valéria bonafé

compositora e pesquisadora
composer and researcher

I am an artist, researcher, and educator.

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As an artist, I work with vocal, instrumental, and electroacoustic music composition, integrating sound with literary, visual, and dramatic expressions. For me, composition is a space inhabited by memories, dreams, sensibilities, and desires. At the core of my sound poetics lies a belief in the radial vocation of listening, that is, the understanding that listening is not exclusively a cochlear phenomenon, but rather a subjective and relational experience that opens up to a complex network of connections and affections.

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As a researcher, I work primarily in the areas of creative processes, sound studies, and feminisms. My main research interests include: listening and subjectivity; practice-based methodologies involving sound and listening; cartographies of creative processes; sound poetics and feminisms; sonic autobiography and auto-narratives of women artists; and the epistemologies of musical and sonic creation.

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I am one of the founders of Sonora: musics and feminisms, a member of NuSom – Research Center on Sonology at the University of São Paulo, and I develop the research-creation project Microfonias: invention and sharing of listening in collaboration with artist and researcher Lílian Campesato. Currently, I am part of the research group ECOAR - Studies in Body and Art and am developing the postdoctoral project "Listening and subjectivity in musical and sound composition" at EACH-USP, under the supervision of Marilia Velardi and with the support of FAPESP.