Travelling to the Past on a Current of Breath
What is tradition if it’s not [lived]?
Poetry by Xenofontova Dasha of Kiki Yago
Portrait of Kiki Yago by CoderCat aka @snayss and @kif11 In December CREATRIX featured an interview with the band Kiki Yago, since their poetry…
Trans-Siberian Triple Headed Poetess Flying on a Stream of Bytes
Sofy Yuditskaya interviews Sneha Belkhale of Kiki Yago. KìKí Yågø is an art collaboration of the musician and poetess Kiki Yago and 3D graphics…
✵ Pana Li ✵ Portal Paraíso ✵
Diana Castro aka Pana Li is a Mexican designer, multidisciplinary artist, DJ and producer living in Brooklyn NY and Mexico City. Pana Li designs…
Master Class With ∞ Snow Raven ∞
Part two of a two part interview series with Suor aka Snow Raven. While the previous article focused on Snow Raven’s performance practice and…
∞ Snow Raven ∞
An almost confounding combination of traditional shamanic and high-tech activity by Sofy Yuditskaya Snow Raven is a performer from the Republic of Sakha, now…
Shamanic Slow-quin with the New Nature
It is said that Guqin players can summon spirits, predict the future, and convert the energies of Yin and Yang to their needs, and that the origins of Guquin playing come from Wushi or shaman. From 1644 until 1912 the Quin Emperors had an official shamanic shrine at the capital in Beijing and consulted professional shaman, usually women, in the forbidden city as part of their ruling duties.
Imagining the Universe with Hands and Heart
Cecilia Wu’s piece entitled “Embodied Sonic Meditation: Resonance of the Heart” captures hand gestures and their fluid changes making mudras via leap motion and machine learning, triggering associated musical phrases and gestures as well as video of the Buddhabrot fractal deformations processed by audio filters also triggered by the mudras.