Mia Zabelka - Leading Electro-Acoustic Performer

"In my music, I deal with acoustic interaction between the body and its

surrounding environment, with special focus on the “sound gesture”.

The sound gesture is the notion of how sound moves and how it moves

the body at the same time – the embodiment of sound, an intuitive

body-sound-machine linkage. I scrutinize this form of interface

technique with my sound art and explore it with a view to its

potential for application in communication between humans

and autonomous machines; the coexistence of man and

machine in converged environments is entrusted to hearing.

I am very interested in the interdisciplinarity between

music and science. The term “scientific music” best

applies to her work. It is music beyond melodies,

harmonies and rhythm. Scientific music is concerned

with making automatic, mechanical processes

audible. It is noise, movement, automation,

division, symbiosis, dissonance and resonance.

Paul Jonas Kinnunen's videos are the perfect

complement to my music in terms of exploring

the natural versus artificial audiovisual worlds."