The Zone by Eve Maret
The Zone by Eve Maret
Curious Music is pleased to announce the limited edition 180-gram audiophile vinyl release of The Zone, by composer and sound-artist Eve Maret. The Zone is also available as a limited edition cd and digital download.
Recorded as a series of live improvisations with a Novation Peak, The Zone is a meditation on immediacy and the subconscious.
Inspired by Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1979 film Stalker and the mystical paintings of Hilma Af Klint and David Onri Anderson, Eve creates a world of sparkling, ever-evolving solo synthesizer improvisations, forging a unique sonic pathway to an extraterrestrial realm of latent desire.
Described by Electronic Sound magazine (Sept 2023) as the “Tennessee tinkerer [who] drops electronic gold”, Eve Maret is a Nashville-based experimental artist and composer who employs a wide array of electronic media and techniques in her various disciplines, exploring the possibilities of personal and communal healing through creative action. She continues to push the boundaries of experimentalism and pop, most recently with her brilliant album New Noise.
ABOUT EVE MARET
Eve Maret is a Nashville-based experimental artist and composer who employs a wide array of electronic media and techniques in her various disciplines, exploring the possibilities of personal and communal healing through creative action.
“I’m keenly interested in how my sense of hearing relates to the sixth sense, or the intuitive sense, which lies beyond normal perception. There’s a lot that I sense throughout the day that I can’t verbally express, and music is a means for me to process that which lies beyond the visible. Everything has a frequency. Sound is a thought. Sound is a plant growing in my window. Sound is a dream I had last night.” - Eve Maret
To Eve, the act of creating is a wholehearted Yes. Drawing inspiration from visual art, the music of Debussy, the Fluxus movement, Kosmische Musik and funk, Eve makes use of digital and modular synthesizers, a vocoder, clarinet, electric bass, guitar, and MIDI Sprout technology to create works that range from lush cinematic soundscapes to astral disco. Eve’s music practice is a conversation with her numerous curiosities, manifested in the form of video art, drawing, dance, ritual, and cymatics. She studied percussion with Chester Thompson (The Mothers of Invention, Bee Jees) at Belmont University in 2012 and attended Mills University for a semester in 2019, where she studied electronic music and recording media with Laetitia Sonami, James Fei, and John Bischoff.
Eve’s 2019 release, No More Running (Deluxe Edition), was reviewed by The Wire Magazine and was featured on Bandcamp’s Album of the Day series. She is hailed to present “a loving tribute to her community, maintained by a distinct, individual voice that’s impossible to ignore” (Bandcamp, USA). Eve’s music has been featured on Echoes Radio and Iggy Pop’s BBC radio show Iggy Confidential. “Synthesizer Hearts,” off of Eve’s 2020 release, Stars Aligned, appeared on BBC Radio 6 Music’s B-List in December 2020 and premiered on Mary Anne Hobbs’ BBC Radio show “Music From The Near Future.”
Eve has toured across the country, performing alongside Sun Araw, Lydia Lunch, Xiu Xiu, Jack Name, and JEFF the Brotherhood, among others. In 2018 and 2019, she played at Big Ears Festival’s 12-Hour Drone. She also performs in Flower Power Synth and Woodwind Ensemble with JayVe Montgomery and Will Hicks. They released Titanic II in 2019 on Kentucky label Obsolete Staircases.
In addition to her personal creative practices, Eve is committed to providing avenues for others to create and uplift one another. She, Jess Chambers, Deli Paloma-Sisk, and Arlene Sparacia founded Hyasynth House, an electronic music collective and education center for female, trans, and non-binary artists in May of 2018. Together they facilitated workshops, performances, and community-wide conversations in an effort to support and empower marginalized groups. Hyasynth House ceased operation when Eve moved to California in August 2019.
