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”. She has collaborated with Swiss oud player Christian Moser, Fred Frith,
