Itinerant and participatory sound art festival that values artistic creation, giving it a social and ecological context. This year's theme is Reinvention and the festival will be divided between the Carpintarias de São Lázaro and the Museum of Lisbon – Roman Theatre.
INSTALLATIONS
Until 28 August, 14:00 – 20:00
Carpintarias de São Lázaro
MIKHAIL KARIKIS
ACOUSTICS OF RESISTANCE
Acoustics of Resistance is Mikhail Karikis’s first large-scale exhibition in Portugal and brings together a new body of work that reflects on the climate emergency. In three sound and video installations, the artist explores listening as a form of care, solidarity, and activism, and proposes sound-making as a vital socio-political action that helps us cultivate common visions, galvanise imaginative solutions and celebrate our entanglement with the world.
26 – 28 August, 10:00 – 18:00
Museum of Lisbon – Roman Theatre
(Casa de Fresco e terraço)
DAWN SCARFE
OUTSIDE INFLUENCE
A series of acoustic listening vessels sensitive to the sound of their environment. Volumes of air inside each vessel vibrate at specific rates, with larger cavities responding to lower pitched sounds and smaller bodies answering to higher registers. A mix of small microphones, transmitters and speakers inside the vessels allow playful exchanges of acoustic space among the objects and their surroundings. The glasses are modelled on scientific resonators dating from the 19c that were used to identify particular tones or notes in the sound of musical instruments.
PERFORMANCES
26 August, 19:30
Museum of Lisbon – Roman Theatre
RICARDO MARTINS
“Ocaso” is Ricardo Martins’ new creation. It is the continuation of the work developed in “Absoluta Incerteza” and “Chão de Cobras” created for Lisboa Soa festival. With drums, voice, sensors, recordings, and modular synthesizers. It celebrates the collapse of song format. Considers the end of the end, the final part of the final part.
26 August, 22:00
Carpintarias de São Lázaro
CLOTHILDE
Clothilde and her machines have an intimate relationship. Built from scratch by her partner Zé Diogo these modular machines have their own identity and authenticity. Clothilde approaches them as equals and that resonates in the music she creates. She or they, because at some point you can’t really differentiate one from another. That’s the beauty of Clothilde’s music, she has a unique empathy with the machines/instruments she uses, and that relationship expresses itself in every moment.
27 August, 17:00
Museum of Lisbon – Roman Theatre
RICCARDO LA FORESTA
DRUMMOPHONE INSTALLATION
Riccardo La Foresta presents his latest sound installation, developed in the autumn for the Unsound festival in Krakow: a site-specific installation that blurs the line between sound performance and sound art. A stack of drums, resembling a church organ, creates columns of sound, resonances, and slow arpeggios, revealing a new architecture for the Museum of Lisbon – Roman Theatre.
27 August, 22:00
Carpintarias de São Lázaro
HANNA HARTMAN
SOLO FOR AMPLIFIED AND MOVING
OBJECTS + CRUSH
Hanna Hartman is a meticulous sonic weaver and one the great originals of DIY sound performance. A longtime Berliner, she is also an extraordinary archivist and cataloguer of hyper-specific sound objects and recordings, with a deep and incisive memory bank going back decades. She has composed works for radio, electroacoustic music, ensembles, and sound installations, and given numerous performances all over the world. Her many awards and grants include the Karl-Sczuka-Preis, the Phonurgia Nova Prize, a Villa Aurora grant and the Rosenberg Prize.
28 August, 18:30
Museum of Lisbon – Roman Theatre
MARIA KOMAROVA
555 BUGS
In 555 bugs Maria Komarova uses found objects and home-made electro-acoustic instruments to create a landscape where elementary materials find new meanings in spontaneous connections between each other. They interact, move, resonate and produce tiny sounds: rustling, crunching, squeaking, creaking. Objects become something else, specific sonic beings with their own qualities. The seeming primitiveness and repetitiveness of the soundscape transports the listener into a world of menthol buzzers, one-eyed sirens, lemon tadpoles, ginger tigers, plastic insects, and other insects.
28 August, 19:30
Museum of Lisbon – Roman Theatre
LU:WN
lu:wn is a collaborative project between Dawn Scarfe and Lucia H Chung exploring repetition and resonance within acoustic and electronic systems. The performer is the string of an electric guitar: played without being touched using electromagnetic exciters which listen to the string and direct a sympathetic oscillating field back at it, making it vibrate. The ‘shivers’ of the string are occasionally adjusted with pegs. This sound is then sampled through a secondary looping circuit, creating ‘cascades of consequence’ through feedback in different forms.
WORKSHOPS
23 – 27 August, 10:00 – 13:00
Carpintarias de S. Lázaro
PABLO SANZ
SOUNDWALKING LISBOA
Sign up: lisboasoa@gmail.com
The participants will work with geolocated audio (sound triggered by a listener’s location and physical movement) to compose pieces and sonic narratives that will form an itinerary between Carpintarias de São Lázaro and Museum of Lisbon – Roman Theatre. The work will be based on exploring the city’s aural architecture, human and non-human voices, sonic expressions, and identities, urban materialities, and the affective power of sound. The workshop will be a time and space for active listening and collaborative experimentation, engaging with different listening modes, recording strategies and audio technologies. The resulting collectively created invisible public artwork will use the digital platform ECHOES and remain available to be experienced in-situ at any time following the festival.
PARTICIPANTS
This workshop is open to everyone, artists, and professionals of any field and curious listeners. There is no required specific knowledge, although familiarity with digital sound tools will be helpful. Participants are invited to bring their computer with audio editing software installed (REAPER, Audacity, or others), headphones, a mobile device (iOS/Android), and any portable sound equipment they might have or want to use. We ask for commitment and participation throughout the week.
28 August, 11:30 – 13:00
Museum of Lisbon – Roman Theatre
MARIA KOMAROVA
ELECTRONICS WORKSHOP FOR CHILDREN
Sign up: lisboasoa@gmail.com
Maria Komarova is an intermedia artist originally from Belarus, who mainly engages in post-dramatic theatre, scenography, sound and visual arts. She focuses her artistic practice on exploring the agency of objects and various inanimate entities and discovering ways of their interaction. She works with the principle of rethinking primary functions of things and conscious misuse of existing technologies.
Free admission, subject to venue capacity, ticket collection at the museum, 10:00 – 18:00
Performances: ticket collection on the day, from 15:00
Over 6s
Raquel Castro artistic director
Hélder Nelson technical director
Rita Maia executive producer
Tiago Silva and Luís Alcatrão/ Ghost Creative Productions production
Carla Martinez scenographer and artistic assistant
Carla Isidoro communication and press