| Manuela Barile is a vocal researcher
and an interdisciplinary performer.
Since she was very young, that she
explores the expressive potential
of her voice. Through systematic
and constant experimentations, she
developed a series of unique and
personal vocal techniques inspired
by the sounds of nature, animals
and by “paralanguage”,
meaning all the non-verbal vocal
expressions that encircle the common
verbal language. The passion for
vocal sounds roused with the help
of a canary, offered by her father
when she was eight years old.
Her sound vocabulary was enriched
through a series of studies and
researches, started in ’99,
around oriental and occidental vocal
traditions, either made by herself
or with teachers such as Amelia
Cuni (Druphad) and Tran Quang Hai
(Harmonic chant). She has also taken
part in instant composition workshops
held with Joelle Leandre, Barre
Philips, Tristan Honsinger, Phil
Minton, and Maggie Nicols.
She also expanded her artistic apprentiship
in the areas of theatre, attending
drama courses in Bologna between
2001 and 2003 that made her start
a personal research in mime and
gestuality, and in visual arts,
specially video and photography.
Until today she has worked with
many artists of the European experimental
scene (Mario Volpe, Gianni Lenoci,
Amy Denio, Phil Minton, Tristan
Honsinger, Marcello Magliocchi,
Claudio Parodi, Ale Buzzi, Rinus
Van Alebeek, Antonio Mainenti, Rui
Costa, Paulo Raposo, Antez, Ernesto
Rodrigues, Nilo Gallego, Pino Pipoli,
Annamaria Ippolito, Paula Pinto,
Marcello Maggi, Sandra Pires, etc.).
Since 2003 she collaborates with
Mario
Volpe, an Italian interdisciplinary
artist and curator of the Vel
Net
label, to put forth various musical
and perfomative projects.
Presently her artistic research
is based on a project-oriented work
that combines vocal sounds with
different media (video, photography,
installations, performance, concert-performance,
drawing, writing).
She now lives in Lisbon, collaborating
with the sound artist Rui
Costa and being one of the directors of
Binaural, a Portuguese cultural
organization that organizes multidisciplinary
artistic events in collaboration
with other European entities. Binaural
also runs the annual program of
“Nogs”, an artistic
residency focused on the promotion
of Media Arts in a rural context.
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