Ana Dall’Ara-Majek

Ana Dall’Ara-Majek’s works are out there! They have been performed in concert in Blacksburg, Boston, Brooklyn, Brussels, Cluj-Napoca, Crest, Darmstadt, Denton, Graz, Juvisy-sur-Orge, La Monnerie-le-Montel, London, Luxembourg, Manchester, Matera, Monaco, Montréal, New York City, Nîmes, Osaka, Oslo, Paris, Saint-Étienne, South River, Toronto and Zurich…

Ana Dall’Ara-Majek is a composer, sound artist and researcher living in Montréal (Québec). She is devoted to the study of how instrumental, electroacoustic and computational-thinking approaches interact in musical composition. In 2016, she obtained a doctorate in composition from the Université de Montréal, where she also taught a number of courses in the digital music section.

Her works have been presented at a number of festivals, including: Sound in Space (USA), Multiphonies (France), L’Espace du son (Belgium), Sincrónic (Spain), Sound Travels (Canada), MANCA (France), NYCEMF (USA), The Engine Room (UK), Akousma (Québec), Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik (Germany), Elektro Arts (Romania), Symposium IX (Québec). Some of these works were commissioned by Musiques & Recherches (Belgium), SeaM (Weimar, Germany), Taller Sonoro (Spain), Densité 93 (France), Musicalta (France), Distractfold (UK), Société des arts technologiques (SAT, Québec) and Quasar (Québec).

She often collaborates with other artists as a composer, performer, and computer music programmer. She performs regularly with saxophonist Ida Toninato as part of their duo Jane/KIN, founded in 2015, and she has also collaborated on theatre, dance and film projects with choreographer Tedi Tafel (Crying in Public), dancer Jason Shipley-Holmes (Inside_Dream), choreographer François Raffinot (Laborintus), filmmaker Patrick Lapierre (Cosmos Will Save the World) and Productions Totem contemporain (Hectore Navigatore et les Géants du Saint-Laurent). She has also composed for chamber ensembles such as Quasar, Les Percussions de Strasbourg, Sixtrum, Trio Hoboken, Lunatics at Large, and TM+, among others.

Passionate about electroacoustic music analysis, she has created numerous graphic scores with Acousmographe and has written analytical papers published in the eOrema journal and in François Bayle’s book Son Vitesse-lumière (Magison, 2016). In 2014, she released Air, her first album of works for instruments and electronics, on the Kohlenstoff Records label and in 2018 Nano-Cosmos, her first solo album of acousmatic pieces, was released by Empreintes digitales.

[English translation: Stephanie Moore, iii-18]

Ana Dall’Ara-Majek

Paris (France), 1980

Residence: Montréal (Québec)

  • Composer
  • Performer (theremin, electronics)
  • Sound artist

Associated groups

On the web

Ana Dall’Ara-Majek [Photo: André Parmentier, Montréal (Québec), 2014]
Ana Dall’Ara-Majek [Photo: André Parmentier, Montréal (Québec), 2014]

Calendar

Broadcasts

Date Work Program
November 8, 2020 Ana Dall’Ara-Majek, Pixel Springtail Promenade (2014-15), 15:16 Pulsar / CISM (Canada)
November 8, 2020 Ana Dall’Ara-Majek, Xylocopa Ransbecka (2017), 15:22 Pulsar / CISM (Canada)
October 25, 2020 Ana Dall’Ara-Majek, Pixel Springtail Promenade (2014-15), 15:16 Pulsar / CISM (Canada)
October 25, 2020 Ana Dall’Ara-Majek, Xylocopa Ransbecka (2017), 15:22 Pulsar / CISM (Canada)
October 20, 2020 Ana Dall’Ara-Majek, Xylocopa Ransbecka (2017), 15:22 The Langham Research Centre Show / Resonance 104.4 FM (UK)
February 3, 2020 Simon Aliotti, Jeremy Chignec, Ana Dall’Ara-Majek, Kevin Gironnay, Charlotte Layec, Eden (2017), 13:31 [Excerpt] Atelier / CIBL (Canada)
September 13, 2019 Ana Dall’Ara-Majek, Pixel Springtail Promenade (2014-15), 15:16 Radio Horizon 93.9 FM (South Africa)
July 12, 2019 Ana Dall’Ara-Majek, Xylocopa Ransbecka (2017), 15:22 Generation Bip Hop / Jet FM 91.2 (France)
July 11, 2019 Ana Dall’Ara-Majek, Xylocopa Ransbecka (2017), 15:22 Indie Drome / Campus Grenoble 90.8 (France)
July 11, 2019 Ana Dall’Ara-Majek, Xylocopa Ransbecka (2017), 15:22 Indie_drome / Éko des Garrigues 88.5 (France)
July 10, 2019 Ana Dall’Ara-Majek, Xylocopa Ransbecka (2017), 15:22 Radio Dijon Campus 92.2 (France)
July 9, 2019 Ana Dall’Ara-Majek, Xylocopa Ransbecka (2017), 15:22 Indiedrome / Radio Panik 105.4 (Belgium)