Concert

Pablo Rega (ES)

Estúdio Performas, Aveiro (PT)
March, 18th, 10 p.m.

An event included in the cycle "Binaural: The Archaic Sound" proposed to Estúdio Performas for 2010.

Pablo Rega (La Coruña, Spain 1971) has been focusing his activity in experimental and improvised music for about 15 years. He lives in Barcelona and works in various improvised music projects like “MUT” (extreme noise quintet), “Neumática” (electroacustic music) with Alfredo Costa Monteiro (with whom he created “Alludes” published by Creative Sources in 2006 and “Limiar” on Desetxo net label), “CAJA SORDA” (mini concerts for headsets), “Z1C0″ (free-noise trio) with Tom Chant and Lar Lejido, “PROTOM” with Patxi Valera and Pablo Sax. He also collaborated with the Catalonian guitarist and electronic musician Ferran Fages and with numerous Spanish and international musicians.

He currently directs the improvisation orchestra O.M.E.G.A. based in Santiago de Compostela and formed by 20 galicians musicians and BIB (Improvisors Band of Barcelona), formed by 14 musicians. He also composed for O.M.E.G.A’s string quartet, creating pieces for quartet and quadrofonia

He also works in the construction of acoustic and electronic instruments, in his personal electroacustic projects focused on the construction and use of electronic sound devices and in pieces for electronics and computer, running various laboratories in these areas..

Paivascapes #1

Manuela Barile (IT/PT)
Rui Costa (PT)

First Cycle of Artist Residencies

Municipalities of Moimenta da Beira and Vila Nova de Paiva (PT)

16 - 28 February

The Nodar Artist Residency Program for 2010 will have a single aggregating subject: the Paiva River. Throughout the year, from winter to autumn, several multidisciplinary art projects (having sound as a central element) will be developed in a context-specific perspective, interacting with the river’s different geographical areas, from its spring to its mouth. The first art projects to be developed are "Reia Zoontes" by Manuela Barile (voice, phonography and visual arts) and "Começar de Novo" by Rui Costa (sound art).

For further information on Paivascapes #1,
click here

Sound Installation

Works by Maksims Shentelevs (LV), Aaron Ximm (US), Pali Meursault (FR) and John Grzinich (US)

Estúdio Performas, Aveiro (PT)
February, 17th - 27th

This installation was developed at Nodar Artist Residency Center (Portugal) and reflects different esthetic and technical approaches towards Nodar’s sonic environment, ranging from pure field recordings, to field mixing, field improvisation and electroacoustic composition. Nodar Artist Residency Center, run by the artistic collective Binauralmedia, has positioned itself in the forefront of the international reflection and praxis concerning the use of environmental sounds, having been hosted since 2006 around twenty of the most active sound artists.

For additional information on the sound pieces, click here and here (by selecting the corresponding artists)

Web Transmission

"Beehiving"
Binaural's Collective Sound Piece

In the context of
"ToBeContinued"

A 24 hour broadcast from
Topolò (Italy) during the all day of March, 24th

"Beehiving" is a collective sound piece concieved in response of Stazione di Topolò's invite to a 24 hour web/live event intitled "ToBeContinued" that consists on a sound travel that will link artists/sounds from all over the world, intended to link science and art/creativity in order to inform the wide public on key issues related to health, well-being of physical and spiritual nature, prevention of diseases, medical education, environment etc utilizing artistic expressions as a conduit. Binaural's sound piece will use beehiving activities around Nodar as sound reflection about both the therapeutic potencial of honey and the beehive as a metaphor for an effective and operative community.

Video Installation

"Cá"

Manuela Barile (IT/PT)

SALT Sound Symposium
Curated by Duncan Whitley
Organized by PVA Media Lab at
Bridport, Dorset (GB)

March, 6th

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 was to trace, catch and interrogate the signs of life and memory where everything seems over. Tracking the signs of memory means for me to take back our roots to reconnect us to a sense of authenticity that is being extinguished.

Credits

Support

(Provisional List)

Portuguese Ministry of Culture
("Locus in Quo" Project )

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (PT)
National Institute of Employment (PT)
S. Pedro do Sul Municipality (PT)
Arouca Municipality (PT)
Vila Nova de Paiva Municipality (PT)
S. Pedro do Sul Secondary School (PT)
Criar Raízes Project (S. Pedro do Sul, PT)
Estúdio Performas (Aveiro, PT)
Viriato Theatre (Viseu, PT)
Guarda Municipal Theatre (PT)
Serralves Contemporary Art Museum (PT)
Arte à Parte Association (Coimbra, PT)
Zum Zum Theatre (Viseu, PT)
MokS (Estonia)
Stazione di Topolò (Italy)
LoopHouse (Italy)
PVA Media Lab (UK)
VIseu TV (Media Partner)

Team

Artistic Directors
Manuela Barile and Rui Costa

General Coordinator and Production Director
Luís Costa

Production Assistant
Carina Martins

Video Post-Production
João Rodrigues

Graphic Design
Rui SIlveira

Audio Technical Support
Duncan Whitey