In her new solo performance Cylyre, composer, instrument builder and researcher Mári Mákó explores the relationship between instrumental performance and interactive live electronics. With eerie, resonant textures and chaotic undertones, Cylyre reflects Mákó’s search for musical origins while imagining utopian sonic futures. For this performance she designed a new string instrument that echoes the form of a lyre, reimagined through a cyberpunk aesthetics with a sculptural metal body, manipulated in real time through a quadraphonic speaker system, creating an immersive sonic experience.
Mákó’s music combines avant-garde electronic and post-club. Her practice combines electroacoustic experimental music, audiovisual performances and interdisciplinary art, and is is deeply influenced by philosophical and critical theory. Mákó designs and builds her own instruments to produce unique and unconventional sounds, approaching instrument creation not just as a technical task but as a compositional and conceptual act.