Cellular Resonance, by Mia Zabelka

Cellular Resonance

by Mia Zabelka

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Mia Zabelka brings intensive and experimental approaches to the archetypally classical sound object of the violin, using both physical and digital extended techniques (prepared objects in the strings, howling, an array of live electronics) to hone her own instrumental language. On Cellular Resonance, she even has processing assistance from Lydia Lunch(!), making this a particularly noisy release of hers. Out on Little Crackd Rabbit.

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1.	Cellular Resonance #1 08:36	buy track
2.	Cellular Resonance #2 05:23	buy track
3.	Cellular Resonance #3 11:17	buy track
4.	Cellular Resonance #4 03:32	buy track
5.	Cellular Resonance #5 07:26	buy track
6.	Cellular Resonance 6 07:01	buy track

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Mia Zabelka - Eviolin, electronic devices
Produced by Lydia Lunch
#1, #4, #5 by Lydia Lunch and Mia Zabelka; #2 by Mia Zabelka; #3, #6 by Hiroshi Mehata and Mia Zabelka Recorded by Zahra Mani, Zminj; January until June 2016; Mastered and mixed by Weasel Walter, New York, and Christoph Amann, Vienna; February 2017; Cover Design by Kevin Craig Label: LCR Records

The elemental physicality in the title of Mia Zabelka's solo release, ‘Cellular Resonance’, reflects her ongoing engagement with gesture and sound and ever-evolving exploration of her instrument. For this album, Zabelka’s distinctive processed violin sounds, screaming, howling and moaning through adapted analogue and digital guitar effects.

Lydia Lunch describes Mia Zabelka's work as "visceral, cerebral and sensual. A gorgeous, haunting sound which employs classical interpretation and experimental improvisation to transcend musical genres, creating a sonic surround uniquely her own. She inhabits a sonic universe lush with soul cleansing vibrancy."

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released September 1, 2017

THE WIRE MAGAZINE – 11/2017
An excerpt of Cellular Resonance #5 was released on The Wire Tapper #45.

SKUG – 01/2018 – Alfred Pranzl
Best of 2017 (#4)

OPDUVEL – 01/2018 – Gert Derkx
Best of 2017 (#7)

SPLICE TODAY -11/2017 - Raymond Cummings
A Murmur, and Then a Roar... Cellular Resonance is best when firmly maximalist-minded.

TOUCHING EXTREMES – 08/2017 – Massimo Ricci
A plethora of slanting melodic lines, spiraling ravishment in mostly mono-tonal environments, coarse timbres clogging the throat quite a bit, droning components with a punkish edge. In general, engrossing material. When Zabelka raises the gestural franticness of the arco up to higher levels things get even more intense.

THE NEW YORK CITY JAZZ RECORD – 03/2018 – Tom Greenland
Viennese violinist Mia Zabelka has, with Cellular Resonance, produced one of her most panoramic soundscapes to date, a miasmic, tactile, kinesthetic, cautiously exuberant voyage to far-off and far-out sonic spaces: a sputtering factory engine spewing coolant; rubber- booted footfalls echoing away down a long cement tunnel; a stylus scratching vinyl on a decelerating turntable; braying elephant; bull-roarer; theremin; gas- burner flames squelched by a boiling teakettle; moths close-buzzing a lantern. Impressions of the biosphere: close, visceral, immersive, visual.

GONZO – 10/2017 – Rene van Peer
The Austrian violinist Mia Zabelka performs miracles on her instrument. Her solo album Cellular Resonance makes clear how far she can push the limits of her strings.

ATTN:MAGAZINE – 10/2017
Pressing play on Cellular Resonance is like stumbling upon an ancient tree in the middle of a forest, standing before a structure that has endured years of growth and self-nurturing before I arrived. That profound depth is always there, orchestrating those seemingly haphazard collisions, turning each rabid rasp of static into a sculpture of beautiful angles and deftly pinched edges. Like a storm, the sudden drama of the event is merely the fleeting final consequence of a precise, long-nurtured orchestration of elements.

FREQ – 09/2017 – Michael Rodham Heaps
Cellular Resonance is an absolute gem on headphones that visually burns behind your closed eyes like some psychotic 3D friction of tangled debris and grainy whispers. Eleven minutes of pure pleasure that is followed by overdriven Dornier drone agitated in latex-clad splashes and interjective stabs.

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Mia Zabelka Vienna, Austria

Mia Zabelka is a musician and composer known for her experimental use of the violin and electronic music. She has performed at various festivals and venues around the world. Zabelka is known for her innovative and boundary-pushing approach to music, incorporating elements of noise, drone and improvisation into her work. She has played with a variety of artists, including John Zorn and Zeitkratzer. ... more

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