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...☛ Today 2.4.2020 - Episode XXIII

• Roberto Paci Dalò & Zahra Mani

Zahra plays from her studio near Zminj in Istria.

Zahra Mani is a musician and composer from Pakistan and London. She lives and works in Austria (since 2001) and also spends time in the UK, Croatia and Pakistan. Her work includes compositions for solo instruments, voices and ensembles, radio art, sound installations as well as electro-acoustic and inter-medial performances. She plays the double bass, various guitars and the piano, and briefly studied Indian classical music in Pakistan, where she was introduced tot he table and sitar. In her compositions and performances, she uses electronics whilst always focussing on “organic" sound, only working with analogue sounds and field recordings she collects in an ever-growing archive. [Continue...]

Zahra Mani’s works are imbued with her distinctive compositional voice, which continues to grow out of a fundamental openness in hearing and listening, always trying to include every acoustically perceptible moment in the creative process. Her approach to sound characterises her musical language, which carries in it a continuous and subtle pulse, and which constantly calls into question traditional aspects such as melody, rhythm, time structure and acoustic aestheteics.

http://www.zahramani.com/