sonja roth
sound art & music
MUSIC • SOUND ART
Sound art exploring natural and artificial environments
Composing & live Performances
I like to work with an interdisciplinary approach and experiment with sounds using field recordings, editing software and musical instruments. I am interested in our environment and technology and how we get affected by it. Travelling and living in different countries and circumstances has strongly influenced my perspective. Water, underwatersounds, migration and freedom are reoccuring subjects in my work.
I play with water, environmental sounds, guitar, use voice, synth and other instruments to create atmospheric experimental music. Humans and non-humans, their co- existence as well as the body-mind cooperation and languages are an important foucs in my work.
sound projects (selection)
currently (since 2017) Deasil and Withershins - atmospheric post-dinner folk - concerts & recordings
with Sean Byrne (vocals & guitar, IRE) and Finn Mück (drums, CH)
currently (since 2018) HitProducer - mobiles Tonstudio - project leader, project development, Basel Switzerland
currently LOUD and NOISY (in a box).
2019 "Our Mother who art in heaven/ the research model" with Basti Bauhof @ White Pulse Marathon, Zürich
2019 sound recordings / postproduction for "Zuhören Schweiz"
2018 composing soundscape for theater company D°eFFeKt in Brussels performing "Crave" by Sarah Kane
2018 "Frequency Response" collaboration with Heid & Griess (Hamburg, DE)
2017 artist in residency Pinea Linea de Costa, Cadiz, Spain, soundscape "The Hidden Sound of Tartessos"
2017 artist in residency OBRAS, Portugal - live mixed soundscape "We are all Immigrants"
2016 Interactive audio-visual jellyfish installation, Glasgow
2016 Marsolew: Avocado Dreams - collaboration with Marty Watt and Lewis McFadden, Glasgow
2016 Before Sonoluminescence, 4 track EP, Sonja Roth, Glasgow
2013- ongoing live performances in different venues in Ireland, Switzerland, Greece, Italy and Scotland
other projects (selection)
2018/2019 theater project "Winterkrieg im Galgenfeld" with VOR ORT Theater company, Bern
2018 "Widerhall an der Grenze" Live Audio Walk by theater institution Recycled Illusions
2016 Fair Play Venues in Scotland - a report for the Musician's Union UK
2014 - 2015 Permaculture projects in Greece and Italy
2012-2013 "A journey to the present moment" - Artwork / print-making / songwriting in Donegal, Ireland
2007 - 2012, Community development & youth work projects in various institutions and settings in Switzerland
2017
2005 - 2010 co-founder of theater group ellen reksom - theaterproductions in Switzerland
Education
2015/ 2016 Master in Creative Practice / Popular Music Studies - University of Glasgow, Scotland
Dissertation: An exploration of water in sound art
2006-2010 Bachelor in Community Development - University for Applied Science Lucerne, Switzerland
other others:
Snowboard Teacher, PieMaker, DIY ELEctronics, Permacultur - Mindfullness Activist
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