bela is a South Korean musician and performance artist based between Berlin and Prague. bela uses guttural vocals and feedback to build texture and resonance. Conceptually, their work often adopts an autobiographical voice that courses through lived experiences, lineage, and transcendence. In this regard, their music and performance seek to renew or expand the sense of experiencing sounds and bodies within social and celestial spheres.
bela’s recent album and performance of the same title Korean Love Sonnets is an intense and direct experimentation on the acoustics of the guttural voice in relation to other bodies and spaces. bela discovers romance in its most tactile form, leaning into creaks, feedback, and resonance to create a sombre yet intimate hour, suspended by inhuman notes above the material plane.
