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
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
FARAWAY FESTIVAL 2023
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
YOU TUBE - See the animated video
Ipso primero was commissioned by the FRENCH MINISTRY OF CULTURE/CÉSARÉ and ART ZOYD.
Composer-in-residence at CÉSARÉ (National Centre of Musical Creation, Reims), ART ZOYD STUDIOS (Centre of Musical Creation, Valenciennes), and the Electronic Studio of the Berlin TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT.
SOON
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
ARTIST TALK
AUGUST 30, 2023 (IT)
Clara MAÏDA in portrait-interview with Richard ERKENS (director of the DEUTSCHES STUDIENZENTRUM IN VENEDIG)
Presentation of the research lines
CONTEMPORARY INSIGHTS 2023 SUMMER ACADEMY FOR PRESENT-DAY MUSIC
HOCHSCHULE FÜR MUSIK
UND THEATER
FELIX MENDELSSOHN (Leipzig,DE)
FROM JULY 23 TO 29, 2023
Composition courses and various presentations of the research lines and of the techniques of musical writing.
Topics: polyrhythmic structures, notation, irrational metric systems and metric modulation, microintervals, prepared instruments, instrumental extended techniques.
RECENTLY
FRANCO EVANGELISTI COMPOSITION CONTEST
NOVEMBER 2022 (IT)
The piece Later jester
for contrabass clarinet and electronics
is FINALIST at the composition contest
LA PELANDA - MATTATOIO DI ROMA
DECEMBER 18, 2022 (Rome, 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
