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Diogo Carriço é pianista e artista audiovisual, movido pela urgência de estreitar relações entre humanos, natureza e tecnologia. A abordagem de abolição de barreiras entre elementos acústicos, eletrónicos e visuais, é representativa das suas composições e performances. Aventurando-se num piano minimalista, ele infunde harmonias flutuantes e melodias ondulantes com experimentação eletrónica de ponta. Diogo concebe formas de vida sonoras que permeiam assimetrias de meios, mergulhando o público numa imersão em paisagens sonoras oníricas e vídeo reativo ao vivo que tem tanto do mundo natural como de imaginário.
Paralelamente às suas performances, Diogo está interessado em avançar a forma como novas tecnologias podem ser usadas para propósitos musicais. Tal é feito com recurso a sensores de movimento corporais, como o sensor de mãos Leap Motion, para conectar diretamente o gesto do músico a manipulação eletrónica de som. Resultando desse trabalho, seguiu-se em 2019 um convite para ser artista residente na Universidade de Artes de Amesterdão, instituição onde mais tarde ocupou a função de investigador. Apoiado pelo recentemente formado Culture Club da mesma entidade, prototipou “Qi”, um software único para dar forma a performances musicais e arte com novos média com a intuição de gestos das mãos.
Carriço apresentou-se publicamente em inúmeros espaços, salientando Splendor (Amesterdão), Museu de Filme EYE, festival MadeiraDig, festival Uitmarkt e Hard Club Porto, assim como apareceu em meios de comunicação como A Cabine, Glam Magazine, RTP Madeira ou De Groene Amsterdammer.
Em 2019 foi-lhe atribuído o prémio “Jovens Criadores” pelo seu espetáculo “Aventuras ao piano e eletrónica”.
Diogo é licenciado em piano clássico pela Escola Superior de Artes Aplicadas de Castelo Branco, e mestre em Live Electronics pelo Conservatório de Amesterdão
Adventuring on a minimalist piano infused with ever drifting electronic experimentalism, portuguese posthuman pianist Diogo Carriço proudly shares ‘Silhouette Nekropolis’, his debut album, on November 24th. Overcoming apathy towards recurring climate crisis news, the musical narrative flows in between restless organic textures to create a sense of cherish and wonder.
Bred by a planet overflowing with the most surreal symptoms of its fever, ‘Silhouette Nekropolis’ brings to surface the hardships of the first ecosystem at risk of being entirely lost to the climate crisis - coral reefs.
For Diogo, the balance between people, technology and nature is urgent. In 2017, he moved to The Netherlands to pursue his vision of self expression through breaking boundaries between acoustic and electronic elements, humanity and technology. Since then, he has seen prolific years of daring experimentation coupled with personal and musical growth. Diogo has been awarded the prize ‘Young Creators’ by the National Centre of Culture of his homeland, Portugal, and toured The Netherlands as selected emerging talent of Popronde. His explorations with cutting edge technology led him to work with rare computer controlled instruments, namely the Disklavier piano and the Hyperorgan in Orgelpark (Amsterdam), and prototype, with the support of the University of Arts of Amsterdam, ‘Qi’ - an unique software for shaping musical performances with the expressiveness of hand gestures.
The album is a submersion in a coral’s dreamy yet confronting lifetime journey. The strain of rising sea temperatures causes corals to expel the colorful algae that live in their bodies - ‘Zooxanthellae’ - thus turning into pure white sculptures and losing their food source until they eventually fade. The title comes from the vast fields of lifeless silhouettes that result from a massive bleaching event. Extracting from the corals themselves and their watery surroundings the raw artistic materials that drive this work, Diogo propels the listener to a continuous drift through colors and textures that evoke a new empathy, oneness and attunement to nature. The intimacy of the felted piano in ‘Deep Blue’ and ‘Zooxanthellae’, captured by Gijs van Klooster, adds a contemplative dimension to the immersive experience, destined to dissolve into fuzzy ‘Putrid Traces’ and the remaining rocky note clusters and longing strummed strings of the last track, ‘Silhouette Nekropolis’. ‘Polyps’ - the tiny reef’s mouths proliferating in colonies - presents, on the other hand, a thick pointillism of dominant sonic entities claiming their space. Progressively multiplying, they propel the listener to a rapturous drift of minimal trance. Yet, excruciating melodies of fight for survival meet our ears from far away. Whoops, purs, snaps and grunts of fish and shrimp, recorded in reefs across the globe, illustrate in ‘Gardens of Coral’ the aliveness and fantastic array of inhabitants these metropolises host when in a healthy state.
Issued independently as a limited edition white vinyl LP and NFC stickers, Silhouette Nekropolis is fluidity, the permeation of musical elements within the parts in favor of the whole, a mixed infusion of colors and a (bio)diversity celebration in a time that can no longer live without climate justice.
lançado em 24 de novembro de 2023
Music composed, performed and produced by Diogo Carriço
Recorded by Gijs van Klooster at Soundbird Studio, Utrecht
Mixed by Diogo Carriço
Mastered by Gijs van Klooster
Album artwork by Diogo Duque Paula
Graphic design by Diogo Duque Paula
Original coral reef samples by Julius Piercy, Steve Simpson and Tim Lamont
With the Support from the Portuguese National Centre of Culture, Bol Pianos and Steunfonds Talentvolle Makers
electronic experimental ambient drone electroacoustic experimental electronic minimal minimalism piano Utrecht