Marina Herlop
Catalan composer for voice, piano, and synthetic detail
From Spain
She works with trained voice, piano, and electronics, but the pieces lean away from recital-room clarity into cut-up vocal lines, fast internal movement, and glossy digital texture. Live, this usually reads as a tightly controlled set built from her solo material, with the voice carrying the structure and the production framing it in sharp, strange colours.
More about Marina Herlop
She comes out of Barcelona’s experimental and contemporary composition orbit, and her early records Nanook and Babasha put her in the classical-to-avant-garde lane before Pripyat and Nekkuja pushed harder into PAN’s electronic field. The invented-language vocals and Carnatic references mark her as part of the current wave of composers treating the voice as an instrument first, lyric vehicle second.
A story
For Nekkuja, she wrote while waiting for Pripyat to come out and said she felt professionally unmoored.
Playing
- 2026-11-01 2026-11-01T22:30:00 · Marina Herlop · OGR Torino
Labels
Start here
- Pripyat (2022) · PAN
The pivot from piano-led writing to hybrid electronic composition. - Nekkuja (2023) · PAN
More sculpted vocals, more orchestral air, more detail. - Nanook (2016)
Earlier solo writing before the PAN era.
For fans of
Mica Levi, Nala Sinephro, Kara-Lis CoverdaleOfficial links
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Plan C2C Festival 2026 with Songpot · Ask about Marina Herlop in ChatGPT or Claude