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0:00/9:06
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mood (4hero remix) 7:010:00/7:01
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0:00/7:35
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0:00/5:41
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0:00/4:00
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0:00/3:41
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0:00/4:09
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0:00/5:09
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0:00/3:58
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0:00/6:50
Classically trained violist, singer, and composer, Sophie Sirota has had an extensive career spanning across genres, Sophie has collaborated as a session musician, live performer, arranger, and composer with some of the most iconic names in music, including 4-Hero, D'Influence, Gabrielle, Beth Orton, Ed Harcourt, Paul Weller, Kim Deal, Robert Kirkby, Tindersticks plus recent supports for Test Dept, 3Head and System 7.
Sophie also runs Coastal Electronauts, an electronic music night in Whitstable, Kent. She is known for her innovative performances creating ambient glitchy soundscapes, using looper and effects pedals to craft intricate, evolving textures.
‘A flame in the dark and a moment in time, as universal as it is deeply personal…’ (Sound Read Six)
‘...takes you to big spaces with dreamy skies, all the while with a slight, ominous undertow which adds a certain industrial, urban spice.’ (Outside Left)
'..an elegant requiem for looped strings that swells like the incoming tide' (Electronic Sound Magazine)
ELECTRONIC SOUND
‘Pressure Drop is a fine example of innovative artistic imagination.’
RECORD COLLECTOR
‘A flame in the dark and a moment in time, as universal and it is deeply personal, here is Holding Tension. Strange digital sounds sparkle and grumble in the distant hum of forthcoming music. A jittery synthesiser tone then begins to swell and loop on a bowed fascination. Vocal sounds echo like phantoms in the mists of memory, calling from their past tense into the present with ethereal grace.’
Sound Read Six
‘…like DJ Shadow, distressed and dissonant interjections at odds with the core beauty of the viola parts’.
whisperin and hollerin
In early 2023 I dusted off my electric viola and a few effects pedals.
This debut album is the result. A collection of sonic explorations shaped by two years of live performance and experimentation, both in Whitstable and at other events, every piece has been created with the feel of a live performance in the recording process. Aside from the album’s final track, ‘glitch’, all have been composed using electric viola, voice and effects pedals, creating atmospheric soundscapes with abrasive, noisy textures - an interplay that mirrors both internal chaos and meditative calm.
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holding tension 8:110:00/8:11
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mood 7:020:00/7:02
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i feel 9:300:00/9:30
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50:50 6:180:00/6:18
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0:00/7:18
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glitch 7:150:00/7:15