Ma series and Outsound Presents:
Shanna Sordahl+ Sharmi Basu + Shani Aviram
Shanna Sordahl curates:
Shanna Sordahl is an American-Canadian sound artist/composer/performer/collaborator living in Oakland, CA. Her interdisciplinary interests and love of diversity cause her work to take on many forms, from composition and live performances to site-specific installations. Shanna’s multifaceted background allows multiple streams of influence to seep into each of her projects. The fusion of acoustic instruments and sounds with an electronic music approach infuses and shapes her work. This has given her a particular awareness of sound and timbre that she strives to re-contextualize in new ways. Her development with the cello is strongly effected by her approach to timbre, layers and form as influenced through composing from an electronic music standpoint. In addition, the structure, detail and physicality of playing the cello have completely altered the way she approaches electronic composition and her improvisation style in general.
www.shannasordahl.net
Sharmi Basu is currently an MFA student at Mills College in the Electronic Music and Recording Arts department. Born in Oakland and raised in the bay area, she attempts to catalyze a political, yet ethereal aesthetic through combining her anti-colonial and anti-imperialist politics with a commitment to spirituality within the arts. Beast Nest, Sharmi’s primary performing project, utilizes an unwavering depression & restrained horror to channel left-eyed spirits. While simultaneously clearing and entering, the sewage pipes of the body and the patriarchy congeal into watery soundscapes as a vehicle for achieving liberation through the darkest of fears. http://legandmouthwater.com/about
http://www.sharmi.info/
Shani Aviram (Jerusalem, 1986) is a composer, sound designer and radio producer currently based in the San Francisco bay area. Her first write-up was in CatSynth, a blog devoted to cats and synthesizers.
Her music has been performed at Megapolis Audio Art Festival, International Computer Music Conference, and The Luggage Store Gallery Composer Series.
Her radio reporting has appeared on KALW’s Crosscurrent, Destination DIY, and PRX Remix. As composer and sound designer, Shani has collaborated with acclaimed podcasts Love+Radio and Audio Smut. Her work with Audio Smut has been featured on Australian Broadcasting Corporation, WFMU’s Why Oh Why and The Truth podcast.
Shani holds a BA in music composition from Mills College where she studied with Chris Brown, Fred Frith, Roscoe Mitchell, Maggi Payne, Pauline Oliveros and piano performance with Matthew Goodheart. She has attended master classes with Alvin Lucier, Bob Ostertag, Christian Wolff, and Julia Wolfe.
http://shaniaviram.net/
http://shaniaviram.net/music/electronic/