On 23 October, there will be another online meetup for artists in technology. This time our host, Misha Cvijović, will be joined by Sara Cubarsi and Sonja Mutić.
Sonja Mutić is a composer, performer, and sound artist whose work engages with sound at the
intersection of silence, harmony, and noise. Her music explores vulnerability and perception
through slow, introspective sound worlds. She holds a PhD in Composition from Harvard
University and has been recognized with numerous prizes and awards, including the DAAD
Artists-in-Berlin program.
Sara explores how putting vibrant matter in and out of sync reveals the fragility of the world in which we live, particularly in the attempt to stabilize vibrations in rational tuning. Acoustic and non-material processes of resonance are a main interest for her, both as a composer and violinist, experimenting with gut strings, instruments with resonance strings, as well as with selfmade melting wax paintings, through which she reflects on the materiality of tuning, avoiding a partition of the sensible.
A hybrid visual artist, she combines analog methods or archaic instruments with digital technologies, which often play a supporting yet essential role in her work—whether facilitating the (re)tuning of instruments, enabling the heating of wax-based pieces, or integrating pre-recorded material and video.
Sara completed her doctorate in performance and composition specializing in just intonation with Wolfgang von Schweinitz and Michael Pisaro at CalArts, with a full scholarship from La Caixa. She comes from Barcelona but currently resides in Cologne, where she is also a violinist at Ensemble Musikfabrik. She has received commissions for The Van Swietens, Broken Frames Syndicate, Ben Goldscheider/Luzern Festival, ensemble x.y, or the Catinblack Ensemble, among others.
