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Artist and electro-acoustic composer Tarek Atoui (Beirut, Lebanon, 1980) works on large-scale compositions that stem from anthropological, ethnological, musicological, and technical research. His exhibitions weave installations, performances, and education, in processes that move away from the conventional notion of performance, both for the performer and the audience, and that suggest forms of visual, aural, tactile, and somatic experience of sound. Atoui’s first exhibition in Portugal, “Waters’ Witness”, at the Serralves Museum, is part of the project I/E, ongoing since 2015, in which he captures the sounds of port cities — Athens, Abu Dhabi, Singapore, Beirut or Porto — by recording their harbours’ industrial, human, and ecological activities. Together with artist/recordist Eric La Casa, they listen to sound below the surface of the sea or within materials such as metal, stone, and wood. On Waters’ Witness, the audio recordings of the seaports of Athens, Abu Dhabi and Porto are played through materials chosen in each location — marble stones from Athens, steal beams from Abu Dhabi, and wooden structures housing compost, worms and organic material, specifically produced for the Serralves presentation. The work with organic decomposing matter takes Waters’ Witness in a new direction: an acoustic ecology that receives and perpetuates residual sounds through the audible frontiers of a world in flux. This unique soundscape extends from the Museum’s central room to the Park in the shape of sound constellations, platforms and systems activated throughout the entire period of the exhibition in scheduled performances, collaborative and educational workshops.
As Things Flow (for Waters’ Witness) is the recording of a performance held on July 3, 2022, as an activation of the exhibition Waters’ Witness by Tarek Atoui at Fundação de Serralves — Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto. The exhibition was curated by Filipa Loureiro and on view between February 24 and August 28, 2022, and included a series of activation performances curated by Pedro Rocha. Image: Tarek Atoui, “Waters’ Witness”, installation view, Fundação de Serralves, 2022; photo by Filipe Braga.
Angélica Salvi is a Spanish harpist and composer who has been based in Porto since 2011. She boasts a bright and extensive artistic career during which she worked with composers like Takayuki Ray, Joseph Waters, Heiner Goebbels, Stephen Andrew Taylor and also improvising musicians such as Butch Morris, Evan Parker, Joëlle Léandre and Han Bennink. After graduating from the Royal Conservatory of Madrid, Angélica studied at the University of Arizona and the Conservatory of Music in The Hague, where she finished two master’s degrees specializing in improvisation, contemporary music and electroacoustics. As a professional harpist, she collaborated on countless occasions with various symphony orchestras and ensembles from all over the world and has presented her solo work in several music festivals like Boom, WakingLife, La Terraza Magnética, Super Bock em Stock, Tremor, or Jazz em Agosto. Over the course of the past 10 years, she has immersed herself in the world of jazz, pop, rock and electronic music and has also been part of multiple projects in the field of experimental music, visual arts and theatre, organized by groups such as Sonoscopia, Balleteatro, Oficina Arara, Crónica Electrónica, Teatro do Frio, Teatro do Ferro, Vertixe Sonora Ensemble and Jazz ao Centro. She is a founding member of FMFX (Female Effects Collective), and has created multidisciplinary projects such as Harpoemacto, Nooito, Transcendecia and Delirium, and Invisible Landscapes. She is currently the main harp teacher at the Conservatory of Music of Porto.
André Gonçalves works across the fields of visual arts, music, video, installation and performance. His works have been presented in several galleries and festivals such as Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul; FILE, São Paulo; Experimental Intermedia Foundation, New York; ICA, London; Steim, Amsterdam; Today’s Art, Den Haag; Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon. His music work, solo or in collective projects, includes more than 20 editions in several recording labels. Over the past few years, he has also built a solid reputation developing widely praised modular hardware synthesizers under the ADDAC System brand, which are now being used by many musicians throughout the whole world.
lançado em 22 de novembro de 2022
experimental abstract computer music electronic experimental harp sound art Oporto