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Zona Morta is an ongoing project by the Brazilian sound artist and musician Carla Boregas. The project started in 2016 when Boregas bought a 4-track cassette recorder and started to record women telling her secrets. Having more than 70 women's - from different nationalities and ages - secrets recorded on cassette tapes, the artist held listening sessions of them in São Paulo, Brazil. These tapes are sonic documents that bring together sound characteristics of the voice (whispering, crying, laughing, breathing) while explicitly showing a social panorama through women's stories : family issues, abortion, routine habits, sex abuse, relationships. Often denounced by society as something shameful, each secret contains a universe unique and personal to each woman, and at the same time represents many collective problems related to the moral, cultural and social pressure faced by women. An intimate, but undeniable collective subject. For the project 's radiophonic unfolding called "Zona Morta - Wie man das Echo in Worte fasst ?" Boregas had as a starting point the following question "What can a woman's voice telling a secret trigger on other voices?" . So to answer this question, she invited the singers Anjeline de Dios, Audrey Chen, Cansu Tanrikulu and Paola Ribeiro to listen to the tape collection of previously recorded secrets, and therefore to answer them with an improvised vocal session that served as the compositional material, together with the secrets recordings, for this radio piece. |
