electronic music + spoken word + Eindhoven + Belgian touch

muziek: Otto Donkers, tekst: Griet Menschaert



Founded by sonic architect and explorer Robert Raths aka ghostworker in 2007, Erased Tapes is a truly independent record label that has disrupted the industry and rejuvenated the musical landscape. The London-based label has consistently nurtured genre-defying artists from all around the world without losing its avant-garde ethos.

2015 saw BBC 6 Music radio presenter Mary Anne Hobbs stage an Erased Tapes evening featuring Nils Frahm and A Winged Victory For The Sullen at the Royal Albert Hall as part of the prestigious BBC Prom. It was the fastest selling ticket of the entire season. Shortly after Erased Tapes was awarded Best Small Label 2015 at the AIM Awards.

On February 5th 2017 Erased Tapes opened the doors to its new East London home, marking the 10th anniversary by introducing fans and the public to the new Erased Tapes Sound Gallery.

“Ten years of one of the most important record labels of the last few years“ — Gilles Peterson

"Over the last decade, Robert Raths’ label Erased Tapes has developed a sonic profile perfectly in step with the growing taste for quiet, meditative works on the cusp of ambient and chamber music" — The Independent

“The heart-string-tugging London label that floats gently between 20th century composition and ambient music” — Rolling Stone

My work combines my love for programming, playing and building instruments/synthesizers.

A show from Gimlet Media about how big stories we thought were over were actually the beginning of something else, hosted by Pat Walters.

A Staircase Transfer started somewhere in the mean streets of Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Two former ninja warriors, living in a lonely state of meditation, inhabited the same condominium block. Determined to overcome the terrors the Mekong delta had left plaguing their souls, lost in their own mental state, they each started a Buddhistic hymn. 
Hummmm….
Hummmmm…
Hummmmnnn...
It is this humming that resonated trough the desolated staircase connecting their confinements, transferring their souls and starting a process of healing. Now the healing is reversed and the two men, hardened by their pains, spread their restorative canticles, touching the lives of the many.

Contact: mkorvits@gmail.com

Maria Kõrvits began her composition studies at the Tallinn Music High School under Alo Põlmäe. From 2006–2012 she studied composition at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre with Helena Tulve and Tõnu Kõrvits. From 2007–2008 she studied with Fabio Nieder in Trieste, Italy, as an exchange student. She has taken part in several masterclasses with Arvo Pärt, Veljo Tormis, Erkki-Sven Tüür, Ole Lützow-Holm, Adriana Hölzky, Louis Andriessen, Rafael Reina and many others. She has also taken part in a mastercourse with Ensemble Modern and Péter Eötvös in 2011.

Kõrvits has written mainly ensemble works and choral music. Also she has created music for film, dance performance, exhibitions and installation – cooperation in this field bends her to the Estonian Academy of Arts as well as various independent artists and choreographers.

Her works have been performed at the Estonian Music Days Festival, the Autumn Festival of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre as well as in Finland, Italy, Slovenia, Germany and Canada. Her music have been peformed by Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, Chamber Choir Sireen, Mixed Choir HUIK!, SaxEst and others. Orchestral work "Langedes ülespoole, taeva kaarjasse kaussi" ("falling up into the bowl of sky") achieved the first prize in the category of composers under 30 at the 63rd International Rostrum of Composers held in Wroclaw in 2016. For her successful creative activity, Maria Kõrvits was given the Award of the Endowment for Music of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia in 2016.

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