A voice is a person in sound.

The work of Brazilian/German sound artist and composer Laura Mello is the outcome of a practice of listening to the in-betweens, taking sound as the starting point to establish unheard connections. She explores the auditory dimensions of spoken language (Musical Pidgins) to deconstruct and reconstruct (de-)colonial perspectives, challenging established epistemologies (Intangible Sound of Contact). Laura’s projects emerge in multiple formats and evolve from interdisciplinary and often site-specific investigations (Living Radio, Radio Pamonha). In her conceptual 7 inch album Ringing Still Life, she explores the possibilities of vinyl as self-reflexive media.

Besides her solo performance series Composing for Many Media Including Me she composed for and collaborated with LUX:NM, Adapter Ensemble, Ensemble Garage, Maulwerker, and artists like Wolfgang Musil, Eunice Martins, Nicolas Wiese, Alexandre Fenerich, Petra Nachtmanova and Sookee. She is part Nicholas Bussmann´s Cottbusser Chor. As a member of Errant Sound she co-curated and organised the second Berlin edition of the Dystopie Sound Art Festival, as well as co-directed its following event *Topia Sound Art Festival. She has gained experience as lecturer at the Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (UDESC), at the Universität Bayreuth and the Rhythmic Music Conservatory Copenhagen.

She holds degrees in Social Communication (UFPR Brazil), Composition and Conducting, Music Aesthetics (EMBAP Curitiba Brazil), Electroacoustic Music Composition (MDW Vienna). Until 2013 Laura was also a PhD candidate at the Audio Communication Institute (TU Berlin).

Contact: mail[äd]lauramello.org

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