Agita Reke

Agita Reke is a Latvian electroacoustic composer. She finished her BA at Jazeps Vitols Latvian Academy of Music, after continuing electroacoustic composition studies at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre and Berlin University of Arts.

Agita has collaborated with professional ensembles like Multilatérale (FR), Fractales (BE), Ensemble for New Music Tallinn (EE), Names (DE), Art-i-Shock (LV), and Latvian Radio Choir with conductor Kaspars Putnins. She has developed her compositional skills in different workshops, in Latvia, Germany, and Austria with composers like Yann Robin, Francesco Filidei, Johannes Maria Staud, Mark Andre, Janis Petraskevics, Ruta Paidere, Dimitris Maronidis, Gundega Smite, Andris Dzenitis, and Rolands Kronlaks.

Agita’s focus is on electroacoustic and multimedia projects, working as both composer and performer for her own works. She has notably worked in the field of art performances, for example, creating a sonic landscape tailored for a poetry event and sound design for an art exhibition and film. In September 2021 she was a participant at Venice Biennale, College Musica as an experimental performer. Earlier she was also a member of an electroacoustic experimental project/ group Systema Solaris (LV) which includes organ, cello, electronics, and different kinds of noise/ percussion instruments. Agita is a member of the electronic duo FlowerPower.

BLACK HOLE ENTROPY AND SOFT HAIR

Any matter that falls into a black hole can form an external accretion disk heated by friction, forming quasars, some of the brightest objects in the universe. Stars passing too close to a supermassive black hole can be shredded into streamers that shine very brightly before being swallowed. The first known black hole was Cygnus X-1, identified by several researchers independently in 1971. Keywords: Spinning fields, soft absorption, symmetry, gauge-gravity correspondence, spacetime.

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