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Clara MAÏDA

PARIS/BERLIN

En résumé

I am a French composer (experimental/contemporary music) working with both instruments and electronics. I have a double background in music and psychology. I have been working for years at the crossroads of music and other disciplines such as psychoanalysis (Lacan, for instance), neuropsychology, genetics and nanosciences, as well as Deleuze and Guattari's concepts. Conceiving complex and mutative sound networks made of micro-elements which move with a plural temporality, I named my music a "nanomusic". I also develop more and more a visual production (photography and drawing) and my current projects combine music and image.

Mes compétences :
Arts
Création
Dessin
Photographie
Musique expérimentale
Composition musicale
Adobe Photoshop CS6
Contemporary/Experimental Music Composition
Electroacoustic Music

Entreprises

  • Berliner Künstlerprogramm of the DAAD, Berlin, 2007-2008) - Guest composer

    2017 - 2017 Guest of the Berliner Künstlerprogramm of the DAAD for one year (composition)
  • Festival ECLAT - Commission of a New Piece

    2017 - 2017 Premiere of "Lostery 2", a sound and visual installation. 1/ "Ipso Lotto", a piece for electronics and 2/ "Later gambler", a piece for contrabass clarinet and electronics.
    Visual intallation (paintings, objects and projected image): Clara Maïda
    Commissioned by ECLAT festival. Contrabass clarinet: Theo NABICHT.

    BERLIN SENAT Composition Grant 2015.
  • 2E2M ensemble - Composer - Commission of a New Piece (Radio France)

    2017 - 2017 Premiere of "Web Studies" for violin, viola, harp, prepared piano, live electronics and video.
    Commissioned by the FRENCH MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION, 2E2M ensemble, FRANCE MUSIQUE and ART ZOYD.
    Residency at ART ZOYD and CÉSARÉ.
    Laureate of the PROGRAMME HORS LES MURS 2012 of the Paris FRENCH INSTITUTE.

    Auditorium Marcel Landowski, Paris. 2E2M ensemble.
  • France Musique - Composer

    2016 - 2016 Commission of a new musical work. RADIO FRANCE - "Alla breve" broadcasting, with Anne MONTARON

    Clara MAÏDAs Portrait. Radio premiere of "Web-wave" for vioiin, viola, harp, prepared piano and electronics: October 8, 2016. 2E2M ensemble, Paris. Conductor: Pierre ROULLIER.
    Recorded on September 21, 2016, in RADIO FRANCE's sudios.

    Commissioned by RADIO FRANCE (Alla breve). RADIO FRANCE - "Alla breve" broadcasting, with Anne MONTARON
    Clara MAÏDAs Portrait. Radio premiere of "Web-wave" for vioiin, viola, harp, prepared piano and electronics: October 8, 2016. 2E2M ensemble, Paris. Conductor: Pierre ROULLIER.
    Recorded on September 21, 2016, in RADIO FRANCE's sudios.

    Commissioned by RADIO FRANCE (Alla breve).

    This piece is the 2nd part of the project "Web studies" for vioiin, viola, harp, prepared piano, electronics and a 3D video installation (Jenny E. SABIN). The project was laureate of the HORS LES MURS programme 2012 of the Paris French Institute.
  • Roma Tre University, Department of Philosophy, Communication and Visual Arts - Lecture at DELEUZE STUDIES CONFERENCE ("Virtuality, Becoming and Life"

    2016 - 2016 DELEUZE STUDIES CONFERENCE, July10-13, 2016: "VIRTUALITY, BECOMING AND LIFE" (hosted by Roma tre University - Department of Philosophy, Communication and Visual Arts)

    Clara MAÏDA - Lecture on July 13, 2016:
    "Sound Rhizomes" - Virtuality and Actualizations: Music and its Multiplicity of Sound Becomings
  • CÉSARÉ, Reims-France - Residency for the project "Web studies"

    2016 - 2016 Residency for the realization of the electronic part of the project "Web studies", for violin, viola, harp, prepared piano, electronics, and a 3D video installation.
    Installation (architectural experimental design): Jenny E. SABIN (Cornell University, USA).
    Work on the MAX/MSP concert patch for the electronic part of the music: Carl FAIA.
    Recording of sound samples of the new piece with 2E2M ensemble (Paris), conducted by Pierre ROULLIER.
  • Trinity College Dublin - INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE - "DELEUZE + ART: Multiplicities|Thresholds|Potentialities"

    2016 - 2016 TRINITY COLLEGE, Dublin - INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, April 8-10, 2016
    "DELEUZE + ART: Multiplicities|Thresholds|Potentialities"
    (organized by The School of Drama, Film and Music and Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute)

    Clara MAÏDA - Lecture on April 9, 2016
    "From a Formless Ground to a Restless Sound - Virtual/Actual/Musical: Degrees of Power and Diagrams of Matter"
  • SUPERFLUX - Review of psychoanalysis, Paris - Writing of an article/Drawing

    2015 - 2015 Coming out of my article "Chocs et entrechocs, analyse et catalyse" ("Shocks and knocks, analysis and catalysis") in the review of psychoanalysis SUPERFLUX n°8/9 (Edition de L'Unebévue, Paris): this publication follows the colloquium MUSIC AND PSYCHOANALYSIS organized by ENTRETEMPS music journal and SUPERFLUX (Ecole Lacanienne de Psychanalyse, Paris), at IRCAM, Paris, in January 2015.
  • ORPHEUS INSTITUUT - Music Institute, Ghent - Participation to an international conference

    2015 - 2015 DARE 2015: International Conference on Deleuze and Artistic Research - "The Dark Precursor".

    November 9, 2015, 16:30 - Lecture: "For a Nanomusic - 'Sound desiring machines' and multiple time".
    November 9, 2015, 18:45 - Concert: New performance of "Doppelklänger" for solo prepared and amplified piano (commissioned by the Berliner Künstlerprogramm of the DAAD in 2008).
    Piano: Jan MICHIELS.
  • BERLIN SENAT - Music composition grant

    2015 - 2015 Composition grant for a transdisciplinary project, "Lostery", for contrabass clarinet, electronics and a graphical installation (realization of the installation - drawings and objects: Clara Maïda) - Clarinet: Theo NABICHT.
  • CÉSARÉ - National Centre of Musical Creation, Reims - Composer in Residence

    2015 - 2015 Residency for the realization of the electronic part of the project "Web studies", for violin, viola, prepared and amplified piano and harp, electronics, and a 3D video installation.
    Installation (architectural experimental design): Jenny E. SABIN (Cornell University, USA).
    Work on the MAX/MSP concert patch for the electronic part of the music: Vivien TRELCAT.
  • ESCOLA SUPERIOR DE MUSICA DE CATALUNYA, Barcelona - Guest professor of music composition

    2015 - 2015 I was invited to give music composition courses for one semester at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya in Barcelona (2015).
  • IRCAM, ENTRETEMPS (music journal) & SUPERFLUX (review of psychoanalysis), Paris - Participation to a colloquium music/psychoanalysis

    2015 - 2015 Presentation: "Shocks and knocks, analysis and catalysis"​ as part of the colloquium "Musicians'​ correspondences and musical creation"​ - Colloquium organized by SUPERFLUX (journal of psychoanalysis, Paris) and ENTRETEMPS (journal of musicology, Paris). IRCAM, Paris.
    French title of the presentation: "Chocs et entrechocs, analyse et catalyse".
  • ART ZOYD - Studio of Musical Creation, Valenciennes - Composer in Residence

    2014 - 2014 Residency for the realization of the electronic part of the project "Web studies", for prepared and amplified piano, harp, violin, viola, electronics, and a 3D video installation.
    Architectural experimental design (installation): Jenny E. SABIN (Cornell University, USA).
    Realization of the MAX/MSP research patch for the electronic part of the music: Carl FAIA.
  • HUDDERSFIELD FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC, UK - Commission of a piece and Premiere

    2013 - 2013 Commission from the FRENCH MINISTRY OF CULTURE and COMMUNICATION and ARDITTI QUARTET.
    Premiere of "..., dass spinnt..." for amplified string quartet, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, November 2013 - ARDITTI QUARTET.
  • HORS LES MURS of the FRENCH INSTITUTE, Paris - Residency for a 3-month stay in New York

    2012 - 2012 Grant from the French Institute (Hors les Murs program) to stay 3 months in New York - Project: "Web studies", for prepared and amplified piano and harp and a 3D virtual installation
    Virtual installation: Marcos Novak
  • FRENCH MINISTRY OF THE CULTURE and PROXiMA CENTAURI ensemble - Commission of a New Piece

    2012 - 2012 Commission of "Kinêm(a)bstract" from the FRENCH MINISTRY OF CULTURE and PROXIMA CENTAURI ensemble.
    Premiere of "Kinêm(a)bstract" for amplified flute, saxophone, prepared piano and percussion, Le Rocher de Palmer, Bordeaux, May 2012 - PROXIMA CENTAURI ensemble.
  • GRM - Studio of Musical Creation, INA/GRM-Radio France, Paris - Composer in residence - Commission

    2012 - 2012 Residency - Composition of the electronic part of "Later jester" for contrabass clarinet and electronics
  • Electronic Studio of the Technische Universität, Berlin - Composer in residence

    2012 - 2012 Composition of the electronic part of "Later jester" for contrabass clarinet and electronics
  • Electronic Studio of the Technische Universität, Berlin - Composer in residence

    2009 - 2009 Composition of the electronic part of "Shel(l)ter - unter... ( ) ...Gitter" for 6 instruments and electronics
  • GMEM, Marseille - Composer in residence - Commission

    2009 - 2009 Residency - Commission - Composition of the electronic part of "Shel(l)ter - später... ( ) ...Winter" for 6 instruments and electronics
  • Electronic Studio of the Technische Universität, Berlin - Composer in residence

    2009 - 2009 Residency - Composition of the electronic part of "Shel(l)ter - später... ( ) ...Winter" for 6 instruments and electronics
  • Berliner Künstlerprogramm of the DAAD - Commission of a New Piece

    2008 - 2008 Commission of "Doppelklänger" from the Berliner Künstlerprogramm of the DAAD.
    Premiere of "Doppelklänger" for prepared and amplified piano solo, Inventionen festival, Berlin, July 2008 - Heather O'DONNELL.
  • FRENCH MINISTRY OF CULTURE and PROXIMA CENTAURI ensemble - Commission of a New Piece

    2008 - 2008 Commission of Kinê-Diffr(a)ct from the FRENCH MINISTRY OF CULTURE and PROXIMA CENTAURI ensemble.
    Premiere of "Kinê-Diffr(a)ct" for 7 amplified instruments, T.N.T. of Bordeaux, April 2008 - PROXIMA CENTAURI ensemble.
  • Electronic Studio of the Technische Universität - Composer in residence

    2007 - 2007 Residency - Composition of "Ipso facto" for electronics solo
  • AKADEMIE DER KÜNSTE, Berlin - Composer in residence - Commission

    2006 - 2006 Residency at the ADK - Commission - Composition of the electronic part of "Fluctuatio (in)animi" for 5 instruments and electronics (Electronic Studio of the ADK)
  • GMEM, Marseille - Composer in residence - Commission

    2005 - 2005 Residency - Composition of the electronic part of "Via rupta" for 7 instruments and electronics
  • GMEM, Marseille - Composer in residence - Commission

    2000 - 2000 Residency - Commission - Composition of the electronic part of "Iniji" for mezzo-soprano, piano, percussion and electronics
  • GMEM, Marseille - Composer in residence - Commission

    1997 - 1997 Residency - Commission - Composition of the electronic part of "Io" for 4 instruments and electronics
  • Free lance - Music composer (contemporary creation)

    1997 - 2017 Musical composition (contemporary creation, instrumental and electronic pieces), lectures, conferences.
    She lives in Paris and Berlin.
  • Free lance - Music composer (contemporary creation) - Tutor in composition

    1997 - maintenant Musical composition (contemporary creation, instrumental and electronic pieces), lectures, conferences.
    She lives in Paris and Berlin.

    She studies psychology and music.
    Master classes and composition courses with Helmut LACHENMANN, Philippe MANOURY, Tristan MURAIL, Gérard GRISEY, Marco STROPPA in the ACANTHES Centre and at the Paris Superior Conservatory of Music.

    Guest of the Artists-in-Berlin program of the DAAD (2007-08).
    Various awards : KOMPOSITIONSPREIS DER LANDESHAUPTSTADT STUTTGART 2011, BERLIN-RHEINSBERGER KOMPOSITIONSPREIS 2008, a Finalist selection at MUSICA NOVA 2008, the Berlin AKADEMIE DER KÜNSTE grant 2006, an Honorary Mention at PRIX ARS ELECTRONICA 2007.

    Commissions or residencies from the DONAUESCHINGER MUSIKTAGE, the FRENCH MINISTRY OF CULTURE and L’ITINERAIRE, ACCROCHE NOTE and PROXIMA CENTAURI ensembles, the French SACEM, the DAAD, the AKADEMIE DER KÜNSTE and the ELECTRONIC STUDIO of the TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT in Berlin, the GMEM of Marseille.

    Pieces performed by various ensembles (ARDITTI STRING QUARTET, NEUE VOCALSOLISTEN, NATIONAL ORCHESTRA OF LYON, PELLEGRINI QUARTETT, KAMMERENSEMBLE NEUE MUSIK, PERCUSSIONS DE STRASBOURG, NOUVEL ENSEMBLE MODERNE, ENSEMBLE ORCHESTRAL CONTEMPORAIN, RESONANZ, L’ITINERAIRE, ACCROCHE NOTE, 2E2M, ALTERNANCE, PROXIMA CENTAURI...) within different festivals in France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Portugal, Netherlands, Denmark, Russia, Hong Kong, China, USA, Brazil and Mexico.

    Music broadcast on different radios in Germany, in the United Kingdom, in Switzerland and France.

    Lectures in various institutions in France and Germany.

    4 articles in Klangzeitort and Positionen (Berlin, 2011 and 2010), Filigranes n°6 (Paris, 2007) and Cahiers bleus n°13 Journals (Troyes, 2000).

    2 published CDs, one by the of Berlin and EDITIONS RZ of Berlin (2010), the other by the GMEM of Marseille and METAMKINE French Label (2002).

Formations

  • University Of Aix-Marseille I

    Aix En Provence maintenant
  • The University Of Huddersfield, UK (Huddersfield)

    Huddersfield 2014 - 2015 PhD by publication

    PhD by publication under the supervision of Composer Pr. Liza Lim.
    Title of the thesis:
    For a "nanomusic" - Sound nanomachines and elastic space-time
    (Music, psychoanalysis, Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy, neuropsychology, genetics, nanoscience).
  • Université Paris 8 Vincennes Saint Denis

    Paris 2012 - 2013 Master 2

    Master 2 in Music under the supervision of Musicologist Pr. Makis Solomos.
    Title of the Master: "De la pulsion aux "pulsons" - Les diagrammes sonores de l'inconscient" (English translation: "From pulsion to "pulsounds" - The sound diagrams of the unconscious")

    (Themes: Music, Psychoanalysis, Deleuze and Guattari's Phiosophy).
  • Acanthes Centre (France) - Summer Composition Courses

    Avignon 1992 - 1999 Composition

    Composition (contemporary music) - Summer composition courses in 1992 (T. Murail, P. Manoury, G. Benjamin & M. Lindberg), 1995 (G. Grisey, K. Huber & H. Birtwhistle), 1996 (P. Manoury), and 1999 (H. Lachenmann).
  • Université Aix-Marseille 1 (Faculté De Lettres)

    Aix En Provence 1985 - 1987 Psychology

    Studies of psychology first in Nice-Sophia Antipolis University (Nice, France), then in Aix-Marseille 1 University (Aix en Provence, France).

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