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Tectonics 2022 Artist Profile

Marja Ahti

Marja Ahti is a Swedish-Finnish sound artist working in composition, cross-disciplinary performance and installation. Working with field recordings, feedback, texturally oriented acoustic sound and electronic shapes and shades, she investigates 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. Her music unfolds in a poetic realm between the acousmatic and the documentaristic, hovering between abstraction and the deeply familiar.

Ahti is currently based in Turku, Finland, and has been a part of the Finnish experimental music scene for more than ten years in different constellations and as a founding member of the Himera artist/organizer collective.