Marcela Lucatelli

Marcela Lucatelli (born 13 April 1988) is a Brazilian composer, director, vocalist and performance artist.[1]

Biography

Lucatelli was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in a family of Italian origins. She studied composition at the Danish National Academy of Music, the Royal Danish Academy of Music and the Danish National School of Performing Arts. She is known for writing ''scores for the limits of bodies and voice''[2]. Her works have been performed by vocal groups such as the Danish National Vocal Ensemble and Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, together with ensembles such as Apartment House, Bastard Assignments and Mocrep.  Her works have been premiered at Donaueschinger Musiktage, Darmstadt Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Nordic Music Days, KLANG - Copenhagen Avantgarde Music Festival, SPOR Festival, Copenhagen Jazz Festival, AllEars Festival for Improvised Music, FILE - Electronic Language International Festival, WOMEX, among other festivals and events worldwide, including contemporary art museums such as Nikolaj Kunsthal, ARKEN and Henie Onstad Art Center. Her music has also been streamed by several national radios including DR P2, BBC 3 and NRK.

Lucatelli's vocals have been described as ''inhuman human noise''[3] and her visual expression as ''scary and breathtaking''[4]. She has been praised for her convincing technique and natural stage presence as an authority[5]. Her work ISYCH, das Moment – or how to describe atomic habits (2019) was described as a Gesamtkunstwerk that ''romped through the academic, the popular, the cutting, the banal, the theatrical, the zoological, the unfathomably brilliant, the obfuscatingly bizarre and the rib-ticklingly entertaining''[6]. Her aesthetics has been pointed out as a new musical direction to search and new impulses to embed in the music concept.[5]

The cancellation of her first orchestral work RGBW shortly before the first performance sparked debate on social media and in Danish newspapers about whether Danish radio stations and orchestras give enough space to upcoming composers.[7]

Recognition

In 2016, her performance work decant from 2013 was chosen as the official image for Nordic Music Days at Harpa, in Reykjavik. In 2019, Lucatelli was awarded the Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen Foundation Talent Prize in Composition.[8]

Works[9]

Stage works

• ISYCH, das moment - or how to describe atomic habits (2019)[6] – music theatre

• Marcela Lucatelli’s Brazilian Songbook (2019)[10] – staged concert for ensemble

• Matryhoshka Dogs: The Outerquation (2018)[11] – for viola d'amore, voice and electronics

• 23 stories on losing my breath (2018)[12] – for voices, double bass and electronics

• now現在/决不never (2018)[13] – for Chinese and western instruments

• IMPOSSIBLE PENETRATIONS (2018)[14] – music theatre

• Off-Off-Human (2017)[15] – music theatre

• Off-Human (2017)[16] – music theatre

• this is a piece not a WHOL (2016) – for ensemble and electronics

• curandeihits (2015)[17] – staged concert for ensemble

• THE UNAWAITED (2015) – staged concert for voice and electronics

• Ø (2014)[18] – staged concert for children, ensemble and electronics

• XXXPM:LYS(T) (2014) – music theatre

• KapSulaZer0 (2013)[19] – music theatre

• Carnival in a pulse without body (Marcela Lucatelli e o Kollectivo Squizophoniko) (2012)[20] – staged concert for ensemble and narrator

• CICLO (2012)[21] [22]– staged concert for children, ensemble and electronics

• THE ASTROGALACTIC NOISE PARTY (2010) – staged concert for ensemble

Orchestra works

• RGBW (2019) [23] [24]– for soloist and orchestra

Ensemble works

• The Golden Days (2018)[25] – for vocal ensemble

• WROTTEN (2018) – for ensemble and electronics

• asteroid 433 Eros (2015) – for ensemble and electronics

• Veritas Sanitas Vanitas (Going Somewhere?) (2015)[26] – for ensemble and electronics

• TUNING TIME (2014)[27] – for ensemble and narrator

• KompensaÇão (2010) – for boys' choir and percussion

Chamber works

• Four Lilith Valses (2019)[28] – for piano

• A Fairly Tale (2018)[29] – for five voices

• Listen to Ladies (2018)[30] – for acoustic guitar, horn and soprano saxophone

• (meetings unplanned) (2017)[31] – for flute, clarinet, alto saxophone and electric guitar

• Family Portraits (2017) – for voice, viola and horn

• self-help etude nr.1 or variations on skylark motel (2017) – for solo cello

• (I shall lick your teeth while you) project me a heart supply (2015) – for voice and electronics

• AFBRÆK÷ 1 (2014) – for solo recorder

• Dois (2011) – for voice, alto flute, alto saxophone and bass clarinet

• Samba a doze (2010) – for voice and piano

Solo performances

• Snow Off-White (2019) – solo performance

• Run, Run, Run (2019)[32] – solo performance

• This is all about (2018) –  solo performance

• permission to love beauty (2018)[33] – video-performance

• Speech of Maria Magdalena to her legions (2018)[34] - for solo performer and electronics

• analysis #0.1 (2017)[35] – solo performance

• In-Yer-Face (2016) – for solo performer and electronics

• aim/‘mnot/me - prove you’re not a robot (2016) – for solo performer, piano and electronics

• de-cant (2013/2015) – for solo performer and electronics

• pó de marfim (2013)[36] – for solo performer and electronics

Installation works

• Griefs 'n Tapes (2020) – video series
• A Philosopher Ought to Converse Especially with Men in Power (2020)[37] – virtual installation

• even sunday (2014)[38] – for solo performer and electronics

• STØVRIGET (2012) – installation

• Fishing dance, fishing music (2011) – for flute, tenor saxophone, bassoon, tuba and narrator

• Translation (2011) – installation

Discography

Albums

• ANEW (2020, online release, no label, DK)

• PHEW! - The Last Guide for a Western Obituary (2016, two-sided 12", no label, DK)[39]

• *Gestus Kanto-GlyTkH* (2013, online release, no label, BR)[40]

EPs

• ORAL (2018, two-sided 10", no label, DK)[41]

• EHM (2017, two-sided 10", no label, DK)[42]

Compilations' features

• I want you hot (at Brain Pussyfication Sampler III, 2018, cassette, no label, DE)[43]
• A Piece for You to Choose (at Sabá: Conexão Rakta, 2016, cassette, no label, BR)[44]

• Even Sunday (at Hystereofônica Vol. 1, 2016, online release, BR)[45]

References

1. "Marcela Lucatelli | Dansk Komponist Forening". komponistbasen.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2020-07-12.
2. Barrow, Philip Clark,Kurt Gottschalk,George Grella,Kurt Buttigieg,Ryley Walker,Alan Licht,Emily Pothast,Sam Richards,Dan. "The Wire 432". The Wire Magazine - Adventures In Modern Music. Retrieved 2020-04-01.
3. Overgård, Niels (2017-06-27). "JAZZNYT.com: Marcela Lucatelli/Erik Kimestad Pedersen/Henrik Olsson (egen udgivelse) 10" orange vinyl". JAZZNYT.com. Retrieved 2020-04-01.
4. Overgård, Niels (2018-07-08). "JAZZNYT.com: Jazznyt på Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2018 - anden dag". JAZZNYT.com.
5. "Rejse mod Jordens indre". Seismograf (in Danish). Retrieved 2020-04-01.
6. "Chaos reigns". Seismograf (in Danish). Retrieved 2020-04-01.
7. "Aflyst koncert skaber debat: Kan symfoniorkestrene rumme den »grimme« musik?". Information (in Danish). 2020-03-05. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
8. "Priser i 2019". Carl Nielsen og Anne Marie Carl-Nielsens Legat (in Danish). Retrieved 2020-04-01.
9. "List of Works". Marcela Lucatelli. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
10. "Copenhagen Trashzzfestival 10th anniversary feat. Crush String Collective, Son Ash and Marcela Lucatellis brazillian songbook". JazzDanmark (in Danish). Retrieved 2020-06-25.
11. Klang. "OPEN KLANG / Matryoshka Dogs". klang.dk. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
12. "Y-E-S Fest - Programm - field notes". www.field-notes.berlin. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
13. "PULSAR 2018 - Kinesiske instrumenter". www.dkdm.dk. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
14. "Bastard Assignments + Marcela Lucatelli – Bastard Assignments". Retrieved 2020-06-25.
15. "#Off-Off-Human". Dansk komponist forening (in Danish). 2017-11-06. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
16. "Off-Human - Tim Porter". timporter.art. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
17. "Curandeihits: deslocamento". linda. 2015-08-31. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
18. Jacobsen, Edmund (2014-06-18). "ESBJERG: 25-årig dimittend eftertragtet i kunstverdenen". ugeavisen.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2020-06-26.
19. Cultural, Instituto Itaú. "On_Off: experiências em live image. Kapsula Zero! - Attraktor Zeros (9. : 2013 : São Paulo, SP)". Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2020-06-26.
20. "Koncert/performance: Marcela Lucatelli e o Kollectivo Squizophoniko (BR/DK)". Globalnyt (in Danish). 2012-05-12. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
21. "Skolebørn opfører støtteforestilling på Kulturværftet". www.lokalavisen.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2020-06-26.
22. "CICLO - I krydsfeltet mellem kunst og undervisning" (PDF). Dansk Sang (in Danish) (1 12/13). 2012. pp. 42–26. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
23. "Knas i maskineriet | Seismograf". seismograf.org (in Danish). Retrieved 2020-06-26.
24. "Musikskandale i DR: Ville ikke spille med ung, skrigende brasilianer". Politiken (in Danish). 2020-03-06. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
25. "PULSAR 2018 Nye vokalklange". www.dkdm.dk. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
26. "Åbne og lukkede døre | Seismograf". seismograf.org (in Danish). Retrieved 2020-06-25.
27. eidelyn (2014-12-31). "Music Resistance at UNM 2014, Malmö". Retrieved 2020-06-25.
28. "Film: Komponistinnen". Frankfurter Info (in German). Retrieved 2020-06-25.
29. "Workshopkoncert med Neue Vokalsolisten". www.dkdm.dk. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
30. "archive". Samuel Toro Pérez. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
31. "Face it!". Dansk komponist forening (in Danish). 2017-12-11. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
32. "UK-Run run run". SPOR festival (in Danish). Retrieved 2020-06-26.
33. "PULSAR 2018 Lys og lyd". www.dkdm.dk. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
34. "Overave • Pulsar 2018 - Fernisering og performance • Kunstakademiets København". dk.overave.com. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
35. Erwin, Max (2018). "Donaueschingen 2017". Tempo. 72 (284): 70–74. doi:10.1017/S0040298217001292. ISSN 0040-2982.
36. valente, Postado por rodolfo. "pó de marfim: corpo e código presentes". Retrieved 2020-06-26.
37. "Pythia's Journals – A monomedia festival for our isolation pods". Passive/Aggressive. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
38. Lucatelli, Marcela (2018-07-10). "Lucatelli, Marcela: Hi, my name is Marcela and I do everything you want. Weekend and weekdays. Monday, tuesday, everyday. Even sunday". ISCM. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
39. "Marcela Lucatelli - Phew! The Last Guide for a Western Obituary". Discogs. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
40. Perissinotto, Paula. FILE SÃO PAULO 2019 festival internacional de linguagem eletrônica electronic language international festival 2 0 A N O S.
41. "Oral (5) - Oral". Discogs. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
42. "Marcela Lucatelli, Erik Kimestad Pedersen, Henrik Olsson - Untitled". Discogs. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
43. "Various - Brain Pussyfication Sampler III". Discogs. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
44. "Various - Sabá: Conexão Rakta". Discogs. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
45. "Various - Hystereofônica Vol. 1". Discogs. Retrieved 2020-06-25.

External Links

• Marcela Lucatelli's website
• Interview (2019)