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@mari_mako_

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~~ sounding
in between berlin-rotterdam
doctoral candidate @mome_budapest

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submitted my doctoral thesis ~ The Art of Listening

My research explored how listening could function as a techno-social critique, resisting the disembodying tendencies of contemporary technology, not by rejecting it, but by reconfiguring the relationship between body, technology, and perception through design. Throughout the years, I developed a range of instruments and sonic artefacts to engage with listening as a counter-practice within the context of digitalisation and the attention economy where stillness and attention become acts of resilience.

Along the way, I had the joy of collaborating with and learning from talented artists and makers, theatre maker @sofiekramer_performance Sofie Kramer and architect @fenderwall Iris van der Wal, whose contributions helped my artistic practice expand beyond sound and music.
Very grateful for the conversations with @b_llabelle Brandon LaBelle and participating in the Listening Academy deeply enriched my work.

I am especially grateful to my supervisor and mentor, Jessica Hemmings, whose thoughtful remarks and support enabled me to work at my best. Many thanks to @zsuzsanna Zsuzsanna Koos for her super thorough editorial and translation work bringing the thesis to its final form. and thanks to @mome_budapest for giving me this opportunity

amazing cover photo by @sandervanwettum

next up: the defence

With deep appreciation for the people I have met and the exchanges that have shaped this journey. by @mari_mako_

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excited to perform at the 45th anniversary of the legendary @v2_unstable

come by if you are around🪽

location @worm.rotterdam the classic rotterdam hub<33

📸 @chillnroll by @mari_mako_

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25 days ago

silent kraftwerk by @mari_mako_

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2 months ago

sound on ~~

exploring a new stage and light design with @fluxgeistportal for the performance commissioned by @gaudeamusnl this september ✨

and the new laser-cut frame is almost here with more strings attached, transforming the lyre into a harp🪽

can't wait to hear what it becomes~~

#instrumental #interactive #concert #rehearsal #design by @mari_mako_

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2 months ago

~a special performance
opening for @alvanoto

grateful to @0xcollection for having me play during art basel

many thanks to @gabor_kitzinger for the light design and to @violukprojects for the curation and organisation

📸 @chillnroll by @mari_mako_

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3 months ago

Mári Mákó is a composer, instrument inventor and researcher. Her work brings together electroacoustic experimental music, interdisciplinary art and technology, not just as a tool, but as an integral part of her artistic process. Her music touches on avant-garde electronic and post-club, with a controlled but abstract sense of complexity.

For this year’s Gaudeamus Festival, she is developing a new instrument for a multichannel speaker setup: a sculptural metal string instrument inspired by the forms and tradition of harp, reimagined through minimal contemporary aesthetics. With an interactive electronic design combined with the acoustical sound of the harp strings, she transforms physical gestures in real time into immersive sonic environments.

➤ Mári Mákó @mari_mako_ | Wednesday September 9

🔊 Gaudeamus Festival 2026 | 9 - 13 Sept, Utrecht
Five days of experimental music, performances and sound installations. by @mari_mako_

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@mari_mako_ is a composer and researcher working between Rotterdam and Berlin. Her practice moves through electroacoustic experimentation, contemporary classical composition, and interdisciplinary collaboration, producing work, described as avant-garde electronic and post-club, that is controlled, abstract, and dense with detail, engaged with the political and philosophical stakes of how we listen.

Collaboration is central to her method: she works inside hybrid territories where composition becomes inseparable from object-making, choreography, light, and theory. She designs and builds her own instruments, treating instrument-making as a compositional and conceptual act, a way of negotiating agency with materials that resist full authorial control. In performance, this commitment extends to the human voice, which she renders tactile and tangible, softening the edges of her sonic architectures. As a PhD candidate at MOME Budapest, she investigates sound sculptures and the sound of sculptures, alongside technologies that explore the materiality and spatiality of noise.

Recent collaborations make these commitments concrete. With choreographer Sofie Kramer, she has developed a performance in which the pole, that overdetermined object of contemporary visual culture, becomes the mediating instrument: “We see that the mediator, the pole, is encapsulating the modern material world, which we transform with the help of sensory design. By turning the pole into a ‘living’ entity with sounds, we can break down and develop another sense of ritual.” For Bernar Venet’s Generative Environments at Sotheby’s New York, she composed the sound component, translating Venet’s sculptural logic into a sonic field.

At the Trafohalle, Mári performs with @gabor_kitzinger, whose cinematographic light environment becomes the spatial counterpart to her sound. by @mari_mako_

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5 months ago

some moments〰️
1- @trafohouse concert ~ thanks for @rozi_mako
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3-@listeningbiennale seminar week location
4- @ccamstel soundchecking
5- @sofiekramer_performance 🌅
6- @rightaboutnowinc and Monolith
7- lake in rotterdam
8- instrument iterations
9- poster of my doctoral research presentation @mome_budapest
10- kőhegy at night by @mari_mako_

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5 months ago

Cylyre // @bar_neun
thank you @algomystica for the invite 🖤

📸 @mareikebo.de taken in Berlin, Germany by @mari_mako_

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9 months ago

Drifted~~ just premiered at @novembermusicnl brought to life by @spaceshipensemble 🌬️

Drifted reimagines Kodály Zoltán’s collected folksong “Felülről fúj az őszi szél” (The autumn wind is blowing from above) into a sustained soundmass drone piece, where the notes are stretched and harmonically extended, forming a floating landscape with vocals.

Paired with a fan installation, the wind becomes part of the music, while ribbons flying in a slow hypnotic motion. The folksong’s story of lovers trying to find each other is mirrored in ribbons that never quite touch, but still trying to reach each other.

^^thanks @julianmapleoliveira for the support and the fun times and @spaceshipensemble for the beautiful performance 🪽

Next time in February at @dagindebranding at @korzotheater

and possibly showing Cylyre’s new version

📸 by: Jostijn Ligtvoet by @mari_mako_

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a year ago

I presented the single-channel video installation entitled VERTIGO on September 27 at @hengermalom , organized by @fiatalkepzomuveszekstudioja to celebrate the association’s 35th anniversary. This site-specific installation, with music composed by @mari_mako_ , was exhibited for the second time. taken in Hengermalom by @mari_mako_

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a year ago

sensor check for @_sofiekramer_ dance in our Monolith piece, where movement shapes and transforms the sound
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come and see us at @festivalwhynot as part of @amsterdamdanceevent

#interactiveart #contemporaryart #dance by @mari_mako_

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