Liza Kuzyakova
Sáof



Liza Kuzyakova is a composer and artist born in Moscow and based in The Netherlands. Her sound practice weaves together electroacoustic composition, spatial sound, and experimental live performance, exploring perceptual tensions in listening practices: the relationship between materiality of physical objects, acoustic spaces, and the imaginative dimensions of sound. With influences from experimental theatre and a background in visual arts, Liza examines dynamic sonic environments, blending acoustical instrumentation with synthesised sound. Her musical output links dramatic spatial unfolding, rich in gestural and textural plasticity, with the fragile and subtler sounds. 

Liza is an active member of the experimental music scene in The Hague. Her solo electroacoustic live performance project Sáof is rooted in drone, noise, and power electronics, and she is part of an industrial/noise project Tselem Enosh. 

Her works and collaborative projects span a variety of contexts, including acousmatic concerts, contemporary choreography and theatre, short films, performances, and exhibitions, and have been part of the Gaudeamus Festival, Rewire Festival, Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT), Instrument Inventors (iii), Grey Space in the Middle, Buda BXL, WEST Den Haag, and Homo Novus Festival. 



Contact: 
lizakuzyakova@gmail.com




Photo by Amos Peled, Germany, 2022




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EDUCATION

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


RESEARCH


2022-present - Sonic Ruins. How can an architectural ruin become a metaphor for sonic material? With support of Studio LOOS, The Hague
2022-2023 - 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

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SELECTED CONCERTS & LIVE PERFORMANCES

2024

>> Premiering Al Niente. A Song From a Past Time III, a fixed-media piece for 8-channels and live cello
     Amare Studio, The Hague, Netherlands, June 24
 

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