Growing up in the Sakha Republic, one of the indigenous autonomies in Eastern Siberia, Aldana Duoraan was drawn to the traditions of her people. She began playing the khomus — a sort of mouth harp — at age six, and graduated from musical school majoring in the traditional folklore of the Sakha people. Basing her practice and performance around different types of khomus, Duoraan creates waves of reflective tones and overtones. The resulting compositions retain the feel of minimalist modular experiments, introspective and deep. Now based in Prague, Duoraan will play in duo with Tomáš Niesner.
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Tomáš Niesner is a Czech sound artist and guitarist. His soundscapes are full of echoes of American primitivism, hazy ambient surfaces, field recordings and emotional reflections of the surrounding landscape. Niesner combining elements of fingerstyle guitar, musique concrète and drone, it's an elemental tapestry of enveloping textures, shimmering guitar motifs and soaring synth sounds. He also plays in the duo Šimanský Niesner, which drew inspiration from the roots of 1950s classic country blues or American folk songs. But also the cross section of the Mississippi Delta and the Appalachian Mountains' traditional music informed by atonal elements of the European avant-garde.
