Marja Ahti / Masaya Ozaki

Name: Marja Ahti / Masaya Ozaki
Start: 2025-03-15T20:00:00+00:00
Location: Óðinsgata 2, 101 Reykjavík, Iceland

Schedule

Sat, 15 Mar, 2025 at 08:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Óðinsgata 2, 101 Reykjavík, Iceland | Reykjavík, RE

MARJA AHTI (FI)
MASAYA OZAKI
Saturday, March 15th
doors 19:30 / show 20:00
2.500kr
Marja Ahti (b. 1981, Luleå) is a Swedish-Finnish sound artist based in Turku, Finland, working in composition, installation and cross-disciplinary performance. Working with field recordings, feedback, analog synthesis, digital processing and acoustic instrumentation she investigates the borderland where sounds mirror each other and communicate. She creates precise musical narratives with slowly mutating textures of detailed acoustic sound and intuitively tuned sustained tones and shapes.
Ahti's latest solo album Tender Membranes was released by Black Truffle in 2023. She has presented her music in many different contexts around Europe, in Japan and the United States, notably at The Long Now, Sonic Acts, Présences Électronique, Lampo and Edition Festival. Alongside her solo work, she is also active in the duo Ahti & Ahti with her partner Niko-Matti Ahti, in the artist/organizer collective Himera and in current collaborative projects with Judith Hamann, John McCowen, Manja Ristić and Mikko Kuorinki.
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Masaya Ozaki is a New York/Iceland-based composer born in Niigata, Japan. His work is deeply influenced by the transient nature of space and the subtleties of sound within physical environments. Ozaki views sound not just as a medium, but as a form deeply intertwined with the spaces it inhabits, something that he explores extensively in site-specific projects like "Echoes," which involved live performances inside a lighthouse.
Ozaki’s latest album, Mizukara (2024), is a reflection of his personal and artistic journey, primarily shaped by his experiences in Iceland. The album embraces minimalism and introspection, incorporating field recordings, sparse instrumentals, and the textures of the Icelandic landscape to explore the fluid relationship between self and environment. In recent interviews, he emphasized his shift from purely sound-based compositions to ones that deeply consider the environment and space. His relocation to Iceland has profoundly influenced his work, encouraging him to further merge the boundaries between music, nature, and architecture.