Rèplica / Retorn

Sandra Artigas and Bruma have developed this project for the cycle Dimecres de So i Cos (Wednesdays of Sound and Body) at the Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, in collaboration with Taller de Músics.  

Starting from collective musical memory, the musicians have selected a series of folk songs from the Catalan imaginary and other places across the Peninsula, reimagining their form and message to give them a new sonic life.

Electronics, soundscapes, and vocal experimentation are the tools Sandra and Bruma use to arrange these songs. Far from the concept of a setlist or a formal recovery exercise, the songs function here as sonic matter that can be transformed, distorted, and reshaped anew.

They gather and reinterpret melodies that have been passed from body to body, from voice to voice: living materials that remain suspended, waiting to be shown once again.

Sandra and Bruma bring these voices down from the air to the ground, revealing the beauty and simplicity that made them part of our collective memory, in order to give them a shape that resonates with the present moment.

Activity curated by Taller de músics
With the participation of Sandra Artigas and Bruma

Sandra Artigas (Barcelona, 1994) is an interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of voice, body and language. Her practice draws on improvisation, composition and sonic experimentation as modes of inquiry and presence. She has developed projects including En Trànsit, Veus Lliures, Delta(s), Matèria Primera, Perspectives and Trombonia, and has undertaken artistic residencies and performed in Catalonia, France and Andorra.

Bruma is the alias of musician and composer Pedro Portellano. His music moves within the realm of experimental electronics, exploring the relationship between emotion, sonic matter, and space through the manipulation and processing of analog sound sources. He has released albums such as Far From Me (Forbidden Colours) and Halo (Plan B Records). In parallel, he runs Bruma Sounds Studio, where he develops sound composition and direction for audiovisual projects and artistic installations. He combines his musical practice with curating and programming, collaborating with institutions and festivals such as Europalia, Museo Reina Sofía, and Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza.

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