Ongoing performance series since 2008 for voice, percussion, piano, electronics, video, movement, loudspeaker-costume, multi-channel sound.

Composing for Many Media Including Me is a self-referential performance series composed with sound, video, experimental electronics, and the performer herself. In each iteration, the composition navigates the tension between the fixed and the improvised.

The creation of Composing for many Media Including Me goes together with the development of the Loudspeaker-Costume. The culturally conditioned power relations inherent in the construction of the performer’s body, alongside the possibilities and limitations of the technical media employed, are performatively interrogated through their interaction with one another and in relation to the specific topic of each performance.

From an anonymous review:

„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 prefer 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 almost 20 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

2019 – Karnevalsbedarf

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