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The Prix Ars Electronica Archive is a collection enabling search and viewing of all the submissions since 1987. The award-winning projects are documented with catalogue texts and audio-visual media. All other submissions can be searched by title/artist and displayed with year, category in list form. Please cite the credits (artwork name, artist and photographer) and only use the materials if your article is related to Ars Electronica.
Sandstrahlentrost
Mia Zabelka
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The characteristic feature of the composition “Sandstrahlentrost” is the change between three sound-patterns that by their structure and mood are adverse to each other:
part a
The ray bundle – between the concrete sound materials (generated mostly from sounds deriving from sand) and sparingly used synthetic sounds areas of friction and melting are created.
part b
The lamentation – undistinguishable images become visible and disappear again; they lighten up the manyfold levels of remembrance.
part c
The rotational field – is referring to part a, multilayered sound effects (sounds bundles and fans) and very diffuse sound developments; the end is formed by a cantilena slowly leading into the infiniteness of a white rustle.
There is a second version of “Sandstrahlentrost” for violin and tape. Here the aleatoric and improvisational possibilities of the instrument are matched by the option to cue in the recorded sounds from each of the eight tracks individually, to manipulate them via filters and reverb and to direct them spontaneously to four channels or pa-groups in the hall.
“Sandstrahlentrost” was premiered 1986 within the “Uraufführungen (Premieres)” Project at the Vienna Museum of XXth Century Art. (M. Zabelka)
part a
The ray bundle – between the concrete sound materials (generated mostly from sounds deriving from sand) and sparingly used synthetic sounds areas of friction and melting are created.
part b
The lamentation – undistinguishable images become visible and disappear again; they lighten up the manyfold levels of remembrance.
part c
The rotational field – is referring to part a, multilayered sound effects (sounds bundles and fans) and very diffuse sound developments; the end is formed by a cantilena slowly leading into the infiniteness of a white rustle.
There is a second version of “Sandstrahlentrost” for violin and tape. Here the aleatoric and improvisational possibilities of the instrument are matched by the option to cue in the recorded sounds from each of the eight tracks individually, to manipulate them via filters and reverb and to direct them spontaneously to four channels or pa-groups in the hall.
“Sandstrahlentrost” was premiered 1986 within the “Uraufführungen (Premieres)” Project at the Vienna Museum of XXth Century Art. (M. Zabelka)
Mia Zabelka, born 1963 in Vienna, violin and piano lessons at Vienna Conservatory, studied musicology and History of the Arts at Vienna University. Studied composition with Roman Haubenstock-Ramati and Kurt Schwertsik, and Electronic Music with Dieter Kaufmann at Vienna Music College.
Concerts and performances in Austria and abroad (1986 at the “steirischer herbst” in Graz and at Ars Electronica). 1987 Mia Zabelka was awarded an Acknowledgement Prize by the State of Lower Austria. 1987/88 Studies in Cologne at the Electronics Studio of the music college on a DAAD grant. She is award winner of the “Forum junger Komponisten” Competition of the Cologne Society of New Music and received the First Prize of the international composition contest of WDR for her work “Somaterne” (1988). In 1988/89 she will be Composer in Residence of the City of Cologne. 1989 she will receive a DAAD grant for Berlin.
Concerts and performances in Austria and abroad (1986 at the “steirischer herbst” in Graz and at Ars Electronica). 1987 Mia Zabelka was awarded an Acknowledgement Prize by the State of Lower Austria. 1987/88 Studies in Cologne at the Electronics Studio of the music college on a DAAD grant. She is award winner of the “Forum junger Komponisten” Competition of the Cologne Society of New Music and received the First Prize of the international composition contest of WDR for her work “Somaterne” (1988). In 1988/89 she will be Composer in Residence of the City of Cologne. 1989 she will receive a DAAD grant for Berlin.