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Mila Chiral
... strongly resisting pigeon-holing while busy to bridge gaps...
Mila Chiral is a Berlin-based dancer-choreographer, electronic musician and DJ, who works in composing sounds and poetry as well as bodies and movements in time and space.
Her new album NaFTftEoT |NIGHTMARES AND FAIRY-TAILES FOR THE END OF TIMES will be self-released in June 2021 along with a connected
collective video project. It follows Mila Chiral's artistic direction by questioning the duality of time & space of her first album WHERE
TIME MEETS SPACE (April 2017, Elestial Sound).
Educated in dance and classical music since childhood, the influences of her youth include classical music as well as minimal music, new and dark wave, new romantics, NDW and the music of
Prince and his collaborators.
Following the rise of electronic music in the early 90s, she started collaborating with (electronic) musicians for her choreographies. She made her first steps into electronic music production in
1995 with the project BrainScan, together with Bernhard Bockelbrink.
Her works of art are colorful, multi-layered and four-dimensional. In fact, her artist name refers to chirality — the quality of an object that makes it impossible to be superimposed
over its own reflection.
Mila Chiral’s expressive and intense genre-fluid technoid electronic music resists pidgeon-holing by crossing electronic music genres and questioning rules. It spans from the deepest abysses to
enthusiast rave energy with ironic undertones from time to time. While some of the tracks open wide spaces filled with moving and morphing sounds to be drawn in, others call bodies to move
immediately with stampeding techno-beats, uplifting rhythms or grounding grooves and colorful sound spaces - acidic reminiscences, glittering accents. Mostly staying in the technoid
structure of an ongoing meter, they vividly break the mathematical proportions in small details with analogue quality. The multi-layered harmonies evolve polyphonically with melodic motives that
reach down to the bass frequencies in the kick drums and (sub-)bass.
In that sense, her musical compositions might be seen as chiral to her choreographic approach as four-dimensional sound choreographies.
Because the physical experience of dancing for hours underpins her music, her DJing consists of multiple layers, long transitions and ongoing flow. Harmonic and rhythmical breaks also
characterize her work, weaving her music further with the interplay of bodies in an extended collective movement.
The early rave utopian philosophy of love, peace, unity & respect (including diversity) - with its cultural, social and political impact underlies her artistic activities and projects. This
includes critical thinking and reflections on dystopian-utopian dialectics and narratives in a complex world with interdisciplinary academic education and professional experience - these
themes echo within the heartbeats of her music.
Mila Chiral was part of minutektiv, a group of music producers from Berlin. They published and
performed their Minutes Collections from time to time - collections of one minute long tracks, each produced in an hour or less following a collective guideline until 2018.
Mila Chiral is also one of the organizers of MEETUP Berlin, a community of female-identifying,
trans and non-binary artists in the fields of electronic music and arts. She is also a member of female:pressure.
https://milachiral.bandcamp.com/album/naftfteot-nightmares-fairy-tales-for-the-end-of-times
impressions of the premiere of the interdisciplinary collective live performances & video art with music of the related album by Mila Chiral (2021)
Uferstudios Berlin, Sep 2021
more performance stills NaFTftEoT | Nightmares & Fairy Tales for the End of Times - Uferstudios Berlin 2021
NaFTftEoT | Nightmares & Fairy Tales for the End of Times (live)
video art | live performances |music
& limited edition double vinyl release
23.-26.09.2021 20:30 - ca. 22:45
Uferstudio 1, Badstr. 41a
13357 Berlin / Wedding
U8 Pankstraße, U9 Osloer Strasse, U9 Nauener Platz, S-Bahn Gesundbrunnen
A collective of interdisciplinary artists collaborated in this dystopian-utopian project together exploring times & spaces with sounds, visuals, bodies, colors, looping, morphing,
changing in physical & digital visual & sound choreographies.
4 places in a multi-dimensional space, where different vibrating beings' dynamic artworks connected to the past and the future, dystopian and utopian visions, and material of different colours
and shapes meet through oscillations of sound and light to create unique moments for the ones who are there to perceive those sensations, ready for shared experiences and individual traces in
each ones memory to unfold to stories any kind - to be told and shared in their own rhythms...
performances by
Dodi Helschinger / Claudia Heland / Maria Ferrara / Susanne Soldan
& Anja Weber
These performances were supported by Uferstudios Berlin.
The music and idea for the project was supported by Kulturprojekte Berlin | Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa.
LE double vinyl release supportet by Presswerk München.
Thank you!!!
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Press kit Album 2021 incl. Artist Info here
Artist Info (pdf) here