18 Jul Valentina Risi – aka Coconauta
Barcelona, Es
Festival ROTA – Period of residency: Junio 2024
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My proposal focuses on the creation of a sound performance that fuses electronic music, visual projections, poetry and body work. I am interested in the multiplicity of voices overlapped to electronic IDM bases. For this I will use tools such as voice synthesizer to produce choral voices, synthesizers and software to compose and produce the music.
Each piece will incorporate poems in different languages, such as Italian, English and a fictitious language. I want to work on the deconstruction of language and the dissolution of meanings, using the sound of the voice as a mere instrument, based on reflections of William S. Burroughs or Laurie Anderson. I want to investigate how the use of a fictitious language blurs the act of singing. The poems will be visually projected with the fusion of images of the landscape surrounding the residence. My intention is for the poems to be influenced by the landscape and this opens a new field of research for me. Incorporating the soundscape of the territory in my compositions is something I have always wanted and for which I feel I need some external impulse from specialized agents in the field.
I am also interested in delving into creation in a trans-disciplinary way. To create spaces where the forms of expression are blurred. I would like to create a multisensory experience that leaves reason aside and amplifies the senses.
My goal during the residency in Blanca is to develop this proposal, leaving me perrera by the territory and merging my creative universe with the landscape to give rise to a new language that I do not yet know. Questions arise: how to make pop-electronic songs dialogue with a rural landscape? what do the mountains and the desert bring to my intimate poems? what does my voice sound like over the sounds of a river?
Valentina Risi. Bachelor’s degree in Audiovisual Communication from Pisa, Italy. She currently works in the music industry as a singer, guitarist, and electronic musician, and is part of the Konvent cultural project. She has always been involved in music, participating in various projects and collaborations related to bossa nova, folk, South American, and Greek music. In 2017, she entered the world of electronic music and music production, beginning to produce her own songs and culminating in projects such as Valentina & The Electric Post (electronic pop), Coconauta (experimental electronic and DJ), Cortexx (music and visuals), and Substancia Cremada, where she works on the process of adding sound to ceramic pieces and their subsequent staging through voice and sound processing.