Fátima Miranda

La piel de la voz shows the impressive graphic notations of Spanish vocal artist Fátima Miranda. From a distance, they look like maps with rivers, mountains and valleys, like labyrinthine plans of mysterious journeys, or abstract painting. Working material with a strictly functional character that nevertheless allows a “purely” visual, aesthetic contemplation. The scores emerge during the process of composition and comprise musical and vocal specifications as well as interpretation details, free staves, drawings, notes, descriptive adjectives for taste or texture, colours, and physical and emotional impressions. The graphic also illustrates gestures, breathing techniques, and the working of the muscles. As a whole, the scores mirror the rich variety of Fátima Miranda’s vocal techniques; at the same time the paper becomes a kind of reflection surface and describes a moving vital process.