https://cobracoral.bandcamp.com/album/cobracoral

Porto-based vocal trio, formed by three artists: Catarina Miranda, choreographer, who approaches voice as an essential component in her stage work; Clélia Colonna, singer and performer researching on eastern and mediterranean polyphonic singing; and Ece Canlı, artist and musician working with extended vocal techniques. 

COBRA’CORAL is a vocal project for 3 distinct interrelated voices working within an organisational system. A structure of transference that keeps the cohesion of a common pulse as well as sundry dynamics of reaction and adaptation to variation, establishing rhythmic, imagetic* (imagetíca) and narrative landscapes. A practice of placing signs and codes within a string of time, drawing circular states of mirroring, association and rupture, building up a live and common vocabulary for an ever-changing pyramid. By sustaining this progressive Pulsing System, the artists elaborate “an indeterminate composition” over which they are simultaneously reliant and independent, within a common responsibility for a living vocal landscape.

“Cobra’Coral is a project that entwines the voices of Catarina Miranda (Portugal), Clélia Colonna (France), and Ece Canli (Turkey). Each brings their artistic vocal practice into the coil: Miranda’s choreographic exploration of orality, Colonna’s researches into Eastern and Mediterranean polyphonic singing, and Canli’s extended vocal experiments. The resultant a cappella braid threads time into a structure that maintains the cohesion of a common pulse thru the variegated dynamics of reaction and adaptation. 
Intricate hocketing, call and response, and layers of ostinati become the means with which Cobra’Coral engenders their distinctive sonic texture—a latticework for the voice. While one voice may insist on a two-tone melodic fragment, another may occupy itself with the rhythmic spaces left unvoiced by the first such that a harmonic base is constructed for the third to shimmer. Cobra’Coral further explores the potential of the voice by using sound effects and gesture to amplify the aural experience, suggesting that the limits of the voice extend out into electric and corporeal realms. The movements of the body also modulate the sound, as does as an artificial echo, a delay or a pitch shift. A modern vocal trio, Cobra’Coral is both electrified and electrifying.
Geometric pattern colours the surface that makes up Cobra’Coral, like the group of snakes from which they take their name. Each song develops its own breathing pattern—a communal rite focusing in on the movement of air—where motifs of inhalation and exhalation become systems that unfold time onto vocalized expression. A careful observation of the temporal passage of respiration, of its playful and life-sustaining dynamics, is their practice of communion. There is a common responsibility held in this spirited patchwork. Ritualistic chant, hypnogogic cycles, and contemporary vocal techniques shape the rhythmic, imagistic and narrative landscape that is Cobra’Coral.”

Lendl Barcelos

>2023

Music between Companion Species / Quartel de Monte Pedral, Porto, Lovers&Lollypops

Walks – TREMOR 2023

>2022

CCOP

Carta Branca a Jonathan Uliel Saldanha – Centro Cultural de Belém Foundation >> SEE FULL LENGTH CONCERT

Lançamento do Album COBRACORAL

>2021

COBRACORAL – Planétario do Porto (Projecto apoiado pelo CRIATORIO PLAKA) >> TEASER

COBRA’CORAL — UNDERSTAGE — RIVOLI 89º >> SEE

> 2019

Creation Residencies:  Espaço do Tempo (Montemor o Novo, PT), CERN (Porto/ PT), Sítio (Alvarelhos, PT)

Teaching: VOICE FOLDS – series of Vocal Practice Meetings – April-June 2019 CERN (Porto/ PT)

Grafic Design of the LP cover : Anja Kieser, Credits photo TREMOR : Vera Marmelo