Maria Berauer / φø
Maria Berauer (Germany) presents “Terrain Vagus”, a solo performance for body, voice and wire. Φø (Greece) composes on stage the electroacoustic interactive work for performer and biosensors, entitled “CYBORGUTT 2.0“.
🔷 In the performance “Terrain Vagus”, Maria Berauer, uses a stretched 15-meter-long steel string and explores the space through sound, voice, tremors, and creaking. In dialogue with the suspended sound
carrier, a sonic and physical interaction unfolds in the moment—at the intersection of inner experience and external resonance. Sounds, perceived not only as audible but also as physical vibrations, almost tactilely touch the body and generate palpable vibrational fields.
֍ Maria Berauer is a performance and media artist based in Munich. Her practice spans solo and collaborative performance, video installation, sound art and public interventions, using the body as both instrument and medium. In her work she investigates human perception, behavior, and interaction through embodied, site-specific approaches.
She is a founding member of the performance collective “The Hercules and Leo Case“, which explores in shared authorship the relationship between bodies and resonating socio- and eco-spheres.
She also performs the singing saw alongside various artists and musicians.
She lives in Munich, Germany.
🔶 “CYBORGUTT 2.0” of φø is an electroacoustic interactive composition for a performer and biosensors. The result of a research on the bridging of queer theory, cyborg bodies and the field of music, the work observes the gendered boundaries of the body, voice and sounds, which are trapped in stereotypical perceptions.
By recording all of the sounds the body can produce and with the help of an electronic stethoscope, a soundscape is constructed, which narrates the body’s liquid identity, trapped and non-existent, within a system of binary perceptions.
Breathing, heartbeat and stomach sounds, alongside brain vibrations, provide the rhythmic background while at the same time controlling the structure through biosensors, making the process of production and execution, transcendent and meditative.
Our perception traps bodies, voices and sounds, in boxes. The voice has no gender. Listening is the process that assigns gender to a voice.
֍ Φø (Fotis Rovolis) has studied Architecture and Electroacoustic Music Composition. Exploring electronic music production by blurring boundaries between sound and space, their works take the form of installations, soundscapes merging cyborg theory, queer politics and imaginative perspectives.
They have presented their works in various festivals and conferences, participated in films, theatrical plays and performances, while recently they’ve taken part in the 6th festival of Compartments Dance Project with the works “Murmuration” and “Uncovering”.