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Svetlana Maraš - Live performance 2019-2020
Cat #: OUS042
Release date: May 12, 2023
Distributed by Kudos: https://kudosdistribution.co.uk
Label Bandcamp: https://ousooo.bandcamp.com

«The nearly infinite improvisational potential in my performances is a result of tweaking the technology, using it in unpredictable ways, musically exploiting it, and maybe even misusing it.» - Svetlana Maraš

Serbian composer, sound artist and musician Svetlana Maraš has spent years developing her unique setup for live performances. Distinctly defining a live performance as an own form of musical practice that is defined by the sculptural potential, rather than reproducibility, she builds live sets as frameworks for musical expression. The core of her performative practice lies in the accessibility of all layers of what a ‘musical image’ at any given point consists of.

Using micro samples, granular sampling and snippets of one to two seconds, Maraš treats her live setup equivalent to an acoustic instrument. Using tablet controllers running a self-built ‘Touch OSC’ interface and pedals, she manipulates and morphs the material with the mindset of a sculptor, while exposing herself to the audience and the room. Her focus lies on the sound itself: musical structure and qualities, and the shape of the sounds projected into the performance space define which turn she might take next. Maraš explains: «I am interested how sounds fills up the room, how they spread, how near or far they are, how ‘big’ or ‘small’ they seem, how they morph and move.» With the set she played from 2019 to 2020, Maraš had reached an extreme regarding the handling and manipulation of micro samples. -OUS is releasing a live recording of this set as deep dive into the possibilities of live sound manipulation.

Svetlana Maraš is composer and artist active in the field of experimental music. Her work, which she presents internationally, encompasses variety of formats such as live performance, electro-acoustic composition, sound installations and works for the radio. She is the winner of the most prestigious Serbian composition prize «Mokranjac», awarded by the Serbian Composers’ Association. From 2016-2021, she was composer in residence and artistic director at Radio Belgrade’s Electronic studio, where she established numerous programs such as artistic residencies, educational courses and most notably, restoration of EMS Synthi 100. Currently, Maraš is Professor of Creative Music Technology and Co-head of Electronic Studio at Hochschule für Musik FHNW, Basel. 
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releases May 12, 2023

Music by Svetlana Maraš
Recorded at Il Circolo del Frattempo, Zurich, 2019
Mastered by Manuel Oberholzer
Artwork by Marko Vuleta-Djukanov
Graphic design by Rebecca Morganti-Pfaffhauser

This live set was recorded at Il Circolo del Frattempo, Zurich, a co-production between -OUS and MADAM.

The set was additionally performed at:
HEK, Basel
CAN, Neuchâtel
Galerie Weisser Elefant, Berlin
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Yarn sewn fabric played on prepared turntable and stylus.

Tistre is the first outcome of an experimentation with textile supports, made by Andrea Borghi in 2018, during a residency at Lottozero textile laboratories in Prato. Fabrics and yarns are the materials with which he creates discs the shape and size of a Lp. He plays them with a prepared turntable, in order to exploit the reliefs of the weft and the warp as a surface from which to produce the sound with the use of special self-built styli and electronic treatments.

Tistre follows the path taken by the artist with Discomateria, focused on experimentation with different materials such as glass, resin, metal or marble, which become the source for the production of sounds.

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https://andreaborghi.com/project/tistre/

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