[listen with headphones
Enter. Listen to the voices processed by my body. I filter them with my flesh, my bones and inside my mouth. They were offered to me – or I took them – and I chewed them a bit. They accumulated. I prepared them: cut and mixed. I slow-cooked, but maybe some remained raw. I ate the voices, their noises and silences with a couple of cables. I was populated. And then, licked my lips: making audible what I devoured.
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Through a process of correspondence held between January and March of 2022, I collected the material for me alimento de voces in various forms. The exchanges were voice messages, letters, texts, drawings, improvisations, conversations, recipes, field recordings and others. In the end, with each person we gathered voices in audio format, creating an archive.
This album has mainly two methods: pre-recorded material ingested through tiny speakers and mouth-to-mouth vocalization. The voices I swallowed were selected, edited, combined, collaged and juxtaposed in very different pieces. Everything was recorded through my body: while eating, I shared my internal listening perspective mostly using binaural microphones, ear protectors and a stethoscope mic. The collection of composed pieces is a result of the contributions, collaborations and their digestive process. The album is part of an homonymous series of works that I started in 2019.
Mariana Carvalho. Berlin, September 2023.
Mariana Carvalho (São Paulo/Berlin) is a performer, musician and sound artist. She works with the body and interactions between bodies, mostly through voice, technological mediation, improvisation, internal listening, contact, self-built instruments and prepared piano. She is a master student at Sound Studies and Sonic Arts – UdK. She is part of LODE, Comitê Escondido Johann Fatzer and of ATWA with Meg Stuart and Doug Weiss. She did her bachelors in piano at USP, where she was part of Sonora: músicas e feminismos, NuSom and Orquestra Errante.
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