Composers

Agata Zemla (born 1994 in Rybnik) is a Polish composer, performer, and sound artist who works at the intersection of contemporary music, electroacoustic music, and scientific research, particularly in the fields of biology, ecology, and psychoacoustics. Her artistic practice is interdisciplinary and research-based, providing a creative response to current ecological and socio-political challenges. Zemla's work is described as socially engaged art, grounded in profound reflection on the relationship between humans and the environment.

In 2024, she graduated with distinction from her Master's degree in Composition at the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław and her Bachelor's degree in Music Theory. From 2013 to 2016, she also studied biology at the University of Wrocław. Her research focused on trance phenomena from the perspective of psychoacoustics and somatic psychology—areas that continue to shape her approach to sound, the body, and consciousness.

Zemla's works have been performed by ensembles such as Spółdzielnia Muzyczna Contemporary Ensemble, NeoQuartet, Kompopolex, czy Sinfonietta Cracovia. Her compositions have been presented at major contemporary and interdisciplinary music festivals, including Warszawska Jesień, Sacrum Profanum, Musica Electronica Nova, Musica Polonica Nova, Festiwal Prawykonań, Survival Art Review, Art Media Biennale Reverso, IlSuono Contemporary Music Week, Begehungen Festival, Klang Festival i World Music Days.

She also creates at the intersection of music, visual arts, and performance. Together with visual artist Aleksandra Trojanowska, she co-founds the audiovisual duo Anabioses. She regularly composes music for the theater, collaborating with artists such as: She collaborated with Gosia Wdowik, Martyna Majewska, Zofia Gustowska, and Marcin Miętus, developing projects for institutions such as the Wrocław Pantomime Theatre, Neumarkt Theater Zürich, Komuna Warszawa, and the Modrzejewska Theatre in Legnica.

In 2024, the National Museum in Warsaw released a vinyl version of Naturacea, featuring her piece "What Field Whispers," commissioned for an exhibition dedicated to Józef Chełmoński. In 2025, her composition "To Bee or Not to Bee?" for flute, clarinet, viola, cello, and electronics was performed at World Music Days in Porto.

She completed a postgraduate course in acousmatic composition in Vienna under the supervision of Annette Vande Gorne. In 2025, she completed a course in film music composition at the National Film and Television School (NFTS) in the UK.