Rashad Becker • Perila
3D Audio Concert of the swim series / September 9, 2023
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.
Rashad Becker
Rashad Becker’s music has been described as “a tear in the fabric of reality.” A significant part of his work consists of electronic narratives of fictional worlds, where no dominant aesthetic ideas exist, but instead endless sonic diversity—such as the cycle Traditional Music of Notional Species. Other works, like the sound staging of historical scenes in Based On A True Story, address socio-political themes of our world and ideas of truth. Although the sound sources he uses are (almost) entirely electronic, his microtonal, rhythmically free compositions often feel very organic.
Rashad Becker is a composer, musician, and producer. He lives in Berlin, where his studio Clunk has gained international recognition over the past two decades. His musical career began in his childhood in the Syrian mountains with the traditional instrument saz. He primarily works as a solo artist but also collaborates regularly with Eli Keszler, Moritz von Oswald, and as a member of the group Moleglove.
The spatial design of sound has long been a key part of his work. During his residency at ZiMMT, he will redevelop the setup of his performance what really happened using various existing recordings and will perform live alongside it during the concert.
swim 2023
With the series swim, ZiMMT invites audiences in 2023 to (re)discover their surroundings through the act of listening. Ten concerts and four sound installations offer acoustic experiences that help sharpen our awareness of the environment—either individually or collectively.
Sixteen local and international artists are part of swim. Many of them work with everyday sounds and field recordings, thematically exploring the human-made changes in our acoustic environment during the current era—the Anthropocene. Others focus on psychoacoustic effects. All of them create immersive sound spaces.
Through three-day microresidencies, the artists are given the opportunity to develop their works on-site using 3D audio technology, allowing for new experimental approaches. All concerts are streamed live in high-quality binaural audio—offering a spatial sound experience both on location and worldwide.
