Sofia Zaiceva | SHAPE+

Sofi (Sofia Zaiceva) is a Latvian sound artist and performer currently based in Helsinki, Finland. With a background that spans classical piano training and electroacoustic composition to live coding and DJ scene, she has developer a distinctive approach to experimental electronic music that prioritises open-source approach and immersive sonic experiences. Through creative coding, spatial sound design, and improvisational practice, she excavates the relational qualities of sonic environments - revealing how digital processes can articulate deeply human experiences.

Her latest album "aze" (2024), released on Italian label "Riforma," embodies these topics. Sofi has been an active performer on Baltic scene, but also shared her performances across European platforms including "Musikprotokoll" (Austria), "MeetFactory" (Czech Republic), “Panke Culture”(Germany) etc.

Sofi is currently an artist of the SHAPE+ platform (2024/2025) for innovative music and interdisciplinary art.

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Date of residence: 27. 5.–5. 6. 2025

RESIDENCY PROJECT

During the residency, Sofi (Sofia Zaiceva), Sorbitol Drops (Antonín Závodný) and Natálie Pleváková will collaborate to develop an experimental sound performance that explores thresholds and liminality between computer music and embodied improvisation. The project examines improvisation as both method and conceptual framework, mapping points of intersection where each performers individual sonic vocabulary will collide and transform. Drawing from aesthetics of the grotesque and playful, manipulating sonic artefacts and referencing cultural memory, transmuting familiar auditory elements - all into new configurations.

EDUCATION

JAZEPS VITOLS LATVIAN ACADEMY OF MUSIC - bachelors degree in piano performance

ESTONIAN ACADEMY OF MUSIC AND THEATRE and ROYAL

CONSERVATORY ANTWERP, BELGIUM - bachelors degree in electroacoustic composition

SIBELIUS ACADEMY OF MUSIC, FINLAND - masters degree in music technology

Sofia Zaiceva is an artist of the SHAPE+ platform for innovative music and interdisciplinary art, co-funded by the European Union and Pro Helvetia.

SHAPE+ is co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.