THE VAST EXTANT (2025)
fixed media & performance in spatial audio at UΜLE HELI FESTIVAL, Kanuti Gildi SAAL (Taalin | EE)
Roxanna Albayati (cello + voice), Kristjan Kannukene (viola + voice) , Nicole Bettencourt Coelho (wearables x live electronics)
COME CLOSER (2024)
4-channel interactive sound sculpture in Barbican Conservatory (London | UK)
Batool Desouky (voice + programming), CYAN (electric guitar), Robyn (electric violin), Natalia Latyszonek (carpentry), Nicole Bettencourt Coelho (electric bass)
THE GODS WERE TIRED WHEN YOU FELL (2024)
pilgrimage / alchemical sound and movement ritual within Saeva Dupka Cave (Brestnitsa | BG)
Petja Ivanova (movement, research), Alexandra Gruebler (song, voice, live electronics), Camilla Strandhagen (dance), Nicole Bettencourt Coelho (live electronics, spatial audio), Sarah Kantrowitz (text, performance)
SOMETHING ABOUT FIRE (2024)
interactive music and dance performance in spatial sound at MONOM (Berlin | DE)
Anna Herrmann (dance), Raphaela Andrade Cordova (voice), Anne Wichmann (sound, XR), jamante (piano, electronic production), Nicole Bettencourt Coelho (live electronics, wearables + sensors)
A SHAPESHIFTING FEAST ENSUES (2022)
queer empowerment with gestural & interactive technologies for performance in spatial audio at IRCAM Forum (Paris | FR)
Sasha Wilde (voice, wearables), Yuki Nakayama (voice, live electronics), Nicole Bettencourt Coelho (interactive live electronics, spatialisation, wearables)
GHOST ORCHESTRA (2022)
Ghost Orchestra v.1.0 is an interactive computer-vision based application to perform cello, viola and violin sample instruments through a performerβs improvised movements in real-time. sound is received through a DIY 7-channel surround sound system, enveloping the dancer in a dynamic field of sonic texture. multi-modal expressions emerge through channelled forms and heightened somatic awareness towards subtle sensation & internal impulse (London | UK)
Nicole Bettencourt Coelho (interactive live electronics, spatialisation), Byuka Makodru (dance)
4QUARTERS (2022)
Assisted by a mobile phone and computer vision : 4Quarters v.1.0 records, processes and diffuses vocal fragments into a quadrophonic system. physical movement subtly shifts vocal samples in each quarter of a room, relative to the playerβs orientation in space. this was made for the ritual act of calling in the quarters : to conjure an interactive field of elemental vocalisations. a palpable sonic presence within which to devotionally improvise with live processed electric bass guitar (London | UK)
Nicole Bettencourt Coelho (voice, bass, interactive live electronics, spatialisation)
RITUAL LABS (2019)
Utilising sigilisation to create a choreo-musical-narrative score, each Labour catalysed a dialogue between musicians, performers and audience to facilitate an immersive performance of embodied astrological myth. Searching for alternatives to the aims, tools and methods of industrial art practice. Reclaiming creative practice as a return to conscious ritual through collaboratively improvised sound, movement and presence. Researching the invocation of hypnotic phenomena within music, dance and theatrical practices. Residency at Somerset House Studios / Music Hackspace (London | UK)
A de la Fe (choreography), Nicole Bettencourt Coelho (sound, astrology, sigil score), Alice DeVille (mezzo soprano) and a huge thank you to all the musicians, dancers, actors and sound therapists who partook across 12 immersive rituals
ELECTRIC BASS
my first deep study & connection with an instrument x electronics : always my true love