Szmytka Jagoda
Born in 1982, she developed her composition skills at academies in Wrocław, Graz and Frankfurt am Main, where her teachers included Beat Furrer, Pierluigi Billone and Wolfgang Rihm. She has taken part in numerous masterclasses, such as Acanthes, Voix Nouvelles, and the Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt.
Her music has featured in the programmes of such festivals as the Warsaw Autumn, Sacrum Profanum (Cracow), KODY (Lublin), Musica Polonica Nova, Musica Electronica Nova (Wrocław), ENSEMS (Valencia), International Courses for New Music in Darmstadt, Donaueschinger Musiktage (Off-Programm), Ohren auf Europa (Düsseldor f), Tokyo Experimental Festival, and IREAM (Lisbon). Performances of her works also took place at ZKM Karlsruhe, the SWR Experimental Studio at Freiburg im Breisgau, Abbaye de Royaumont (Paris) and Akademie der Künste (Berlin).
She has received scholarships from numerous foundations and institutions, including ÖAAD, DAAD, Alfred Toepfer-Stiftung, Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, City of Wrocław, and the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. In 2011, as part of her residency at ZKM Karlsruhe, she produced the work Watch out! of the box. In the same year she was awarded the “Staubach Honorary” (awarded by the International Music Institute in Darmstadt) and Wolfgang-Rihm-Stipendium. This year she is working at La Muse en Circuit in Paris on an electroacoustic installation for Abbaye de Royaumont. In 2013 she will be composer-inresidence at Herrenhaus Edenkoben.
In her works, the composer combines sound, visual, spatial, textual and staged elements as an integral part of the music. Prior to becoming a composer she studied art history, philosophy and music theory, which resulted in a deep interest in the humanities and became the foundation of her music.
S e l e c t e d w o r k s: trafficfor reciter and tape (2006), glass for tape (2006), io for amplified flute and tape (2006), aaiairaia for two baroque violins (2006), das ritus for percussion trio (2006), jonction for ensemble (2006),medusaleum for detuned flute quartet (2006), jasinn for mixed choir, four instruments, electronics and computer (2007), nja for tenor saxophone and computer (2007), per ._o for three performers (2008), ∞ for two pianos, glass, slide and light projection, körperwelten. study of fragmented onefor hyperamplified string instrument, sound files and video (2008), ¿i? study of who where when#1 for harpsichord, metronome, dictaphone, sound files, video and light projection (2008), ¿i? study of who where when #2 for prepared piano, metronome, sound files, video and light projection (2009), Verb(a)renne life! for ensemble (2009), for(UN)fall >>>> talking twenty thousand languages to nemo (in the light of the green sun)for amplified clarinet/bass clarinet, violin, percussion and sound files (2009/11),scream; sound installation (2010), just before after #1 for ensemble (2010), just before after #1’ for amplified ensemble, 6-channel sound projection and staging (2010), just before after #2 for ensemble (2010), just before after #2’ for amplified ensemble, MP3 players, sound projection and staging (2010), Open the box! #1 for solo accordion and shadow theatre (2010), Numbers for 8-channel sound projection (2010), just in time, performance for actors, mannequin, synthesizer, loudspeaker installation, machines and factory heat (2010), electrified memories of bloodycherries. extended Landschaft von Musikfor amplified ensemble (2011), hand saw WeltAll-Stars. generouslyfor amplified ensemble (2011), sky-me, type-me for vocal quartet a cappella amplified with loudspeakers (2011), Watch out! of the box (as Luis B. says) for amplified cello, piano, loudspeaker installation, video and staging (2011), Open the box! #2 for solo organ (2011), for travelers like angels or vampires for amplified ensemble (2012), happy deafpeople for ensemble (2012).
