Mariam Gviniashvili

She works as a sound artist and composer, combining electronics, electroacoustics and 3D sound with visuals, dance and live performance to penetrate deep into the physical and emotional essence of sound and space. Music has followed the artists through her life since early childhood. Growing up in Georgia, she sang and played piano, and gradually found her feet as a composer and visual artist while studying composition at the Norwegian Academy of Music. That explains her diverse and unexpected subject matter – distractions during online meetings, as in her piece DAYDREAMING (2022), the “strange cosmic ballet” (5:4) or the audiovisual REVELATION (2021) or the stereo/ambisonic DECONSTRUCTION (2020, honourable mention at Prix Ars Electronica) reflecting on a virus spreading patterns. Festivals, major venues and radio programmes have presented the artist’s music, including the New York Electroacoustic Music Festival, BEAST FEaST, Transitions at CCRMA, MA/IN, ICMC, Mixtur Festival, BBC Radio, Ars Electronica, Heroines of Sound and Ultima Festival.