During transition – either male to female or female to male – the voice is an important and a powerful topic. A complex series of sonic strategies – along with the entire body performativity – to deal with gender representation has been developed by trans communities over the past decades.

The bodies which don't comply with normative notions of gender go well beyond any simple understanding of “body” as a concept. They enforce political transformations and act as living experimentations which challenge established communications' patterns and context constructions. Voice is powerful, to put it mildly.

Truque Trrrah is a sound-dance experimentation, delivered via the performer's voice, music, and performance in which gender, identity and vocal feminization and/or masculinization transition practices are appropriated. It digs into complex paths of identity construction, as well as into technologies of gender politics that run into a person's process of transits, transition, and mutation. Mavi Veloso’s Traque Trrrah is a part of the #iwannamakerevolution trilogy.

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concept & performance: Mavi Veloso * sound artists: João Paes & Glenn Ryszko * costume: Alex Cassimiro * costume other versions: Gustavo Silvestre * interviews: Sanni Est, Pollux Frei, Aerea Negrot, Geo Wyeth, Sladka Jerônimo, Íka Eloah, Lucy Lazuli* tutors at Master of Voice Sandberg Institut: Marnie Slater, Lisette Smits, Dorothé Orczyk, Snejanka Mihaylova, Paul Elliman, Amelia Groom * special thanks during research: Eidglas Xavier/collab light, Caio, Raphael Daibert, Danilo Sorrino/photography, Projeto TravaLíngua, Cursinho Popular Transformação, Lanchonete.org, ArtsEverywhere/Musagetes, residency at Queer B-Cademy/Kampnagel, Danny Banany/Daniel Chelminiak, residency at van Abbemuseum, Julius Thissen, Alice Venir, Grupo MEXA and their project Putz Bahia, Casa do Povo

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