Projects / Mia Zabelka Solo

MIA ZABELKA - E-Violin, Voice, Electronics, Contact Microphones

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"I sing the body electric, The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them, They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them, And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul."
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

"M", Mia Zabelka's new solo project, focuses on the development of experimental improvisational techniques with the voice and violin, a process she calls "automatic playing". She explores the relationships between the body, gesture, sound, machines and space using also live electronics to expand the electro-acoustic sonic spectrum. She creates musical imageries in an ongoing process of experimentation and physical immediacy resulting in a melodic complexity and simultaneous transparency characteristic of her sound language.

Mia Zabelka works with the sound on and of her own body using small contact microphones applied to her skin and hair, and also incorporates sounds from inside the body, which she records using medical equipment and transforms into electro-acoustic compositions. She combines these elements of body sound in her live performances with her improvisations on violin and her vocal interpretation of lyrics by Walt Whitman and William Blake.