Zavoloka

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ZAVOLOKA
Birth nameKateryna Zavoloka
Origin Kyiv, Ukraine
Genres Experimental Music
Electronic music
Psychedelic music
Ethnic Electronica
Microsound
Ukrainian folk music
Occupation(s) Artist
Composer
Musician
Sound artist
Improviser
Graphic designer
Years active2002 - present
Labels Kvitnu
Polyfusia
Member of Zavoloka-Agf, Kotra & Zavoloka
Website zavoloka.com

Zavoloka (full name, Kateryna Zavoloka) is a contemporary experimental music and electronic music composer, sound artist, improviser, performer and graphic designer from Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. She was born in 1981.

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The word zavoloka means deep fog and also maverick in Ukrainian. Zavoloka's main interests in music are to mix ancient Ukrainian traditions with modern electronic music technology. She combines melodic experimental electronic music with self-recorded Ukrainian folk music.

Career

In 2003, the Nexsound label released her first album Suspenzia. At the end of 2003 the CD "I" appeared on the American label Zeromoon.

Her full-length CD "Plavyna" was debuted at the beginning of 2005 under the Austrian label Laton and under the Ukrainian label Nexsound. The CD took an honorary mention at the Prix Ars Electronica in 2005.

In the June 2007 issue of The Wire (magazine) there was an article detailing Zavoloka's music. In addition, one collaborative track with Kotra appeared on the magazine's Wire Tapper 16 and her solo composition "Inhale", from Viter, was featured on the Wire Tapper 20.

In 2011 Zavoloka released "Vedana" CD and in 2007 Viter on the label Kvitnu , 2 of the series of albums dedicated to Elements of Air, Water, Earth and Fire.

In 2008 Zavoloka received the "Gaude Polonia" grant, hosted by National Centre for Culture, Ministry of Culture in Poland, and worked at the Electroacoustic Studio at the Cracow Music Academy. She has also worked at the different studios, including EMS in Stockholm, Sweden and the INA-GRM studio in Paris.

Zavoloka is a graphic designer for Kvitnu , also has designed works for the Detali Zvuku festival, Kvitnu Fest , for Seefeel "Seefeel" album, "Faults" EP and others.

Collaborations

Live performance

Zavoloka performs live regularly and has played at many international music festivals around the world like: Presences Electronique (Groupe de Recherches Musicales, INA-GRM), club transmediale [1] , Kvitnu Fest, Madeiradig, Unsound NYC, Detali Zvuku festival, Being the Future, Les Urbaines, Stimul, Garage, Unsound, Femmes, Cimatics, Interferenze, Radius, Nuit Bleue, EME07, AudioVisiva and others.

In 2011 Zavoloka was specially invited by Aphex Twin (UK) to support his audiovisual rave shows in UK and Denmark.[ citation needed ]

Discography

Tracks in compilations

Awards

Zavoloka "Plavyna" (CD) was honorary mentioned at the Prix Ars Electronica in 2005.

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