PAULA MIRALLES. MI VOZ ES UN JARRÓN (‘MY VOICE IS A VASE’)
The act of speaking and listening turns our voice into a musical score, making us both performers and listeners at the same time. We don’t usually listen to ourselves when we speak; we don’t pay attention to how we sound, to what is special about the sound we make. Where is the voice? How does it happen and what does it do? Who is heard when my voice sounds? If I take the words away from the voice, what is left? Mi voz es un jarrón is a small vocal study in which I explore all these questions using three instruments: my voice, a bass drum and a microphone. It’s a kind of sonorous self-portrait that requires listening to yourself and, more importantly, to others in order to bring about the full transformative experience it proposes.
Paula Miralles is a creator and cultural worker in the field of performing arts. After a long career as an actor and performer of other people’s work, she began to develop her own artistic creations. From 2006 to 2017, she worked together with the musician and composer David Alarcón on several projects focused on voice, sound and stage. In 2018, she released her first solo performance piece, LP, a work that deals with voice, music and biography. She has since premiered two more solo pieces. Her practice revolves around voice and sound as forms of knowledge, and their power in the political and social dimension. She is currently part of the artistic collective Taller Placer together with Vicente Arlandis.
JOSEP XORTÓ + THE CONGOSOUND. NOVA ESPLENDOR (‘NEW SPLENDOUR’)
The project Josep Xortó + The Congosound came into existence in 2015 out of the collaboration between the singer Josep Xortó and the artist Carles Congost with the aim of recreating some of their favourite musical genres, such as Italo disco, new wave and 80s synthpop, through songs full of bitter-sweet humour and luminous melancholy sung in Catalan. In addition to the tribute and the aesthetic exercise of reviving these styles, Carles Congost fills this music with stories about himself, about life in general, and reflections.
Josep Xortó is a singer and DJ, a firebrand of Barcelona nightlife and one of the driving forces behind the Glove Party, which specialises in disco music. He is a charismatic vocalist and performer who has fronted different bands, including Stand Up Against Heart Crime, Critters and Tothom. His voice and his personality also give body to Carles Congost’s ideas and compositions.
The Congosound is the musical alias of the visual artist Carles Congost, under which he creates compositions and musical productions as part of his contemporary art installations filled with references to pop culture (music, comics, cinema). Since the late 1990s, The Congosound has released its music on different Spanish and international labels, and has collaborated with Italian disco star Ryan Paris and electronic artists such as Superpitcher and Italoconnection. He has also created remixes for bands such as Fangoria, Astrud and Manta Ray. Josep Xortó + The Congosound also comprises the musicians Miquel Mestres, Andrés Papas Pérez and Aleix Perdigó, with whom they forcefully transform the fantasies created in the studio into the live performance.
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