Snezhana Reizen is an interdisciplinary artist, improviser, and composer of experimental electronic music. Born in Ukraine, she studied in Saint Petersburg and has been active in the improvisational music scene since 2003, participating in many art festivals and collectives. She is also a co-founder of the music labels “Alienation Index” and "Abstand," running such projects as Rzeng and Zero Night.
With a focus on sound as the primary medium, yet not circumscribed by it, she applies her artistic intuition across such areas as audio-visual performance and installation, sound for cinema, theatre, and animation, digital art, experimental game-audio, and radio plays.
Over the years, her research has been encompassing various issues, but, regardless of the theme, be it spatiality, sound ecologies, the sonic agency, the politics of frequency, or the emancipatory role of the imagination and perceptual transmutation, she strives to remain true in her will to follow the sonorous traces, keeping sonic materials free from being subordinated to any idea or compositional intention howsoever brilliant, but rather, to let them dance together.
It is experimental electroacoustics with a focus on sonic micro-events as artifacts, exposing the nerve of the imaginary.
~Weaving threads with the flows permeating the everyday environment, i am woandering for the obscure possibilities in sonic materiality.
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The basic materials that form the backbone of my work are usually noises appearing between unconnected wires, magnetic fields, radio, feedbacks, electricity discharges, crazy highlights, and inept intervals in sound synthesis.
They can be fertilised with various sounds of 'human and not' presence, and my attempts to reverse signifiers of sound in an acousmatic manner.
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