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Oscillation is a festival by Q‑O2 werkplaats, organised by Julia Eckhardt, Caroline Profanter, Dries Robbe, Maryia Kamarova, Ludo Engels, Christel Simons, Cis De Gendt, Carlo Sampaolesi, Gustave Muhozi, and Billy Moisseron.
03.05.2025 22:30
Marja Ahti—To Admit is not to Enter, the Door is not an Ikon
To Admit is not to Enter, the Door is not an Ikon is a performance that juxtaposes field recordings, live electronics, acoustic and amplified objects, building poetic bridges between recorded environments, simple instrumentation, and sounds generated from everyday materials. The work is rooted in a lasting fascination with the simple strangeness of human experiences with sound, and perception more broadly — the idea that vibrations sensed by the eardrums can be experienced as something deeply affecting, even profound, under the right conditions – as our atavistic human reactions interplay with the immediate experience of sound as it appears in the moment.
© Darko Škrobonja Marja Ahti is a Swedish-Finnish sound artist based in Turku, Finland, working in composition, installation, and cross-disciplinary performance. Working with field recordings, feedback, analog synthesis, digital processing, and acoustic instrumentation, she explores the borderland where sounds mirror each other and communicate. She creates precise musical narratives with slowly mutating textures of detailed acoustic sound and intuitively tuned sustained tones and shapes.