Inés Terra
is a singer, improviser and producer born in Argentina and based in São Paulo, Brazil. She works between experimental music, sound art and performance - with voice exploration as a connection within creative processes. She is the creator of the Língua Fora peformance series, which fosters a space for vocal improvisation and voice research from different perspectives. She has released several albums, including audiovisual album "Ruminar" with Iago Mati, "Teia" with Julia Teles and "Fio" (Estranhas Ocupações) with various artists
inesterra.bandcamp.com
Isabel Nogueira
is a composer, performer, researcher and musicologist based in Brazil. She has a degree in Piano (Brazil) and a PhD in Musicology from the Autonomous University of Madrid, is a professor at the Federal University at Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) and coordinates the Research Group Sonic: Gender, Body and Music (UFRGS). She has published articles and books on music and gender, sound creation and artistic research.
She has the artistic projects Bel Medula, Betamaxers, Desandance and Women in Space which have released several albums of experimental music on netlabels from Brazil, Italy, Peru and the United States.
isabelnogueira.com.br
Thayná Oliveira
Hamaré - "In this song I used cello and voice, I tried to bring fluid sounds, like the movements of the waters and the noises that permeate my moments by the sea.
There is a poem that accompanies the sounds, the phrase that repeats itself says: the sea that inhabits me, also inhabits you; and the title is a play on words: Há (to be) MAR (sea) É (to be), which together sounds like: Amar é or A Maré (To love is or The tide)"
Psychopompo - "was made at the invitation of the CHIII Festival amid the pandemic in a nefarious political context; shortness of breath, discomfort and ironic speeches from rulers about deaths by COVID-19 was the context of this story. This version was not released by the festival"
Images and sounds are passions reflected in her work. Student of sound alchemy, music therapist and art therapist, Thayná Oliveira traces multiple paths of expression and contact with the intangible. She has participated in theatre performances and festivals such as Mundo Sol, Afro Music, CHIII- Festival de Música Criativa; recordings with Rádio Diaspora, Renato Gama, Cristalina Cantos Medicinais, among other nutritious partnerships
vallethay.bandcamp.com/releases
b-Aluria [Gabriela Nobre]
Gabriela Nobre is a sound artist and poet born in Rio de Janeiro. She is a PhD student in Studies Contemporâneos das Artes at UFF, where she researches verbal scores as an interface between
music/sound art and poetry/literary text.
b-Aluria is her experimental music project which investigates the relationships between sound and word, noise, collage and speech which create discontinuous narratives in search of alternatives to the inadequacies of the written word.
"The voice is like a thread running through my work. Voice with words, voice with text. And what is just as important, is their place of origin. I mean, the mediums these voices arise from. These different mediums have been tape players, a sampler and a microphone (typically used with pedal effects), occasionally a megaphone. [...] Today I understand that my tape players are like living objects, individuals with their own way of being in the world. Their modes of existence, as far as I can tell, travel through the importance (is it fair to call this the ‘function’?) of documentation: reviving that which is no longer here. Or, simply, giving another voice to the voice that has already spoken. The act of doubling up the voice summons ghost voices, types of presences that are, and have thus far been, my companion species. Yet an even closer companion than these ghost voices is the tape recorder itself, which, during the act of recording or performing with it, becomes an extension of my fingers as they run across its surface and fast forward, rewind or pause the tape. An extension of my own body. It works with me, thinks with me, responds to me. When it breaks, my voice breaks too. My tape player is an individual that I am in a relationship with."
b-aluria.bandcamp.com