Luciana Morelli

About me

Basel, Switzerland

Luciana Morelli is an Argentinian singer, performer and composer based in Basel, Switzerland. With the Luciana Morelli Quintet, she recorded her first album "Mandala" (2014) of jazz standards and own compositions and participated in the Buenos Aires International Jazz Festival.
In 2020 she formed Luciana Morelli Group with musicians from different countries based in Switzerland. Her new album "Lo abismal, el agua" (2021) was selected as "Album of the week" by NQ Jazz (UK) and features original songs ranging from jazz to contemporary Argentine folklore and free improvisation. The artist drew inspiration from poems, travels, photographs, dreams and her own experience related to migration, where the theme of travel is present as a transformative and learning experience.

Cultural background

  • Argentina

Band/Ensemble

Project Music

No submissions for Beyond Music Project Volume 4.

The rules

For this piece we used the Monopoly rules as a score. Each of us had a copy of this same text (see appendix) with the task of using it as a kind of score or lyrics for improvisation. Inspired by sound poetry and John Cage's piece "Story"19, we improvised using these rules as lyrics but also fragmenting them, using sound as material. As a result, we managed to generate a kind of collage of words and sounds in real time that highlighted the critique of a world in which the only goal is to buy property and be the richest.

  • Improvisational
  • Vocal
  • Vocal ensemble
  • Argentina
  • Bulgaria
  • Spain
  • Switzerland
  • Venezuela
It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism

We tried to explore the possibilities of balloons as instruments, objects that offer different pitches, durations of the notes, dynamics, and sounds. The piece is based, not only on making sounds with unexpected materials, but on the fragility of the balloons, playing with them knowing that they can break. Through this action we wanted to represent our concern about the actual global ecologic crisis. Will we continue to play at capitalism until we have nothing more to play with, until the world is completely destroyed?

  • Improvisational
  • Instrumental
  • Onomatopoeia
  • Treble
  • Whistling / Humming
  • Argentina
  • Bulgaria
  • Spain
  • Switzerland
  • Venezuela
Privacy Policies

In this piece we use free improvisation mixed with composition, sound poetry and the aesthetics of the fragment, to criticize what Han calls psychopolitics and relate it to the current pandemic. The music is organized around fragments of Google's privacy policies and a microcomposition that is played by different instruments at different moments of the improvisation. The "conflict" is present in the way we blindly trust the Internet without reflecting on our practices and the agreements we make with corporations at every click.

  • Improvisational
  • Instrumental
  • Jazz
  • Singer
  • Grand piano
  • Synthesizer
  • Double bass
  • Baritone saxophone
  • Recorder (Descant)
  • Argentina
  • Spain
  • Switzerland
  • Venezuela

No submissions for Beyond Music Project Volume 2.

No submissions for Beyond Music Project Volume 1.