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Ana Dall'Ara-Majek
Biography	PROGRAMME NOTE Ana Dall’Ara-Majek: «Bacillus Chorus» (2016) Bacillus Chorus is the fourth movement of NanoCosmos, a cycle of works dedicated to small arthropods and microorganisms. For this piece I was interested in bacteria, particularly their ability to multiply and modify their environment by working together. This led me to the idea of exploring musical polyphony as a bacterial colonization in which sounds duplicate by binary fission processes, contaminate each other, form bacterial chains, and slowly alter the properties of the entire work. BIOGRAPHY Ana Dall’Ara-Majek is a composer and sound artist living in Montreal. She is interested in how instrumental, electroacoustic and computational-thinking approaches interaction in music. She has been active in composing electroacoustic pieces and performing live electronic music. She presented works at numerous festivals including commissions by Architek Percussion, Paramirabo, Sixtrum, SuperMusique and Quasar (Canada), and also international commissions by SeaM (Germany), Taller Sonoro (Spain), Musiques & Recherches (Belgium), Densité 93 (France) and Distractfold (UK). She performs regularly with her groups Jane/KIN, ILÉA and blablaTrains as an electronic musician and Theremin player. Since 2020, she started working on sound installations with AuXauralities, an intersectoral project for the development of sound installations with meta-materials. Her work is published at Kohlenstoff Records and Empreintes DIGITALes
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Ana Dall'Ara-Majek

Biography

PROGRAMME NOTE

Ana Dall’Ara-Majek: «Bacillus Chorus» (2016)

Bacillus Chorus is the fourth movement of NanoCosmos, a cycle of works dedicated to small arthropods and microorganisms. For this piece I was interested in bacteria, particularly their ability to multiply and modify their environment by working together. This led me to the idea of
exploring musical polyphony as a bacterial colonization in which sounds duplicate by binary fission processes, contaminate each other, form bacterial chains, and slowly alter the properties of the entire work.

BIOGRAPHY

Ana Dall’Ara-Majek is a composer and sound artist living in Montreal. She is interested in how instrumental, electroacoustic and computational-thinking approaches interaction in music. She has been active in composing electroacoustic pieces and performing live electronic music. She presented works at numerous festivals including commissions by Architek Percussion, Paramirabo, Sixtrum, SuperMusique and Quasar (Canada), and also international commissions by SeaM (Germany), Taller Sonoro (Spain), Musiques & Recherches (Belgium), Densité 93 (France) and Distractfold (UK). She performs regularly with her groups Jane/KIN, ILÉA and blablaTrains as an electronic musician and Theremin player. Since 2020, she started working on sound installations with AuXauralities, an intersectoral project for the development of sound installations with meta-materials. Her work is published at Kohlenstoff Records and Empreintes DIGITALes

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