ZLATA


ZLATA ZHIDKOVA
zlata@mur.at


Zlata (Zlata Zhidkova or zlata zhdkv) is a sound artist, musician, performer and composer. She works with multichannel systems, complex textures and feedback instruments, and experiments with tangible sounding materials, exploring “unexpressed/able” that exists in between the mediums and perception levels.

With a background in classical flute and philology, she is now finishing her Master of Arts in Computermusic and Sound Art at the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM) at KunstUni Graz.

Zlata has performed at the Musik Installationen Nuremberg 2025, Klangmanifeste (Vienna 2025), Nerd Nights (2024, Graz), International Computermusic Conference (Seoul, 2024), the Sonic Territories Festival (Vienna, 2024), the Zentral Waescherei (Zurich, 2024), the impuls festival (Graz, 2022, 2024), the Junge Signale (Graz, 2021-2024), STWST48x9 COLD HEAVEN and NOPE (Linz, 2023&2024), Soundcampus ARS ELECTRONICA (Linz, 2023), phonoECHOES (as a part of MMEZAJ collective) (2022) etc.

Her installational projects were presented, among others during Prague Quadrennial (Prague, 2023) and at FORUM STADTPARK as part of Steirischer Herbst (Graz, 2024).

Zlata is also a co-founder and organizer of the event series of the CMKK community - a rhizomatic student-driven community for Computer Music and Sound Art.
She is also a curator of the net art project “CIA: Collective Intelligence Association” run by mur.at association.
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Last Updated 24.10.31
SELECTED WORKS

performances, installations, projects  


@lorumsa


1. sound of the mountain

for metal, body, audio feedback
sound of the mountain is a sound performance for metal, body and audio feedback. It explores the physicality of the sound through interaction between the performer and the sounding object - the metal plate. Both engage in a conversation with each other on equal terms. The performer goes through different modes of communication with the plate and appeals to the sound material of the metal “mountain” by listening, touching and voicing. Here, every gesture, every movement, every change of sound prompts a reaction from both participants whose presence equally influences the flow of the interaction. The sound is generated within the metal plate that is excited by audio feedback and the performer.


PERFORMED at

Klangmanifeste 2025 || echoraum, Vienna, AT link

junge signale 2025 || MUMUTH, Graz, AT
 
@antuum


2. SPUR

for flute, electronics and room
 Everything that happens – happens. And everything that happens – goes into oblivion. What was heard – was heard, what was seen – was seen, but since human memory is a joke, it is inevitably forgotten.
Hence, what remains?
Spur is a multichannel composition for room, flute and electronics processed in Supercollider code. It involves live recording, room and feedback manipulation. The system records everything that gets into it and uses as a sound material, not allowing anything to disappear. The resulting dissonant textures put weight on the sculptured flute sound.

PERFORMED at

junge signale 2024 || MUMUTH, Graz, AT


3. flow in circle

for water, body, and audio feedbackflow in circle is a sound performance for water, body and audio feedback. It explores the physicality of the sound through interaction between the performer and the sounding object - the body of water.  The sound first  occurs in the water, and then flows gradually to the environment around it.

PERFORMED at

CMKK :: || esc medien kunst labor, Graz, AT

Musik Installationen Nürnberg 2025 || SpaceBetween, Nuremberg, DE


4. silky forest

live set for SuperCollider and infrared controller 
It concentrates on the inevitable yet perfectly smooth death of the sound forest and invites the human ear deep into its consciousness and soundscape deconstruction.

PERFORMED at

TILT 2024 || Zentral Wäscherei, Zurich, CH

cafe wolf Abend 2024 || cafe wolf, Graz, AT

Nerd Nights 2024 || Dom Im Berg, Graz, AT


5. ourobourous
ouroboro

multichannel live set for SuperCollider a free fall in a closed trap of a never-ending loop. It resembles the illusion of control and freedom from repetitiveness: the performer is a hostage of the circular material and has to repeat themselves over and over again until they find a way out of the loop and finish the performance.

a live performance for a multichannel setup where the audience is encouraged to find their own listening spot and move freely through the constructed sound environment during the piece.

PERFORMED at

impuls minutenconzerte 2024 || Forum Stadtpark, Graz, AT

ISKRA listening session 2025 || Dim, Belgrade, RS
MICE Nebenwelt - 3 : DDAASS
UNSTABLE SYSTEMS: Three Bodies
Feedback Reality


6. group projects
UNSTABLE SYSTEMS: Three Bodies at STWST NOPE 2024
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MICE Nebenwelt - 3 : DDAASS at STWST COLD HEAVEN 2023
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Feedback Reality with MMEZAJ collective
link + ö1 broadcast



7. transparent noise


plexi glas, video, 2-channel audio
2025

As humanity continues to battle disinformation, transparency emerges as one of the most powerful tools in the war against the flood of false information and institutions shirking responsibility. Transparent finances and sources, transparent processes and methods, transparent lives, thoughts, and prayers—this abundance of disclosure seems to be the key to building trust between people and institutions. Ironically, while the flood of transparent information contributes to information overload, it simultaneously has the potential to sharpen perception in a world of overconsumption. But how does it manage to bring the hidden reality back into our consciousness?

The installation uses a summary of the 2024 Corruption Perceptions Index by Transparency International—a global organization dedicated to combating corruption worldwide through civil society anti-corruption measures and preventing criminal activities arising from corruption — as material for the projection — and projects it through a Plexiglas cannon equipped with audio exciters.


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