Natalia Mallo |
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Natalia Mallo was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1974. She started studying at the age of 8, in the Conservatório Nacional de Bellas Artes. At the age of 17 she got in touch with the brazilian music and felt a strong identification with it, as well as the country itself, its language and its nature. She moved to São Paulo, the huge brazilian metropolis in 1995, when she was 20. There she started a career as songwriter, composing for other artists and for her solo project. Then she started studying and researching digital environments for making music, and became a sound engineer and producer, working for independent artists and producing music for theater and dance pieces, installations, cartoons and films. In her work with contemporary dance companies, she investigates the possibilities of improvisation as a language to communicate aesthetical and pollitical ideas. This was a turning point for Natalia's will to search for information and references in contemporary music and sound design. She produced three albums with her band Trash Pour 4, released in Brazil, Japan, Korea, Thailand and Greece and is a lead singer in gatoNegro, a group that plays contemporary tango, mixing this genre with brazilian and jazz influences. She already worked as musical director in the Danceability Brazil project, directed by the American choreographer Alito Alessi, where she started using digital manipulation of sounds from natural sources. During her stay in Japan, she collected samples of the strong presence of nature sounds in the city of Tokyo in contrast with silent crowds, and with this in mind, started thinking of a project that could reveal the sounds of a space/place/city, as a manifestation of its life and its movement. Then she tried to take this investigation to a place where nature could live and sound freely, to discover textures, melodic and rhythmic patterns and pure music in the sounds of nature and transform them in rough material to be manipulated digitally and used as a base for music inspiration and composition. This specific research brought Mallo to I-Park. | ||
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Sound Installation: Pine Circle In this installation, Mallo wanted to bring some unexpected sounds to the pine circle, to create a dreamy athmosphere that can estimulate our ears, memories and imagination. What you have here is the sea from Rhode Island, a waterfall, sounds from big cities as Tokyo and Sao Paulo and others (you find out or imagine what they are). And on top of that, some other elements directly from my own imagination. If possible, stay for a while and close your eyes. |
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Bonggi Park | ||
| Cathryn Brown | |||
| Eizo Sakata | |||
| Karin van der Molen | |||
| Mark Baugh-Sasaki | |||
| Natalia Mallo | |||
| Olga Ziemska | |||
| Patrick van Boeckel | |||
| Sound Installation: Untitled (Hands) collaboration with Olga Ziemska | |||
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| Sound Installation: As it is in heaven collaboration with Karin van der Molen | |||