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Marialuisa Capurso

Italian singer, sound artist, composer and performer. Her work is multidisciplinary and focused on the connection between voice, sound, field recordings, body and improvisation. She investigates and explores the realm of acoustic sounds and electronic interfaces as extension of human voice. Art and life, sound and movement, the common line is the improvisation which leads her to research and to create new worlds. "Everything spawns from the urgency I carry inside myself, and from the need to create an artistic dimension I belong to, an intimate and pure dimension devoid of any sort of strict rules, and shareable with whoever wishes to be part of it. A search towards the essence, leading to a continuous discovery of new worlds, real and unreal, deformed, imaginary, mystic, irriverent and extreme worlds. Tuning in with the outside, with space and events, actions become ritual, short circuit, a flow of alteration". In 2001 studied Theater and dance at "Accademia Stabile del Musical",, in 2008 graduated with a bachelor of jazz music at Conservatory "N.Piccini" in Bari, Puglia where she studied with Roberto Ottaviano, Gianna Montecalco, Davide Santorsola. In 2012 she specialized her studies with a Master of new musical languages and technology at the Conservatory "N.Rota" in Monopoli, Puglia with Gianni Lenoci. She attended workshops with Meredith Monk, Faheem Mazaar, Chiara Guidi, Michela Lucenti, Tiziana Portoghese, Patricia Bardi, Barry Harris, Zeno Gabaglio, Carlos Zingaro, Dave Moss, Kent Carter, Karl Berger, William Parker, etc etc. She sang the contemporary solo pieces for voice "Lettura di Braibanti" with and for Sylano Bussotti. Recorded with the Hocus Pocus Orchestra and William Parker the album "What Shall We Do" for Silta Records in 2010. In 2012 she got a grant "Leonardo WWM" , she worked at Kampnagel Teater of Hamburg with the musiktheater's company "Kommando Himmelfahrt". In 2015 she got a residency at EMS of Stockholm as a guest composer and worked on her solo project Blooming. In 2016 released her first album "En Respirant" in duo with JeanMacr Foussat, voice and electronics , for FOU Records. She used to be based in Berlin, but she now travels around the world as a nomadic artist, and builds her research on the travel's experience.