Lara Alarcón, Cyrill Ferrari, Michael Cina
Biography Lara Alarcón, Cyrill Ferrari, Michael Cina
Lara Alarcón
is an argentinian vocalist ~ improviser and composer ~ Berlin Based and with a foot in Bern. Her work as a vocalist is based on the performativity of the instrument in prosthetic dialectics. Beyond extended techniques she works with sonic complexities and noise. Expanding this by using large amplification, pedals or live electronics, tape recorders, radios, tv. She seeks protolanguage and explores the communicational gesture without the necessity of sense or meaning. In her compositions she composes to improvise. Active in the field of electroacoustic and experimental music, she explores the intrinsic act of playing/performing, shaping time with contrast and intensity. The topics usually are geopolitics as a problematic, madness and mental ‘illness’ as a possibility to explore beyond human capacities.
She has been active in the fields of experimental, contemporary and improvised music from a young age. Started her trainings in voice at the age of 8, later on she studied at Conservatorio Gilardo Gilardi vocal technique, Composition at Universidad de La Plata, ARG and right now continues her studies in Composition at Universitaet der Künste Berlin.
