Performance / Installation / since 2005
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This Project started as a submission for the Ernesto de Sousa Fellowship promoted by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and Luso-American Foundation. Having won the fellowship this allowed me to go to New York for a three month residence at Experimental Intermedia Foundation with Phill Niblock, from then on the project had several diferent setups

Presentations
March of 2005, Experimental Intermedia Foundation, New York, Live Performance with Kenneth Kirschner
June of 2005, Goethe Institut Lisbon, Live Performance with Pedro Lourenço
June 2006, Upgrade! Lisbon, Lisboa 20 Gallery, Presentation
July 2006, Parque Encantado, Caldas da Rainha, Installation
August 2006, FILE Festival, São Paulo, Installation
August 2006, FILE Symposium, São Paulo, Lecture
September 2006, Luzboa, Lisbon, Installation
March 2007, NIP, Watershed, Bristol, Lecture
June 2007, Offload Festival, Bristol, Installation
January 2008, 0047 Gallery, Oslo, Performance
January 2008, Espaço Avenida, Lisbon, Performance
January 2008, Casa da Música, Oporto, Performance
March 2008, Pixelache Festival, Helsinki, Performance
October 2008 - February 2009, Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul, Installation

abstract:
I was thinking of bringing together sound and space through sympathetic vibrations, in which sound is used as a medium to excite space to be heard, in order to render audible it's natural resonances - sound multiplying in and by space. The sound coming from the objects was strictly related to each object's spatial characteristics, it's shape, dimensions and material, but also their interaction with the site-specific architecture and the very space that hosted all the objects, it's spatial characteristics and environment.

The combination of these factors created a soundscape of resonant frequencies triggered by sinewaves moving in tidal motion, a constant flow of never repeating patterns. With it's very slow progression it mimicked the constant forward and backward motion of the sea. Likewise i allways saw light as the sun's reflection in the water, shinning or diming out according to the wave's direction.

Having met Kenneth Kirschner before, and understanding the specificity of his work, specially the textural qualties of his pieces and way these convey a delicate approach for the surrounding space, i promptly invited him to work with me for the overall result.

setup description:
Six objects suspended from the ceiling at different heights, each one made with a white glass globe with one microphone, one speaker and one electrical lamp inside. Each speaker were individually connected to a computer that triggered 6 different frequencies one for each of the speakers, this frequencies were tuned to be the natural frequencies of the objects pushing them to resonate.

This resonancies were captured by the object's microphones and redirected to a 6 envelope follower system (that converted the amplitude of each audio signal to midi messages) This midi messages were then sent to the computer which formatted the incoming midi values and sent them to six dimmers controlling the light intensity of each object in a way that each object light intensity was directly related to it's own sound amplitude.

Video excerpt form setup at oo47 Gallery, Oslo