During the residency, Noela Covelo Velasco will develop her current research where she works with collective voice as a place for political imagination. She uses voice in the state of not-yet language. In this way, she approaches cultural recognition through the unfamiliar, giving form to internal and expanded voices. In recent research, she has been sliding through different ways of standing and vocalizing, considering various stages of intimacy — for example; singing softly into one’s ear, then assuming the direction of a choir and then performing in front of it, all together in the same space.

Noela Covelo Velasco (ES)

Noela Covelo Velasco is based in Barcelona. She has studied Sound Art Masters Degree (2020-2022) and Bachelor in Design, Fashion (2012-2016). Her vocal education started at 13 years old. She works with voice as a material in sound, performance, installation and collective research processes. These include song making, choral atonality and altered spatial perception through sonic experimentation. She is part of Foc space and cofounder of  c h o r o, space for pedagogical experimentation based at Foc.