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Skoða vefinn á ÍslenskuSamhengi: The Intimacy of the Ear: Listening and composing as an everyday life practice
Marja Ahti discusses her compositional practice as a way of exploring the world, tracing her philosophy of listening and connection through recent solo and collaborative works. She reviews the interplay of chance and intent in her music, the poetry of ordinary sounds, and her use of electronic and instrumental timbres and tunings.
Photo credit – Portrait: Kitti Nurmi // Banner: Sorbus
Marja Ahti (b. 1981, Luleå) is a Swedish-Finnish sound artist based in Turku, Finland, working in composition, installation and cross-disciplinary performance. Ahti’s practice is rooted in an abiding fascination with the simple strangeness of human experiences with sound, and human consciousness more broadly—the notion that vibrations sensed by eardrums can be experienced as something deeply affecting, even profound, under the right conditions. Working with field recordings, feedback, analog synthesis, digital processing and acoustic instrumentation she explores a way of organizing sounds based on open listening and poetic/energetic links and associations. She creates precise musical narratives with slowly mutating textures of detailed acoustic sound and intuitively tuned sustained tones and shapes.
