- Event
- Concert
TURNS x Mariana Carvalho x Daniel Teruggi
EATING VOICES & SMELLING SPHERES
Thu, January 15, 2026 7:00 pm CET
Between sound art, performance, and smell: Mariana Carvalho and Daniel Teruggi present their works in the ZKM's Klangdom
The new ECO / EXO cycle translates central areas of tension in the present into immersive sound spaces and combines ecological fragility with speculative, extraterrestrial perspectives. Both artistic positions use space as an active compositional element working with multi-layered electroacoustic processes. The concert contrasts two different approaches to material, perception, and time. Together, the works open up new perspectives of listening between body, environment, and imagination.
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Mariana Carvalho
Mariana Carvalho plays from the inside out: cavernous voices, digested sounds, chewed-up text, and other materials that have passed through her body. By amplifying her head, she listens inward and outward—in a live performance of bite 5634 and a new fixed media piece for the cathedral. The inside is sometimes undifferentiated, a mixture of mouth-to-mouth vocals, intertwined loudspeakers, mouth synths, tongue structures, watery shells, transmitted humming sounds, and other captured material, such as the excerpt from Hilda Hilst:
“the blue the egg at the edge of the galaxy live live there shows more matter there begins matter oh and I and I never again mine from me forever now mine from others mine furthest or mine nearest don't know the other is not me don't know navel center of me or of the universe don't know”
The microcosmic mouth is joined by percussion, micro-melodies, galáxias, repetitive patterns, popcorn, and other voices.
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Daniel Teruggi
Sphæra II, 2024, 22’40
Forty years ago, I began my cycle on the four elements with Etérea (1984) and concluded it in 1988 with Terra. Now I present a new version that condenses the essential material qualities of air, water, fire, and earth. In the course of composing, each “element” gradually connected with the others, forming a circular unity in which each event belongs both to a substance and to the whole. The four parts, each of unequal length, reflect how each element touches my imagination—from immaterial air to dense earth.
Etérea unfolds air as a space for sound propagation and as a carrier of moving masses, a structure of particles and immaterial gestures. Aquatica traverses the extremes of water—from a drop to the ocean—between stillness, turmoil, and renewal. Focolaria shows the impermanence of fire, dazzling and elusive. Finally, Terra creates a primal, life-giving earth in which raw matter forms new equilibriums.
—Daniel Teruggi
