MUSIC COMPOSER, SOUND ARTIST, DJ WHO’S PRIMARY FOCUS LIES IN PRODUCING MUSIC FOR VARIOUS ART FORMS, INCLUDING EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES, THEATRE PLAYS AND VIDEO ART. ZOI WAS BORN IN UKRAINE’S CRIMEA, SIMFEROPOL. SINCE MOVING TO WARSAW IN 2014, SHE STARTED TO COLLABORATE WITH LEADING PERFORMERS OF THEATRE-DANCE-VISUAL COMMUNITY.
SHE OFTEN WORKS COLLECTIVELY, AND SINCE 2017 SHE HAS BEEN COLLABORATING WITH KEM, A WARSAW-BASED QUEER-FEMINIST COLLECTIVE WHOSE WORK FOCUSES ON THE INTERSECTION OF CHOREOGRAPHY, PERFORMANCE, SOUND AND ACTIVIST-SOCIAL PRACTICES. IN 2021, SHE WAS AWARDED A GRANT BY THE CITY OF WARSAW, DEVELOPING A PROJECT OF ACOUSTIC PERFORMANCES ENTITLED 'IS IT A REVERBERATION OF THE ETERNAL WORLD? - SOUND REFLECTIONS ON ACOUSTIC POLLUTION'. SINCE 2022, SHE HAS BECOME AN ESSENTIAL COLLABORATOR WITH THEATRE 21/CENTRE OF INCLUSIVE ARTS IN WARSAW. IN THIS ROLE, ZOI SERVES AS BOTH A COMPOSER AND A MUSIC EXECUTIVE, LENDING HER ARTISTIC VISION TO A VARIETY OF PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE PLAYS.
WHILE PREFERRING TO REMAIN MAINLY OUT OF THE SPOTLIGHT, SHE HAS FORGED HER PERSONAL STYLE HEARD AT MULTIPLE EVENTS ACROSS EUROPE. IN HER SOUNDSCAPES, ZOI LARGELY EXPOSES ALIENATION AND ETHEREALITY AS WELL AS THE SHIFTING BOUNDARIES BETWEEN TIMBRE AND THE RHYTHM. HER SOUNDSCAPES OFTEN CONSIST OF CHORAL SINGULARITIES, DELICATE PULSES AND MENACING ELECTRONIC BLASTS, AS WELL AS MUSHY SOUNDS RECORDED IN AMSR CLOSE-UPS.
