Composition, voice and recording: Miriam Mattis (2020) Cello: Hilke Ros  Drawing by Marcella Kroll

A hypnotic and seductive trip, touching on dub techno, experimental electronica and dark drum and bass.

You can find the tracklist here - https://www.mixcloud.com/Pusjka/01-pressed-against-the-floor/

01 (Pressed Against The Floor)

Kiosk Radio is an online community radio streaming 24/7 from a wooden shack in the heart of Brussels’ historic “Parc Royal”. More info and music: https://kioskradio.com

Vers invite Pusjka @ Kiosk Radio 03.01.2023

Composition, voice and recording: Miriam Mattis (2020)
Cello: Hilke Ros

Drawing by Marcella Kroll

Little Weasle (2020)

Medical text pp. 57: Age is an aggressive, virtuosic, and remarkably vulnerable piece crafted around the text found in the educational tome Cyclopædia of Practical Medicine Vol. 1 published in 1845. 
The chapter that this piece addresses is on the topic of age and its effects on the body through the multiple stages of life, beginning with nascent burgeoning growth and advancing to eventual unerring onset of decay. This piece manipulates the coherence of text and plays off of humanities want to comprehend speech in voices, often crafting phones and consonants that are similar to speech but contorting them beyond understanding. When juxtaposed with recognizable text and married with a plethora of timbral driven gestures and extended vocal techniques, smooth transitions between nonsense and meaningful text help to drive the piece through continuums of obfuscation and clarity.

Medical Text p.57 - for voice and live electronics

Liedje Voor Miri Master

Presented as part of AUDIOSPHERE exhibition at Museo Reina Sofía (ES). Curator: Francisco Lopez

‘Za < /< > zA’ explores the encounter between the human voice and technology, searching for a ‘trans-formative’ real-time composed performance that relies on improvisation and computer-based aleatoric techniques. 
‘Za < /< > zA’, named after the Hebrew word ‘zaza’ which means - “in-movement” (referring to a female), is also an experiment with words, and through this encounter, a new language can be created. 

Text Translation:
Ani Rotza Lazooz (אני רוצה לזוז) = I want to be in movement / Lehe’alem (להיעלם) = to disappear / Lehitkayem (להתקיים) = to exist 
Ani Zaza (אני זזה) = I am in movement

Za < /< > zA

Sound Installation (3 headphones) | 2019
Presented at Hundred Years Gallery (London) and the Israeli Center Center for Digital Art (Holon), 2019

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“Listening offers another point of view, an alternative perspective on how things are, producing new ideas on how they could be, and how we could live in a sonic possible world, and how we could include sound’s invisible formlessness in a current realization and valuation of what we understand to be the actual world.” [Salome Voegelin - Sonic Possible Worlds, 2014]

How can the invisible and shapeless sound be represented by a human voice and transformed into a tangible form like a word in a language? What kind of sonoric experience is created when we listen to a foreign language, where the words are neutralized from their meaning? How can a change in an environment affect our listening practices and the way we experience and vocalize sounds?

RishRush (=the Hebrew onomatopeia word for “the rustling of leaves”) is a voice-sound triptych that travels around a multi-lingual onomatopoeic space and inviting the listener to explore alternative listening practices, while loosening the connection between word and its meaning or between a sound and its function in an agreed sign system (=language); it is a recollection of the initial reverberation of things into a language;  an invitation to question the formation of formless sound into a material (=voice), and the fragile tension that exists between the actual vocal expression and its object: all the sounds in the world, including the silence.

By: Yifeat Ziv | Artistic Accompaniment: Dafna Kron | Language counselling: Yael Gaulan
Mastering: Marco Tarantino | Illustration: Iris Chun-Tzu Chang

Presented at the Israeli Center for Digital Art, February 2019.

More information: https://www.yifeatziv.com/rish-rush

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כיצד סאונד, בלתי נראה וחסר צורה, מיוצג על ידי קול אנושי והופך למילה ממשית בשפה?
איזו חוויה סונורית נוצרת בהאזנה לשפה זרה לחלוטין,  כאשר המילים מנוטרלות ממשמעות?
באילו אופנים סביבה משתנה משפיעה על פרקטיקות ההקשבה שלנו, ועל האופן שבו אנו חווים ומבטאים צלילים?

רִשְׁרוּשׁ הוא טריפטיכון קול-סאונד המשוטט במרחב אונומטופאי רב-לשוני שבו מתרופף הקשר בין מילה ומשמעות, בין צליל ותפקידו במערכת סימנים מוסכמת; הוא היזכרות בהדהוד הראשוני של הדברים אל תוך השפה; הוא הזמנה לבחינת תהליך התהוותו של סאונד לכדי חומר, והמתח המתקיים בין הביטוי הקולי הממשי לבין מושאו - כל הצלילים הקיימים בעולם, ובכללם גם השקט.

מאת: יפעת זיו | ליווי אמנותי: דפנה קרון | ייעוץ לשוני: יעל גולן | איור: איריס צ'אנג | מאסטרינג: מרקו טרנטינו.

העבודה הוצגה במסגרת אירוע ’ההליכה לאיבוד’ – המרכז לאמנות דיגיטלית חולון.

רִשְׁרוּש Rish Rush #1 (Sound Installation)

finally finnished this track after more than a year. hope you enjoy it!
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vocals are by the lovely Miriam Matthys
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Fly Away Ft. MIR I AM (free download!)

Parstronix's Parasol Unit Gallery live improv performance to mark the Navid Nuur solo exhibition, May 2013. Navid Nuur is a Dutch-Iranian artist whose works are based on phenomenological experiences. Performers for this incarnation of Parstronix were Sam Fathi on daf drum, Fari Bradley on Monotron, Armin Firouzabadi on guitar and Roshi Nasehi on voice and keys. Traces of Action: Creation of Acts was a performance supported by Dante Rendle Traynor with his experimental lounge band The Golden Boys. http://www.parasol-unit.org/traces-of-action-creation-of-acts

Parstronix at Parasol Unit with Navid Nuur

first version of my work "nothing for the moment" for vibraphone and electronics premiered on 16th October 2020(Brussels)

Little Weasle (2020)

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