Mia Zabelka

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Paganini on the Beach Extract

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Released: Jan 1, 2008

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Paganini on the Beach Extract
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In Mia's Head
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Violin Machine
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Genre: Acoustic / Experimental / Live Electronics
Location Sankt Johann i. S., Ös
Profile Views: 11199
Last Login: 6/20/2012
Member Since 7/22/2009
Website www.miazabelka.com
Record Label Monotype Records, Extraplatte, Trost Records, Edition RZ, Angel Lab
Type of Label Indie
Bio
www.miazabelka.com ..News.... .. MIA ZABELKA IS THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL NETWORK PROJECT "PHONART-THE LOST LANGUAGES OF EUROPE, SPONSORED BY THE EU CULTURE PROGRAMME 2007-2013 .. .. Mia Zabelka's new CD Label is PUMPKIN RECORDS / EDITION PUMBIENT .... Mia Zabelka is preparing her new SOLO-CD "M" since February 2010.. .. .."In Mia's Head" by Mia Zabelka and Zahra Mani.. (Mia's Factory, DER 019, Delphi Entertainment Records) is quoted and recommended in the charts "15 tracks to chill the spine when suffering from one too many midsummer hot flashes" in THE WIRE/ July 2009.... .. Mia Zabelka's new international Booking Agency is AGENCY M / AGENCYM@gmx.net .... .... .. ..Helga de la Motte about phonoFemme Festival / 2009 - 05.... "The sound art festival in Vienna was very exciting and offered insights into the diverse complexity and nexus of artforms on their way to performance art. Everything I heard and saw was of a very high standard... It was also a women's festival that, in accordance wih post-structuralist theories, reflected the conditions of womanhood rather than womanhood itself." .. .. ..Review about phonoFemme Festival / 2009 - 04.. .. ..Die Presse.. .. .. .."Samtstrahlen_Velvet Beams".. by Mia Zabelka and Zahra Mani was released as part of the Austrian Music Box 2009, a sampler of new Austrian music... .. Mia Zabelka's Orchesterminiatur "Organische Trennung", written for the RSO Vienna, was recorded live at the end of September 2009. .. .. phonoFemme Festival 2009 was nominated for the "Österreichischer Staatspreis für Erwachsenenbildung/ Innovation-Kreativität" under the best five. .. .. .. ..Biography.... .."Mia Zabelka is a genius on the Violin" .. V:NM Festival Graz Program Notes 2009.... .... "Mia Zabelka is world class" .. Pauline Oliveros 2009.... .... "Mia Zabelka is the spearhead of the Austrian Avantgarde" .. MICA Music Information Center Austria 2010.... .... "I DON'T WANT TO BE A STAR. I WANT TO BE RADICAL" .. Lydia Lunch .. "I DON'T WANT TO BE STAR, TOO. I ALSO WANT TO BE RADICAL" .. Mia Zabelka .... .... Mia Zabelka, composer, electric violinist and vocalist from Vienna, lives in the Austrian region of southern Styria... .. As a composer and performer of improvised, experimental and electroacoustic 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 the international embodiment 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... .. .. Central works include: SOMATEME, an electro-acoustic performance piece for violin, voice and pick-up microphones on the body. The piece was awarded the WDR composition prize (for Aura), the Prix Ars Electronica (for Sandstrahlentrost) and the Luigi Russolo Prize (for Ströme). .. .. SPACE BODIES, CHIP RADIO, REALTIME (with Andres Bosshard and Gerfried Stocker, amongst others), PARADOX PARADISE (with Alvin Curran and Pauline Oliveros, amongst others) and the recent project GREITHER RADIO KANTATE (together with Zahra Mani, Bruno Pisek and various other collaborators) are examples of simultaneous performance projects for multiple performers based on spatial separation, spontaneity and sonic bridges. These projects form part of Mia Zabelka's long-standing relationship and ongoing collaborations with the Austrian broadcasting corporation the ORF and with Ö1 Kunstradio... .. Current projects include compositions and performances for and with Lydia Lunch, Franz Hautzinger, Zahra Mani, the Mia Zabelka Trio feat. Johannes Frisch and Pavel Fajt, the One.Night.Band, an ensemble Mia Zabelka founded together with Zahra Mani in 2002. The ensemble involves constantly changing formations and combinations, creating itself anew for each performance project. .. .. Major works with the One.Night.Band include: POST PARADISE at the Vienna Konzerthaus, Café Prückl and Ö1 Kunstradio with Pauline Oliveros, Alvin Curran, Max Nagl, Zahra Mani, Potuznik, amongst others... .. EMBODIMENT at the Radiokulturhaus Vienna, a work based on the poetry of Friederike Mayröcker, using texts and images of the artist and zoomed body shots as the basis of a multimedia score for the ensemble of a piece in two movements: a trio (Mia Zabelka, Franz Hautzinger, Martin Siewert) and an ensemble piece (Zabelka, Hautzinger, Siewert, Mani, Martin Janicek, Manon Liu-Winter & vocals by Anna Hauf), which was released on CD in 2007... .. The upcoming project X-RAY is an intermedial performance work based on Joseph Maria Eders first X-Ray-Images of Animals, in collaboration with the Finnish media and live cinema artist Mia Makela. .. .. In 2007 Mia Zabelka founded the klang.haus, a centre for sound and interdisciplinary art at her house in southern Styria. The klang.haus is a meeting point for international and local artists and hosts the wein.klang festival four times a year... .. Real-time compositions, improvisations and live collaborations with various international artists including John Zorn, David Moss, Peter Kowald, Phil Wachsman, 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 plays an E-Violin by ZETA....... ..excerpts - die musik der mia zabelka...... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. BOOKING: AGENCY M / AGENCYM@gmx.net / Andreas Schienert
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