Maja Osojnik

photo by Rania Moslam

Maja Osojnik
*1976 born in Slovenia, lives and works in Vienna, Austria

as a singer, composer, improvising electroacoustic musician, sound artist, mostly using voice, paetzold bass recorders, own field recordings, DJ-CD, tapes and other lo-fi electronic devices, toys, trash and found objects. Maja made a name for herself in different musical fields, such as early music, contemporary, experimental, jazz, free improvisation, sound art and heavier music.
She composed music for theater, dance, animation movies, film, silent film, sound installations and diverse ensembles and wrote Lyrics/Texts for different Projects such as Maja Osojnik Band, Broken.Heart.Collector and Rdeča Raketa. She gave Workshops in improvised Music in Austria, Slovenia and Korea. She founded Maja’s Musik Markt and co-organised the 7th Viennese Soulfood Festival in 2013.
She has recorded many music productions and is giving concerts in renowned festivals and clubs all over Europe as a co-founder of different Formations, among them Broken.Heart.Collector, Rdeča Raketa, Maja Osojnik Band, All.The.Terms.We.Are, Low Frequency Orchestra, Subshrubs, Watschen Institut…
She was awarded with awards and scholarships, among them “Publicity Preis 2007″ from SKE (with Low Frequency Orchestra), Jeunesse Artist of the Year 2008, 2010 Austrian Mia Award. In 2009 she was awarded the Austrian state scholarship for composing and 2014 SKE annual award and Composition Prize of City of Vienna for her work.

Some recording references from the last years:
- DBL LP & CD „LET THEM GROW“ maja osojnik solo, Labels Rock is Hell & Unrecords 2016
- LP “Wir Werden” rdeča raketa, Label God Records, 2013
- LP & CD broken.heart.collector, Labels Rock is Hell & Interstellar Records & Discorporate Records, 2011
- CD & Book “Črne Vode/Schwarze Wasser/Black Waters”, Maja Osojnik Band, Label Viennese Soulfood Records, 2010
- Cassette “Old girl, old boy”, Rdeča Raketa, Label Mosz, 2010
- CD “Mole”, Low Frequency Orchestra & Wolfgang Mitterer, Label Chmafu Nocords, 2010
- DVD “Das Spiel von Kommen und Gehen”, Low Frequency Orchestra

http://maja.klingt.org
http://mo.klingt.org
https://majaosojnik.bandcamp.com/
http://rdecaraketa.klingt.org/
http://brokenheartcollector.klingt.org/
www.youtube.com/majaosojnik

The point of no return (2015).

This piece was inspired by the contemporary social phenomenon of shitstorms, their significant impact and unstoppable, uncontrollable reach – a trigger, a click, another click, a chain reaction. It wasn’t merely the distoring content that had me interested, but also the explosive density of data, the fluctuation and the speed of information. Like water droplets gathering into a river, the information accumulates, increasingly developing into a swirling, destructive force. A movement, that takes on a life of its own, bursting from virtual reality into a real world. Ideal places for the point of no return are architectural spaces, that have big windows but are good acoustically isolated. They allow for the possibility of playing a role, an interface between two parallel realities, two parallel movements. The windows are screening the outside world, from which movement is visually forcing itself continuously into the perception of a beholder, who resides within a line of spatial and sonic demarcation and is experiencing audibly only the sound movement, the sound installation that is happening in the room. The composition is built out of sonic impulses, which multiply and breed themselves through a chaos, but try to find a path, a passage through the piece, in which they get a direction, become regulated, guided and dissolved into a river of sound, a drone until they get disconnected again…