The piece is a part of a cycle of four "Reed Interludes" (2021)

Reed Interlude I for electronic and video
Reed Interlude II for reed, electronic and video
Reed Interlude III for two reeds, electronic and video
Reed Interlude IV for three reeds

Live recording Ackermannshof Basel, 10.10.2021

video version available here:
https://youtu.be/FigBkbqPEIw

Reed Intelrude II for reed, electronic and video (2021)

The piece is a part of a cycle of four "Reed Interludes" (2021)

Reed Interlude I for electronic and video
Reed Interlude II for reed, electronic and video
Reed Interlude III for two reeds, electronic and video
Reed Interlude IV for three reeds

Live recording Ackermannshof Basel, 10.10.2021

video version available soon here:
youtu.be/NOnvaKoNdew

Reed Interlude III for two reeds, electronic and video (2021)

Life recording made by SRF
Concert "Mysterium Klang" in Tinguely Museum in Basel
15. January 2023
Performers: Basel Sinfonietta
Conductor: Pablo Rus Broseta

Diversions (2022)for orchestra, electronics, Grosse Méta-Maxi-Maxi-Utopia by Jean Tinguely

Life recording ECLAT Festival
06. February 2022 Stuttgart

Yaron Deutsch - electric guitar
Uli Fussenegger - double bass
Cedric Spindler - sound design

smar II (2021) for electric guitar, double bass and electronics

Wurm (2022)

"Minimal Movement" (2022) for harpsichord, violin and electronics

Life recording 
'Festival 20·21 Transit 2022' https://www.festival2021.be
29th October 2022 in Leuven (Belgium)

Performed by Vischer Project:
Gośka Isphording - harpsichord
Alicja Pilarczyk - violin

Minimal Movement (excerpt) for harpsichord, violin and electronics

“Unspoken” (2024) for ensemble and electronics
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/fa5fA4Y4fw8?si=bx5nUT3ntLanowPm

False Relationships and the Extended Endings Ensemble

Ana María Fonseca Núñez (voice)
Phoebe Bognár (flute)
Cris Arcos Cano (saxophone)
Noah Rosen (percussion)
Alice Belugou (harp)
Sebastian Heimann (viola)
Josep-Oriol Miró Cogul (cello)
Christian Rombach (conductor)

02.06 18:00, kHaus, Basel

Audio - Sebastián Zuleta
Video - Santiago Villar Martín / Musician’s Eye

Unspoken (2024) for ensemble and electronics

Margherita Berlanda - accordion
Live Recording - Unerhörte Musik concert series
29th October 2024, Berlin

minimalANIMAL (2024) for accordion and electronics

The premiere of the piece "Sounds of Mechanical Bodies" for two contrabass clarinets, two accordions and electronics as part of the 7th Krakow Accordion Festival.

Performers: 
Julian Paprocki - contrabass clarinet
Michal Gorczynski - contrabass clarinet
Grzegorz Palus  - accordion
Alena Budziňáková-Palus - accordion

LIFE RECORDING

Sound of Mechanical Bodies

For trombone quartet
Premiere: 22. November 2018, Cologne
Performed by: composers slider quartet (Andrew Digby, Andreas Roth, Patrick Crossland, Jan Termath

Lass mich heraus! 2018

"Faster" (2020) semi improvised piece for ensemble and electronic commissioned by Ad Libitum Festival ( Warsaw) written for the Hashtag Ensemble.
Premiere: October 17th, 2020 / Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej Zamek Ujazdowski (Warsaw)
Performers:
Wojciech Błażejczyk - e guitar
Marta Bogusławska - voice
Aleksandra Kaca - electronic
Ania Karpowic - flute
Krzysztof Kozłowski - synthesizer
Krzysztof Szmanda -percussion

Faster (2020)

Anna Sowa is experimental composer mainly focused on exploring electronic music and fields of performing arts. She is interested in the intersection of movement, gesture and theatricality in relation to electronic and instrumental music. 
Born in 1987 in Limanowa (PL), currently resident in Basel. She graduated from the Bacewicz Academy of Music in Lodz (PL) with master’s degree in eurhythmics (2011) and composition (2016) where she had studied with Zygmunt Krauze. As part of the Erasmus+ Programme she studied composition and visualization with Dietrich Hahne at Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen (DE) in years 2014-2015. As a Chinese government scholarship recipient, she was student at Shanghai Conservatory of Music (CN) in years 2017-2018. In 2021 she graduated with distinction ’Specialised Master’s in Composition with Johannes Kreidler and Caspar Johannes Walter at the Music Academy in Basel. 
Her works have been performed at the festivals: ECLAT in Stuttgart, Warsaw Autumn (PL), Transit Festival (BE), Biennale Aktuelle Musik in Bremen, MINU Festival in Copenhagen, Sacrum Profanum (PL), Ad Libitum (PL), Musica Polonica Nova (PL), Periferien Concert Series (NO), Pergine Festival (IT), Musica Moderna (PL), Musica Privata (PL), Controlled Festival (PL), Touch the Theatre Festival (PL), Fru Improvisation Contact Festival (PL), C.A.R. contemporary art ruhr in Essen (DE), BÉTON Brut & Bruits in Cologne (DE), Festival Forfest (CZ), International Festival of Accordion Music in Przemyśl (PL), Bauhaus/Dessau Kurt Weil Festival (DE), Arkady Kubickiego at Royal Castle in Warsaw (PL), Sao Paulo Contemporary Composers Festival (BR), Theater Basel (CH), Experimental Tuesdays Festival (PL). 
Anna Sowa's works have been performed in Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Switzerland, Brazil,Israel, Italy and Belgium. 
In 2021 she won, together with the association Anomalia, the 3rd edition of the Fringe competition of the Foundatione Haydn Stiftung. As part of the prize, Anna Sowa's opera Silenzio/Silence was premiered in March 2022 as part of the Festival Oper 2022 in Bolzano.

She received scholarships: KAAD Bonn (Germany) 2015, Full Scholarship from the China Government 2017 – 2018 and Witold Lutosławski scholarship (2019) - founded by the Lutosławski’s family and Nicati-de Luze Foundation Scholarship 2020 and 2021 (Switzerland). 
She is member of IAWM (The International Alliance for Women in Music), Young Polish Composer Society, Polish Institute of World Art Studies. 
In years 2011 – 2017 she was teacher at the Complex of Music School in Radom (Poland) and lecturer piano improvisation at The Faculty Eurhythmics of The Grażyna and Kiejstut Academy of Music in Łódź.

Anna Sowa

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