Author Archives: pauloraposo

Wherever the earth is crag and scrub, the goats are there—the black ones, girlishly skipping, leaping their little leaps from rock to rock. I’ve loved their nerve and frisk since I was small. Once my grandfather gave me one of … Continue reading →

Departing from the reading and performing experience of PO-EX, an ongoing archive of portuguese experimental poetry, this piece explores the mouth and tongue organs as sound tool to engage in an unstable balance between pre-verbal forms and collapsing discursive fragments … Continue reading →

  “The sublime revenge of being happy” composed and conducted by Paulo Chagas performed by Illustrious Unknown Creative Ensemble Branching voices Recognizing the journey through the cypresses Cold Far to the city Away people (This dance is just for bugs) … Continue reading →

Memento by Abdul Moimême. This radio piece is what its title implies: a reminder of persons and past events, which in the present case are autobiographical as well as musical; occurrences that span a period of over 30 years and … Continue reading →

Mestre André: cassete feedback Paulo Raposo: cassetes, field-recordings and assorted sinewaves André G Pinto Aka Mestre André: MA in Musical Arts at New University of Lisbon with a research visit to SFU Burnaby, supervised by Barry Truax. BA in Sound … Continue reading →

Rios enclausurados (Enclosed Rivers) is a poetic and political construction of a sound space created by editing the sounds of various streams and rivers which have been artificially channelled in the city of Belo Horizonte. This Brazilian city has approximately … Continue reading →

This soundscape composition is divided in two parts and is part of my sound research at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Lisbon during 2013. Undercurrent is about water sounds and is taken from an audiovisual installation shooting in a … Continue reading →

Pedra, linho e lágrimas (Stone, flax and tears) It’s an edit made with recordings from the series ‘O Povo que Canta’, directed by Michel Giacometti, that i used for a gig at Associação Recreativa Amigos do Minho, in Lisbon. The … Continue reading →

Clouds N 38 42.53, W 9 8.96 27-12-12 Pedro Lagoa – laptop, 6DE André Avelãs – electronics (rehearsal for the When I Look at the Clouds I See Clouds [nimbostratus] performance that took place at Galeria Boavista, Lisbon, 28th Dec. … Continue reading →

Os: for percussion on 24 tuned suspended mirrors, recorded voice, alto saxophone, cello, cymbals and electronics. A series of letters that come from a far away place and time. The narrator describes his research voyage on a planet with strange geological formations: The … Continue reading →