Years active 2008–present Name Sol Rezza | Role Composer | |
Born April 7, 1982 (age 41) ( 1982-04-07 ) Origin Buenos Aires, Argentina Genres experimental, Noise, Minimal, Electronic music, Electroacoustic music Occupation(s) composer, radio producer, musician, sound designer Instruments Computer, piano, virtual Instruments Labels Acustronica, Panz4 Troupe | ||
In the darkness of the world sol rezza ctm festival 2015
Sol Rezza (born April 7, 1982, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a sound artist, radio producer, sound designer for media and composer. She has been a notable advocate of radio art and radio experimentation in the radio scene in Latin America. While radio is her main medium, she has explored different approaches to spatial resonance via surround sound, performance, and live mixing, to create immersive audio experiences.
Contents
- In the darkness of the world sol rezza ctm festival 2015
- Early career
- Career
- Radio Art
- Experimental Music
- Performance
- Multimedia Art
- Radio Productions
- References
Early career
From 2001-2004 she studied radio production in Buenos Aires. In 2001 she worked as a production assistant on LS1 Radio Ciudad de Buenos Aires for the radio show "En la vereda" hosted by Quique Pesoa; and then worked as a radio producer on LRA Radio Nacional for the radio program "Hacha y tiza" hosted Argentine historian researcher Hugo Chumbita. In 2006-2007 she traveled through Chile, Bolivia, Perú, Ecuador, Colombia y México with the itinerant radio project Estudio Rodante with which to make her first foray into the field audio recording and began her first notes about it.
In 2009 she studied audio engineering and began experimenting with microphones and other sound devices.
In 2008, she moved to México and started her experimental compositions and radio art work. In those years, 2008 - 2010, she collaborates with various community radio with the radio experimental program titled El silencio NO existe.
Career
Since 2008 - 2015 she conducts several workshops and lectures about radio art, sound design and deep listening for several institutions mostly in Mexico and the rest of Latin America. In 2014 she developed her own online platform for annually workshops and seminars; and she continues to workshops and lectures for institutions.
2009 to 2011 she wrote articles about sonic experimentation, soundscape and deep listening to the magazine Sonograma; a journal of musical thought and cultural diffusion.
In 2009, composed an album, titled Ex nihilo nihil fit based on texts by Oliverio Girondo. Although the album is not officially released it participated at Prix Bohemia Radio 2010 and the Electronic Language International Festival festivals. In 2015 the sound work "25 segundos de vida" was selected to participate in the first exhibition of sound art in exhibition format in Argentina "Umbrales - espacios del sonido".
During 2010-2012 with the Mexican multimedia artist Daniel Ivan, she made the first of a series of live performances titled Matar al Gato a multimedia art and sound art happening, whose outcome is a digital artwork by itself. This series of performances consists of three parts: the first part Matar al gato 01: conocimiento Funk based on the work of Amiri Baraka was presented May 25, 2010 at the museum Ex Teresa Arte Actual, the second performance and installation Matar al gato 02: Ekpyrotica was presented 07,08,09,10 June 2011 at the museum Laboratorio Arte Alameda in México city.
In 2010 she released her second album "Verdades Minúsculas". it was a free download album and was broadcast during Netaudio Broadcast from the Roundhouse - Festival Netaudio London 2011 and participate with her work Questions in 2011 Soundwave Festival. In the same year, 2010, her radio piece "El año del conejo" inspired by the texts El Pensamiento náhuatl cifrado en los calendarios by Laurette Séjourné it's part of Journée Internationale de la Création Radiophonique and the Radio Arts Space, international sound art and radio art exhibition.
In 2011 released on the Acustronica Label her experimental music, noise and soundscape work titled SPIT, receiving favorable reviews in ATTN Magazine and Music on Tnt. SPIT was selected by the artist Steve Heimbecker in the first series of concerts in 64-channel multi-channel surround sound system in 2011 and the track The Cat was broadcast on Late Junction BBC Radio 3. That same year, 2011, she released The existence of the light experimental music work to be published solely on the social network Tumblr. This sound work was selected for use in the presentation of the BASA Awards 2011(Business of the Arts South Africa)
In 2012 she published her radio art work Shorts for Radio, a work under the public domain license and conceived as an homage to the Internet Archive. That same year she involved in the project SoundSpiral, an inflatable arts venue, created by Sound Artist Amie Slavin as part of her London 2012 Cultural Olympiad piece "BabelSpring".
In 2013 she released 32 Turbulencias and in 2014 her experimental work Ntangu was played on Sonophilia Festival. Before the end of 2014 she published La simplicité d’une goutte, a work of experimental music and soundscape which was broadcast in the special radio show of Women's Day on KFAI Radio. In December 2014 the radio program Dr. Klangendum Concertzender Radio broadcast two special feature programs about Sol Rezza discography. That same year, 2013, she produces another piece in collaboration with the artist Daniel Ivan, this time a Video art titled A greater purpose which is screened in the same year in the International Digital Art Festival, the HörlursFestival 2013 and Nit Electro-Sonora al Castell De Flix.
In 2013 - 2014 she produce a new Podcast series, but this time under the theme of audio engineering with the series of 15 radio programs titled Una chica hablando de sonido which is broadcast on many radios on Internet.
In 2015 her work titled In the darkness of the world was commissioned to be premiered as a broadcast and as a performance by the CTM Festival 2015 for Adventurous Music and Art 2015 in the Radio Lab call, co-commissioned by Deutschlandradio Kultur – Hörspiel, ECAS – European Cities of Advanced Sound / ICAS – International Cities of Advanced Sound/ Klangkunst. The Wire’s Frances Morgan commented on Rezza's project:
The project is imaginative and playful, drawing on classic radiophonic drama, and its spatial aspect should make the installation inviting and accessible
In The Darkness Of The World was an experimental radio broadcast/performance. Through sound design, experimental sound work, hydrophone and traditional recordings and soundscape manipulation, the artwork aims to reread the ambient, motifs and intricate geographies of the 19th-century classic Vingt mille lieues sous les mers by Jules Verne. The work received favorable reviews in The Crack magazine, Gonzo (circus), Mondo Magazin and M/Magazyn. The piece In the darkness of the world became part of the collection Sonosphere the Deutschlandradio Kultur.
In 2015 she participated as advisory board in the New York Festivals International Radio Program Awards. Since 2015 she collaborates with the Spanish magazine of music and sound art Sul Ponticello.