JD ZAZIE

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* ÄPFELZERSTÖRER
Duration: as long as possible

__dj performance_sonic texture_cut up_turntablism_instant music__

Listen to the surprising sound atmospheres built with turntables and cd player using the "Äpfelzerstörer method!"
In the process of abstraction and decontextualisation recognizable and unaspected sounds create an intimate communication with the audience.

* WHAT ARE YOU LISTENIG TO?
Duration: 20-30 minutes

__a field recordings based project about sound identity and everyday life in the urban environment__

"Close your eyes and listen.
Let's get in touch with the environmental sounds that are part of our aural experience.
Sounds can describe the functional relationship between us and the environment, the sound context and the sound culture.
What happens when a DJ uses her specific language to build up a temporary sonic environment with urban soundscapes?
Recognizable sounds, everyday sounds, urban sounds are mixed together creating a new abstract decontextualized environment, in order to create an intimate aural dialog with the listeners.
The result could relate with your own sonic identity?
What are you listening to?"

BANDS : :

* B UNIT
(JD Zazie, Mat Pogo, Peter Schlewinski)

B Unit mixes together an exploring blend of real time manipulated field recordings, grindcore abstractions, free jazz gore parodies, and frantic semi acoustic freeform fantasies.
More infos: virb.com/bunit

* SEMERSSUAQ
(JD Zazie, DJ WJMeatball)

Semerssuaq is a freeform Cut' n Roll duo manipulating sounds using basically DJ tools.
More infos: virb.com/semerssuaq

SELECTED REVIEWS

"...Also from Burp Enterprise, italian sound artist Valeria Merlini aka Zazie played one of the best DJ set I've heard in a long long time. Appearing at the Salon Bruit night at Acud, she played a highly contrasted programm ranging from delicate abstract sounds to more noisy soundscapes, always with a great sensibility and a fantastic attention to details. Her peculiar sound constructions being executed with a stunning sense of form and focus which worked amazingly well. According to the applause she got at the end of her performance, it definitely felt more like a turntable concert rather than a DJ set..."

Antoine Chessex, BERLINoFF, 7 Juli 2008, http://www.berlin-off.de/2008/07/07/reviewed-burp-enterprise/

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"JD Zazie can help you to find your way back home again. But don’t be surprised to find your home drastically changed. JD, who some of you might know as a kind of resident DJ at Le Petit Mignon Sanderstrassestyle, has grown into a neu-plunderphonic audio-savant. Armed with CD-players, turntables and an encyclopaedical knowledge of the good, the bad and the ugly she is the anti-thesis to any statement about music."

Rinus Van Alebeek, Staalplaat announcements, 26 May 2009, http://staalplaat.wordpress.com/2009/05/26/30-may-michael-t-bullock-jd-zazie-testcardbarnaby-tree/

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SHORTLY ABOUT JD ZAZIE

JD Zazie is Valeria Merlini.
After the degree in urban sociology at the University of Architecture in Florence, she recived a post graduate degree at the Master Soundstudies at the Academy of Arts (UdK) in Berlin.

As sound artist she has taken part in several exihibitions and events. Among the most recent once are Soundscape & Listening (St. Poelten, 2009), Wetsounds (London, 2008) and Die lange Nacht der Wissenschaften (Berlin, 2008).

As a DJ she focused on experimental electronic music and played in several improvised music groups. Between 1989 and 2004 she produced many experimental music and electronica radio shows for the free radio scene in Italy. End 2009 she became part of Staalplaat Radio.

As curator she investigates the topics "urban environment and everyday sound"
Since 2008 she's part of the Digimag web-zine's team.