Artist Residency and Sound Installation
integrated in the cycle: Binaural: The Archaic Sound
Rui Costa – “Sightseeing for the Blind in Aveiro”
Estúdio Performas, Aveiro (PT)
Installation dates: 18 – 28 August, 2010 (Wednesday to Saturday)

Sightseeing for the Blind “is a project based on a sound walk through a city.
The experience that a tourist has of a city is [...]

The educational project “Aldeias Sonoras” (“Sound Villages”) which consists in recording and mapping the acoustic heritage of rural areas by young people of the regions where the project is developed, has been following the river Paiva during its 2010 edition, integrated in the activities of “Paivascapes # 1.
After having having passed [...]

Fifth Cycle of Artist Residencies of  Paivascapes #1
Castro Daire, São Pedro do Sul and Arouca Municipalities
15 – 28 July 2010
Jez riley French (GB)
The Nodar Artist Residency Program for 2010 has a single unifying theme: the river Paiva. Throughout the year, from winter to autumn several multidisciplinary artistic projects (which have sound as a [...]

Concert within the cycle: “Binaural: The Archaic Sound”
Estúdio Performas , Aveiro (PT)
Rinus van Alebeek (NL) (tape real time mixing)
Date: Thu, 24 June 2010, 10.00 p.m.
Entrance: 2.5 Euro (Performas associates), 5 Euro (general audiences)
Workshop “Analog Flows: Listening to an other Era, Working with Magnetic Tape”
Estúdio Performas , Aveiro (PT)
Dates: 28 – 30 June 2010 (5.30 – [...]

Workshop “Tuning your Ears and Composing the World”
Viriato Theatre, Viseu (PT)
Dates: 7 – 11 June 2010
(monday, tuesday, wednesday and friday: 7.30 p.m. – 10h30 p.m.; thursday: 5.00 p.m. – 8.00 p.m.)
Coordinator: Rui Costa
Price: 20 Euros per attendee
Capacity: 12 participants

Rui Costa, sound artist and co-artistic director of Binaural/Nodar, will coordinate an workshop entitled “Tuning your Ears [...]

Football Sound Narratives
Social Specificities of a Universal Game
www.binauralmedia.org
Binaural/Nodar (PT) announces an Open Call for Submissions to an Online Edition of Sound Works
Deadline July 8th, 2010

Football is commonly referred as an interesting field for social analysis of some functional aspects of contemporary societies. Issues like the production of winners and losers, the dynamics of organized supporters’ [...]

 
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 sounds generated [...]

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 [...]

Since the announcement of the end of Aldeias Sonoras‘s (“Sound Villages”) first cycle, in December 2009, the Portuguese press has recognized the project as one of the most interesting to happen in Portugal throughout last year:

The daily newspaper “Público” dedicated a full page article to this educational project on December 12th, 2009.
Carlos Pinto Coelho, a [...]

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 the artist gave to a [...]