“Moroloja,” an audio / visual research about the symbolic experience on the ritual of mourning, directed by Manuela Barile, artistic director of Binaural / Nodar was selected for the CologneOFF selections of the Perpetuum Mobile Film Festival Minsk (Belarus), to take place between January 16th and 18th, 2012, and of the 6th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival (Thailand), taking place on February 1st, 2012.

Sunday, December 18, 2pm
Greenwich House Music School
46 Barrow St.
New York, NY
Admission: Free
Passageira em Casa is a multimedia performance inspired by concepts of home and migration. The narrative is a partially fictionalized and personalized account of the maritime history of Portugal, enacted by a dancer, a vocal performer, live video performer, live electronic composer, and other artists. The project is inspired by various texts related to maritime journeys and Portuguese history and culture.
In her presentation at EMF, Colbert will discuss her use of site-specific field recordings of tectonic plates, earthquakes, and tidal movements in the piece. She will also address how flora, fauna, constelations and maritime navigation techniques have influenced the work.

“Moroloja,” an audio / visual research about the symbolic experience on the ritual of mourning, directed by Manuela Barile, artistic director of Binaural / Nodar was selected for the Óptica III – Festival Audiovisual de Buenos Aires, to take place between December 15th and 17th, 2011, and to CologneOFF 2011 Morocco, taking place between December 13th and 15th 2011.

Cycle of Debates of ARTE LISBOA 2011
Friday, November 25th | 7.00pm
Debate “I want to be an artist. And now what? Will I have to emigrate?”
FIL, Parque das Nações, Lisbon
Luís Costa, coordinator of Binaural/Nodar will be present at the Cycle of Debates of the Arte Lisboa 2011 – Contemporary Art Fair. He will address the role of artist residencies in the support to the artistic creation, the lack of these kind of platforms in Portugal and in what way they can be essential to the young artists.

2º Festival Vibracional TPS
Saturday 4.June.2011, 1.30pm
Xesús Valle (computer) & Rui Costa (computer)
Cidade da Cultura, Santiago de Compostela (ES)

Rui Costa, artistic director of Binaural/Nodar will participare in 2º Festival Vibracional TPS, to take place on Saturday, 4.June.2011 at Cidade da Cultura, in Santiago de Compostela (Spain). The event is organized by TPS – Centro de Novas Tecnoloxias do Pico Sagro, a collective of multidisciplinary Galician artists focused on the free improvisation practice as an artistic and collective work method . Rui Costa will play with the Galician musician Xesus Valle as a duo and their presentation will be based on the creation of harmonic and polyrhythmic structures from the improvised interplay between the artists, using granular synthesis. The sound elements from the real world will be subjected to an abstraction and formalization process in order to obtain primordial acoustic elements that can be molded by the artists.

VOZES DE MAGAIO FESTIVAL
Magaio Voicescapes: First Cycle of Artist Residencies
Public Presentation of Sound and Media Works
Saturday, 21 May 2011, 5.00 – 7.00pm
Old Primary School of Fujaco
Coordinates: 40° 50′ 42.21″ N, 8° 4′ 42.65 W

@c: Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais (Portugal)
Pierre Gauvin (Canada)
Suzanne Barnard (USA)

Open Call

Workshop/Residency
“Passenger at Home”: Task-based Choreography

Directed by Maile Colbert and Wanda Gala
With dramaturgic support by Rui Catalão
Production: Binaural/Nodar

Centro de Experimentação Artística
Fábrica da Pólvora (Barcarena, Oeiras, Portugal)
27 June – 2 July 2011
Total duration: 42 hours (7 hours/day)

Deadline for reception of applications: 15 June 2011

Paivascapes #1 – Paiva River Sound Festival will be the subject of Patrick McGinley’s Framework radio show to be first broadcasted on the London-based Resonance 104.4 FM station, on April 10th at 10:00pm local time and following on several European and US radio stations.

The radio piece to be broadcasted was composed by Rui Costa and is entitled “Around the River Bend”. It features a variety of locations, times of day, seasons, and contexts including recordings of the Paivascapes #1 festival performances, source material collected by the artists for their sound and audiovisual installations, sound clips included in Binaural/Nodar’s Paiva River Sound Mapping project, spontaneous recordings of social gatherings during the festival, and improvisations made by children inspired by the river soundscapes or by the names of the places where the festival happened, etc..

Cidades Sonoras #2
A Binaural/Nodar Educational Project
in partnership with Teatro Viriato
Viseu Historic District
11 to 15 April 2011, 2.30pm – 5.30pm
Target audience: 14 to 17 y.o.
Capacity: 15 participants
Price: 15 Euros
Sign up at Teatro Viriato’s ticket office
Public Presentation: 15 April 2011 at 5.00pm
Teatro Viriato foyer, Viseu
Cidades Sonoras is an educational project focused on the sound mapping of the historic districts of Portuguese cities, which second edition will take place in Viseu.

Artist Residency
Master’s Program in Contemporary Artistic Creation at the University of Aveiro
31 March – 3 April 2011
Parque da Fraguinha, S. Pedro do Sul
Public Presentation: 3 April 2011 at 4.00pm
Binaural/Nodar will co-organize an artist residency with about 20 first-year students of the Master’s Program in Contemporary Artistic Creation at the University of Aveiro. In this artist residency, the students will finish and publicly present ongoing works and simultaneously work with the specificy of the territory following the creative intervention methods typical of Binaural/Nodar.