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BETWEEN GIANT $HOULDERS

JOVEMDEU$ | THURSDAY, 25AUG22 | BERLIN, GERMANY

Debut Marcioz album with 10 tracks composed between 2020-2022. Doing a deep dive into a sonic concept built and developed based on thoughts, on principles, on readings and reality. The album was composed in it's majority in Curitiba and finalized in Berlin. Fully composed, performed, mixed and mastered by Marcio with special participation of Rompiste Mis Flores and Ivana Bandalo.

To forcefully recontextualize experimental and contemporary music // to negate the sonic description of innovation created by global north in the 21st century // to negate the fictional history of development in experimental music // to reconsider counterpoint as a colonial fragment // to reconsider tonal harmony as a colonial fragment // to reconsider the clavichord and baroque music as a colonial fragment // to consider the charango as a virtual extended technique instrument // to rethink the clavichord within a new possiblity for counterpoint // to acknologde the “herofication” of european musical landmarks as a form of ideology // to propose and practice an open multiple form view for new music // to negate a local practice and dialogue as a universal speech // to practice and recenter global south as the matter of the conversation // to ignore their idols // to profit from the gringo’s system // to buy my grandma a house // pela paz do corpo mestiço pardo brasileiro // to ocupy their spaces // pela malandragem // “europe is indefensible” // ich will profit aus ihre schulde // “demorou, eu quero é mais, eu quero até sua alma” // pelo lixo ocidental // eu nasci pobre mas nao nasci otario // good luck getting me out of your deutsche land

Full listening: https://bit.ly/3wIklj1

Bandcamp: https://marcioz.bandcamp.com/
Streaming: https://bit.ly/40hiUFX

FLORIDA MAGAZINE #9 | LOTHRINGER 13

FLORIDA | LOTHINGER 1324SEPT24 | MÜNICH, GER

This edition is dedicated to the theme of remnants, gathering pieces and fragments that have been left over—items that now find their place. These scraps, thoughts, and snippets, though subtle and often overlooked, can have a significant impact, like drops that wear down stone or sparks that start a fire. The crumbling remnants of our inner worlds may reveal more about the world than we realize. This small collection within the magazine reflects that idea. Marcioz provided a Visual score and poem called 'MÃE'. The magazine can be found for free at the cultural center in Munich and other book shops.

More information at: https://floridalothringer13.org/program/florida-magazine-9

SUNG TERRITORIES | UNIVERSITÄT DER KÜNSTLER: KOLLISIONEN 2024

UFERSTUDIOS | UNIVERSITÄT DER KÜNSTLER | 08JAN24 — 12JAN24 | BERLIN, GER

5 Day workshop given alongside multimedia artist Luiza Lüz during the Kollisionen week program from Universität der Künstler for students and visiting students. The workshop deals with recovering forggoten knowledges through sonic art, storytelling and vocal narratives. Engaging with the transformative power of listening, storytelling, vocal work, and oral traditions as essential tools to recover narratives of interdependence between humans and more-than-humans. Building upon the intersection of the Planetary crisis, decolonial studies, and sonic art, this program aims to challenge dominant perspectives by prioritizing non-academic ways of learning and embracing postnatural approaches to ecology. Participants will be invited to get in touch with forgotten knowledge(s), both collectively and individually, and express the power of this memory in the present through sound, vibration, and storytelling.

More information at: https://www.udk-berlin.de/studium/studium-generale/kurse-courses/interdisziplinaere-kuenstlerische-praxis-und-theorie-ws-2023-24/kollisionen-2024/projekt-14-sung-territories/

IN HONOUR: $HOTTING, ROBBING AND $TEALING |

RADICAL SOUNDS LATIN AMERICA FESTIVAL

ARKAODA, RADICAL SOUNDS LATIN AMERICA BERLIN | SUNDAY, 19NOV23 | BERLIN, GER

Premiere of the solo performance "In Honour: $hotting, Robbing and $tealing" for Electronics, Repique, Voice, Transversal Flute at the opening of the 5th edition of the festival. The 40 minute piece explores the elemental impact of power dynamics within the mist of both community as well as within neo liberal hyperindividual belief:  Arguing into contradiction, cynicism, strategy, posture, archetypes of power, jealousy, thru scenery in a sonically theatrical format. It is structured around three distinct laws, each delineating a movement narrated by a ghost voice.

The performance unfolds with Marcioz assuming a prayer position amidst the crowd, later crawling towards the stage with jewellery coursing through the body and feet. The laws guiding the narrative are as follows:
LAW I: Velvet Glove for the Iron Hand

LAW II: Attention $upreme

LAW III: Do Not Press a De$perate Foe
Archival slices can be found at: https://www.instagram.com/itsmarcioz/

INVOCATION OF THE $WIMMING BODY  | BERLIN N—GB 2023

BERLIN MUSIC COMISSION | NOV23 — DEC23 | BERLIN, GER
Next-Generation Berlin is a technologically-driven research program fostering marginalised voices, often left unheard in music. It 
aims to invite visibility and learning, understand adversities and dissect processes, and create conditions necessary for innovation and impact within music. In the program, one artist is paired up with a mentor which assist the artist over the course of two months in development and research of a piece, or project, or idea. Marcioz was mentored by New York composer and multimedia artist, Christina Whealer in development of "INVOCATION OF THE $WIMMING BODY" for 4 speakers. 

The piece is a multimedia work exploring technology and spirituality, inspired by the relationship of trauma, wound and reconnection of Afrodiasporic communities with the Atlantic Sea. The piece unfolds collaboratively with the audience, employing a specially crafted algorithm for sound and one for a visual generative algorithm of a wave which is projected into the audience. As the performer engages with the algorithm, a call-and-response dynamic emerges, reflecting the spiritual essence of group prayer through sound, music thru crafted poems. The speakers are set up in a way that shapes a sonic river, letting both the audience and performer surround within the room. This setup alms to create a fluid relationship between the room performer and the audience, excluding a difference between performer, sound, visual, room and speakers.

More infomation about Berlin N—GB: https://nextgeneration-berlin.de/

ЛІСИ, LASY, ГОРИ  | BWKŁS CHOIR | GALLERY WEEKEND / BERLIN ART WEEK

GALERIE MOLITOR, STUDIO MONDIAL | 17SEPT23 | BERLIN, GER
Started by Wojciech Kosma, 
The BWKŁS Choir is named after an acronym of the first song they sang together: Bojące Wszystkich Krajów Łączmy Się ("The Afraid of All Lands Unite"). The choir stages performances that weave together collective singing, electronic music, poetry, dance and improvisation. Their continuously developing performances center around an intention to forge a space for emotional community and explore the potential of the voice to imagine and access a connection to the non-human world. The choir comprises professional and amateur singers as well as writers, choreographers, music producers, and visual artists. Marcioz performed improvised electronics alongside the choir as well as prepared compositions with the choir.

More info and festival program: https://www.gallery-weekend-berlin.de/journal/gallery-weekend-festival/

SPRING23 | SOLO PERFORMANCES

JOVEMDEU$ | MAY23 — JUL23 | BERN, CH; PORTO, PT; BERLIN, GER
Series of solo performances of "Entrelaços", a piece for repinique (afro brazilian percussion instrument), voice, flute and electronics. The piece tries to incorporate musical practices and musical thoughts present in popular afrobrazilian culture. Within schemes and different takes on counterpoint, tuning systems and scales present in the colonial period in Brasil in a musician-plays-to-computer-and-it-reacts setting. Music venues: sososo Space (Bern), o Ermodo Caos (Porto), Stray Signals (Berlin), 2-do at HAUS1 (Berlin). Special thanks for the venues! 
Calendar and more information avaliable at:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CsQ2gCJsNAh/

SOY&SYNTH: SOUTH BY SOUTH SERENADE | BERGHAIN KANTINE

SOY DIVISION | FRIDAY, 28OCT22 | BERLIN, GERMANY

1 hour long live improvisation with messyfingerz for Repinique, electronics, flutes and voice at Kantine am Berghain. The South by South Sonic Serenade Series aims to highlight the South American and South East Asian diasporas in Berlin, giving a space for these communities to speak about their colonial scars, cultural violences, and of course music practices.

The sets consist of improvisations with each a pairing between one diaspora artist from South/South East Asian and one artist from South American descent. A digital documentation album containing all sets from this and other series of concert nights will be launched in December by Midnight Shift and L-KW.
More information at https://soyandsynth.soydivision.berlin/

SOUND AMERICAN 28: THE MAPPING ISSUE

NEW WORLD RECORDS | FRIDAY, 29APR22 | NEW YORK, USA

Conversation with the composer, Jocy de Oliveira, for the article "Liquid Voices", where a dialogue between a very experienced composer and a young artist is had. Questions as career doubt, Brazilians in the experimental music space, Curitiba, key moments in her career and others are had. The Mapping Issue is avaliable from April 29th for pre-order. Official release date is May 15th. This issue was lovingly guest-curated by Kyla-Rose Smith from Found Sound Nation with help from Paulo Sartori and features contributions by Ben Lamar Gay, Matthew Welch, Eva Salina Primack, Shabaka Hutchings, Poetra Asantewa, UMLILO, Elena Moon Park, Peni Candri Rini, Cergio Prudencio, Jocy de Oliveira, Marcioz, Ben Hall, Peter Margasak, Annea Lockwood, and Jules Gimbrone.

Order here: https://www.newworldrecords.org/products/sound-american-28-the-mapping-issue
In depth reading available at:
https://soundamerican.org/issues/mapping/liquid-voices

NO REASON TO GET EXCITED 2022 | PRINZREGENTEN THEATER

COMMON GROUND | FRIDAY, 17JUN22 | MUNICH, GERMANY

Solo concert with electronics. Debuting performance of 'Between Giant $houlders', later released via Marcioz label, jovemdeu$ during the 3 day concert series organized by Common Ground at Prinzregententheater in Munich. 

SOUTH AMERICAN VANGUARD: $ilenced $ounds | FREIRÄUMEN

GIB UNS & COMMON GROUND | TUESDAY, 28DEZ21 | MUNICH, GERMANY

Worskhop presented in Munich at the Haus der Jugendarbeit during the Freiräumen workshop series organized by the Gib Uns & Common Ground collective. The 2h workshop dived into the history of sonic vanguard thinking in South America, with a special focus on brazilian composers as Jocy de Oliveira, Naná Vasconcelos, Thiago França and DJ Gui da Zo. While being heavily influenced by the book "Desobediencia Sonora" by Cristiano Figueiredo, the workshop desired to present counter narratives to the Eurocentric description of musical inovation by mentioning innovative artists in the South American musical archive.

THREE FENCES OF TIME | NOVAS FREQUÊNCIAS 2021

NOVAS FREQUÊNCIAS | WEDNESDAY, 01DEZ21 | RIO DE JANEIRO, BRASIL

Comissioned work for the iconic contemporary music festival. 21 visual scores were composed for 21 minutes of hand dancing and 21 minutes of music, which resulted in a 'hand ballet'. The piece tries to dialogue in 3 movements in linear form about 3 moments since the start of the covid-19 pandemic. From it's beggining, to it's current state of doubt and confusion. The work was performed by contemporary indigenous flautist Andrea Alvarez, kanun player Hana Boukhris, contemporary clarinetist Ivana Bandalo, Bata player & composer, Peter Bata. This work is available to watch at Novas Frequências website, in their immersive gallery, '394 PARALAXXX':
https://novasfrequencias.com/2021/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O51PgjtzJVI

OCTOBER MEETING | CONTEMPORARY MUSIC & MUSICIANS

ART MUSIC TODAY, TRACE21, REKAM BERGERAK | SUNDAY, 17OCT21 | YOGYAKARTA, INDONESIA

20 Minute performance of 'Secretos de Una Boca Atrapada' for indonesian contemporary music festival 'OMCMM'. The performance explored the idea of hidden and secret unprovoked sounds. 

ONEBEAT VIRTUAL RESIDENCY

FOUND SOUND NATION | JUL21-SEPT21 | NEW YORK, USA

2 month residency alongside other 29 global south and american artists. In this year's program, OneBeat seeks to question and dialogue how we understand and create new modes of grieving, care and healing past the covid-19 pandemic.

More info can be found at: https://1beat.org/announcing-onebeat-virtual-fellows/

DO AVESSO NO.1 (BESCHREIBUNG SERIAL)

THURSDAY, 14JAN21 | CURITIBA, BRASIL

1 hour mix compiling multiple works of south american electroacustic, musique concrete aswell as samba and musica serial.

It can be found on https://soundcloud.com/marcioz

DE/COLONIAL WRITING$

JOVEMDEU$ | THURSDAY,16JUL20  | CURITIBA, BRASIL

3 track EP released on Marcioz label, jovemdeu$. DE/COLONIAL WRITING$ takes influences from samba, flamenco, trap and industrial music to develop a new possibility for the brazilian music pallete. Growing up in Curitiba, Marcioz was immersed in samba carnival bands since a kid, playing repinique, surdo and other typical instruments present in afrobrazilian music. That same origin makes key difference to define DE/COLONIAL WRITING$ as a sound wishing to imagine electronic music from the colonial period in Brazil. The project doesn't try to solve any of the worlds issues, simply accepting its uncapabilities, it rather wants to cause thought, imagination and creativity from the listener.
Coverart from Osório Belêm.

It can be found here: http://marcioz.bandcamp.com/

UNTLDLIFE MUSIC FESTIVAL

OPEN DOORS LA | FRIDAY, 26JUN20 | ONLINE FESTIVAL

30 minute dj set mix raising donations for the american Black Lives Matter movement. Donations directed to World Central Kitchen aswell as Restore North Side Minneapolis.

WHITE COLONIAL PRODUCT & MISTURA DAS ÁGUAS

JOVEMDEU$ | MONDAY, 02MAR20 | RIO DE JANEIRO, BRASIL

Single track released under Marcioz label, jovemdeu$

It can be found here: http://marcioz.bandcamp.com/

GOETHE TALENTS 

POP KULTUR BERLIN | 13AUG19 | BERLIN, GERMANY

Residency like program prepared by Pop Kultur Berlin in combination with Goethe Institut and Music Board Berlin for 10 different artists across the world. Parts of the program include visits to MONOM, Kraftwerk Berlin and music performances at the festival and other venues. Artists include Verraco, Mpho Sebina, Noni Mouse aswell as artists from Africa, Asia, and South America.

MULATO TRAGIDY

JOVEMDEU$ IN PARTNERSHIP WITH NURTURED IDEAS | THURSDAY, 02AUG19 | DIGITAL - NEW YORK, USA

Composed between 2018 - 2019, MULATO TRAGIDY is directly inspired by the works of Franz Fanon, more specifically "Black Skins, White Masks" and Lilly Swarts's "O Espetáculo das Raças". Both books had a significant impact during the compositional process, as they offered reasoning, wakening and understanding behind a 2 decade long hurting of internalized hatred and scars of direct racism. The EP sonically investigates the narrow spaces between branquitude and negritude in Brasil, self diagnosing the position of the Pardo, Mulato and Mestiço body in the project plan of populational whitening that occurred in Brasil since the XXth century. The EP takes as departure the term "tragic mulatto" which is present in American literature and oral tradition, as a way to self diagnose and investigate the confusion and gaslighting process that was forced upon the black and pardo population in Brasil as form of colonial colorist strategy. Special thanks to Helena Taborda Monahan, Stéfanos Pinkuss, Thiago Mendes.

It can be found here: http://marcioz.bandcamp.com/ 

HEAD IN THE TRESS REMIX

MOM+POP | 07AUG19 | DIGITAL - LOS ANGELES, USA

Remix produced for indian/american pop artist Hotel Garuda.

It can be heard here: https://tinyurl.com/headinthetressremix

BITBIRD RADIO 

BITBIRD | 26JUL19 | RADIO - DEN HAAG, THE NETHERLANDS

45 minute guest mix for San Holo's label radioshow. 

It can be found on bitbird radio's soundcloud.

DEGENERATED FREAKSHOW  

GOULDIAN FINCH 3 |  BITBIRD | 31JUL19 | DIGITAL - DEN HAAG,THE NETHERLANDS

Collaboration with BeauDamian composed during bitbird's writings camp residency in 2018. 

Track can be found here: https://bitbird.bandcamp.com/track/the-generated-freakshow

BITBIRD WRITER'S CAMP

BITBIRD | JUL18 | DEN HAAG; ZOETEMEER, THE NETHERLANDS

Residency with 10 other artists also from the dutch label where tracks for the compilation 'Gouldian Finch 03' were composed. In this period, Marcioz also worked on strings for San Holo's 'album 1'.

HOW TO MAKE LOVE $TAY

BITBIRD | NOV17-DEC17 | DIGITAL - DEN HAAG, THE NETHERLANDS

4 track pop debut EP. First oficial release under the dutch imprint. Composed between 2016-2017. Special thanks for singer Amanda Mayo and  Rafael Felipe Walter. Partially recorded at Universidade Federal do Paraná, Campus DeArtes, SALA114.

It can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/marciozspotify

GOD AIN'T GONNA PAY YOU BACK 

RECORD RECORD | 03MAR15 | DIGITAL - PARIS, FRANCE

Debut Marcioz track under the compilation 'Fillet Mignon 03'. Composed in 2014. 

It can be heard at http://recordrecord.paris/

PORQUE VOCÊS NÃO SABEM DO LIXO OCIDENTAL

jovemdeu$

 2024

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