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Techno para dos & Mariana
Biography
She recently graduated as a violoncello instrumentalist from the Faculty of Music from the UNAM. She has participated in various orchestras and chamber music groups, with which she has performed every genre, from historical performances to original contemporary pieces, as well as the core Classic repertoire. Currently, she is part of Colectiva Tsunami (network of Mexican women musicians), where she has contributed by organizing and promoting multiple activities. Also, she’s the founder of Revista Cluster (music magazine), project for which she received the Piso 16 Support Program grant in 2021, where she still writes for and manages. Since January 2023, she is a cellist at the Academy of Early Music of the UNAM.
ARTWORK
Techno para dos & Mariana A/V show 2023 (Techno for two & Mariana A/V show)
Performance
Techno para dos & Mariana (Mexico)
Project of the sound artist Raúl Villamil (Techno para dos) and the cellist Mariana, who live in Mexico City. It is a meeting point between two opposite music training poles (Raúl’s music training is electronica, while Mariana’s is a classical musical training with a specialization in early music performance). This meeting point transforms the sound of the violoncello by fusing timbral textures and extended techniques, in addition to acoustic instrument interventions with modular synth sounds and different types of noise. The result is a series of soundscapes that range from ambient and noise to IDM and experimental techno. Mariana and Raúl’s goal is to destabilize the habitual perception of classical and expected sounds.