Mariana Marcassa has a PhD in Clinical Psychology. She developed postdoctoral research at Concordia University where she worked with SenseLab, Acts of Listening Lab, Angelique Willkie and the performing arts cluster LePARC. She is the author of the double book BANZO SOUNDS and BANZO LANDSCAPE, an English-Portuguese publication by Grosse Fugue Edition, published in December 2019.
Mariana Marcassa has been certified in sound therapy by Tama-Do, The Academy of Sound Color and Movement, created by Fabien Maman (based on Chinese medicine) (She has completed Step 1/4 and will complete step 2/4 in September 2020, the training last 5 years) and has completed the international sound therapy training diploma of Harmonic Sounds Association of Sound Therapy in Spain. She regularly expands her knowledge by participating in workshops such as Mongolian Throat Singing, and Continuum and Tantroom, constantly looking for new methods to help her clients.
Mariana was born in the rural Brazil, in a family connected to the earth that made cheese, sang to their animals and lived on a rural tree spotted landscape. Since 2017, she lives and works in Tiohtià:ke / Mooniyaang / Montreal where she has been developing a new theoretical and practical approach to sound and voice explorations, and the creation of experimental listening techniques. She works with individuals and groups, in private or as a performer. It has been through voice and sound–as performance, as aesthetic proposition and clinical intervention– that Mariana has been asking how an engagement with sound as vibration and voice-without-language might facilitate new modes of experience, and new techniques for living.