Liza Kuzyakova is a composer, performer, researcher, and curator based in The Netherlands. Basing her sound practice in between multichannel electro-acoustic composition and live performance, her work relates to sonic deconstruction and histories of sound in the instrumental space, traces and distortions of material. With a passion for extreme music, she is an active member of the experimental music scene in The Hague, where she curates a series of live performance events - KRAH.
Her solo musical project Sáof originates around piercing sonic realms of drone/noise, and she is half of Tselem Enosh, an industrial/power electronics duo.
Liza is a frequent collaborator of Amos Peled and has presented her works in a variety of contexts including contemporary dance, performance art, short films, and exhibitions such as Gaudeamus Festival, Rewire Festival, NDT, iii, Grey Space in the Middle, Buda BXL.
Contact:
lizakuzyakova@gmail.com
Photo by Antonia Valentina, The Hague, 2021
CV
RESEARCH
2022-present - Sonic Ruins. How can an architectural ruin become a metaphor for sonic material? With support of Studio LOOS, The Hague
2022-present - Marginal sound: on underground comminities and experimental music
RESIDENCIES
10/2021 - Residency and workshop w Peter Kirn, Unheard Records, WORM Studio, Rotterdam
05/2021 - Unthinking/ Unlearning. New sonic theories and praxis, Klammklang label & Sound Studies and Sonic Arts (M.A.) at the Universitat der Kunste Berlin and Sound Art and Sound Studies (M.A.) at HSE Art and Design School, Moscow
SELECTED CONCERTS & LIVE PERFORMANCES
2022
>> Premiering Sarid, a 13-channel multichannel piece >> for 'The Tar Pits'
Buda BXL, Brussels, Belgium, June 4
>> Sound Installation, composition for acoustics of the 200m tunnel
Het HEM, Zaandam, Netherlands, May 27-29
>> Live performance, Sáof, at 'Spring Ahead: The Afterlife IV, Sunset Rites'
Kunstapel, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 21
>> Live performance, Sáof
Crawl Space, Villa te Koop, The Hague, Netherlands, April 16
>> Live performance & installation w Juliette Hengst
Korzo theatre, The Hague, Netherlands, April 5
>> Live performance w Amos Peled
Melkwegstraat 16, The Hague, Netherlands, Febraury 19
>> Release presentation live performance, Unheard Records
WORM studio, Rotterdam, Netherlands, November 18
2021
>> Premiering Yesh me'Ayin, an 8-channel composition
Arnold Schönbergzaal, Koninklijk Conservatorium, May 15
>> Ghosts appear ocasionally w Hilde Wollenstein, Moving Downstairs
Grey Space in the Middle, The Hague, Netherlands, Febraury 27
2020
>> Live performance as Kankar (roads)
the Annastatte studio, The Hague, 12/12/2020
>> Listening session for yin yoga class with Lara Levi
Moscow, 19/08/2020
EXHIBITIONS
Transmitter at FutureLab, West Bund Art Centre, Shanghai 05/12/2020 – 13/12/2020
Foundations: 100 years after VKhUTEMAS, Moscow, 10/11/2020 – 22/01/2021
E-wor(l)d, Bukvodom, Moscow, 17/11/19
RHAD Radio Hopes And Dreams, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, 09-10/11/19
Moscow calling, Ps Mirabel & Bunker gallery, Manchester, UK, 05-08/05/19
BHSAD Pre-Degree Show, Foundation Art&Design, Artplay, Moscow, June 2018
EDUCATION
Workshop on sound design: Listening to film with Sara Pinheiro, The Hague, 2021
Workshop Sound Engineering in Electro-Acoustic Music with Marko Uzunovski, The Hague, 2020
Сourse Theory of sound: Likbez, SA))_studio, Moscow, 2019
Workshop Field Recording with Justin Bennet, The Hague, 2018
BA Sonology, Koninklijk Conservatorium, Den Haag, 2020-2024
BA ArtScience interfaculty, Royal Academy and Conservatoire The Hague, Netherlands, 2018-2019
Fine Art Foundation Art&Design, British Higher School of Art&Design, Moscow, Russia, 2017-2018
WORK EXPERIENCE
Production assistant to iii (Instrument Inventors Initiative) for Proximity Music & Rewire Festival, The Hague, 2023
Technical assistant with Unheard records at the WORM Studio, Rotterdam, 2021
Intern at the Electronics Workshop, Royal Conservatoire The Hague, 2021-2022
Assistant art director, print-market Vkus Bumagi, Moscow, 2016-2021
Assistant art director, art-market Supermarket, Moscow, 2019
Volunteer, Todays Art festival of art, music and technology, The Hague, 2019
Assistant art director, print-market Print-Addiction, Moscow, 2018
Assistant curator of the educational program, International Contemporary Art Fair Cosmoscow, Moscow, 2017
Volunteer, print-market State of Print, Moscow, 2017
Volunteer, Golden Bee Moscow Global Biennale of Graphic Design, Moscow, 2016