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 May 20: Feliz Anne Reyes Macahis
Feliz Anne Macahis's work spans voice, instruments, and electronics, presented in concert music, performance, and installations. It often draws inspiration from both the materiality and immateriality of the voice. With the voice as an intrinsic part of her practice, she continues to explore its various roles beyond theatricality and its traditional function of conveying a message. Her approach to electronics emphasizes spatiality and communality, extending and complementing acoustic elements.

Feliz Anne Reyes Macahis is a Filipino composer living in Austria. As a PhD candidate at Kunstuniversität Graz, she researches Filipino epic song in the context of contemporary music, from both an academic and artistic perspective. Selected honours include ULYSSE's commissions from Ircam and the Royaumont Foundation, the Austrian Federal Scholarship for Composition, Aide à l'écriture d'une œuvre musicale originale from the Ministry of Culture/DRAC Îles-de-France, and commissions from the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation. In 2024-25 she was composer in residence at Künstlerhof Schreyahn. This year she was also selected as one of three composers for the Edition Zeitgenössische Musik (EZM) Portrait CD by Podium Gegenwart - Deutscher Musikrat.

Presentation May 20: Zara Ali
Zara Ali creates immersive, multidimensional worlds for us to linger in together. Ali often draws inspiration from exploring human development at the intersection of technological advances and speculative visions of the future. While Alis music often uses programmatic elements, it refuses clear dramaturgical narratives and instead forms a basis for abstract and analytical fantasy forms.

Ali is based in Germany and the US, and currently resides in Weimar, Germany. 

The hosts
These meetups are led by composer Mariam Gviniashvili and composer Misha Cvijović. 

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.

Misha Cvijović is a Berlin-based composer, pianist and sound artist who writes contemporary music for orchestra, chamber music, electroacoustic music, contemporary opera and music for theatre and film.

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

Photo by Feliz Anne Reyes Macahis: Marie-Luise Calvero. 
Photo by Zara Ali: Camilo Pachón, Stiftung Künstlerdorf.