Thelma Cappello

OUT TODAY— 'Midnight' by Thelma Cappello Release Party, Sunday, October 19th Available on vinyl, December 2025 🔗 in bio 1.'Cello's Complaint' 2.'Cobweb' 3.'Ladder' 4.'Ladybug's Choir' 5.'Titania's Complaint' 6.'Voices' 7.'City Piece' All tracks composed and performed by Thelma Cappello Mixing by Aude Van Wyller Additionnal Mixing and Premasters by Basile Griselle Midnight: a tragedy written for the fairies recorded & composed in 2022 City Piece recorded & composed in 2023 Mastering by Rupert Clervaux Layout by Fregan Kloareg @oilesox @basile3__ @kloareg.plus

Thelma Cappello is a French composer and multi-disciplinary artist. She graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2020. Her work explores voice, performances, text, installations and radio formats. It ranges from experimental scores to floral arrangements, creating a sensual world of her own. The sound of cars, a tree as a sculpture in an exhibition space, models made-out of magazines and chants inspired by Hildegarde Von Bingen. She creates urban operas in which field recordings are the instrumentation. Her radio show series, Urban Hymns, meshes fiction and city recordings to create a high-heeled soundwalk, ponctuated by a musical selection: Janet Jackson, Caroline Shaw, Mira Calix . . . On stage (for her: a church, a museum or a staircase) she works with intangible materials: sound, odour, light. Voice and architecture are her instruments of choice. Midnight out October 17th with Vinyl available December 2025 Release Party on October 19th 🪶Book your ticket (link in bio)

Tonight's radio show : "𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞, 𝐀𝐦𝐛𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐬 & 𝐄𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐦" on @radio.sofa ᵘⁿᵈᵉʳʷᵉᵃʳ ᵐᵉᵈⁱᵗᵃᵗⁱᵒⁿˢ & ᵉⁿᶜˡᵒᵗʰᵉᵈ ᶜᵒᵍⁿⁱᵗⁱᵒⁿˢ . . . . Will be playing live at 8 pm from @antenne.47

Dear Listeners . . . This is where you can find me in May . . . 02.05 Radio Show : "Language, Ambulations, Charms & Erotism" 13.05 Concert : "Blue" 24.05 Multi-Channel Piece : "Season Stanza" more soon . . .

mercredi 13 mai 2026 #LesDisquesOmnison Orion Music Workshop Thelma Cappello @t___________c Jeanne Gorisse @jeannehgs Soirée du label @les_disques_omnison aux Instants Chavirés à l’occasion de leur cinquième anniversaire ! > Orion Music Workshop La musique d’Orion Music Workshop (alias Tom Val) semble se balader dans un dédale de miroirs déformants et évitant le piège de la catégorisation : folk ? industrielle ? jazz ? Hors du temps, comme regarder tourner une dreamachine à l’envers dans une enceinte mégalithique. Évocations antiques de la flûte, synthétiseurs désaccordés, rituels pantraditionels, improvisations fragiles. > Thelma Cappello Thelma Cappello est une compositrice et artiste multidisciplinaire française. Son travail explore la voix, la performance, le texte, les installations et les formats radiophoniques. Il s’étend des partitions expérimentales aux compositions florales, créant ainsi un univers sensuel qui lui est propre. Le bruit des voitures, un arbre comme sculpture dans un espace d’exposition, des maquettes réalisées à partir de magazines et des chants inspirés d’Hildegarde de Bingen. Elle crée des opéras urbains dans lesquels les enregistrements de terrain constituent l’instrumentation. Sur scène (pour elle : une église, un musée ou un escalier), elle travaille avec des matériaux immatériels : le son, l’odeur, la lumière. La voix et l’architecture sont ses instruments de prédilection. > Jeanne Gorisse Contrebassiste et bassiste spécialisée dans l’improvisation, Jeanne Gorisse explore toutes les dimensions et résonances de la basse. Son dernier album, Moires, est sorti sur le label Les Disques Omnison.

Blurs from last week's Bʅυҽ . . . . . . 𓊝 Thank you @dreamslesssweet__ , @noise_artifacts & @theframe.arts @wanda.aaa.a @zozoelff alongside @playvlada_ @cotton_pills 📸 @baptiste.zan

Numéro 79, Mars 2026, Conversation avec Thelma Cappello @t___________c — par Lou Ferrand @louverrante « J’imagine qu’on pourrait y voir une définition plus élargie ou alternative du terme ambient music. Qu’il ne s’agirait pas seulement de la musique en tant que format audio, mais plutôt d’une pratique de l’ordre de la performance, de l’installation, de l’œuvre totale… Ambient ne définirait pas seulement l’esthétique et la couleur d’une musique, mais plutôt les efforts pour mettre en place une atmosphère qui donne à une musique son caractère. »

Midnight : ephemeral market On Sunday, February 22nd 11 AM - 8 PM To celebrate the release of "Midnight : a tragedy written for the fairies", we invite you to an ephemeral market . . . . . . There will be artworks and items surrounding the album : Vinyl-libretti, Drawings, Paper-magazine models, and so on . . . 𝐻𝑒𝑒𝓁𝓈 𝒷𝑒𝒽𝒾𝓃𝒹 𝒶 𝒸𝓊𝓇𝓉𝒶𝒾𝓃 . . . 𝒜 𝒻𝑜𝑜𝓉 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒹𝑜𝑜𝓇 . . . 𝒞𝑜𝓂𝑒 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝒶 𝓉𝑒𝒶𝓃𝓃𝑒𝓇 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝓊𝓈 . . . ?

𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚, 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬 & 𝐥𝐢𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐨 . . . Last week my debut album 'Midnight' came out on vinyl It's available at @officepsr Link in bio @petya.sasser.rike @pam.unofficial.account

Clarity, more often than not, is a lie, a red herring. Truer, it seems, are blurred images and misty conceptions. Music history as a whole is undecipherable. Zooming in may bring some sense of understanding but many lineages lie far beneath the surface, made of obscure stories and oblique connections, like the ones that tie Joan La Barbara, Meredith Monk, Robert Ashley & Jacqueline Humbert - a scrawny branch in the genealogical tree on which now sits Thelma Cappello. Its motto reads: “voice is an instrument”. In the case of Thelma Cappello’s Midnight: a musical tragedy written for the fairies - one of the two pieces that make up her debut album on Fondation Petya Sasser Rike - her voice is the sole instrument. Recorded with a cheap microphone, it is the raw material she would then chop and sculpt in Ableton, strictly using in-built presets. Just like the singing of Josephine, the mouse singer in Kafka’s testamentary short story of the same name, Thelma Cappello’s singing may seem to us little more than a mundane squeak, but it nonetheless imposes a profound silence upon us. Midnight is not the music of Kafka’s mice folk, but of another people, the fairies that inhabits the whimsical world of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream - the main source of inspiration for the composition. Though the tone between the two literary works is different, the comparison between these fictional folks is certainly not farfetched. And that’s what Midnight tells us. Rather than lightheartedness, the emotion that rises in ourselves, as we sit in silence, listening to the seven movements of this model-sized opera, is that caused by faint hope breaking through a veil of dread: a game of chiaroscuros, that - as Art never stopped teaching us - is ceaselessly won by Light. Recorded at a very different time and place, City Piece evokes chamber music rather than opera. It nonetheless works as a revealing companion for Midnight, not exactly unveiling its dense mystery, but giving us an unexpected clue instead, and by doing so, shedding a softer light on the whole album. Thelma Cappello - Midnight (Fondation Petya Sasser Rike, France 2026) @t___________c @petya.sasser.rike

𝐌𝐢𝐝𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 is out today on vinyl ! I am truly happy of the final object, a beautiful gatefold including the short-story "𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘢" some of you heard during the release party at Saint-Pierre de Montmartre 🪡 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘰 . . . Again, many thanks to all the people involved @pam.unofficial.account @kloareg.plus @basile3__ @oilesox Rupert Clervaux 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓈𝑜 𝑜𝓃 . . . 🤍

My album 𝑴𝒊𝒅𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 will be out on vinyl tomorrow available at @officepsr