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Fronte[i]ras07
Live set.
29-09-07.
Auditorio Municipal de Barcelos. Portugal.

This event was part of the programming I INTERNATIONAL MEETING OF TRANSDISCIPLINARY ARTS

More info: Fronteiras07

Maksims Shentelevs (Letonia)

Maksims Shentelevs (my-ym) was born in Riga, Latvia, and is an architect, phonographer and sound artist who defines soundscape as a dense self-referent field of activity shaped by overlapping motion of objects in space. Started field recording in 2002 focusing on sound gathering as non-intervention policy for observation of structural models in nature. Field studies become a basic material for following soundscape modeling in studio.

Predominantly interested in biotopes referring to habitats of insects and small creatures. Presently Maksims is involved in self-made acoustic and electroacoustic instruments and sound objects as tools for mutual discourse with nature.

Since 2003 Maksims has participated in several residencies and festivals in Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Portugal, etc., and in 2007 he organized in Riga the “Mijatmina” festival, dedicated to soundscapes and video textures.

Carlos Suárez (venezuela/Galiza).

Galician composer and ethnomusicologist. Born in Ourense, 1966. He emigrated with his parents to Venezuela in 1967 and returned to Galicia in 2005. In 1986 he began to work as a composer, creating more than 40 acoustic and electroacoustic works. His research trips around Venezuela began in 1989. Mainly visiting areas of indigenous cultures and Afro-Venezuelans, he compiled studies and recordings of the acoustic biology he found (soundscapes). He has transcribed more than 36,000 rhythms of traditional music from all over the world. He worked as a researcher for “The Folklore and Ethnomusicology Foundation” and “The International Folklore and Ethnomusicology Foundation” for 10 years. In 2006 he won the National Award for Culture for his book, “The Chimbángueles of San Benito”. He has participated in many forums and congresses, presenting the fruits of his research in Venezuela, Brazil, Columbia, Peru and Spain. Other publications: “Differences Between the Recorded, Perceived and Engraved Landscape”; “Analysis and Description of Soundscape”; “Soundscape and Composition”.

António Pedro

Born in Lisbon, António Pedro has a degree in sociology and studied music in Drummers Collective, NY, in several jazz schools and with musicians such as Zé Eduardo, Nuno Rebelo and John Riley. He is a drummer, percussionist, multi-instrumentist and composes for theatre, video and dance.

He has directed the performance ensemble Bigodes Band, inspired by the music of Nino Rota for Fellini’s movies, with whom he performed in several festivals across Portugal, Spain and Belgium. He composed, among others, for Belgian dance companies (Compagnie Le Luxe (“La raine 27”) and Compagnie Sac a Dos (“Memoires d’une arbe”), for theatre companies (“Carrada de Bestas” for Teatro Regional da Serra de Montemuro). Presently he directs his mutant project of film-concerts (“DÛ”) and composes for the feature film “Águas Mil” directed by the Portuguese filmmaker Ivo M. Ferreira, with whom he co-directed "The Bicycle Man - Macau Diary".

Madamme Cell (Galiza).

Pieces composed with “cells” or sound objects extracted from several free improvisation recordings or “amazements”. Reanimation of a library full of .wav files in delirium of imposition, ready to any kind of vexation, as long as it comes out of C:\ig\madamecell\impros\mostras.

Sequential projection of sound slides or the exaltation of the sound object metamorphosed in textures or soundscapes. Timbric counterpoint or the succession of superpositions. A sample catalogue or the manipulation of symbols chains. The emotion always residual. A disgrace?

Rui Costa e Manuela Barile (Portugal / Italia)

Manuela Barile is an italian vocal researcher and an interdisciplinary performer. Her artistic research is based on a project-oriented work that combines vocal sounds with different media (video, photography, installations, performance, concert-performance, drawing, writing). Her sound vocabulary was enriched through a series of studies and researches, around oriental and occidental vocal traditions, either made by herself or with teachers such as Amelia Cuni (Druphad) and Tran Quang Hai (Harmonic chant). Her CD, “Creature Sonore” was released in 2007 on Alg-a netlabel

She now lives in Lisbon, collaborating with the sound artist Rui Costa on a large-scale intermedia project “La Scatola” conceived either as a series of installations or a set of performances. This project will be premiered in November 2007, following a residency in Nodar, Portugal.

Rui Costa is a Portuguese sound artist from Lisbon, Portugal. He has been performing live for more than 10 years. Rui’s artistic expression favours the creation of intricate sonic textures through computer-based sound manipulation techniques and using as a source field recordings and live sampling of acoustical instruments.

He developed several conceptual projects, presented in art galleries and concert spaces across Portugal, Spain and USA. As an example, it is worth mentioning the intermedia work "Nodar", developed with Iñaki Ríos and premiered in 2002 at the Musica Ex Machina festival, in Bilbao, Spain. His work has been published in several sound art compilations (Sirr, Crónica, No Type, Universe International).