This special live broadcast of Voidwave, Yiddish Fairytales was a collaboration between Katya Urban, Chaia, and Maddie Russel, honoring the poetry of late Yiddish writer, Ida Maze. It is an improvised set featuring her poem ‘Where Stories Come From,’ translated from Yiddish by Miriam Udel. The set includes live instrumentation as well as Yiddish archival sounds, and a short interview at the end.

Chaia is an electronic composer working at the intersection of Yiddish culture and electronic club music. She weaves archival Yiddish samples with techno and ambient, creating hybrid compositions that situate ancestral sound within global rave culture.

Maddie Russell is a bassist, DJ, and artist carving her path in the Los Angeles music scene. Originally from Fort Worth, TX, and a Berklee College of Music graduate, she has performed in projects such as Retrograde88, MJA.WAV, and Chaiah. Now performing as Violane, sometimes in her signature black-banged wig, she brings rhythm, groove, and sensuality to every project she touches.

Ida Maze (1893-1962) was born in a town now part of Belarus. She was born into a family related to the ‘grandfather’ of modern Yiddish literature. She first started writing poetry as a teenager, but published her first volume in 1926. She proceeded to publish four books of poetry and an autobiographical novel throughout her lifetime, as well as served as a mentor and humanitarian to many. She died in 1962 in Montreal.

She is known for her deceivingly simple style, weaving playful childlike text with deep Jewish storytelling, connecting to generations past.

Voidwave is a web of experimental voices, sounds, and interviews with a focus on work by femme, gender non-conforming, and queer folx. Embedded in these sound practices are rebelliousness and longing, hunger for new subversive futures, irreverence, determined perseverance, political potency, uncompromising processes, and includes a celebration of lineages that spans across time and the globe. Voidwave is a 2-hour radio show that features work from artists who use experimental sound and music, performance, field recording, spoken word, sound art, sound poetics, and other disobedient audio speculations – adventures into sound and conversations with the people who made them.

Voidwave is a collaboration by multidisciplinary artists Melissa Vogley Woods in Ohio, Liz Roberts in San Francisco, and Kim Zumpfe and Katya Urban in Los Angeles, with occasional guest collaborators and hosts. Voidwave was formed by Melissa, Liz, and Gina Osterloh. All designed images by Melissa Vogley Woods.