Marcel Rocha: a guitar-player working with various genres and forms. Also works as a professor and soundtrack composer. Currently doing his PhD in new technologies applied to musical performance.
Júlio Oliveira: guitar player graduated from UNICAMP, working as a composer of soundtracks for theatre performance.
Giuliano Tosin: researcher, poet, composer and professor of Social Communication. Author of various reviews, articles and several book chapters on technology and experimental poetry. He has worked as a producer of video-arts, acoustic installations and CDs. Presently, he is working towards his PhD in Arts at UNICAMP.
Denis Koishi: bass guitar player and soundtrack composer. Graduating student at UNICAMP.
OLHOCALIGARI Collective was formed in 2005 in Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil, as a result of an encounter of colleagues from the State University of Campinas’ Arts Institute (Instituto de Artes da UNICAMP). Coming from different fields of research, such as composition, artistic-musical performance, poetry, as well as multimedia and musical instruments building.
Having improvisation as a base, its unpredictability and spontaneity, the OLHOCALIGARI Collective tries to intuitively move the spectator using the construction of sound signs that, together with visual and poetic production of their components, acquire new meanings and interpretations.
Seeing musical improvisation as a field for collective multidirectional creation in constant transformation, a metaphor of contemporariness, the artists pick up the sound elements produced collectively, extracting them from their original context, manipulating them and returning the product of this transformation to the collective, where it is being continuously developed and its meaning constantly reassigned.
Sources used for construction of this sound space are of diverse origin. Sound sources, such as sound sculptures and objects (“low-tech”), envisaged and created from the refuse of society, coexist with electric guitars and basses, more promptly recognized as the symbols of globalized mass culture, and digital signal processors (“hi-tech”). This complex sound space is further enriched through acoustic-phonetic and tone-color exploitation of vocal resources, applied in different forms of poetry.
Fusing research and production in order to face the challenges of this combination, having as the scenario disordered and peculiar transformations of a postcolonial and postmodern peripheral society, a dynamic point of convergence, coexistence and mixture of diverse cultures, the work of the Collective creates a filed of tense forces which pretends to touch the limits of artistic expression, acting on the borders of perceptible and cognizable.
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