Asma Maroof aka Asmara Sound Artist Based in Zurich, Switzerland
Education
2003- 2007 BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Musical Affiliations Nguzunguzu Future Brown M.I.A Kelela
Performances
2010 MOCA Los Angeles Live Sprawl Bard College, New York USA Tour with M.I.A
2011 Europe and Australian Tour with M.I.A New Museum, We Remember Stories Not Facts, New York Hammer Museum, All of this and Nothing Los Angeles LACMA, Soundbank, Dublab, Los Angeles BEMF, New York Transmusicales, Rennes Corsica Studios, London Horst , Berlin Unsound Music Festival, New York Grinnell College, Iowa Dan Graham, Los Angeles
2012 MOMA PS1 Warm Up Series, New York Frieze Art Fair, London Whitney Biennial, New York Sonar Music Festival, Barcelona Unsound Music Festival , Krakow Share Conference, Belgrade Live Arts Week, Bologna Nada Art Fair, Miami Berghain, Berlin Fabric, London ZDB, Lisbon Nowa Muzyka Festival, Katowice Marsatac Festival, Marseille Electrosanne Festival, Lausanne Villette Sonique Festival, Paris H.O.M.E , Longstreet Bar, Zurich Distortion Festival, Copenhagen Bozar Music Festival, Brussels La Triennale di Milano, Milan Le Guess Who Festival, Utrecht Kenzo, F/W 2012 Runway Show, Paris Red Bull Music Academy, Madrid Blasting Voice, Suzanne Geiss, New York
2013 Sonar Music Festival, Tokyo Frieze Art Fair, PS1, New York City 12 Paintings By Laura Owens and Ooga Booga, Los Angeles
2014 Air, Tokyo Grethen, Berlin Way out West, Gothenburg Deviation, London Splendor in the Grass, Sydney Rocket Bar, Adelaide
2015 Newman Festival, Lithuania Ecoutes AU Very Festival, Geneva Kaiku, Helsinki La Machine Du Moulin Rouge, Paris Sonar Music Festival, Barcelona Peyote, Istanbul
2016 Sydney Opera House, Sydney Dark Mofo, Hobart
2017 Contact, Tokyo Matte Projects, New York City MOMA PS1 Warm Up, New York Wiener Festwochen, Vienna MTV Video Music Awards, Los Angeles
2018 Berghain, Berlin The Schvitz, Detroit Art Dubai, UAE LACMA in 3D, Los Angeles Pioneer Works, New York MOMA PS1 Warm Up, New York Sudden Rise, EMPAC, Troy, New York
2020 Anonymous Club, Luma Foundation, Zurich
Records Nguzunguzu, Self Released, 2010 (re-released on Innovative Leisure) Mirage, Silverback Recordings, 2010 Timesup, Fade To Mind, 2011 Warm Pulse, Hippos In Tanks, 2012 Skycell, Fade To Mind, 2013 Future Brown LP, Warp Records, 2014 Kelela, Gomenasai (from Hallucinogen EP), Warp Records, 2015 Let Ting Go, Self Released, 2017 Take Me A_Part, Warp Records 2018 Angel ho, Death Becomes Her, Hyperdub Records 2018 Aquaphoria, Warp Records 2019 Deviant Eyes, Self Released 2020
Film/ Performance Soundtracks Community Action Center, A.L. Steiner, 2011 Wildness, Wu Tsang, 2012 Duilian, Wu Tsang 2016 My Country, Julia Meltzer 2016 All It Took, Wu Tsang 2017 Pressure Makes Diamonds, Kazim Rashid 2018 Into A Space of Love, Wu Tsang 2018 Love is A Rebellious Bird, Wu Tsang 2018 Sudden Rise, Wu Tsang 2019 Composition 1& 2, Wu Tsang 2020 Come On Get It, Wu Tsang 2020
Fashion Show Scores Kenzo Fall/ Winter 2012 Kenzo Memento 4 2019 Lous Vuitton Fall/Winter 2021