{"id":12503,"date":"2014-06-30T15:56:47","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T15:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.binauralmedia.org\/news\/arquivo\/portfolio-items\/inaki-rios-rui-costa-ja_dijiste-2001-2003"},"modified":"2025-02-13T16:25:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T16:25:28","slug":"nodar-009","status":"publish","type":"avada_portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.binauralmedia.org\/news\/en\/arquivo\/portfolio-items\/nodar-009","title":{"rendered":"I\u00f1aki R\u00edos & Rui Costa: ja_dijiste 2001-2003"},"content":{"rendered":"

Author: I\u00f1aki R\u00edos and Rui Costa
\nCatalog Number: Edi\u00e7\u00f5es Nodar, nodar.009<\/p>\n

Edi\u00e7\u00f5es Nodar present a digital compilation with 45 tracks and over five hours of duration, corresponding to the years of activity of the duo ja_dijiste, formed by the Portuguese sound artist (and Binaural\/Nodar director) Rui Costa and by the spanish sound artist I\u00f1aki R\u00edos.<\/p>\n

ja_dijiste was an improvised electronic music duo of Rui Costa (Lisbon, Portugal, presently Binaural\/Nodar\u2019s director) and I\u00f1aki R\u00edos (Valladolid, Spain) that was publicly active between 2001 and 2003.<\/p>\n

I\u00f1aki R\u00edos and Rui Costa discovered each other\u2019s work in 1998, when both were publishing solo tracks on various online music repositories. Thereafter, they started to correspond and to exchange their onw recordings, which revealed a huge aesthetic and political compatibility between them. Both of them were at the time part of the free improvised music circuits although they didn\u2019t strictly adhere to its language, which over time became more and more formatted despite its \u201cfree-form\u201d pretensions, but rather to its ethics in which, amongst other aspects, the artist is seen in a desacralised way, devoid of an \u201caura\u201d, merely as a \u201ccraftsman\u201d who shares his work with other artists and the audience who want to listen and don\u2019t wish any other form of credit or notoriety. Furthermore, Rui Costa and I\u00f1aki R\u00edos incorporated in their solo work and explored in their ja_dijiste project the critical reading of the then embryonic \u201claptop music\u201d or \u201cmicrosound\u201d (which is the music that explores the capabilities of real-time digital sound processing), while seeking a more spontaneous, \u201clo-fi\u201d and \u201craw\u201d expressiveness, as opposed to a kind of music that is the result of an affected expressiveness, one that is enchanted by mere \u201cdigital fireworks\u201d.<\/p>\n

This collection includes two self-published CD-R\u2019s: are_mos from March 2001 and rmz.fne.ptb from March 2002. The first of them was built from a studio session in which the duo proposed to explore the tension between the laptop as a \u201cbrain\u201d that digitally processes sound and a \u201cbody\u201d that is capable of producing its own \u201creal\u201d sounds and allows gestural interaction on it (percussive, for instance). rmz.fne.pt consisted of a series of miniatures using are_mos as raw material.<\/p>\n

On 16 and 17 June 2001, I\u00f1aki R\u00edos, Rui Costa and Pablo Rega (a musician from Galicia, on guitar, electronics and objects) held a creative \u201cretreat\u201d in the village of Nodar (S\u00e3o Pedro do Sul, Portugal) in which they conducted a series of improvisation sessions. The result of this was a collection entitled \u201cencuentro en nodar\u201d that is publicly presented for the first time in this collection.<\/p>\n

The remaining tracks in this collection consist of recordings of concerts given by ja_dijiste in various venues and\/or festivals in Spain and the United States, namely:<\/p>\n

6odum, Chicago (USA): 12.Feb.2002
\nCandlestick Maker, Chicago (USA): 13.Feb.2002
\nEyedrum, Atlanta (USA): 15.Feb.2002
\nEx Machina Music Festival 2002 Bilbao (Spain): Dec.2002
\nConcert in Medina del Campo (Castilla-Le\u00f3n, Spain): 24.Jan.2003<\/p>\n