Perila
Perila is a transdisciplinary sound and media artist, performer, and DJ. At ZiMMT, she focuses on the breath of sounds, using exclusively sounds derived from living nature. In immersive improvisations, she explores how the vibrations of her interplay affect our bodies. One of her main research questions is how music can evoke emotions throughout the entire body. Perila’s often very intimate works provoke deep emotional reactions through shifts in moods and textures: her artistic practice aims to create honest and tender works that challenge boundaries and share the resulting expansion with others.
Perila (Alexandra Zakharenko) lives in Berlin. She describes her music as journeys—dense, often abstract narratives that drift along sound to come closer to oneself. With her broad, warm sonic palette made up of acoustic and electronic instruments, familiar and alien sounds, samples and noises, singing and spoken word, she moves freely between sound art and ambient pop. Perila is a co-founder of radio.syg.ma and WET, an online platform for sensual podcasts.