Inner Outer Ocean is an evolving collaborative performance which has been created by Mari Garrigue and Laura Guarch during their recent collaboration in Catalonia, north of Spain.
The essential elements of this piece are transformation and connection. Their two singing voices and moving bodies transit together through different states of water. Their body movement is enhanced through wearable sensors which shape and sculpt their voices and the sounds of their field recordings from Icelandic rivers, glaciers, and snow storms. From fog to ice, river to sea, body to spirit, Inner Outer Ocean embraces water as primordial matter both on the Earth and in the human body. In Inner Outer Ocean, the element of water is experienced always in movement, in continuous transformation, as a breathing vessel for holding and releasing emotional landscapes and as the source enabling all life forms.
Laura Guarch and Mari Garrigue met at Greenhouse Studios that became the initial spark of their exciting collaboration.
Mari Garrigue is a composer, digital luthier, sound designer, and vocalist based in Iceland. Her artistic aim is to translate the expressive nuances of our body into sonic application through use of wearable sensors. The tapestry of Mari’s portfolio derives from the natural landscape, electromagnetic fields, traditional instruments, and sound synthesis, which are used in tandem. Mari’s blend of the organic with the artificial produces rich, breathing textures which flow elegantly between the boundaries of reality and surreality.
Laura Guarch is a Catalan vocalist, composer, field recordist and performance maker. Shortlisted in the BBC Sound of the Year Awards 2021 for a field recording of ice melting in Solheimajóküll’s glacier lagoon made with Francesco Fabris, Laura Guarch processes natural sounds of threatened environments and combines them with her voice in original composition and performance. She is now working on the music production of her second album, which combines field recordings of Icelandic glaciers and her voice. The project inhabits a new, contemporary mythology of glaciers exploring their primordial energies regarding life, death, ancestrality and sexuality.
Doors open 19.30 / 7.30PM
Concert starts 20.00 / 8.00PM
Admission is 3000 ISK – tickets available here