In the Water Filled Mine Pit
Mixed Media by Sara Pajunen.
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Sara Pajunen
Sara Pajunen (she/they) is a composer-improvisor and an audiovisual artist based in what is now called Minnesota (USA). Trained as a violinist and employing locally-responsive media ranging from field recordings to drone imagery, her work is motivated by interactions between her ancestral roots, American cultural histories, and connection to our environments through sound.
Pajunen has released six albums using folk and traditional music as the basis for singular collaborations. Her interests also lie in blurring human perceptions and cultivating presence through listening, using sound to shift our relationships to our surroundings and accepted histories. Longterm project Mine Songs: Sounding an Altered Landscape employs acoustic violin and hardanger d’amore, environmental recordings, image, historic material and processed sound to create a variegated depiction of Minnesota's Mesabi Iron Range, her childhood and ancestral home.
Pajunen has performed extensively in North America and Europe and her work has received funding from the Jerome Foundation, Minnesota State Arts Board, Kone Foundation, New Music USA, American Scandinavian Foundation, and the Arts Council of Finland, amongst others. She holds classical music degrees in both the United States and Finland and a Master of Music in Contemporary Improvisation from New England Conservatory.
Sara Pajunen (she/they) is a composer-improvisor and an audiovisual artist based in what is now called Minnesota (USA). Trained as a violinist and employing locally-responsive media ranging from field recordings to drone imagery, her work is motivated by interactions between her ancestral roots, American cultural histories, and connection to our environments through sound. Pajunen has released six albums using folk and traditional music as the basis for singular collaborations. Her interests also lie in blurring human perceptions and cultivating presence through listening, using sound to shift our relationships to our surroundings and accepted histories. Longterm project Mine Songs: Sounding an Altered Landscape employs acoustic violin and hardanger d’amore, environmental recordings, image, historic material and processed sound to create a variegated depiction of Minnesota's Mesabi Iron Range, her childhood and ancestral home. Pajunen has performed extensively in North America and Europe and her work has received funding from the Jerome Foundation, Minnesota State Arts Board, Kone Foundation, New Music USA, American Scandinavian Foundation, and the Arts Council of Finland, amongst others. She holds classical music degrees in both the United States and Finland and a Master of Music in Contemporary Improvisation from New England Conservatory.
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