Mia Zabelka

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Mia Zabelka (born September 21, 1963 in Vienna ) is an Austrian composer, electric violinist and vocalist. She lives in southern Styria .

Career

Mia Zabelka studied at the Vienna Conservatory composition with Kurt Schwertsik and violin with Alexander Arenkov , further electroacoustic music at Roman Haubenstock-Ramati and Dieter Kaufmann at the University of Music and Performing Arts , as well as musicology and journalism at the University of Vienna at Walter Pass .

Mia Zabelka (2013)

In addition and afterwards there were study trips to Cologne, Berlin and New York; Concerts in Europe, the USA and the former USSR. She was composer in residence at the Kunst-Station Sankt Peter in Cologne, worked at the Studio for Electronic Music , at the ZKM in Karlsruhe , at STEIM, Amsterdam and at the Experimental Studio of the Warschauer Rundfunk. From 1995 to 2000 she was artistic director of the Klangturm St. Pölten.

Since around 1985 the musician has been engaged in interdisciplinary improvisation techniques, with the "exploration of the relationship between body, gestures, sound and space", what she calls "automatic playing" and where she networks sound art, new media and literature. In 2007 she founded the Klang.haus as an international center for sound art and a “forum for creative developments” where, for example, events are on the program for each of the four seasons in her home town of Untergreith (municipality of St. Johann im Saggautal ) .

There were real-time compositions, improvisations and live performances with, for example, John Zorn , David Moss , Peter Kowald , Phil Wachsmann , Lukas Ligeti , Franz Hautzinger , Martin Siewert , Phil Minton , Shelley Hirsch , Fernando Grillo , Elliott Sharp , Wolfgang Mitterer , Frances-Marie Uitti , Josef Klammer , Joëlle Léandre , Fred Frith , Manon Liu-Winter , "I-Wolf" Wolfgang Schlögl , DJ Still and Dälek , Gerhard Potuznik , Rupert Huber , Robin Rimbaud and Electric Indigo .

Zabelka with Maggie Nicols and John Russell (2011)

In 2002 she founded the One.Night.Band, together with Zahra Mani ; in constant cooperation with this, other musicians are invited for individual performances. There were also duo projects with Zahra Mani: Intimate Surfaces; Automatic playing; Velvet Beams. Furthermore the Greither cantata, a Klang.haus project in which Zahra Mani and Bruno Pisek participated, among others. The intermedia performance Secrets of a Soul , based on the film of the same name by GW Pabst , was created in collaboration with the Finnish media and film artist Mia Makela .

Awards

  • 1987 - Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture: Grant for work at the electronic studio of the University of Music, Cologne
  • 1987 - Office of the Lower Austrian Provincial Government: Recognition Award
  • 1987 - Luigi Russolo Competition: Acknowledgment Prize for Streams
  • 1988 - International competition "Forum for young composers" of the Cologne GNM and the WDR: First prize for Aura.
  • 1988 - City of Cologne: Composer in Residence at the St. Peter Art Station
  • 1989 - DAAD : guest of the Berlin artist program
  • 1989 - Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture: scholarship
  • 1990 - Fulbright Commission Scholarship for New York
  • 1991 - The American Biographical Institute : Woman of the Year Degree
  • 1992 - WDR International Composition Competition: "Forum for Young Composers"
  • 1993 - Ars Electronica: Recognition Award
  • 1994 - Prix Ars Electronica: Second Prize (award for sandblasting )

Commissioned work

Discography

  • Somateme - body sounds with Giselher Smekal , Robert Bilek, Ed. RZ / Teldec LP ERZ 10002, 1987
  • Electronic music. 2. Tape and ..., Sandblasting Entrost, Amadeo LP 427 040-1, 1988
  • MZ and Acting Seven: BABEL, Viennola LP, 1989
  • Moving Tones Sound Sculpture, ED. 235 Media CD, 1989
  • Foci, Ed. Michael Frauenlob Bauer, Video VHS 421, 1991
  • Possible Fruit, with John Zorn , David Moss , Jon Rose , Ferdinand Richard, Peter Hollinger , Fritz Novotny , etc., extra CD EX 172 093, 1993
  • Panta Rhei, Angellab CD ALP 00020001, 2003
  • Post Paradise, with Pauline Oliveros , Alvin Curran , Zahra Mani & One.Night.Band (with Max Nagl , Gerhard Potuznik) Angellab CD ALP 00020002, 2004
  • Embodiment, with One.Night.Band ( Franz Hautzinger , Manon Liu Winter, Martin Siewert , Anna Hauf, Zahra Mani, Wolfgang Fuchs , Martin Janicek, Alvin Curran, Pauline Oliveros), extra CD EX-707-2, 2007
  • Mia's Factory, with DJ Still, I-Wolf, Zahra Mani, Electric Indigo, Dorit Chrysler , Tina Frank, Trost; Delphy Entertainment Rekords CD DER 019, 2008
  • Redshift Orchestra: Thinking Light EP , (Mia Zabelka and Kai Niggemann ); WAF80music digital WAF80-15, 2016

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kunstradio.at
  2. ↑ Performance in the Wiener Konzerthaus on October 6, 2009
  3. ↑ Salzburg Avant-garde Festival, s. e.g. Online-Focus, 2007.
  4. ↑ chip-radio ( memento from March 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

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personal data
SURNAME Zabelka, Mia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer, electric violinist and vocalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna