This piece, created by the Binaural/Nodar collective, is a sound narrative about the Paiva River, located in Northern Portugal. This river runs for about 112 Km. It’s spring is near the village of Carapito in Moimenta da Beira Municipality and it ends in the Douro River, near Castelo de Paiva. Not many years ago the Paiva was considered one of the least polluted rivers in Europe and is classified by EU as a Site of Community Importance within the Natura 2000 network.

The Paiva is a mountain river with a rocky bed (granite and slate stone) that can either show its rebellious side (strong currents associated with the seasonal variations of its torrent and with the narrowness and unevenness of its bed in several areas), or gently slide through terraces of agricultural fields, crossing small rural riverside villages that live in close connection with it.

The narrative revolves around the uncertainties that exist about the exact spot where the river starts. You can listen a villager pinpointing the exact locations where different small streams gather to form the river, others discuss different theories and don’t reach any positive conclusion and one lady asserts that the river begins in two different locations: one of them being an hermitage on top of a mountain, the Senhora da Lapa, where people gather in pilgrimage once a year. Other themes are also present: the agricultural use of riverside lands, the names of particular “poços” or depressions where people claim “the river is bottomless”, the locations of the watermills where people used to grind corn and the places where fish was or still is abundant.

The recordings of the river itself are taken from different perspectives: overall soundscapes of different sections of the river and details of the water flow and the local fauna, both recorded above water and underwater.
Binaural/Nodar is will be organizing, from March 4th to 8th, the Paiva River Sound Festival, that will include a series of exhibitions, performances and conferences totally dedicated to the Paiva River and will take place in several venues and riverside locations in the Paiva valley. In particular, around 15 international artists will present the result of the projects they began last year in a series of artist residencies in different locations along the Paiva River. For more information you can visit http://binauralmedia.org or http://paivascapes.org.

Brodcasted from 17/01/11 > 23/01/11

While contemplating the mysterious life of the landscape, plants, birds,insects,we dive into the magnetic space where the swallows and echoes of things and their spirits live.

There is iron and straw and the light’s reflection on the water follows the eye, as the beating of the heart echoes through the landscape’s melancholy.

Beatriz Rodrigues and António Silva are two artists from Viseu-Portugal, working together as a couple.

They explore different types of media, such as sound and drawing.

Making use of composition, balance, structure, simbolism, significance, rhythm, etc., they organize emotion and memory that lead us to non-places, abstract and shapeless spaces, in a mixture of noisy and melodic environments.

http://beatrizrodrigues-antoniosilva.blogspot.com

The program departs from field recordings made on two abandoned factories on the industrial outskirt of Lisbon. The sollected sounds explore the empty space, the empty rooms and technological leftovers and debris of what once was breathing with life, people and machinery. the factories were central to the villages providing employment and subsistence to thousands of families. Now they are just a shadow, a strange body, waiting in decay for replacement and erasure. Besides the sounds, the program contains readings from the current legislation on unemployment as published on the portuguese labour laws, “diário da républica”.

This program, done on behalf of Rádio Zero, consists of the unedited recordings of the military operational communications that occurred during the 25th April 1974 in Portugal, the so called “carnation revolution”. It is a raw window to the dynamic of a military push converted popular revolution that ended 40 years of dictatorship and jump started dreams and hopes which, like all revolutions, are still to be fulfilled.

SINTONIZÁVEL is a radio programme done as a sound collage. The tuning of a radio is the concept that links all different sound sources. This programme was done using audio tapes and microphones recording life events, television sound, Internet, and so on. SINTONIZAVEL is a low tech victory from the future.

SINTONIZAVEL is a programme by MUMTAZ.
http://freewebs.com/mumtazspace/mumtazin.htm

This Handle With Love piece for Radia completes an exhibition and sound performance presented in March of this year in a Gallery in Porto.
You can interact with this piece by activating the virtual sound boxes you find in the blog of Handle With Love Project for Radia:
http://handlewithlove-radia.blogspot.com

A radio piece by Manuela São Simão, Joana Mateus and José Alberto Gomes
using some sounds by Pedro Lopes.

— Olá, esta é uma peça para a Radia, um grupo de estações que trazem novas e esquecidas formas de fazer rádio para os ouvintes. Esta peça Handle With Love, para a Radia, completa uma exposição e performance sonora apresentada em Março deste ano, numa galeria no Porto.
Podes interagir com esta peça activando algumas caixas de som virtuais que podes encontrar no blog do projecto Handle With Love para a Radia:
http://handlewithlove-radia.blogspot.com

Uma peça de rádio por Manuela São Simão, Joana Mateus e José Alberto Gomes, usando alguns sons de Pedro Lopes.