sellopostal.bandcamp.com/album/me-alimento-de-voces
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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... more
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released September 27, 2023
Recorded between March of 2022 and February of 2023.
Track 1: Zach Hart (mouth-to-mouth recording). Poem-score: Zach Hart.
Track 2: Lara Alarcón (mouth-to-mouth recording and dictaphone).
Track 3: Varoujan Chetirian
Track 4: Guido Wertheimer, Ritamaria, Mariana Carvalho, river at Vale do Alcantilado - Brazil. Text: la convivencia de las fuerzas by Guido Wertheimer. Song: Falta de Silêncio by Alessandra Leão
Track 5: Maíra Nascimento.
Track 6: Afra Jurkiewicz (mouth-to-mouth recording)
Track 7: Varoujan Chetirian
Track 8: Natalia Francischini (electric guitar and objects), Mariana Carvalho (prepared piano) and Marina Cyrino (flute-to-mouth recording).
Track 9: Valéria Bonafé, Inés Terra, Ceola Tunstall-Behrens, AnaRosa Ibañez and Mariana Carvalho. Track: V. Países Imaginários by Inés Terra and Gustavo Torrezan (
inesterra.bandcamp.com/album/pa-ses-imagin-rios).
Track 10: Elena Azzedín, Mariana Carvalho, Nicolás Dardano, Moana Hollenstein, Vanessa de Michelis, Chorinho do Pinhão, Olívia Locatelli, Hellena Kuasne, Caio Righi, Danilo Sene, Sarah Alencar, Pedro Guimarães, Teté e Manu.
Track 11: Lara Alarcón (mouth-to-mouth recording), Marina Cyrino (flute-to-mouth recording)
Track 12: Aryadne Lima, Aurora Rodríguez, Brandon LaBelle, Carlos Eduardo Samuel, Carmen Silvia Cintra Torres de Carvalho, Diana Fonseca, Francisco Jalala, Javier, Bustos, Mariana Carvalho, Miriam Dascal, Moana Holenstein, NicoSpitale, Selu Herraiz, Vicente Antunes Ramos, Ximena Alarcón.
Recording engineer and mixing: Moana Holenstein.
Mastering: Makoto Oshiro.
Cover picture: Ana Iramain.
Graphic design: Juan Pinkus (
www.juanpinkus.com).
Voice archive: Afra Jurkiewicz, Aliene Pasquero, AnaRosa Ibañez, Aryadne Lima, Aurora Rodríguez, Brandon LaBelle, Caio Righi, Carlos Eduardo Samuel, Carmen Carvalho, Ceola Tunstall-Behrens, Danilo Sene, Diana Fonseca, Elena Azzedín, Francisco Jalala, Giovanna Monteiro, Guido Wertheimer, Hellena Kuasne, Inés Terra, Javier Bustos, Julia Ro, Lara Alarcón, Laura Mello, Maíra Nascimento, Mariana Carvalho, Marina Cyrino, Manu, Miguel Francisco, Miriam Dascal, Mitchell Keaney, Moana Holenstein, Natália Francischini, Nico Bustos, Nico Dardano, Nico Spitale, Olivia Locatelli, Paulo Bauer, Pedro Guimarães, Renato Torres de Carvalho Neto, Ritamaria, Samuel Perea-Díaz, Sarah Alencar, Selu Herraiz, Teté, Valéria Bonafé, Vanessa de Michelis, Varoujan Chetirian, Vicente Antunes Ramos, Vilte Gustyte, Ximena Alarcón, Zach Hart.
Thanks to: Moana Holenstein, Julián Galay, Christiane Hommelshein, Monika Żyła, Pedro Oliveira, Zach Hart, LODE, Mitchell Keaney, Selu Herraiz, Rabih Beaini, Kirstine Elisa Kjeldsen, Giovanna Monteiro, Vicente Ramos, Sound Studies and Sonic Arts - UdK Berlin, Morphine Raum.
