Bodylandscape (Cospaisatge)

How it would sound like a landscape of decolonizing my voice and my body?

Where my voice and body have been colonized by academia, collective, ancestry, identity, history, oppression...?

Via voice, movement and embodiment I began with exploring the origin of life: vibration. There, I presumed I would find a reasonably timeless and non-individual space in order to unlearn, to free, to heal and ultimately, to reconnect. Especially the unlearning it has been huge (!) and not to through anything entirely away, but to discover territories of dialogue and transformation.

Bodylandscape is a zoom-in inside excerpts of a (contemporary) vocal-bodily sound work based on understanding the human body as the instrument: a whole cavity of resonance with its own organic musical entity.

Cascading inner and outer voices, layers of bodily sounds, navigating between friction and pleasure I discovered vast knowledge and power not only for voicing, but also for a quite seductive source of sound-speech within the human body.

In this context, Bodylandscape takes shape as a sound-space composition, fully composed and recorded with my body and my voice.

Photos: Marc Àvila Català

Concept, composition, interpretation and editing: Maria Coma

Design for the installation in the space and consulting: Marc Vilanova 

Vocal guest: Sinjo (aka Aaron Sinjo Barner)

Artist-in-residence space where the research, recording and editing took place: Lake Studios Berlin

Maria Coma (Germany / Catalonia).

Singer, composer and performance artist based in Berlin, with their roots between the Catalan Pre-pyerenees and Mallorca.
Their work meets at the intersection of music, sound art, performance and embodiment. Their artistic practice is driven by self-research exploring from a physical and personal experience. With an interest into the interweaving between voice and body, flesh and divinity and human (and) nature.
They create and stimulate voice and embodiment practices to develop a decolonized, physical and polyvalent language of vibration.
As a vocalist they also collaborate with other performers, musicians, dancers and artists. As a pedagogue, they hold a
somatic movement educator certification from Body-Mind Centering® facilitating classes and workshops, leading experimental choirs or coaching performers and dancers.
In their background they also holds five published solo albums, more than 400 performances around Spain, Germany and South America and other collaborations with a broad type of artists and musicians.