SOUND AND RURAL ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL 9 a 28 April 2012 Gralheira Mountain Range, São Pedro do Sul (PT) Artistic creation residencies >  Experimental architecture residencies > media and sound installations in architectural structures >  Field meetings with artists, architects and anthropologists > Screening of  videos on sound and architecture> Educational activities > Conferences Participants: Artists [...]

Binaural / Nodar announces: Open call for subscriptions: Nodar Summer School 2012: Documenting and reinventing the memory of a territory A theoretical and practical residency training program 16 – 22 July 2012 / 7 days / 60 hours Locations: Rural villages of Gralheira Mountain Range, São Pedro do Sul 1. Orientation Luis Costa (filmmaker / [...]

“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.

“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.

“Manuela Barile and the Sense of Place” Retrospective Exhibition Estúdio Performas (Aveiro, Portugal) 9 - 12 November, 2011 Guided tour by the artist on November 9 at 21:00 “Manuela Barile and Sense of Place” is a retrospective exhibition of multimedia works by Manuela Barile, curated by Binaural / Nodar, which reconstructs the creative trajectory of this Italian artist since she came to Portugal, in 2006, [...]

“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 2011 CologneOFF Mexico – Videoart in a Global Context, to happen between November 14th and 18th, 2011. Festival Program, here. About Moroloja: Moroloja is a reflection [...]

The artistic director of Binaural / Nodar Manuela Barile and the video artist Sergio Cruz will be at Nodar Artist Residency Center between 26 September and 7 October 2011 for field work and filming of their artistic project “La Sposa” (“The Bride”). The project is based on anthropological realities related to the rites of passage [...]

“Moroloja”, a audio/visual research about the symbolic and ritual experience of mourning, directed by Manuela Barile, co-artistic director of Binaural/Nodar was selected Optica – International Video Art Festival to happen at Casa Encendida in Madrid (ES) between September 16th and September 18th, 2011. The video will be screened in the Friday, Sep, 16th session. About [...]

[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 [...]

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..