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EN:
Marina Cyrino is a Brazilian flutist, sound artist and researcher currently based in Berlin. She works across the fields of improvisation, composition, DIY gambiarra and performative installations. She is a member of the Brazilian experimental music label/production house Seminal Records. She holds a PhD in Music Performance and Interpretation from the University of Gothenburg.
Her flute playing is shaped by techniques developed through the use of internal amplification. Kaleidoscopic rhythmic patterns, the extensive use of objects and balloons attached to the instrument, and the use of disassembled flute parts are striking elements of her playing.
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My 'hyper-amplification'system is combined with a wide variety of DIY preparations, objects, and balloons attached to the instrument. Each one of the modified objects/toys that I play with is the result of a process of Othering. I investigate how the relationship between the musician’s body and the body of the musical instrument can become a space for the practice of vulnerability, positioning both the flute’s body and the flutist’s body as sites of transformation. These extensions and preparations that I develop emerge from a relationship with my instrument that prioritizes joy, pleasure, and vulnerability as pathways to invoke an oppositional imagination —one that disobeys normativity and heteropatriarchy. Part chicken, part human, or monstrous, my “Frankenstein flutes” are assemblages of entangled embodiments, guided by the unpredictable becoming of others in the body’s memory. Sometimes fabrication, sometimes deconstruction, sometimes fabulation, they emerge from a search for a radical re-imagining of how a flute should sound —reclaiming my creative agency and sonic imagination, an embodied materiality that challenges the masculine constraints of a phallogocentric tradition in both flute playing and flute construction.
PT:
Marina Cyrino (Brasil) transita entre improvisação, composição e interpretação, tendo como foco de sua prática musical a mistura e o experimento: o possível (res)soar do corpo-músico atravessado por imagens, objetos, elementos cênicos, palavra, escuro, movimento. Formada em música no Brasil e na Suécia, é doutora em performance musical pela Universidade de Gotemburgo.