BIOGRAPHY |
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Tetine are formed by musicians/artists Bruno Verner and Eliete Mejorado, who have been living in Hackney in East London since 2000. The pair met in 1995 in Brazil while taking part in the local underground art punk scene of São Paulo and Belo Horizonte, and since then, they have been producing a multitude of singular works and actions through the hybrid universes of music, performance art, film / video and poetry. With more than 18 albums released by various record labels (Soul Jazz Records, Slum Dunk, Mr Bongo, Bizarre Music) and 12-inch singles and compilations, Tetine have been performing in festivals, art galleries, clubs, cinemas and theatres around the world, as well as making appearances on radio shows and devising hybrid and experimental projects around their music and art. The duo’s performances, films, and installations have been shown in renowned institutions, festivals, and cultural spaces including the Showroom, the Rich Mix, National Museum of Contemporary Art & Sternessen Museum in Oslo, The Wire’s Adventures In Modern Music Festival in Chicago, Gorky Theatre in Berlin, Serralves Museum in Porto, The Barbican Centre, Whitechapel Art Gallery, South London Gallery; Palais De Tokyo in Paris, Liverpool Biennial, Bordeaux Biennial, Trienalle di Milano, Atelier Claus in Brussels among many others. Tetine have also played a key role in showcasing a diverse range of unexpected Brazilian underground sounds to the attention of the UK for a number of years. The duo compiled, produced and mixed the first ever album of Baile Funk (Funk Carioca) outside of Brazil - Slum Dunk Presents Funk Carioca Mixed by Tetine, released on Mr Bongo Records in 2004, as well as the acclaimed compilation The Sexual Life of The Savages - an essential primer to early-80s post-punk from São Paulo, released on Soul Jazz Records in 2005. More recently, Tetine have also put together a collection of obscure post-punk tapes entitled Colt 45 – Underground Post Punk, Tropical Tapes, Lo-Fi Electronics & Other Sounds from Brazil (1983-1993) and their latest albums Animal Numeral (2019), Music For Breathing (2023) After The Future (2023). .
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ABOUT US |
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Here we talk about Tetine and our relationship to sound production, technology, pop culture, performance art, body politics, autobiography and chance. We
have been defining Tetine’s work as being informed by an urgent necessity
to translate our life events into personal images, sonic textures, atmospheres
and states through the use of body performance, electronic devices, voice
recordings and projections. We
have run Tetine as a duo since 1995. We have produced a variety of distinct
original combined-media projects ranging from visual spoken-word performances;
electronic music shows to video-installations and experimental albums.
Back
in São Paulo, Brazil (1995), we were experimenting with Super 8
films and electronic sounds by 'misusing' devices such as digital and
analogue synthesisers and samplers in an attempt to discover different
ways of creating body and voice tensions alongside dark, dreamy and floating
sonic atmospheres. Tetine's
first performances were primarily structured by the combination of aleatoric
noises, frequencies and textures, 'out of tune' (?) vocalisations and
atonal harmonies that we would get from hours of exhaustive physical work
with our bodies, a couple of old synths and a TV monitor plugged into
a VCR that we kept set up in a small rehearsal room. We
were particularly interested in searching for the sensorial and organic
responses that such operations could offer; therefore, our main point
was to distance ourselves as much as we could from traditional ways of
working with sonic and body notions to establish distinctive engagements
with each one of the media we utilised. We
still do that and call these experiments 'electro psycho-physic improvisations'.
The aim is to develop a much closer relationship between our physical
involvement, our personal image and the electronic and organic sounds
we invent for live or pre-recorded performances. Bruno Verner & Eliete Mejorado |
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