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SFIEMA – SOCIETY FOR SOUND ART, FREE IMPROVISATION AND EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC AUSTRIAlädt ein zum nächsten Konzert!
+ PERFORTO (Ola Rzepka & Lukasz Marciniak)
+ Mia Zabelka
+ Kris Kuldkepp
ON STAGE:
PERFORTO
Ola Rzepka – drums
Łukasz Marciniak - electric guitar
- a string duo for electric guitar and drums, preparing instruments with wood, metal, paper and other materials. In improvisation explores the physical characteristics of a sound, such as pitch, timbre, intensity and its consequences over time. He is looking for a specific sensitivity sonoristic in the chaotic dimension of the environment. Intensively, delicately, penetratingly, subtly, radically. At june 2023 we release our premier album "Uragano" in Australian label Ramble records.
Łukasz MARCINIAK:
Guitarist, composer, improviser. He works in the Trio_io band performing contemporary chamber music. He is a member of El Topo - a band exploring the intricacies of strings and the risks posed by drums and cymbals, co-founder of Perforto - a string duet for prepared piano and electric guitar, and the latest trio Attack of the Mugatu - for guitar, cello and double bass. Additionally, he works in two new international trios: Volcano: Polish/Czech Austrian, with saxophone and drums, and with the same instruments, but in Berlin in the Blutrio trio - where he works develop new ideas of improvised music. Author of music for films and performances. In his solo activities and free improvisation concerts, he works on his own language of articulation.
Ola RZEPKA:
Ola Rzepka: Polish drummer, pianist, composer and performer. A graduate of the Academy of Music in Katowice at the Faculty of Composition, Interpretation, Education and Jazz, scholarship holder of the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen (piano and percussion classes). She has collaborated with, among others: Raphael Rogiński, Antoni Ziut Gralak.
Apart from playing music, she is also involved in performing arts combining music and visual arts. She has written music for theater performances in Poland, Germany and Switzerland. She has performed at many avant-garde, pop, jazz, improvised and contemporary music festivals. Honored among the Jazz Top Polish drummers of 2024 according to a poll of critics of Jazz Forum magazine.
Kris KULDKEPP:
... is a sound and performance artist based in Hamburg, Germany. Her work explores the perception, materiality, and behavior of sound and its resonance in physical spaces. Additionally, her work strives towards non-authoritarian musical forms and spaces that balance between meaning and noise. After years dedicated to classical and early music performance on the double bass and viola da gamba, her working methods now include improvisation, deep listening and attention to singular sounds. The main tools she employs are various string basses, early music instruments, and a modular synthesizer in combination with found objects, motors, and other noisemakers.
Kris has performed at the international festivals such as Papiripar, Blaues Rauschen, Blurred Edges, klub katarakt, JAUNA MUZIKA, Sound of Stockholm, Piksel, Üle Heli and Estonian Music Days. Her debut album “Moonutatud Muundused / Distorted Conversions” was met with swift critical acclaim by the experimental music community. Her recent collaborators include Lisa Pottstock, Jeff Surak, The Ensemble of Estonian Electronic Music Society and MOLJEBKA PVLSE.
In addition to artistic work, she is part of the curating team of Hörbar — experimental music association in Hamburg.
Mia ZABELKA:
Austrian violinist-vocalist-composer Mia Zabelka is considered to be a leading figure in the international scene of electroacoustic music, known for her innovative and boundary-pushing approach to sound, incorporating elements of noise, drone and improvisation into her compositions. Her performances involve the use of extended techniques on the violin, electronic effects, and a range of other unconventional methods to create unique and immersive sonic experiences.
She has released multiple albums and has performed at various festivals and venues around the world. She has also worked with a variety of artists and collaborators, including the ensemble ‘Zeitkratzer’, John Zorn, Pauline Oliveros, Alvin Curran, Elliott Sharp, Maggie Nicols, John Russell, Fred Frith, Johannes Frisch, Pavel Fajt and Zahra Mani.
Mia Zabelka developed her unique musical language in a process she calls “automatic playing”, where the music grows out of her physical movement and finds its expression in her electric violin with electronic devices, alien objects, vocals, and/or the acoustic violin. Using this set-up, she expands her sound range so extensively that the violin itself becomes an interface, an electronic sound generator.
In her music, Mia Zabelka engages with the acoustic interaction between her body and the surrounding environment, with a special focus on the “sonic gesture”. The sonic gesture has to do with how sound moves and how it moves the body at the same time – the embodiment of sound, an intuitive body-sound-machine. Mia Zabelka’s sound art explores this interface and its expression of how communication between humans and autonomous machines can happen; the coexistence of humans and machines in hybrid environments is reflected in sound.
Mia Zabelka is particularly interested in the interdisciplinarity between music and science and her work has been described as “scientific music”. It is music beyond melodies, harmonies and rhythm. Scientific music is concerned with making automatic, mechanical processes audible. It is noise, movement, automation, division, symbiosis, dissonance and resonance: an endless adventure of discovery.
In 2009, Mia Zabelka founded Klanghaus, a center for sound art and interdisciplinary art in Southern Styria, which launches the Klangzeit festival four times a year. Since 2009 she has been the artistic director of phonofemme Vienna, an international festival in the field of experimental music and sound art by women. Mia Zabelka has been Vice President of the Austrian Composers Association (ACOM) since 2019.
Recipient of highly regarded prizes (3-time winner of the Prix Ars Electronica, WDR composition Prize, Luigi Russolo Prize) and awards, she was a guest of the DAAD’s (German Academic Exchange Service’s) international artists’ program in Berlin and the Fulbright Commission in New York. Her composition ‘For Pauline Oliveros’ commissioned by musikprotokoll / Steirischer Herbst and the Austrian Cultural Forum New York as part of the ‘Homages’ project, was honored with THE AKADEMIA Music Award 2018. In 2021, Mia Zabelka was awarded the Austrian Art Prize in the category ‘Music’ by the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport.
ABOUT SFIEMA:
Der Kunst- und Kulturverein SFIEMA bezweckt die Förderung von experimenteller Musik, die in frei improvisierten und komponierten Formen, mit akustischen, elektroakustischen und elektronischen Mitteln produziert wird. Seit der Gründung 2015 unter der Leitung von Mia Zabelka, Zahra Mani, Michael Fischer, seit 2016 mit Herbert Lacina ist SFIEMA eine internationale Plattform für freie Improvisation, experimentelle Improvisation, experimentelle Musik und Sound Art, ein Forum für neue kreative Entwicklungen.
WO:
Café Korb – ART LOUNGE
Brandstätte 9
1010 Wien
WANN:
Montag, 17. März 2025
BEGINN:
19:30 Uhr
EINTRITT:
Künstlerspende € 10,00
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
CAFE KORB, Brandstätte 7, 1010 Wien, Österreich,Wien, Österreich, Austria
