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2009 - 01 SKUG Mia Zabelka "Mia's Factory"Holy glaciality! Austrian avant-garde protagonist Mia Zabelka's newest work successfully combines elements of Thomas Köner's panoramic electronic freeze with Pauline Oliveros' (who also taught Zabelka) sub-atomic, abstract flute landscapes but also and more than anything else elements of body / sound explorations akin to American performance icons like Meredith Monk and Laurie Anderson. But the success has nothing to do with the pin-up factor of a woman with her electric violin - much more with the almost tender touch that pulls and distorts the crossing and changing tonalities through expanses of reverb. Head gliding as opposed to ear scratching. Apart from Fennesz, it's well-nigh impossible to find such perfectly minimalist shoe-gazing electronica, with the occasional bowed string or distorted voice modulation. Here with improvisation partners DJ Still, I Wolf, Zahra Mani and in a bonus video track mixed by Tina Frank with Dorit Chrysler and Electric Indigo. A double "Schönberg on the Beach", please!
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Mia Zabelka "Mia's Factory"Violinist Mia Zabelka has gone a step further following her experiments with the "One Night Band", surrounding herself on her new CD release with electronic musicians ranging from I-Wolf to Electric Indigo on synthesizers and Dorit Chrysler on the theremin. The musical collaborations create soundscapes where the notes pile up, get lost somewhere out there and come back again as an echo, oscillating and glittering in the brightest tones imaginable, conquering a new cosmos. This is how the future could sound, a couple of days after we've made contact with extra-terrestrial life forms. Mia Zabelka, whose electric violin playing is often described as anarchic, is far, far beyond most of the rest of us in her thoughts and in her music. Fantastic that we can already hear such music here on planet Earth. A hint: play the music as loud as possible to get the best out of the complexity of nuances.
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Mia's Factory at rhizThe avant-garde violinist Mia Zabelka has launched a highly interesting electro-acoustic project, creating electronic music in a new and unconventional way in collaborations with various contemporary artists. The violinist and composer Mia Zabelka has been engaged in the development of new improvisational techniques with her electric violin and voice for over 20 years. Zabelka is the type of musicians who sees genre-defined boundaries as static barriers that are there to be taken apart again. She describes her work as "automatic playing", which she derived from Friederike Mayröckers "automatic writing" and which simply means creating art "from and through the body". This approach enables the violinist to control and guide her improvisations in a new and more impulsive manner, without having to follow any fixed parameters or written musical laws. Thus her pieces wander the fine line between improvisation and composition, turning first this way, then that. The focal point of the artistic event are sonic experiments where the musician creates unbelievably intense and heavy soundscapes using computers and electronics which remain entirely listenable to despite their complexity. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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SuNNy MooN DiSTribuTioN, KölnZabelka, Mia & One.Night.Band | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mia Zabelka and her One.Night.BandMia Zabelka and her One.Night.Band are far from hermetic in their interpretation of the name-giving concept of their new project "Embodiment": Zabelka's concept of "automatic playing" derives from Friederike Mayröcker's "automatic writing", an artistic method of creating "from the body". This leads to a new type of improvisation based on impulse, rendering scores or programmes that define certain performance parameters unnecessary. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sonic Body Impulses"Embodiment" is the title of composer and electric violinist Mia Zabelka's new CD, a reference to her concept of "playing from the body", the immediate transformation of physical impulses into sound, which was influenced by Friederike Mayröcker's technique of "automatic writing". It might sound somewhat abstract on paper, but it sounds incredibly exciting on the CD: in various constellations, such as a trio with the American electronic dignitaries Alvin Curran and Pauline Oliveros, Zabelka creates broad and intense, sometimes orgiastic soundscapes that flow with a unique and delicate magic of their own. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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EmbodimentThe fleshy and skin-filled minimal artwork calls to mind the notion of embodiment. Whilst "Der Donner des Stillhaltens" remains fairly detached, only occasionally gathering into short intense summits and covering a wide-reaching arc of sonic suspense, "Der wachgerüttelte Rhythmus" confronts the listener with blocks of sound, resembling earthquakes and tremors. The body, whether as a sound body or human playing machine, is set into motion, vibrating and oscillating. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Interview with Mia Zabelka about "Embodiment" by Alfred Krondraf | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Interview with Mia Zabelka about "Mia's Factory" by Michael Masen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Interview with Mia Zabelka about "phonoFemme" with Wilhelm Sinkovicz | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
