GIBRANA CERVANTES - Verdad y Error

"Verdad Y Error resides in the tension between the thrashing of external noise and beating centered internal calm. Gibrana Cervantes is known for her work across experimental music and contemporary performance, a practice with focused intensity and surging physicality, often pushing the limits of endurance, presence, and embodiment. A central axis of her performance practice is her ongoing collaboration with acclaimed choreographer Florentina Holzinger , including composing the music for SEA WORLD (2026), Florentina Holzinger's critically acclaimed installation for the Austrian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Alongside this, she is a core member of the experimental ensemble Amor Muere ( Mabe Fratti , Concepción Huerta , and Camille Mandoki ). Verdad y Error is a record of her artistic approach which expands her body and the violin's horizon of possibility to near breaking point. Cervantes uses a register closely associated with Metal, yet buried deep in the alchemy of these pieces are motifs which hark back to her classical background. Across these pieces the violin is used as an instrument with a fragmented and shifting voice -- blurred, repeated, and reshaped through distortion. The recordings are built with layers of violin tones which oscillate between recognizable, processed, stretched and shifted, and lay embedded in a frequency stratum of volatile static and noise. The origins of the album were born at a time when Cervantes was seeking inner calm amidst a relentless external noise, questioning the validity or possibility of memory and its radically changing perception in relation to experience. Subsequent reflection on this contemplative moment allowed her to develop a relational music which moves through memory, erosion, repetition, and emotional ambiguity. Creating a space that feels both intimate and unstable, mercurial with the patina of lived imperfection. Akin to the unreliable narrator and linguistic instability, each piece functions as an emotional landscape suspended between clarity and confusion. An album which balances melody, brutality, fragility and noise throughout its sprawling recordings and artwork, which operates as an analogue to the music. The visual world of the album developed in collaboration with Mauro Ventura was compiled across various media with a mix of handwritten texts, burned typography, metallic textures, and fragile physical materials."