This piece is made in a specific environment, in an hotel room, with a set
of actions, being in a place and enjoying its monotonous nature. Hotel
rooms are not about being productive, they are made to numb you and force
you to rest. Because I travel a lot, and spending time alone inside this
type of rooms and out of boringness I started playing with it. The room
itself becomes something new, something that I can relate to. This kind of
set up consists of working with what you have available with you, for an
invisible performance where you play with sound and situation. Materials
used: double-bass bow, paper tape, bathroom, exhauster, glass, mineral
water, effervescent aspirin, tv set, shower doors, digital recorder Tascam
DR-100, headphones, water tap, ac unit, room phone and mobile phone.
The same kind of thing can be done inside the train toilet, but it is
riskier to set the recording gear and perform at the same time.

(Gonçalo Alegria was invited by Rádio Zero to produce Radia show #364)

Last 21st October 2011, radio meet cars meet musicians in the garage bellow Maus Habitos, Future Places Festival HQ in Porto, Portugal. Two radio stations, Radio Futura 102.1 MHz and Radio Manobras 91.5MHz provided their frequencies to carry music and chaos into six audio tuned automobiles from the Portuguese xtremetuning.org community. Peter Principle composed a loose composition, grouping cars, musicians on frequency, garage sounds and more musicias. The complex setup worked into two floors of music, performance and radio, where out of sight musicians where channelled into these powerful, personalized, sound system on wheels.

Performance for 2 radio stations, six cars, one composer, and an innumerable number of musicians.

A Artadentro, em colaboração com a Rádio Zero (http://www.radiozero.pt/), apresenta a obra sonora Colapso, da autoria de Vasco Vidigal e Carlos Norton.

Destinada a ser transmitida através da rede internacional RADIA (http://radia.fm/), esta obra inclui excertos ou peças completas de: Ana André, Ana Borralho & João Galante, Luís Ene & Pedro Leote Mendes, Mariana Ramos, Mauro Amaral, Nuno Murta & Daniel Almeida, Sara Martins e Teresa Ramos. Inclui também excertos de debates entre os principais líderes políticos portugueses, o tema “Traffic Lights” dos Monty Python e as vozes “RUA FM” de: Pedro Duarte, Leila Leiras e Vasco Ribeiro Casais.

A partir da ideia de colapso ­— termo que designa a origem súbita de desabamento ou desfalecimento, da súbita diminuição da energia do cérebro e de todas as forças nervosas, ­ou a um estado de decadência, de degradação, de ruína —, são alinhados quase aleatoriamente, testemunhos sonoros de diferentes tipos de discurso: tecnológico, mediático, artístico e político. Aglutinados pelo actual ambiente de sentido, estes fragmentos sonoros desconexos, mais pela emoção que pela razão, acabam por compor um todo coerente.