Result of the artistic residency “Re-interiorização de paisagens” (The re-entering of the landscape) (10-20 November), in partnership with Binaural-Nodar Lafões Cult Lab (Vouzela), and studying the soundscape, with sound collection, mainly in Vouzela, and also Aveiro , the electroacoustic composition “the center of the asymptote” brings together the composition of recordings, voice, and improvised piano over written themes. It is a simultaneously idiosyncratic and collaborative work, imagery-metaphorical and concrete-descriptive, scientific and religious, which aims to portray some of the sensations that the landscape of the axis of the hydrographic network of the river Vouga, in two different points (Vouzela and Aveiro), transmits. The artist is the sensitive receiver of landscape stimuli, and serves as a small personal sample, as a witness to the public, re-transmitting sensations, ideas, images and thoughts acquired in the form of the composition. What impact does this landscape have on people, its symbiotic society, its inhabitants, and those who visit it?

The composition will be preformed in the future, in Vouzela, and on a streaming platform.-To be announced.

This creation, by the composer Rui Lima, speaks of how the environment and the landscape change our perception of the world, and on the other hand, we ourselves project our emotions and aspirations, individual and collective, into the landscape. The recording of Vouzela’s landscape will be recomposed, and will serve as the environment over which an improvised interpretation by the composer and instrumentalist Rui Lima will take place.

Rui Lima was born in Lourosa, Santa Maria da Feira and attended the Academia de Música de Paços de Brandão, where he studied piano, choir and musical training. In 2017 he graduated in Biology at the University of Aveiro and, in parallel to his degree, he studied composition with Evgueni Zoudilkine and José Luís Postiga, and directing with António Vassalo Lourenço at the University of Aveiro. Since 2016, his original compositions have been interpreted, experiencing various participations in music and theater groups, from chamber music, electronics, fusion groups, youth orchestras, and especially choral groups. Under the guidance of composer Isabel Soveral, he created his Master’s final work, “Choral Moons” (2019-2020), where he explored the moons of the solar system in an artistic narrative, integrating scientific research (musical, linguistics, aesthetics, astronomy and astrogeology).