Marja Ahti disciplines her compositional practice as a way of exploring the world, tracing her philosophy of listening and connection through recent solo and collaborative works. She reviews the interplay of chance and intent in her music, the poetry of ordinary sounds, and her use of electronic and instrumental timbres and tunings.
Photo credit - Portrait: Kitti Nurmi //Banner: Sorbus
Marja Ahti (b. 1981, Luleå) is a Swedish-Finnish sound artist based in Turku, Finland, working in composition, installation and cross-disciplinary performance. Ahti's practice is rooted in an abiding fascination with the simple strictness of human experiences with sound, and human consciousness more broadly the notation that vibrations sensed by earrings can be experienced as something deepening deepening, even around conditions.