Mirusi Mergina is a Dutch avant-garde composer, sound artist, and sonic visionary whose work explores the obscure and hidden shadows of the human psyche. Her immersive shows invite audiences to explore inner landscapes, creating space for introspection and emotional resonance.
She played at internationally respected festivals, including Roadburn Festival, Le Guess Who? and Brutal Assault, where her work stood out for its dark, eclectic and otherworldly aesthetic. She has also shared stages with adventurous acts such as Xiu Xiu and Liturgy.
In addition to live shows, Mirusi Mergina creates installations and sonic rituals such as Resonance of the Self (Dutch Design Week 2025) a live, evolving composition that blurs the lines between artist, sound and audience, inviting deep engagement with presence, emotion and the unseen.
Step into an unseen realm where sound takes on a life of its own, breathing shadows and whispered secrets into the space around you. In this immersive performance, you are not just a spectator. You are a traveler through shifting terrain: hidden emotions, uncanny murmurs, and thresholds that blur the line between comfort and revelation. Every pulse, every echo asks the same question: will you lean in… or turn away?
Using an intricate fusion of raw synthesizers, voice‑driven soundscapes, haunting drones, and entrancing mantric rhythms, Mirusi Mergina conjures sound as a visceral presence. Her live performance guides you into altered states of perception, leaving a haunting intensity that stays with you well beyond the final note.
Listen to the album on Spotify or Bandcamp. Also available on Vinyl @ Tartarus Records.
Watch the sneak peek on YouTube.
Resonance of the Self (Dutch Design Week 2025) is a sound installation that blurs the boundaries between presence and performance. The work unfolds as a living composition shaped in real time by her body: heartbeat, breath, and inner rhythms directly influencing the sound. Nothing is fixed or pre-recorded; the music emerges moment by moment, responding to physical and emotional presence.
Set within a darkened, dreamlike space, the listener becomes a quiet witness to vulnerability. Listening shifts from a passive act to one of attunement, where sound is felt as a pulse rather than observed as a performance. The installation dissolves distinctions between composer and composition, inviting a deeper form of listening toward others, and toward oneself.
A Choir for Cancer explores the possibility that beauty can emerge from places we refuse to look. This installation begins with a source we associate with fear, grief, and uncertainty: the growth patterns of cancer cells. Using data from HeLa cultures, I translate each moment of proliferation into MIDI-based choral voices. Every expansion, mutation, or doubling becomes part of a collective harmony.
By converting cellular growth into sound, I aim to humanize something that is normally invisible and deeply unwanted. The work challenges the cultural impulse to divide things into "good" or "bad," "beautiful" or "ugly." Instead, it asks the viewer to sit with contradiction: that something destructive can also turn in something beautiful.
Liturgy of Lost Aeons is an original musical composition created specifically for the resonant, sacred space of a church, but it is far from a traditional liturgical piece. This work draws deeply from the aesthetics and philosophy of cosmic horror. The fear of the unknown, the incomprehensible, and the overwhelming sense that humanity is insignificant within a vast, uncaring universe.
In Liturgy of Lost Aeons, the church’s long echo and profound shadows become part of the experience, amplifying unfamiliar, circling voices and haunting drones that seem drawn from a reality beyond human perception. Rather than telling a linear story, the soundscape evokes a ceremonial descent into forgotten cosmic epochs, where ancient, alien forces stir beyond the veil of comprehension. Each chant, tone, and resonance evokes that core cosmic horror theme: that the universe is overwhelmingly vast, indifferent, and ultimately unknowable, and that even listening can feel like stepping into truths beyond human sanity.
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