Hey Anton (Shibari Study Team),  Atados no Parque Rio de Janeiro will happen on december 6th, Atados no Parque São Paulo will happen on december 21st (it will be the celebration for the 10th year annyversary of Atados São Paulo).

Nooo, that beautiful work is from the great brazilian rigger Luminatus !

MoBights (Community Manager)Yeah, I'm a huge fan :)

Brian moore I think we should start a thread on tying chairs! 

Hey Brian, welcome!For a second I thought your model was a furry person :)

And no.. I wasn`t singing... that would transform the performance in a Seme experience to all the audience hahahah.If you wanna have a look :)https://youtu.be/TLuuvCYpf0c

Laiana is a lyrical singer specialized in contemporary vocal techniques—she works with noise, fragments, glitches. After our first meeting, she mentioned wanting to explore a voice-and-shibari project. Since I’m very interested in how movement and rope affect the voice, we began from there.

At the beginning, we were researching how to “break” the singing. But her body is so well-trained to protect her voice that this wasn’t as easy as one might think, haha. Eventually we reached that point, but we realized the subtle vocal changes that occurred during tying were far more interesting.

For the performance itself, she proposed starting from a fragmented composition based on Schubert’s Gretchen am Spinnrade. First, because the song speaks of someone spinning a thread—an image close to shibari. And second, because it deals with intrusive thoughts, something that disrupts your actions, your day, your peace, which resonated with the physical research we were doing.

Model/Singer: Laiana Oliveira