Collaborations

DESMONTE
(TO BECOME UNDONE)

2021
Direction and Performance
Pedro Oliveira
Dramaturgy & Staging
Giuliana Corsi
Sound Performance
Performed in Germany, Italy, Brazil and Portugal

Composition and live performance for modular synthesizer and recorded voice. Constructed with and through the voice of death metal singer Fernanda Lira (Crypta). Originally commissioned by Festival Novas Frequências (Brazil) and Taking Things Apart (Germany) with dramaturgy by Giuliana Corsi. Also available in album format as Digital and Cassette. Listen and buy on Bandcamp.

A sonic exploration on the afterlives of colonialism and the violence of borders, seeking to uproot voice from body and body from origin.
A study on the limits and failures of (machine) listening, the composition appropriates and misuses spectral techniques similar to those of the so-called “dialect recognition software,” a proprietary technology in use for cases of undocumented asylum seekers in Germany