2004

Binaural was founded in November, 2004 by the associate members Luís Costa, Paulo Raposo, Rui Costa and André Gonçalves.

2005

In 2005, Binaural started a collaborative project with the sound artist and music journalist Mark McLaren, with the purpose of publish several series of interviews with sound and visual artists who work with “public space”. The first series of interviews of this project, titled “Survey on Location and context based media”, is online on Binaural’s site since January 2006.

Binaural collaborated in the Sound Art Workshop of the Contemporary Art Museum of León (Musac), directed by the Spanish musician Nilo Gallego. The Binaural members Luís Costa and Rui Costa were responsible for the compilation of theorical and historical materials related to sound art.

During the same workshop, the sound artist Rui Costa presented a conference / concert that illustrated the most actual trends in the use of real time sound processing tools.

Integrated in the set up and preparation of Nodar’s art residency project, there was a visit made in October, 2005 to Stazione di Topolò (Udine, Italy), a place where exists an art residency space for contemporary artists, with similar characteristics, both in geographical and social landscapes and in methological and intervention approaches.

2006

In March 2006 began the activity of Nogs (Nodar Guest Studio), an art residency for artists working in sound, visual, performance, etc. Nogs is located in Nodar, a small rural village in the center of Portugal. The first artist-in-residence at Nogs was the Spanish musician and performer Nilo Gallego, who started to develop the project of music on the landscape “Sheep Concert Nodar”.

In April 2006 funding was obtained by the Portuguese Arts Institute for the conception and presentation of the intermedia project “Dust”, who’s author is the sound artist Paulo Raposo.

In June 2006 Binaural started in Lisbon a parallel activity of concert organization and production. The first musicians invited were the Australian composer and improviser Anthony Pateras and the Spanish multidisciplinary collective “Fora do Tempo”.

An important project developed by Binaural was the organization in September 2006 of the second edition of the Pushing the Medium symposium. This international meeting, organized in collaboration with MoKS (Estónia), gathered 20 artists working in different areas who presented site-specific projects connected with the landscape of Nodar (both social and geographical).

The program of the “Nodar Pushing the Medium #2” symposium included conferences and artist talks at a local university and performance events in the Portuguese cities of Guarda and Viseu, followed by a final presentation of the developed projects in the village of Nodar.

In December 2006, Binaural’s team was reformulated, with the inclusion of the associate Manuela Barile, who replaced Paulo Raposo in the Board of Directors.