Ongoing performance series since 2008.
Composing For Many Media Including Me is a self-referential performance series composed through the media of sound, video, experimental electronics and the performer herself. In each new performance, composition is approached via the tension between the fixed and the improvisational. The culturally-determined power relations in the construction of the performer’s body, as well as the potential and limits of the technical media used, are performatively questioned in interaction with each other.
For voice, electronics, video, movement, loudspeaker-costume, multi-channel sound, etc…
Composing… is site-specific, strange, danceable, dangerous, poetic, androgyne, continuous, howling, crawling, sparkling, a wishing well and I´ve forgotten what I wanted to say.
Composing for many media including me is a performance container, or if you want a performance series on the act of composing for the media text, sound, video, and myself. In Composing for many media including me I introduce the audience to over 10 years of artistic research work focusing on what I call intermedia composition: text, sound, movement and projected image are treated as equal materials. What came first? The chicken or the egg? Same here. Language is music, image and a virus. A virus arose, a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose…Image evokes movement, movement opens a space where sound can be heard, in form of words. A kind of cut up or the best of a whole life howling.
EPISODES
Sep 2022 – Sound Fisherwoman KLANGMANIFESTE @ Echoraum Vienna
Feb 2022 – Sound Fisherwoman Sonic Sound Space @ Galerie Zeitzone Berlin
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Oct 2020 – Spinning – Radical Sounds Latinamerica @ Radialsystem Berlin
Spinning – for Transducers over Cymbals, Moog Synthesizer, Pandeiro, Voice, Electronics and Video. Costume designer: Lisa Simpson
Spinning was specially developed for the festival Radical Sounds Latinamerica, supported by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media.
Oct 2019 – Karnevalsbedarf Composing 2019 II @ LaborSonor
Karnevalsbedarf, or carnival needs, is the most autobiographic of my performances until now. Refering to the actual situation in Brazil, I make a cutout on our diverse cultural background and try to position myself within it. It includes text and poetry by Mikail Bakhtin and Sophie Reyer.
LaborSonor @ KuLe Berlin Oct 2019
Frau Musica Nova @ Artheater Köln Nov 2019
May 2019 – Composing for many media including me @ Fluid Spaces
for voice, pandeiro, electronics and 4-channel loudspeaker-costume and video.
In this version of Composing for many media including me I started working together with upcycling artist Lisa Simpson aka Agente Costura and Wolfgang Musil to create a 4-channel „speaker-costume“.
It explores the power of imaginating sound, for example, when triggered by the act of reading.
Fluid Spaces @ Acker Stadt Palast, Berlin, 05.2019
Jun 2014 – Can´t Stop The Moonsic
Velak Export @ Les Ateliers Claus, 06.2014
For this one I am playing a mini-synthesizer through a mini-loudspeakers-set and through my loudspeaker-glasses, interacting with the PA sound and also with the video projection. At the same time, I speak a kind of a self reflective text about the existence or not of a central role within the performance.
lauramello.org
Video footage/edition: Ulrike Bernhard/Laura Mello
Nov 2011 – Sailing On The News
@ Echoraum, Wien, 2012
a parody performance on news and scienctific approaches
for speaker, 4 channel audio and live skype chat
Dec 2011 – The Psychology of Dress
@ Alte Schmiede, Vienna
Text: Thea Rasch (first german aviator)
Piano, voice, lloopp, composition: Laura Mello
Klangregie, live electronics: Wolfgang Musil
Jul 2011 – Piano Body Logic Visual
@ Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben Berlin
… or the voice is a person in sound.
I play the chords following Martin Luther King´s voice and its melody. The loudspeaker-googles play my voice speaking a text about the relation between body and voice, I use Ppooll for live-electronics.
Performance (excerpt) at Platform Young Performance Artists
Performance, composition, ppooll: Laura Mello
With a text from Martin Luther King´s speech in 1968
Thanks to Janine Eisenächer and Performer Stammtisch
December 2010 – Piano Body Logic Visual
Performance Stammtisch @ Kule Berlin
Mai 2009 – When Will We Be Together
@ Festsaal Kreuzberg Berlin – Grand Prix D´Amour
Nov 2010 @ Wachelturm Zürich
Feb 2009 – Composing for many media including me – Fugue and Counterpoint
@ Sophiensaele, Berlin – 100° Berlin Festival
Nov 2010 @ Kaskadenkondensator Basel
Oct 2008 @ Brut im Konzerthaus Wien – Velak Gala