Chelpa Ferro

Chelpa Ferro

Chelpa Ferro is the name of a group of artists from the fields of visual art, video art and music. With their vivid sound work installations, they range among the most important representatives of the current music and art scene in Brazil.

Every-day, industrial or technical, natural and environmental objects are de-contextualized and, in the new context of electronic musical devices (MP3 player, loudspeakers, oscillators, amplifiers etc.), develop structural characteristics well beyond their customary function. Chelpa Ferro have displayed their creations at many international exhibitions; this year they will be represented at the Venice Biennale.

Moreover, Chelpa Ferro realize their bricolage in musical performances. Collages composed of every-day noises, guitar solos, sound fragments from pieces by well-known pop icons like Autoramas, Yoko Ono, Yes, or Iggy Pop, improvisations, self-designed objects and machines that produce sounds, noises or rhythms, guide the audience through a varified soundscape full of imagination.

Rodolfo Caesar / Alexandre Fenerich

Their music has its origins in dance but is nevertheless aimed at the perception of sounds. In a fusion of different musical styles, in a combination of apparently incompatible rhythms and melodies, the musicians, always with a sense of humour, produce sound spaces and breaks. Electro-acoustic and rhythmic discontinuity, dance and movement within sound. An auditory and perceptual experiencing of sound images that will by no means negate the pleasant physical experience of rhythm and pulse.