Born in 1988 in Osaka, composer and performer. She graduated from Zygmunt Krauze’s class at the Bacewicz Academy of Music in Łódź and studied with Peter Swinnen at the Royal Conservatoire of Brussels. At present she is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Composition, Columbia University of New York, where she is studying with Georg Friedrich Haas, Annie Gosfield, Brad Garton, and George Lewis.
Her music has been featured at numerous festivals throughout Europe, North America, and Japan such as Musica Privata in Łódź, Wrocław’s Musica Polonica Nova, Cuban-Norwegian Theatre Days in Havana, Klangwerkstatt Berlin, Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music, and the Manufactuur residency at Ghent’s De Bijloke Muziekcentrum. Her works have been performed notably by the Łódź Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Koninklijke Muziekkapel De Gidsen, orkest de ereprijs, Il Fondamento, Hashtag Ensemble, Ensemble Garage, Ensemble Adapter, Ekmeles, Distractfold, International Contemporary Ensemble, and Mivos Quartet. They have been premiered at the Brussels’ La Monnaie and the Muziekgebouw aan’t IJ in Amsterdam, as well as Warsaw Autumn, Sacrum Profanum, Festival of Musical Tradition and Avant-Garde “Codes” in Lublin, Musikprotokoll in Graz, and MATA in New York.
Her work in inspired by the modern world and multiple threads. Her interests include horror aesthetics, video games, and feminism. In her music, she usually refers to extramusical content, often springing from her quest of the origins of identity and new means of communication. Her work encompasses a wide spectrum of genres and experimental projects, including video scores, VR installations, numerous multimedia compositions using video and live electronics, as well as performative art. Interdisciplinary projects, on which she collaborates with visual artists and choreographers, are an important aspect of her work.
Selected works: SINGLE PLAYER v.2 co-op for percussion, synthesizer and video (2017), The Final Girl for harpist, video and electronics (2018), uncanny valley for video, flute, accordion, percussion and electronics (2018), Horror Project: Yuggoth for electronics, live-processed video, clarinet, cello and percussion (2018), 5 Secrets to Making New Music for video, electronics, violin, flutes, saxophones and Hammond organ (2019), The Garden of Mindfulness for electronics, reciter, violin, clarinet, piano and objects (2019), SINGLE PLAYER v.3 Three for All for video, electric guitar and snare drum (2019), Still Life #31 for electronics, flute, clarinet, harp, percussion / electronics and objects (2019), how to jouïssance for video, electronics and harpsichord (2019), Zansei 残生 for flute, video and electronics (2020), Sugar, Spice & All Things Nice for five performers (two violins, accordion, piano, percussion) and electronics (2020), The Garden, interactive VR installation for Windows 10 and MacOS (2020), Fever dream made manifest for vocal sextet (soprano, mezzo-soprano, contralto, tenor, baritone, bass) and electronics (2021), Trinity of selves for video, violin, viola, cello, electric guitar, tape and electronics (2021), No gentle caressing for ensemble and Alois Hába’s six-tone harmonium (2021), Restless for large ensemble, soprano and electronics (2022), We are different; we are all the same for ryūteki, hichiriki and shō (2022), Derrotero, electronic music to a play by Gabriela Burdsall and William Ruiz Morales (2022), With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes for percussion quartet and DIY instruments (2022), Waterfalls for marimba, violin, objects and electronics (2022), Fungible Memories for string quartet and electronics (2023), Aqui, music for dance show (2023), Polka is a Czech dance for flute(s), clarinet(s), cello, percussion and piano (2023).