Mia Zabelka (AT) – Violin, Voice
Tracy Lisk (US) – Percussion
Els van Riel (BE) – Visuals
 
This duo from Austria and the USA plays free improvised music. The music is created in the
moment, without previously agreed concepts or compositions. Beside the pleasure in free
improvisation itself, a further strong basis the musicians share is the process of extending
traditional instrumental techniques (both with and without preparation and tools), with which the duo creates dense but dynamic sonic landscapes with significant room for silence. Theheterogeneous instrumentation – string and percussion instruments, whether plucked or bowed – provides an enormous acoustic field of potential; nonetheless, it is not always clear which instrument is the source of the sound heard at a given moment. 

AUDIO : https://miazabelka.bandcamp.com/track/contrapuntal-empathy

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsIh1NlWyX8

Photo © Els van Riel