Maya Dunietz (*1981) is an artist, musician, performer and composer. Her works combine classical music and the fine arts, installation and concert, sound and rhythm. The audience’s heartbeat, birdsong or the moans of discarded pianos converge in her work. The artist lets herself be inspired by the behaviour of a swarm of fish, birds or insects or by the Sami joik, a monotone guttural singing style performed by the indigenous people of Lapland in which the music is more important than the text and which reproduces a thing or theme vocally (in contrast to songs that are about things or themes). Dunietz’ installations are experienced through the whole body creating a space for pausing, listening and travelling through time.

Based on the traditional Klausjagen (Nicholas Chase) Maya Dunietz creates a new sound installation for Lucerne. This local event features hundreds of whips, bells, and colourful lanterns thronging through the village of Küssnacht by night.