Maya Shenfeld + Pedro Maia

Maya Shenfeld & Pedro Maia present Under the Sun. An AV show produced over the last two years between Berlin and one of the world’s deepest marble quarries in the south of Portugal. Through a cycle of electroacoustic pieces for analogue synths, woodwinds, voice, and field recordings, and imagery shot under the scorching sun of the hottest summer on record, Shenfeld and Maia explore change and repetition, deep time and the ephemeral moment, equilibrium and imminent threat. Pushing the boundaries of Super 8 film and drones shootings, Maia’s analog film processing is brought into dialogue with Shenfeld’s layered textural compositions to create an immersive radiant live audio-visual experience. 

From a drone’s eye perspective, we fly through a world out of joint: Under the Sun is the name of the audiovisual project that musician Maya Shenfeld and filmmaker Pedro Maia perform at donaufestival. The imagery was captured under the scorching sun in one of the world’s deepest marble quarries in southern Portugal. Shenfeld has produced a song cycle for analogue synthesisers, woodwinds, voice, and field recordings. It is about recurrence and change, about the ecstasies of deep time and the turmoil of the present that is throwing everything out of balance.