NOOITO is a music project created and performed by Angélica Salvi (harp) and Ece Canlı (voice). Throughout the various forms of sonic and phonic expression, it narrates and evokes the experiences of corporeal and mental metamorphosis of bodies, especially of those who are in-between. Their music creates a space for evoking, narrating and paying homage to the experiences of bodies that have long been excluded, silenced, tormented or ostracised, bringing their absent past back to the present. The leitmotif of this project took its inspiration from the ruins of a monastery and the demolished part of a church located in the bygone narthex of Igreja de são Fins de Friestas, where Nooito worked in their first residence-project. They created a musical piece called narthex that was for the people who were not eligible or allowed to enter the ‘holy place’, the ones who were yet to have a social recognition or were already expelled from the mercy of the divine; such as catechumens, penitents, sinners, perverts, lunatics and women. The music, therefore, was dedicated to those who have stayed on the doorstep, on the inside-outside and on the margins of the social space.