
Musicboard Berlin: Choka
November - December 2023
Choka is a collaboration between Bolivian multidisciplinary artist Maque Pereyra and Brazilian experimental musician Ricardo Eizirik. Motivated by general aesthetic and thematic affinities they decided to form a platform for collaborations named Choka with the intention of expanding their practices within the realm of music, visual- and performative arts.
Biography

Photo: Agatha Powa
Maque Pereyra is a Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist working in the field of body-based performance and music production. She studied performance and dance (UdK-HZT Berlin, OEI La Paz) and started working as a DJ and rapper in Berlin's Latino club and art scene in 2017. In her work, she combines choreography, audience participation and music to create hybrid performance events about healing, pleasure, spiritual activism and decolonial practices. She has shown her performances in several countries in Europe and the Americas. In 2022, she released her first singles and video clips, including “C4R4COL”. Her single “Me pone ah” appeared on the “Listen to Berlin Compilation” in 2023/24; she is currently working on her first EP.
Biography

Ricardo Eizirik is a Brazilian composer with an extended artistic practice between instrumental and electronic composition, installation, performance, DJ-ing and curating. His works address physical perception, colonial history, everydayness and the mechanization of society, often through archival material, everyday gestures and found objects. He has worked with Ensemble Mosaik, ensemble recherche, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Ensemble Intercontemporain and at festivals such as “MaerzMusik”, ‘ECLAT’, “Wittener Tage” and “Darmstädter Ferienkurse”. He performs as a DJ and producer under the alias “auto_timer”, combines experimental electronics with Latin American club sounds and is co-founder of the Berlin collective ‘CHOKA’ as well as co-curator of the “SuenaLATAM” festival.
Mentoring
The residency is supported by mentoring from Perera Elsewhere. Experimental pop writer Sasha Perera aka Perera Elsewhere is a producer, songwriter and DJ. She uses technology to experiment with her voice and lyrics, voice, lyrics, percussive beats, deep bass frequencies and sound design to explore the experience, led to the ‘doom-folk’ sound of the Perera Elsewhere project, where she found a home at LA label Friends of Friends and released two well-received albums.
In co-operation with Musicboard Berlin.
