IN / OUT
Produced in collaboration with Bongo Joe, IN / OUT stands as a testament to Garcia’s innovative vision and her ability to transform unconventional ideas into deeply evocative musical experiences. This album invites listeners to step into an auditory world where instrument, space, and artistry converge in profound harmony.
VIOLETA GARCÍA
live – bongo joe, relative pitch records, nazlo records / based in between Switzerland, Barcelona and Buenos Aires
Rider VIOLETA GARCÍA
Biography
Violeta García (born 1990) is a cellist, improviser and composer from Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is now based in between Switzerland, Barcelona and Buenos Aires.
Violeta is a graduate of UNA (Universidad Nacional de Artes) and currently lives in Bern, Switzerland, where she is pursuing a Master’s degree in Composition at the Bern University of the Arts (HKB, Bern University of Applied Sciences BFH).
She is a performer in many art forms, including free improvisation, contemporary and trans-media experimental repertoire in violoncello and electronics and collaborations sometimes with dancers, filmmakers and visual artists. After years of studying classical and popular music on violoncello and, later contemporary composition and improvisation. Violeta realized that her own musical voice needed to emerge outside specific genres. At the moment she is eager to improvise, compose and create new sounds experiment with extended techniques, prepared instrument and work with dynamic, rhythmic and original tuneful combinations in her intensities and visceral performances. Now her primary interest is to open new sound spaces that invite the audience on an inner voyage.
She has been selected for several international residencies:
Art Omi in New York, Ibermúsicas for an installation at Convent Zero in Barcelona, Fondo Nacional de las Artes at CampusMusical in Bariloche, ArtBasel at Faena Art Center with Naama Tsbar (Israel), Música Maestra at CCK.
Violeta García has performed with renowned artists from the free improvisation and experimental music scene in various cities around the world. She has worked in various dance and theatre companies.
Violeta García released her first solo album “ACERO” in 2018 on the Argentinian label TVL REC, for which she composed pieces for a prepared instrument, with field recordings inspired by her childhood. Her second solo album “FOBIA” followed in 2022 on the label RELATIVE PITCH RECORDS (NYC).
On her third solo album entitled IN/OUT, composer and cellist Violeta García uses extended cello techniques during a recording session in a Geneva cave that once housed the city’s water reservoir. The composer worked with the resonance of the site as a sounding body and used microtonal techniques in a musical spectrum ranging from minimalist contemporary music to dark ambient noise. Initiated by the renowned Swiss record label BONGO JOE RECORDS, García explored this special space and began composing. The album IN/OUT will be released on March 7, 2025.
On her third solo album entitled IN/OUT, composer and cellist Violeta García uses extended cello techniques during a recording session in a Geneva cave that once housed the city’s water reservoir. The composer worked with the resonance of the site as a sounding body and used microtonal techniques in a musical spectrum ranging from minimalist contemporary music to dark ambient noise. Initiated by the renowned Swiss record label BONGO JOE RECORDS, García explored this special space and began composing. The album IN/OUT will be released on March 7, 2025.
Discography
New Release
After years of exploring classical and popular music on the violoncello, as well as delving into contemporary composition and improvisation, Garcia presents IN / OUT, an album that pushes the boundaries of musical convention. Recorded in an underground reservoir in Geneva, this unique project transforms the site’s natural acoustics into an integral part of the compositions.
