"M,"Mia Zabelka's new solo project, focuses on the development of experimental improvisational techniques with the voice and violin, a process she calls "automatic playing." She explores the relationships among the body, gesture, sound, machines and space using live electronics to expand the electroacoustic sonic spectrum. She creates musical imagery through an ongoing process of experimentation and physical immediacy resulting in melodic complexity and simultaneous transparency characteristic of her sonic language.
Mia Zabelka, composer, electric violinist and vocalist from Vienna, lives in the Austrian region of southern Styria. As a composer and performer of improvised, experimental and electroacoustic music she has developed a unique language based on the de- and reconstruction of the violin’s sonic possibilities, expanding the instrument using live electronic effects and innovative performance techniques. She studied music and composition with Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, Dieter Kaufmann, Kurt Schwertsik and Alexander Arenkov in Vienna, creating a foundation on the basis of which she continues to construct and explore the limits of sound and music in a language entirely her own. The violin, voice and her own body transform into sound bodies which are at once organic and primal, screaming, lyrical, composed and explosive.
As a pioneer of electroacoustic performance and composition in Austria, Mia Zabelka developed the process she describes as automatic playing, continuously exploring sound and music as physical phenomena, always pushing back the boundaries in radical and provocative performances and compositions that question established notions and given structures.