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Lílian Campesato
Lílian Campesato
Três Lagoas – MS, Brasil, 1981
Artist, Researcher and Curator.
As an artist, she works mainly as a composer-performer. Her works explore listening as a conflictual space in which voice and noise are central aspects. She has worked individually and often in partnership with other artists, especially Fernando Iazzetta. Her works dialogue directly with the idea of performing listening, whether intimate or uncanny, at the same time revealing how she listens to herself and shares that listening with others.

As a researcher, she has worked in the fields of sound studies, experimental music, sound art and feminisms. Her texts discuss noise, experimentalism and listening and are published in different journals in Brazil and abroad and also in edited books. Her academic and artistic research are developed in an integrated manner and rely on aspects of what is private, subjective and affective. Since 2017, she has developed the project Microfonias: Invention and Sharing of Listening in partnership with Valéria Bonafé. She is a co-founder of Laura – Place for Research on Aurality and associate researcher at NuSom – Research Center on Sonology at University of São Paulo since 2012.

She holds a PhD from the University of São Paulo with a thesis on the process of aestheticization of noise in music. She was a researcher for the AmplifyHer: voicing the experience of women musician in Brazil project at Manchester Metropolitan University. She held a postdoc at the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro.

She is one of the founders of Sonora: music and feminism, a feminist network that has promoted actions to value and expand the participation of women in music and the arts.
Valéria Bonafé
Valéria Bonafé
São Paulo – SP, Brasil, 1984
Artist and Researcher.

As an artist, she works as a composer and regularly collaborates with soloists, ensembles, choirs and orchestras. For her, musical composition is a practice that is constituted between imaginations, experiences, memories and affections. What lies at the basis of her poetics is a wager on the radial vocation of listening, that is, on the understanding that listening is not merely a phenomenon of cochlearing, clustered on what is understood as purely sonorous, but a subjective and relational experience.

As a researcher, she has worked mainly in the areas of creative processes, artistic research, sound studies and feminisms. Her works address subjects such as sonority and sound imagination, orality and listening, sound poetics and sound autobiography. Since 2017, she has developed the project Microfonias: Invention and Sharing of Listening in partnership with Lílian Campesato. She is a co-founder of Laura – Place for Research on Aurality and associate researcher at NuSom – Research Center on Sonology at University of São Paulo.

She holds a PhD from the University of São Paulo (CAPES-FAPESP Fellow), with a research internship at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart. Her thesis discusses processes of musical creation based on experimental analyzes of some of her artistic works. She held a postdoc at the University of São Paulo (CNPq Fellow).

She was a teacher at The Sao Paulo State Music School – EMESP Tom Jobim. She is one of the founders of Sonora: musics and feminisms, a feminist network that has promoted actions to enhance and expand the participation of women in music and the arts.