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Zahra Mani (UK/AT) – Bass Guitar, Field Recordings, Live Electronics
Mia Zabelka (AT) – Electric Violin, Voice, Live Electronics, Alien Devices

Mia Zabelka and Zahra Mani have been collaborating since 2002, when they founded the “One.Night.Band” ensemble for experimental music. They also joined forces with Lydia Lunch for the trio project Medusa’s Bed and play in various different solo and ensemble constellations. Zahra Mani comes from the UK and Pakistan and has been living in Austria since 2002. The mulit-instrumentalist developed her musical voice in an idiomatic combination of field recordings and live instruments together with live electronics to create complex, dense but differentiated, pulsing sonic worlds.

The musical exchange between Zabelka and Mani is a multi-faceted dialogue, where Mani’s sounds create an expanding framework for Zabelka’s virtuosity in lyrical, screaming, organic, swelling, complex, poly-rhythmical soundscapes. Their performances offer a glimpse of an ongoing and developed process, a work-in-progress that continues to explore and discover new aspects of sound, silence, bodies and space.

Audio http://smallforms.org/mia-zabelka-zahra-mani/

https://soundcloud.com/miazabelkamusic/sets/mia-zabelka-zahra-mani-live-at-contrapop-festival-2019

Video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1mBhQyU3YY&t=10s

Photo © Cristina Marx