 1998, Derek Morton (electronics, effects, mind control) and John Coursey (violin, electronics, idea manufacturing) are Mikroknytes, and they have released a small number of works ever since. ‘Sess-Supastreng’ is their fourth excursion into the world of ‘massive drones through a barbed-wire filter of cracked electronics and random codes’. In the five lengthy pieces this works out as a semi-improvised, semi-composed work of many layers of sound – a massive sound indeed. Sounds are stapled onto each-other until a dense, vast, thick layer of sound arises from the mass. It’s never too drone to be ambient, nor is it too noise to be industrial. In a way Mikroknytes have a very retro 80s sound. P Children or old Illusion Of Safety spring to mind. Music that is too smooth to be industrial and to harsh to be ambient, and was is too analogue to be truly modern. That is no problem at all, me thinks, as it’s music that not many people create these days, so it might easily pass for something new. That, and the fact that Mikroknytes play some really fine tunes in this particular musical niche, makes this a most enjoyable album. ~ Vital Weekly
http://www.mikroknytes.com
