Gisela Fullà-Silvestre
I’m a sound editor/re-recording mixer and film composer from Barcelona, based in Brooklyn, NY.
I love working on films that shed light on social justice issues. I’ve been lucky to work on films that have premiered at Sundance, Berlinale, Tribeca, SXSW.
People ask me if I prefer sound editing or composing, it always depends on the project. Sometimes I’m the right choice to work on sound - I love working with organic soundscapes and let the natural sounds lift the emotional narrative of the film. Sometimes I’m the right composer for the job. I love playing with modular synthesis, arpeggiators, generative and aleatoric music, sampling sounds and making beats and messing with my own voice. I’m a sucker for Mediterranean traditional singing traditions.
Here’s my NOIA bio written in third person because it feels more....royalty? lol
Gisela Fullà-Silvestre formed the alias NOIA to create separation between her profession as a composer and mix engineer for film, and her experimental pop productions. After graduating from Berklee, the Barcelona-bred artist relocated to Brooklyn and started writing music that channeled her early attachments to sound, which were formed osmotically as a child in the home of her activist parents. Shortly thereafter, she released her inaugural EP, Habits, which was a lush, romantic affair anchored by singles “Nostalgia Del Futuro” and “Itaca Tropical.”
Her LP debut, "gisela" has been praised by Pitchfork, NPR, NY Times and Stereogum. Structured to unfold like a dream, it combines an array of languages - Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, English - and traditional sounds from her childhood in southwestern Europe to process her personal transformations over the past two years while living between NYC and Barcelona. Her agile and deeply personal singing guides us through the record.
Glitch and hyperpop productions and field recordings were also central to the creation process. Everywhere Gisela went, so did a recording device - dinners with friends, weekends in the park, voicemails, city sounds. The resulting body of work is deeply autobiographical, yet instantly recognizable. The context uniquely NOIA’s, but the stuff of life visits us all.