Ana Kravanja is a member of the music
group
Širom, where she plays on a multitude of traditional, classic and
hand-made musical instruments.She creates original music for theatrical
performances, films, animations, narratives, poetry, dance and visual arts. In
2013, she conceived the Glacies project in which musicians play on shelves from
refrigerator. Between 2012 and 2016, in the duo Najou with Sam Kutin, she created
music for fourteen calinbas and recorded two records. She is one tenth of
Olfamoštvo. As an improviser on the violin, she collaborated
with numerous Slovene and foreign musicians and dancers: Samo Kutin, Tomaž
Grom, Irena Tomažin, Vid & Jošt Drašler, Andrej Fon, Ina Puntar, Tea
Vidmar, Tijana Stankovic, Noid, Matija Schellander, Susanna Gartmayer,
Aleksandar Škorić, Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka, Henrik Olsson, Raphael
Roginski, Ryuzo Fukuhara, Lotus Edde Khouri etc.
She has co-created several events within
projects of the Sploh Institute, such as: in the context of the Confine aperto,
Zvokotok and Neforma series, RR public presentation, Sound Disobedience
festival and international tour. Her contributions can also be heard on the Sound
Disobedience album, released in 2011 by Sploh in co-production with
L'innomable. A recording of her solo concerts is a part of the iMstrument
collection.
Contact: ana.kravanja(at)gmail(.)com
Discography:
Ana Kravanja - Spaces XII / Prostori XII (Zavod Murmur, 2024)
Ana Kravanja & Vitja Balžalorsky - Spomini slane puščave / Memories of a salty desert (Zavod Sploh, 2023)
Ana Kravanja & Elisabeth Harnik - Vrtinci minljivosti / Vortices of impermanence (Creative Sources, 2023)
Širom – Utekočinjeni prestol preprostih / The Liquified Throne of Simpliicity (Glitterbeat / Tak:til, 2022)
Ana Kravanja in Samo Kutin – Trosi Kumulusa, kaseta, reizdaja (Hand Drawn Hand, 2021)
Kačis – Nedognano / Unfathomed (samozaložba, 2021)
Širom I.
(double LP, Torto Editions, 2020)
Ana Kravanja in Samo Kutin
– Trosi kumulusa / Cumulus Spores (self-publishing, 2020)
Širom – Cvet, ki speče
konju cvet / A Universe That Roasts Blossoms for a Horse (Tak:Til, Glitterbeat Record,
2019),
Ana Kravanja
& Tijana Stanković – Trkam, kličem, odganjam / Kucam, dozivam, teram
(self-publishing, 2019)
Širom /
Yoshio Machida – Kače čakajo modro nebo, mrzla cesta, prekmalu zame / Snakes
waiting for blue sky, cold road, too soon for me (self-publishing, 2019)
Širom –
Lahko sem glinena mesojedka / I Can Be a Clay Snapper (Glitterbeat, tak:til,
2017)
Širom – I.
(ZARŠ in Klopotec,2016; Amorfon, 2016)
Samo Kutin /
Ana Kravanja – Ni ravno najboljši kraj za pristajanje na drevesih (Samo Kutin,
2013)
Najoua – Deveteronog (Klopotec, 2014)
Najoua –
Tojevsekarsespomnim (Klopotec, 2012)
Ana Kravanja & Marko Karlovčec – Vraščanje /
Ingrowth (Botanic records 2012)
Video:
Solo
NajouaŠiromGlacies
Olfamoštvo
Interview for Centralala:
Music Can Get Me High
