Utopia;
An imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect.

Following ten years of mixed disciplinary work across the globe, acclaimed artist and musician Mira Calix returns to Warp for the first time in a decade with her new EP.

Signalling her return to electronic instrumentation, Mira Calix envisions her own scope of what utopia is with four tracks of found sound and off cuts of existing sonic material from her personal library, all pieced together in an abstracted collage style. Exploring this fragmented approach further, she deploys her own voice as an instrument, a cut up that refractures and recontextualizes the material in order to conceive a sound that is directly influenced by sight.

“The past few years I’ve been making mostly installation, which I find thrilling, but the nature of my practice means I tend to work with many hands, many speakers, many materials, many musicians over long periods. It was really refreshing to make this EP, to give myself a time limit, a strict set of rules, a tight sonic palette and be fully autonomous as a writer, producer and musician. In a way it’s going back to my roots, my first ever release on Warp was a 10’, but it also felt completely fresh, playful, to just build some tracks around a cinematic scene – something for friends to move to in the early hours of a louche house party!” – Mira Calix