EXILES showcase: swanasa

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swasana is a Hungarian sound artist and experimental music performer. She is among the electronic music creators who seek to push the boundaries of drone and ambient genres. She is deeply connected to nature, allowing her field recording and organizing activities, as well as her synthetic soundscapes, to inspire each other. This is related to the ecological trends that advocate for the intertwining of nature and human-created technology as the guarantee for the survival and flourishing of life on Earth. She has performed at renowned international festivals such as Blue Noise (D), INTONAL (SE), O.Z.O.R.A. (HU), and UltraSound (HU), among others. She was one of the winners of the Telekom Electronic Beats music competition in 2020.

Her 4 track debut EP ‘when you need to rest, let the sounds hold you’ was released in 2023 and featured in Abul Mogard’s mix for Rinse.fr radio.

“A brilliantly constructed drama, this EP has both a certain restlessness and darkness, and at the same time something healing and soothing.”

- The Quietus

Her second EP, which is a continuation of the first, was released in the winter of 2024 by the Los Angeles based record label A Strangely Isolated Place. These two albums form the core of her Life, Death, Life live (hybrid) performance. She favors the interplay and boundary areas between real and synthetic sounds, thus strengthening connections between the metaphysical, spiritual and technological worlds by making their boundaries permeable. Her broader themes: totemism, rituals, altered states of consciousness, self-awareness, deep listening, breathing, meditation, life, death, life.

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