Sofia Zaiceva
About
Sofia Zaiceva & Ľubomír Slovinský are two of the four artists selected for Nonagon's residency program 2025. During their two-week residency at Svanö, they collaboratively created a new audiovisual work tailored specifically for the cistern. Sofia Zaiceva, working with sound, and Ľubomír Slovinský, creating visuals, responded to the unique acoustics and atmosphere of the space, crafting a piece that directly engages with the cistern's distinctive environment. Their work will be presented for the first time to an audience in the cistern at Nonagon Festival 2026.
Biography
Sofi (Sofia Zaiceva) (LV) is a sound artist, composer, and performer working across experimental electronic music. With roots in classical piano, electroacoustic composition, live coding, and DJ culture, she creates immersive, open-source-driven sonic experiences. Her practice combines creative coding, spatial sound, and improvisation to explore how digital processes express human emotion and relationships. Recent releases include “SHE HAS CANDY” with CATPURSE (SØVN Records, 2025), and solo albums “hypergloss” (2025) and “aze” (2024).