Agita Reke is a Latvian electroacoustic music composer and a sound artist. Her artistic practice encompasses fixed media, live performances, multimedia performances, and sound installations. As a composer, she has been collaborating with acoustic, contemporary music ensembles, like L’Esemble Multilatérale (Paris), Fractales (Belgium), Names (Salzburg), Ensemble for New Music Tallinn (Tallinn), Latvian Radio choir (Riga), and Sinfonietta Riga (Riga). As a performer, she has been a member of an electroacoustic experimental project/group Systema Solaris (Riga), and the electronic duo flowerpower. Participant in the Venice Biennale Musica College as an experimental performer in 2021. Performed in festivals „Skaņu Mežs”, „Tallinn Music Week – Skaņu Mežs & Üle Heli”, „Ung Nordisk Musik Reykjavík”, „Afekt (Tartu)”.
Along with sound artists J. „Mo’ong” Santoso Pribadi and Kris Kuldkepp, Agita takes part in a two-week-long residency programme ‘Kintai.Kitaip’, inviting its participants to explore the local soundscape along with Pauline Oliveros’ ideas of „sonic awareness”. An open interplay between “attention and awareness” becomes the starting point for the participants’ creative process.
