Violeta Garcia is a cellist, improviser and composer from Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is now based in between Switzerland, Barcelona and Buenos Aires.
She is a performer in many art forms, including free improvisation, contemporary and trans-media experimental repertoire in violoncello and electronics and collaborations sometimes with dancers, filmmakers and visual artists. After years of studying classical and popular music on violoncello and, later contemporary composition and improvisation. Violeta realized that her own musical voice needed to emerge outside specific genres. At the moment she is eager to improvise, compose and create new sounds experiment with extended techniques, prepared instrument and work with dynamic, rhythmic and original tuneful combinations in her intensities and visceral performances. Now her primary interest is to open new sound spaces that invite the audience on an inner voyage.
Violeta García released her first solo album “ACERO” in 2018 on the Argentinian label TVL REC, for which she composed pieces for a prepared instrument, with field recordings inspired by her childhood. Her second solo album “FOBIA” followed in 2022 on the label RELATIVE PITCH RECORDS (NYC). On her third solo album entitled “IN/OUT”, composer and cellist Violeta García uses extended cello techniques during a recording session in a Geneva cave that once housed the city's water reservoir. The composer worked with the resonance of the site as a sounding body and used microtonal techniques in a musical spectrum ranging from minimalist contemporary music to dark ambient noise. Initiated by the renowned Swiss record label BONGO JOE RECORDS, García explored this special space and began composing. The album IN/OUT was released on March 7, 2025. (photo: Paula Suarez)
Lucio Capece
The Argentinian musician Lucio Capece has lived in Berlin since 2004. He has been active as a composer and performer of experimental music since the late 1990s. Since 2010, he has devoted himself to works that explore perceptual experiences, performing them solo or in occasional collaborations with like-minded artists. He also works as a composer and performer in permanent groups.
He composes works that may include improvisations and various forms of notation. He uses instruments such as flying speakers suspended from helium balloons and propelled by propellers, speakers as pendulums, analog synthesizers, sine wave and noise generators, drum machines, ultraviolet light, sensors, khenes, and the instruments he has been playing for 25 years: bass clarinet, soprano saxophone, and alto saxophone. (Photo: Susi Maresca)
Over the past five years, Capece has developed projects within what he calls the phenomenology of music-making, which aims to offer music that questions what makes music something that can only be enjoyed as music. In this context, he has formed several bands, including the Seeds and Rahma Quartet, the FS5 Quintet, the Lost Jockey Trio, and duos with Katie Porter, Monika Zyla, and Victoria Alexandrova. He has also composed three electronic music solos that use mathematical ratios to transform pitches into pulses and vice versa. Beyond instruments and tools, his primary focus is on the bodily, social, and spatial experience of humans.
