There are sounds we don’t hear, yet they are already speaking about what is happening. Gatzara forestal starts from plant embolism —the sound generated inside trees when they undergo water stress— shifting it from the scientific register into a shared, emotional and sonic matter. From this point, Paula Bruna and /beyond/ develop an open-air piece that listens to the forest not as a backdrop, but as a living body traversed by drought, tension and climate change.
Flamenco appears not as a reference or ornament, but as a language capable of accompanying this arboreal cante jondo and giving it another layer of affective density. Live, /beyond/ transforms vegetal sound into a living composition that brings the organic and the electronic into friction, unfolding a journey through different flamenco palos across tension, pause and listening. Conceived as a forest flamenco gathering, the piece culminates in the live recording of a vinyl record.
Paula Bruna / /beyond/
Paula Bruna is an artistic researcher and environmental scientist. Her work explores environmental crises through non-human subjects, shifting away from an anthropocentric perspective and opening up modes of relation more attuned to the complexity of ecosystems. Her practice blends scientific knowledge, speculative fiction and Mediterranean knowledges within a neo-animist approach that seeks to rethink coexistence with the life forms that inhabit the world.
/beyond/ is the project of Fran Mora, a music producer and sound artist also linked to Alhaja Records. His practice merges experimental electronics, sound art and cultural research, with a recent focus on flamenco as a space of friction, memory and transformation. He has released on labels such as Eotrax and Liber Null Berlin, performed at festivals like MIRA, Tresor or ADE, and develops projects that connect sound, ritual and technology.