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Sanchez, Paula: Pressure Sensitive (Relative Pitch)

Recorded in Switzerland in 2021, Argentinian cellist and interdisciplinary artist Paula Sanchez pushes the cello to its sonic limits through six radical performances that merge acoustic and processed sound, combining cello, cellophane, and ring modulation to evoke a visceral, poetic, and at times merciless exploration of embodied sound and ephemeral transformation.
 

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Paula Sanchez-cello, Cellophane, ring modulator


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UPC: 5904224874124

Label: Relative Pitch
Catalog ID: RPRSS044
Squidco Product Code: 36210

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2025
Country: USA
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold
Recorded in Bern, Switzerland, in January, 2021.

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"Paula Sanchez is a musician working with sound in the intersection of experimental music, improvisation and performance art. Putting the body and materials to the limit, in the destruction, composition/decomposition of a mutable sound space. In the pure presence, of an embodied sound that invents relations as it makes its way into nothingness. This album is the result of performative experimentations with cello and cellophane, and erotic encounters of transparent asphyxiation."-Relative Pitch



"Paula Sanchez is an Argentinian, classically-trained cellist and interdisciplinary artist, who completed her master's degrees in improvisation at the Musik-Akademie Basel and Contemporary Art Practice/Sound Art at Bern University. Since 2018, she has been active in Europe's contemporary music, experimental, and free improvisation scenes. She uses extended bowing techniques and unconventional materials such as plastic, glass, and natural material combined with voice and electronics.

She describes her aesthetics as "putting the body and materials to the limit, in the destruction composition/decomposition of a mutable sound space. In the pure presence of an embodied sound that invents relations as it makes its way into nothingness".


Artist Biographies

"Paula Sánchez is a foreigner who works with sounds and the body to the limit
on the
destruction
composition / decomposition
of a mutable sound space.

In the pure presence
of an incarnate sound

who invents his relationships
As she makes her way into nothingness."

-Paula Sanchez Website 8/25/2025

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Track Listing:



1. I 7:01

2. II 3:54

3. III 3:03

4. IV 8:11

5. V 3:29

6. VI 5:49

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