This meetup is a forum open to all. We especially encourage women, transgender and non-binary people who are working with technology in their practice to present their work. At these meetups, participants can share their artistic projects and get input from each other. Typically, the meetup consists of a series of talks and presentations organised by different artists. 

Presentation 12.03.2025: Sound and architecture with Anushka Chkheidze
Having flown in from Tbilisi, Anushka Chkheidze found herself completely alone inside the empty and as yet unoccupied University of Basel’s Biozentrum: just her, a piano, and the surrounding spaces. Over a two-week period the young Georgian musician and composer was able to explore the building, designed by Ilg Santer architects, with the piano, microphones, a mixing deck, a computer, and her voice. She also assembled a small choir from the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis music academy in Basel, who performed in an auditorium in the basement.

Anushka utilised the field recordings and compositional ideas from this residency to create music for a new album. The eight tracks on the album are an acoustic and associative journey through Biozentrum via a non-visual perception - in the building she encountered eight very different places, and the spatial acoustics and interior spaces all play a different role.

About Anushka Chkheidze
Georgian Anushka Chkheidze, born in 1997, is a promising talent. She grew up in the small village of Kharagauli and started singing in a choir at the age of 11. She describes the time she spent there as magical, and believes her music is strongly characterised by these childhood years. In January 2019, Anushka Chkheidze released her first songs on the collection Sleepers Poets Scientists curated by Natalie Beridze. This was followed by her debut album Halfie in April 2020. The second album Move 20-21, released in February 2021, was created during the pandemic and addresses the absence of physical contact with other people.

Lost Luggage was released in 2023 and deals with an obvious, and unfortunately not unknown theme for most of us. The album Clean, Clear and White followed in May 2024, where Anuska Chkheidze performed field recordings as well as piano and choir recordings in the newly renovated research centre in Basel, Switzerland. She is invited to international festivals across genres. She often collaborates with choirs, which led to a commission from the Swiss-Georgian festival Close Encounters for the renowned women's choir Gori in Georgia. Anushka Chkheidze has collaborated several times with musician Robert Lippok and they are currently preparing their first joint release.

The hosts
Mariam Gviniashvili is a sound artist and composer who combines electronics, electroacoustics and 3D sound with visual material, dance and performance to penetrate the physical and emotional essence of sound and space.

Meeting ID: 928 9244 5350
Link: https://zoom.us/j/92892445350