Dani Gurgel deconstructs scat singing from the point of view of Brazilian music, in order to reconstruct it based in any other influences, in order to provide us with insights on how to make our scat singing sound more like ourselves. She does that through linguistic explorations of sound and timbre, rhythmic studies, melody connections, syllable constructions based on percussion instruments and, most of all, live exercises, in which she gathers the students to try new syllables to familiar melodies.

She strives to bring together musical talents with common goals, with her award-winning series “Novos Compositores” (New Composers) and her documentary TV series “Outro Som” (Another sound), inspired by her web-series “Música de Graça” (Music for free).
Gurgel puts together her experience as a Brazilian jazz singer in the same cauldron as her still ongoing work as a music photographer and cinematographer, leading to her cutting-edge PhD research at São Paulo University (USP).