{"id":14188,"date":"2025-07-14T12:17:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T17:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=14188"},"modified":"2025-07-14T12:17:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T17:17:38","slug":"marie-ann-hedonia-weaves-a-cinematic-web-of-destruction-in-new-music-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=14188","title":{"rendered":"MARIE ANN HEDONIA\u00a0Weaves A Cinematic Web Of Destruction In New Music Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"443\" src=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/MARIE-ANN-HEDONIA.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14189\" style=\"width:578px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/MARIE-ANN-HEDONIA.jpg 700w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/MARIE-ANN-HEDONIA-300x190.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>July 14th, 2025 &#8211;&nbsp;<\/strong>Dark-electro artist,&nbsp;<strong>MARIE ANN HEDONIA&nbsp;<\/strong>has unveiled her new cinematic video,&nbsp;\u201cEve Had the Metallic Shine of Summer\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The video concept was inspired by Ingmar Bergman\u2019s film, \u201cPersona\u201d. Eve, our mannequin represents a toxic relationship. Eve is a person we pour our whole self into, a person who takes all of our energy, time, money, soul, and gives nothing back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MARIE ANN HEDONIA<\/strong>&#8216;s collaborator,&nbsp;<strong>BLACK KITE,<\/strong>&nbsp;states, \u201cThis song is about the potency and allure of destructive, codependent relationships and how they require us to self-abandon. It speaks to both addiction and toxic relationships that masquerade as love or comfort, but are actually antithetical to both.\u201d The ending is completely dependent on the viewer\u2019s point of view: Do I go mad? Am I the bad guy? Am I free now?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The video was shot over a period of 13 to14 hours during one day of \u201cguerrilla\u201d style film making, all over Baltimore city and county. Director Alex Shaak was pivotal in creating the striking visuals seen throughout the video, bringing the concept to life. The weather was completely coincidental. The energy of the thunderstorm very much translates the powerful ending of the video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe title=\"Marie Ann Hedonia, Black Kite - Eve Had The Metallic Shine Of Summer\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K3rIc_NS8gM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MARIE ANN HEDONIA\u00a0<\/strong>is a Baltimore, Maryland-based synthesist and composer who works in the spheres of techno, synth pop, dark ambient, jazz, and more. The co-owner and operator of the label Paul and Marie\u2019s Country Kitchen with her husband, Paul M\u2019Olive, Hedonia\u2019s work encompasses four studio albums and numerous collaborative efforts across the spectrum of atmospheric, electronic sounds.<br>\u00a0<br>Born and raised in Charm City,\u00a0<strong>MARIE ANN HEDONIA<\/strong>\u2019s exposure to the keyboard began with piano lessons in the fourth grade. \u201cI remember trying to change the sound of my digital upright piano as a kid,\u201d she later recalled to the site,\u00a0Atmospheres and Experiments. \u201cI would pitch up the sound to bend the notes or try to alter the sound in some way. What I didn\u2019t know, though, was that I was playing the wrong instrument for that application. What I really needed was a synth.\u201d<br>\u00a0<br>Thereby having, in her words, \u201cbroken the seal&#8221;, Hedonia soon made a beeline for a used microKORG at a local music shop. As her zest to make music grew, sequencing came next, via Native Instruments\u2019 Maschine software.<br>\u00a0<br>Hedonia\u2019s stable of hardware swelled, too, with the Moog Sub Phatty and Prophet \u201808. \u00a0A\u00a0breakthrough occured when Hedonia began experimenting with modular synthesis \u2014 glomming onto it far more than guitar enthusiast M\u2019Olive.<br>\u00a0<br>A natural tinkerer,\u00a0<strong>MARIE ANN HEDONIA\u00a0<\/strong>began making patches, and creating sounds and sequences; the Plonk module, from Intellijel, was a particular gamechanger. As her Eurorack setup continued to expand \u2014 \u201cIt looked like a spaceship!\u201d \u2014 Hedonia quips, she developed what she characterizes as \u201ca hard, weird, industrial sound.\u201d<br>\u00a0<br>In 2021,\u00a0<strong>MARIE ANN HEDONIA<\/strong>\u00a0not only released her debut album,\u00a0<em>The Inevitable Collapse<\/em>, but collaborated with electronic audiovisual artist and composer and Luminous Abstract co-founder, Grant Bouvier on the ambient synthwave album,\u00a0<em>Kenopsia<\/em>. 2022\u2019s\u00a0<em>Marie Ann Hedonia Presents Marie Ann Hedonia\u00a0<\/em>represented a leap forward in songwriting and production quality. She followed it up with 2023\u2019s\u00a0<em>Temporal Dysmorphia<\/em>.<br>\u00a0<br>Hedonia\u2019 will release her latest offering,\u00a0<em>Eclipse<\/em>, later in 2025 via Paul and Marie\u2019s Country Kitchen. Her most fleshed-out and rangey work to date, the album features collaborations with vocalists Delia Liederschuh, Casey Desmond (featured on the first season of\u00a0<em>The Voice<\/em>) and Black Kite\u2019s Vicki Lynn Tippit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Follow MARIE ANN HEDONIA:<\/strong><br>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/marieannhedonia<br>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/marieannhedonia\/<br>https:\/\/marieannhedonia.bandcamp.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Marie Ann Hedonia\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/artist\/6NA1E5hTqA6wg4CSVoP6OO?utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 14th, 2025 &#8211;&nbsp;Dark-electro artist,&nbsp;MARIE ANN HEDONIA&nbsp;has unveiled her new cinematic video,&nbsp;\u201cEve Had the Metallic Shine of Summer\u201d. The video concept was inspired by Ingmar Bergman\u2019s film, \u201cPersona\u201d. Eve, our mannequin represents a toxic relationship. Eve is a person we pour our whole self into, a person who takes all of our energy, time, money,&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=14188\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MARIE ANN HEDONIA\u00a0Weaves A Cinematic Web Of Destruction In New Music Video<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14190,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14188\/revisions\/14190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}