Clara Maïda
Clara Maïda is a French composer
(contemporary/experimental musical creation, instrumental and electronic music).
She lives both in Paris and Berlin.
She studied music composition, classical piano and psychology.
She was selected by the BERLINER KÜNSTLERPROGRAMM of the DAAD in 2007 for a one-year stay in Berlin in 2007-08. Her project Shel(l)ter was premiered during ULTRASCHALL festival (CLARA MAÏDA - PORTRAIT-CONCERT of the DAAD) in 2010 in Berlin (DE).
Laureate of various international awards and grants, she has been keeping up with her transversal research at the intersection of composition, psychoanalysis, Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy, and nanosciences.
She names her music a "nanomusic".
Her RESEARCH INTERESTS are:
Music/Psychic Unconscious. Musical Structure//Neuronal Network. Sound Rhizomes. Elastic and Metamorphic Space/Time. Sound Body/Imaginary Body. Music/Architecture. Suburban Spaces. Sound and Noise. Urban and Machinic Sounds. Sound Hybridization/Electronics. Music/Nanophononics.
You can know more about CLARA MAÏDA and her RESEARCH LINES, listen to her MUSICAL WORKS, read her ARTICLES and the PRESS REVIEWS about her music, discover her VISUAL REALIZATIONS, CONTACT her and follow her on SOUNDCLOUD.
You can order her CD's on the page DISCOGRAPHY.
Le Portrait Contemporain
Clara Maïda's Portrait 2018
Alla breve
Clara Maïda's Portrait 2016
BabelScores
Interview 2018
Art Zoyd
Interview 2014
CURRENT NEWS
ENSEMBLE CONTEMPORARY INSIGHTS
SEPTEMBER 30, 2023
Chemnitz (DE)
Conductor: Zach SEELY
CLARA MAÏDA: PORTRAIT-CONCERT
MUSIK UND BEWEGUNG
New German performance of the series Kinêm(a) (Kinêm(a)bstract for 4 amplified instruments, and Kinê-Diffr(a)ct for 7 amplified instruments), Doppelklänger (solo prepared and amplified piano) and
Gitter für Gitarre (solo amplified guitar)
eMe
Música Electroacústica
europea reciente
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
(Montevideo, UY)
Uruguayan premiere of Ipso Lotto
(a 6-channel electroacoustic work)
BERLIN SENAT GRANT 2015
Commission: ECLAT Festival 2017
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
London (UK)
World premiere screening of
Rehab from Rehab
A movie by
ILA BÊKA & LOUISE LEMOÎNE
The work Via rupta is included in the soundtrack of the movie
DEUTSCHES STUDIENZENTRUM
IN VENEDIG
FROM SEPTEMBER 1 to 6, 2023 (IT)
Widerspiegelungen / Rispecchiamenti
Conception: Richard ERKENS
Director of the DEUTSCHES STUDIENZENTRUM IN VENEDIG
Exhibition of 2 photographs
by Clara MAÏDA related to the project Opus musaicum
and on the topic REFLECTION, ABSTRACTION, DIFFRACTION
Photograph: © Clara MAÏDA (2023)
DEUTSCHES STUDIENZENTRUM
IN VENEDIG
JULY-SEPTEMBER 2023 (IT)
A 3-month stay at the
DEUTSCHES STUDIENZENTRUM IN VENEDIG
(Laureate of the COMPOSITION GRANT of the BUNDESREGIERUNG FÜR KULTUR UND MEDIEN, DE)
DEUTSCHES STUDIENZENTRUM
IN VENEDIG
CLARA MAÏDA'S ARTIST TALK
on YouTube
AUGUST 30, 2023 (IT)
Clara MAÏDA in portrait-interview with
Richard ERKENS
(director of the DEUTSCHES STUDIENZENTRUM
IN VENEDIG)
Presentation of the project
Opus musaicum and
Web studies (2016-17)
SOON
BERLINER KÜNSTLERPROGRAMM
OF THE DAAD
AKADEMIE DER KÜNSTE
If The Berlin Wind Blows My Flag
DAAD's 60th ANNIVERSARY
OCTOBER 26, 2023 (DE)
New German performance of
Ipso facto
Commission: TU Berlin 2007
LUCERNE FESTIVAL
FORWARD FESTIVAL
NOVEMBER 17, 2023 (CH)
LUCERNE FESTIVAL CONTEMPORARY ORCHESTRA
Swiss premiere of Web studies
(1/ Web-wake, 2/Web-wave,
3/ Web-wane)
for 4 instruments, live electronics
and interactive video
Video: Jenny E. SABIN
Live electronics: Carl FAIA
(ART ZOYD)
Commission: FRENCH MINISTRY OF CULTURE / 2E2M ENSEMBLE, RADIO FRANCE and
ART ZOYD 2016
Laureate of the
HORS LES MURS PROGRAMME
of the Paris FRENCH INSTITUTE 2012
RECENTLY
FRENCH MINISTRY OF CULTURE
DRAC ÎLE-DE-FRANCE
(Directorate for Regional
Cultural Affairs)
MAY 26 and 31, 2023
(Paris, FR)
Jury Member
Selection of the new original musical works commissioned by the FRENCH MINISTRY OF CULTURE
CÉSARÉ-CNCM (Reims, FR)
From FEBRUARY 2 to 5, 2023
Reims (FR)
Concert/Exhibition of
Lostery 2 & 3
(a sound and visual installation )
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
Opening of the exhibition and world premiere of
Ipso Lotto and Ipso primero
(6-channel electroacoustic works)
Lostery 3 © Clara MAÏDA
An audiovisual installation
YOUTUBE - See the animated video
Drawing: © Clara MAÏDA (2020)
FRANCO EVANGELISTI COMPOSITION CONTEST
NOVEMBER 2022 (IT)
The piece Later jester
for solo contrabass clarinet
and electronics
is FINALIST at the
composition contest
LA PELANDA - MATTATOIO DI ROMA
DECEMBER 18, 2022 (IT)
Italian premiere of Later jester
for solo contrabass clarinet
and electronics
Commission:
INA-GRM Paris 2012
Paolo RAVAGLIA
KNM BERLIN ENSEMBLE
Concerts series:
LA STRADA - POP UP
Theo NABICHT
SEPTEMBER 17, 2022
(Berlin, DE)
New performance of
Later jester
for solo contrabass clarinet
and electronics
THE MONTH OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
ERRANT SOUND
(Sound Art Gallery)
From SEPTEMBER 9 to 18, 2022 (Berlin, DE)
Exhibition of Lostery 3
(a sound and visual installation)
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Opening of the exhibition and
world premiere of Ipso primero
(a 6-channel electroacoustic work)
Clara MAÏDA in interview with
Andreas ENGSTRÖM
(POSITIONEN review, Berlin, DE)
BUNDESREGIERUNG FÜR KULTUR
UND MEDIEN
JULY 2022 (DE)
Laureate of the
COMPOSITION GRANT of the
BUNDESREGIERUNG FÜR
KULTUR UND MEDIEN
ARDITTI QUARTET
SOUTHBANK CENTRE
APRIL 2, 2022 (London, UK)
New performance of ..., das spinnt...
for amplified string quartet
Commission: FRENCH MINISTRY OF CULTURE / ARDITTI QUARTET 2013
FRANCE MUSIQUE
LA MATINALE
AUGUST 26, 2021 (Paris, FR)
Radio broadcast of
Shel(l)ter - später... ( ) ...Winter
for 6 instruments and electronics
Commission: FRENCH MINISTRY OF CULTURE / GMEM 2009
FEBRUARY 2021 (Leuven, BE)
Publication of Clara MAÏDA's chapter: "Abstract Cartographies and Assemblages of Minimal Sound Units: A 'Body-Organon'?" in the book Machinic Assemblages of Desire, Deleuze and Artistic Research 3, Paulo de ASSIS and Paolo GIUDICI (ed.), Leuven University Press (pages 93-106).
ARDITTI QUARTET
PHILHARMONIE/CITÉ DE LA MUSIQUE
BIENNALE DE QUATUORS
À CORDES
JANUARY 14, 2020 (Paris, FR)
French premiere of ..., das spinnt...
for amplified string quartet
