sample&hold#9: Clara Maïda & Pedro Oliveira

In the organizer's words:

The connection between man and machine is a basic principle of electronic music. Two former scholarship holders present how this can sound in very different ways: In a new multi-channel piece, Pedro Oliveira focuses on special Mel filters that are used in everyday life for speech recognition, among other things. Clara Maïda presents a new work with robotized, sounding pendulums, video projection and multi-channel audio.

Pedro Oliveira is a sound artist who uses echo, distortion and feedback as material to explore the limits and failures of machine hearing. Through live performances with analog synthesis and the manipulation of voice and text, his practice focuses on the productive intersections between listening and the body as a site of struggle around identity, migration and belonging. He is currently a guest lecturer in the Sound Studies and Sonic Arts program at the Berlin University of the Arts. He holds a doctorate from the UdK Berlin.

Clara Maïda is a composer, musicologist and pianist. She holds a PhD from the University of Huddersfield (UK), a Master's degree in Musicology, a French National Diploma in Piano Pedagogy and a Bachelor's degree in Psychology. Her works have won international awards and she has been commissioned by leading ensembles and festivals such as the Arditti Quartet, Donaueschinger Musiktage, GRM Paris and ECLAT Stuttgart. She has taught as a guest professor and given international lectures, seminars and master classes. Clara Maïda lives in Paris and Berlin.

The series "sample&hold" is a cooperation of the Studio for Electroacoustic Music of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, the Studio for Electroacoustic Music of the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music Berlin (STEAM) and the UNI.K | Studio for Sound Art and Sound Research as well as the Master's program Sound Studies and Sonic Arts of the Berlin University of the Arts. With the kind support of klangzeitort, the joint Institute for New Music of the UdK Berlin and HfM Hanns Eisler Berlin.