Anna Zaradny
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| Biography | Anna Zaradny (*1977) is a sound and visual artist, composer and improviser. She graduated in Saxophone, Conducting and Music Theory at the Academy of Music in Poznań. As a composer and instrumentalist she works in a wide spectrum of genres, from acoustic improvised music with a contemporary minimalist language to complex structures of experimental electronic music compositions. She is co-founder of the Musica Genera festival and record label. As a visual artist, she creates in a variety of media: installations, objects, photography and video. She uses abstraction, micro sound and architectural elements, lights and space and her works are marked by ambiguity and the relationship between medium and ideas. Zaradny’s works have been presented at various festivals and exhibitions such as MoMA (Warsaw), 5th Lubumbashi Biennale (Lubumbashi), SiILBERKUPPE (Berlin), Kunst-Werke (Berlin), Sonic Protest (Paris), Aural Festival (Mexico City), Unsound Festival (New York), London Exploratory Music from Poland, Super-Deluxe (Tokyo), What is music? (Sydney, Melbourne), The Knitting Factory (New York), and the Art Institue of Chicago. Her discography includes solo recordings and projects with Burkhard Stangl, Christian Fennesz, Robert Piotrowicz, Jerome Noetinger, Tony Buck, Kasper Toeplitz, Cor Fuhler, among others, and has also composed music for theater, multimedia projects and performances. Zaradny has worked together with Paulina Ołowska at WIELS (Brussels) and has served as music consultant and researcher in the Escape Act project for Alexandra Bachzetsis. She has held the titles of Fellow Artist at MuseumsQuartier Vienna, recipient of the Views 2011 Deutsche Bank Foundation Award at Zachęta National Art Gallery, and a participant in the SHAPE platform. She has also served as a Resident at Elektronmusikstudion Stockholm and the KSYME Contemporary Music Research Centre of Athens, showcasing her engagement with renowned institutions in the art world. ABOUT Anna Zaradny: «FULL SUPER MOON 777» FULL SUPER MOON 777 Composed on April 7- 8.2020, Warsaw Recorded on Synthi 100 on April 10.2019 KSYME, Athens A contemplative composition, arranged in a series of sequences showing the splashes of matter, which begins to form flickering constellations. Focusing on a single detail in the massive density of analog synthesizer sound and registering the moment of disintegration and connection. The music transports the listener into a sphere that is as much like outer space as the oceanic abyss, giving a chance to immerse themselves in the "mighty sound of silence". The feeling, the mood is illusory, because the dense matter creates intense audial images that can intensify both the feeling of anxiety and relief, oppression and liberation. Feel free - to measure and immerse yourself in time by , listening, feeling, beholding the music, activate all your senses, - Follow me, I invite you to another dimension... |
| Photo Credit | Magda Wunsche |
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