“G.D. Parada” Duncan Whitley (London): text based projection with stereo audio Friday 18th – Saturday 26th November 2011 Venue: LabCulture MediaLab 1 Kings Square Bridport Dorset DT6 3QE England “G.D. Parada”, a work by Duncan Whitley and produced by Binaural/Nodar is part of Countertext, a collection of transmedia installations and events to complement the Bridport [...]

[Nodar003] Three Years In Nodar Context-Specific Art Practices in Rural Portugal 315 pages full color catalogue Accompanying double CD with 20 sound compositions made in Nodar Price: 25 Euros + postage For orders, please contact info@binauralmedia.org The catalog includes essays, critical texts, field diaries, photographs and drawings of more than 40 artists who developed art [...]

Binaural / Nodar and Associação Aldeias de Magaio Present: Vozes de Magaio Festival Sheltering and Transhumating the Oral Tradition 22 and 23 July 2011 Civil Parishes of São Martinho das Moitas and Covas do Rio (municipality of S. Pedro do Sul, district of Viseu, PT) (Click on the image to see the poster in full [...]

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..

Football Sound Narratives Edições Nodar, 2010 [nodar001] A compilation curated by Rui Costa and Duncan Whitley Cover image by Carina Martins Cover art by Luís Costa Football has for many years provided a rich field for investigation within the social sciences, being widely considered to “reflect” broader issues within contemporary society. The global economics of [...]

“Multi-Channel Sound” Workshop
Directed by Duncan Whitley
Teatro Viriato, Viseu (PT)
2 to 5 November 2010
Tue to Fri 7.30pm to 10.30pm
Capacity 12 participants
Price 20 Euros
Age rating 16+
This workshop is part of Binaural / Nodar’s Program of Workshops on Sound Experimentation and will examine the creative potential of sound as a sensual, sculptural and inherently spatial medium, whilst developing in parallel a theoretical framework based on acoustic communication.
The workshop will be directed by Duncan Whitley, an artist specialized in sound installations, and will offer an introduction to technical aspects of setting up multi-channel installation environments as well as to creative strategies for dealing with sound in physical space.

  Rui Costa, sound artist and Binaural/Nodar’s co-artistic director, presented a sound piece for PVA Labculture‘s Audiolab_10, held in March 2010 at Dorset, GB. This series of field recording-based pieces was curated by Binaural/Nodar’s associated artist Duncan Whitley. Rui Costa “Suspension of Judgement” 5min00

(recorded Lisbon, April 18th 2009) From my high-rise apartment, outside [...]

Duncan Whitley, Binaural / Nodar’s associated sound artist, exhibits two sound installations in “Get Documented!” cycle for 2010 at Serralves Foundation, Oporto (PT)  between April 16 and May 16, 2010. The opening will happen on April, 16th at 9.30 p.m. The presence of Duncan Withley in this important cycle of art and reflection is produced [...]

Video Installation “Cá” Manuela Barile (IT/PT) SALT Sound Symposium Curated by Duncan Whitley Organized by PVA Media Lab Bridport, Dorset (GB) March, 6th 2010 Part of the intermedia project “Locus in Quo“, “Cá” is a audio/video instalation created in the sequence of many travels to the abandoned villages of the Nodar region. The artist’s aim [...]

LOCUS IN QUO Three audio/video installations by Manuela Barile Cultural Forum of Cerveira (Vila Nova de Cerveira, PT) 18 December 09 – 16 January 10 Opening on 18 December at 9.00 p.m. (with a live performance by the author) Locus in Quo – which means “the place where something happens” – is the general title [...]