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The company is formed by a nucleus of three people -Thaïs Julià, Matías Muñoz and Vivian Friedrich- and a net of eight collaborators, with a total of four nationalities.

The project was born in September 2017, when Mati and Thaïs came together to explore dialogues between music and movement around investigation materials created by Thaïs. The collaboration was triggered by their artistic harmony created while sharing a musical project. At the beginning of 2018, Vivian collaborated with Som Noise for the first time, as an external eye on the small format “No In Vane”. Finally, in May of the same year, Vivian joined the team to start the co-creation of Breach.

Teamwork is the fundamental concept that gives strength and identity to the project. It is justified not just by a system of moral values, but also artistic ones. It allows for an uplifting of the scenic piece and creates a coherence between the different fields of the company. As an example, Laura Cardona, supporting the production, had not just included in the team, but also impulsed some dynamics of reflexion around the contents of the piece.

As an emerging company and with Breach as its first creation, Som Noise has won the award of European project circusnext+ (2019-21), La Central del Circ (creation’s support 2019-2020), Festival CIRCA CIRCa (Pitch ArtCena 2020) and Circostrada Network (Pitch Spanish Case 2019), amongst others. In 2020 it gained the support of the Department of Culture of the Government of Catalonia and the ICEC (Catalan Institute of Cultural Companies) for researching, creation and production.

You have Julià

Thaïs Julià was born in Barcelona in 1991. Her strong connection with nature and interest for knowledge led her to pursue university studies in Biology (2009-14, Barcelona and Lisbon), laying down analytical and reflective bases that enriched, from a counterpoint, her artistic concerns: performing movement, music, writing, photography and drawing. At the age of 21 she entered the world of the circus and upon finishing university she fully focused on personal and professional development in the performing arts.

Currently her specialties are aerial rope, performance art and stage dialogue with music. Her training is hybrid, drawing on the physical theater Grotowski (Samuel Nuñez), dance (Presence, Asymmetrical Motion, flying low, contact-dance and butoh; with Olga Álvarez, Linn Johansson and Lucas Condró), circus (aerial, vertical and acro -dance) and yoga. In music she is trained in electric bass and percussion (hangdrum and frame-drum), and for a season she played and co-composed in the musical quartet Tres Cuartos.

Thaïs was not trained in a circus school, so she wove her educational path in a self-managed way with intuition, passion and persistence. This framework establishes a basis of freedom and personality that is perceived in the uniqueness of her work.

Her creations are born from a reflective process about the individual in society and nature, with a political and feminist axis. Always in dialogue with live music, her movement work focuses on an elaborate technical investigation at the service of content, in a deconstruction towards physical and communicative limits.

Since 2013 she has also worked as a circus teacher (Rogelio Rivel School, and Association Gente Colgada, Barcelona), teaching regular and intensive courses of technique, research and scenic creation.

M atí Muñoz

He was born in Buenos Aires in 1987. From 2000 to 2006 he received musical training in Buenos Aires and specialized in drums.

In 2010 he began to enter the world of circus and dance and after three years he moved to Spain to expand his knowledge of circus.

In August 2013 he was selected by the Granada International School of Circus and Theater (CAU), where he specialized in juggling and verticals.

In 2015 she expanded her studies in dance by studying Inside Movement (tragantDansa, Bcn). Receive classes with different references of the movement in Europe.

At the beginning of 2016, he created the Ombú company and began to work on its first issues. That same year he traveled to India and was introduced to the Ashtanga Yoga Vinyasa method.

In July 2017 he co-founded the company Som Noise and they began creating their first show Breach. At the same time he is a member of the musical group Tres Cuartos.

In 2020 he published his first book of poetry and photography entitled "La desarreglada soledad de me". Currently there have been six editions.

Vivian Friedrich

Vivian Friedrich is the creator of a performative circus with a major focus on live music. She is trained in circus arts and movement languages between Tilburg (Academy for Circus and performance Art 2009/10, NL), Hamburg and Barcelona. At the same time, she graduated in psychology through a distance study at the Fernuniversität Hagen and in 2018/19 she complemented her training with the Certificat de Dramaturgie Circassienne from CNAC (FR) and ESAC (BE).

Vivian has worked as an aerial dancer with the choreographer Ludovica Zoina, as a performer in the Genoma B cast of the company Albadulake and as a specialist actress with Recam Stunts, Accialt Flying Effects and with the coordinator Cucu Usín in films such as Down a Dark Hall directed by Rodrigo Cortés. As a circus artist she has specialized in the U-String, creating her own vocabulary combining tightrope, aerial rope and trapeze techniques.

In 2016 she received the La Central del Circ incubator grant, the support of the EU Circus Incubator Project for young circus authors and in 2017 the innovation grant from the Generalitat of Catalonia for a research on circus dramaturgies that has given her the impetus to create the Dramaturgy and Performing Writing Exchange Conference at La Central del Circ.

As a circus thinker and researcher, she has been invited to round tables and conferences at the Ateneu de Nou Barris, the Independent Theater Festival in Barcelona and CircoRed in Madrid.

Vivian is the co-creator of LaRed of the Fam.Lizajous collective, author of I Love My Car and currently a member of the Som Noise company and playwright and director of the Breach creation.