BELLA

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BELLA

Preferred pronouns:

she/her
Birth year:

1988
Primarily based in or works from:

Brazil
Skills:

performing sound art installation field recording film editing music composing
Topics:

feminism technology latin american political scientific bioacoustic
Contact information:

Currently working on:

In my last project called Antena-Oca (Hollow-Antenna), developed during the residency City as a Forest, I created an antenna inspired by the Embaúba Tree (a native Brazilian one), to listen to inaudible natural frequencies of the forest and the city.

Quick Facts:

I am an artist working primarily with sound and light. I explores boundaries between the listening, the imperceptible and the matter, building electronics and facilitating workshops. For me, listening to the inaudible is a form itself of connecting my limited human body with other beings. That is why sound is so captivating - according to the indigenous, it manifests itself from the mixture and perception of the being that listens.

I completed a Master in Arts (Music/Sonology) at Universidade São Paulo in 2022. International residencies at: City as a Forest - Museum of Tomorrow (2022, Rio de Janeiro), Amplify - Oi Futuro (2022, Rio de Janeiro), OneBeat Virtual (2021), CTM Music Makers Hacklab (2019, Berlin), Binaural Nodar (2019, Portugal), Lo Spazio Poschiavo (2016, Switzerland). My audiovisuals, performances, soundwalks, sound pieces and installations have been occupying festivals, art galleries, museums, concerts halls, movie theaters, radio airwaves and the virtual.

Three relevant works from the last 5 years of artistic practice:

Antena-Oca, project; 2022, City as a Forest / Museum of Tomorrow, Rio de Janeiro
VASA, performance; 2021, Festival Acéfalo, Chile; 2022, Chromatic Wednesdays / Errant Sound, Berlin
Light Load, video; 2021, Sonic Matter Festival, Walcheturm, Switzerland

Highest educational degree:

Master in Arts (Music/Sonology) at University of São Paulo, Brazil

Work samples:

TINKU

SO(Ñ)AR

Antena-Oca (Hollow-Antenna)

BELLA no Escuta!

VASA

The object contains gove (soul). Life is not contained.
Therefore, the dust of the dead inside a vase is then blown out.
Life is returned to the ashes.
Here, what is contained is sound.
And it leaks out.
With its microphonies, and displacements in the air, sound is leaking its life.
Its form is not contained, and it disperses, amplifies itself.
Sound as living matter.

Light Load

In light load, the antenna loaded to the top of the mountain picks up the inaudible waves flowing from the large electrical distribution antenna. We also hear the swirling motion of wind energy, along with the chime of the cows. The cows are outside the field of view, but they also complement the soundscape. So there are three layers/levels of energy being produced and captured: the eolian, the electric, and the gaseous. The listening in this work inverts the logic of time: we are caught up in stillness, and contemplation rather than acting as producers of another energy layer.

UN

Created by visual and experimental sound artist Bella, "UN" is a performance that investigates the vibratory effects of sound waves on liquid surfaces. A light source runs through the container with water, decomposes vibrations and projects an enigmatic haunting phantasmagoria onto a wall. "UN" traces a net of elements involving sound, image, technique, science, music, cinema, performance. The short film was recorded at Fábrica Bhering and directed by Sergio Mekler and produced by QTV label.