MARIE ANN HEDONIA Weaves A Cinematic Web Of Destruction In New Music Video

Dark-electro artist, MARIE ANN HEDONIA has unveiled her new cinematic video, "Eve Had the Metallic Shine of Summer".

The video concept was inspired by Ingmar Bergman's film, "Persona". 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.

MARIE ANN HEDONIA's collaborator, BLACK KITE, states, "This 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." The ending is completely dependent on the viewer's point of view: Do I go mad? Am I the bad guy? Am I free now?

The video was shot over a period of 13 to14 hours during one day of "guerrilla" 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.

MARIE ANN HEDONIA 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's Country Kitchen with her husband, Paul M'Olive, Hedonia's work encompasses four studio albums and numerous collaborative efforts across the spectrum of atmospheric, electronic sounds.

Born and raised in Charm City, MARIE ANN HEDONIA's exposure to the keyboard began with piano lessons in the fourth grade. "I remember trying to change the sound of my digital upright piano as a kid," she later recalled to the site, Atmospheres and Experiments. "I would pitch up the sound to bend the notes or try to alter the sound in some way. What I didn't know, though, was that I was playing the wrong instrument for that application. What I really needed was a synth."

Thereby having, in her words, "broken the seal", 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' Maschine software.

Hedonia's stable of hardware swelled, too, with the Moog Sub Phatty and Prophet '08. A breakthrough occured when Hedonia began experimenting with modular synthesis — glomming onto it far more than guitar enthusiast M'Olive.

A natural tinkerer, MARIE ANN HEDONIA began making patches, and creating sounds and sequences; the Plonk module, from Intellijel, was a particular gamechanger. As her Eurorack setup continued to expand — "It looked like a spaceship!" — Hedonia quips, she developed what she characterizes as "a hard, weird, industrial sound."

In 2021, MARIE ANN HEDONIA not only released her debut album, The Inevitable Collapse, but collaborated with electronic audiovisual artist and composer and Luminous Abstract co-founder, Grant Bouvier on the ambient synthwave album, Kenopsia. 2022's Marie Ann Hedonia Presents Marie Ann Hedonia represented a leap forward in songwriting and production quality. She followed it up with 2023's Temporal Dysmorphia.

Hedonia' will release her latest offering, Eclipse, later in 2025 via Paul and Marie's 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 The Voice) and Black Kite's Vicki Lynn Tippit.

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