To hear on Sunday 17 and 24 July 2016, 2pm - 9pm:
cozy new gastfeindlichkeit
(2016, Premiere)
by Julia Mihály
Julia Mihály on 'cozy new gastfeindlichkeit':
The piece “cozy new gastfeindlichkeit“ consists of semantically decomposed speech of people telling their stories of escape. Through different methods of sound modulation, the vocal material was changed into a sound wise abstract form. The complete sound material is extracted from vocal sounds.
Displaced people tell the stories of their life before their escape, the stories of their escape and the stories of their arrival. But it’s quite obvious, that the stories don’t come to an end after the arrival. Not only the emotionality of the escape resonates in their voices, but also the new experiences and impressions at the place of their arrival.
Audio Field Report no. 49 / Sound activism 28:
Interview with Julia Mihály by Knut Remond. Limited edition audio cassette, 8 copies numbered. Available at 'ohrenhoch, der Geräuschladen' (and heard on headphone in the ohrenhoch archive).
Julia Mihály (*1984) is an artist at the border of Contemporary Music, Performance Art, Electroacoustic Music and Electronica. Field recordings and the use of analogue synthesizers mark substantial components in her electroacoustic compositions. The crossover of different music styles such as contemporary vocal music, old school 8 bit music, trashy pop music tunes and electroacoustic music, is probably the most distinctive feature of her music.
In her performances she works with computer game controllers, movement sensors and hacked toy instruments in order to control the live electronics.
She studied classical voice and electronic composition at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover. Concert tours have taken her to international festivals in Brazil, Denmark, Turkey, Hungary, France, Singapore, Japan and Oman.
Julia Mihály is member of the electronica duo CLUBbleu, board member of the German Society for Electroacoustic Music (DEGEM) and the directress of the DEGEM Webradio@ZKM, a collaboration between the ZKM Karlsruhe and the DEGEM.