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04.12>Casa Rio

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Auntie Flo presents his work on a talk at Casa Rio, 4th of december at 2 pm. Free entry.

Born in Glasgow, Brian D’Souza is the man behind Auntie Flo. Alongside names such as Daphni, Romare, Sinkane, Shackleton, Débruit and John Wizards, it’s one of the most consistent projects in electronic music with non-Anglo-Saxon influences. Theory of Flo, his last release, brings ten tracks recorded during a period of two years in Havana, Glasgow and London. The record was made in partnership with Esa, South African producer, who is also coming to Novas Frequências.

In addition to the live performance, Auntie Flo and Esa will have the mission, through an artistic residency, to record with local artists and musicians, for future releases. It’s worth mentioning they are partners in Highlife World Series, a work which motto is to explore sound landscapes from Africa and Latin America. The first three records of the compilation will be investigations of music from Cuba, Kenya and Uganda, respectively. Each release includes tracks exclusively recorded with local musicians from each of these countries and all the profits received from the sales of the records will be sent back to the countries that originated them.

Bemônio “Madre Joana dos Anjos” soundtrack

06.12 > Oi Futuro Ipanema

18h

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Bemônio is the project of artists Paulo Caetano, Gustavo Matos e Eduardo Manso. The trio dives in noise, distortions and glitches to create dense casings of extreme sound with the intention of causing discomfort and take people to a type of ritualistic trance. Santo, from 2013, and Opus Dei, from 2014 broadened the palette of dark shades in the band, expanding their possibilities of terror and musical invasion. In Desgosto, released recently, the use of improved elements grows to the point of transmuting the sound into a kind of doom metal without a fixed form, a type of “drone free jazz”.

As a request by Novas Frequências, Bemônio will create a new soundtrack for “Mother Joan of the Angels” by Jerzy Kawalerowicz. Set in the 17th century, the movie tells the story of nuns possessed by the devil. One of the first feature films to talk about exorcism, the film is a classic from European cinema, winning the Special Jury Prize at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival. According to critic Ricardo Calil, to the magazine Bravo, “Mother Joan of the Angels follows a priest evoking a monastery to exorcize a religionist possessed by eight demons. With scenes of enormous formal precision and a story that mixes horror movie and metaphysics reflection, it owes nothing to the best moments of cinema of its time.”

Dawn of Midi

Erased Tapes/ Estados Unidos

01.12 > SESC Ginástico

20h30

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Dawn of Midi is a musical project formed in 2007, in Brooklyn. The way the trio uses only acoustic instruments (piano, contrabass and drums) to sound like electronic music has to do with their abnormal and weird way of playing them.
Their live performances are true tests of resistance and trust that involves sewing loops one to the other manually, note by note. The result are energetic and rhythmically well-mixed sets which resembles to the linear performance of a DJ.

For years, Dawn of Midi, formed by bassist Aakaash Israni (born in India), pianist Amino Belyamani (born in Morocco) e percussionist Qasim Naqvi (of Pakistani origin), adjusted and englobed new referential bodies, which ended up culminating on Dysnomia, from 2013. With a twist of retrofuturism and absorbing, in complex musical structures that induct to trance, influences of African, Hindu and South-Asian traditions, Dysnomia showed up on the list of best record of the year on several websites, newspapers and magazines such The New Yorker, NPR and BBC. According to SPIN, the album is “stellar”, and, to Pitchfork, is “totally without precedents”.

Fabio Ghivelder presents: Expo RECAP (01-08/12)

1_8.12 > Laboratório Agnut

15h

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Fabio Ghivelder started his career at Bloch Editores in 1982 and improved his professional experience in New York, where he worked for over 10 years. As a photographer and image and video director, he has been acting in projects for visual artists, fashion, design and advertising. He had his work displayed and published in visual arts catalogues (MAM-RJ, Itaú Cultural-SP, Galeria Fortes Vilaça-SP), magazines (Vogue Brazil, Vanity Fair, George Mag, New York Times Magazine) and phonographic products (Adriana Calcanhoto-Sony, Marisa Monte-BMG, Nando Reis-Warner Music).

In 1996, Fabio created the weekly tv show GNT Fashion and was part of the international crew with director/presenter Betty Lago for four years. In 2003, he started an artistic partnership with visual artist Vik Muniz, being responsible for the elaboration, coordination and production of all the production aspects of the artist in Brazil. Between 2008 and 2012, he worked as an exhibition and assembling consultant for Casa Daros.

Invited by Novas Frequências, photographer Fabio Ghivelder went out to interpret visually the concept of the 5th edition of Novas Frequências. His photos illustrate the entire visual identity of the festival, that has the art direction of the designer Julia Liberati. They are images presented in posters, e-flyers, t-shirts and the printed programme; portraits that translate the historical reflections of the festival through ludic and abstract sensations of its sonority.

The same images used in the visual programme- but without the graphic interferences and treatment -, in addition to a series of other photographs with the same theme, will also be displayed as an exhibition at Laboratório Agnut. Process, transcendence and spiritual enlightenment, femininity, nature (simulating sound landscapes), “carioquice” and contemplation, were some of the objects addressed by Ghivelder in eight photographs.

Félicia Atkinson

Shelter Press/ França

07.12>Maison de France

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08.12>Maison de France

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Above her performance at the 8th of december, Félicia gives a (free) talk at Maison de France on december 7th at 12 pm and she is a resident at Laboratório Agnut, being the attraction that closes the occupation of the lab on december 9th for invites only.

Felicia is a French visual and sound artist and writer. Her visual pieces – sculptures, paintings, installations and collages – include a variety of medias united in a process in which fundamental technical path is the improvisation to play, arrange, write and paint. A process whose essential elements are delays, loops, saturations and a myriad of other tools of specific creations.

Pursuing a radical position in the arts world, concentrating on publishing her pieces with autonomy, being that in a financial or in an intellectual sense, has always been a crucial concern and a driving force throughout her career. Her most recent release, the album A Readymade Ceremony, for example, was entirely recorded in a laptop using a basic composing software. Atkinson reaffirms the importance of DIY in the creation process: the space of the artists as an exhibition space, the studio as recording territory, the book as incision, the record itself as a sculptural type of documentation. A Readymade Ceremony is a work of post-digital oratory and intimate concrete music in five parts. The objects speak, sculptures debate: there’s a surreal feeling in the dark whispers heard in this theatre of desires, in this dematerialisation of bodies through sound – a wide open door to sound poetry.

Hurtmold & Paulo Santos

Submarine Records / Brasil

06.12 > Oi Futuro Ipanema

20h30

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Hurtmold and Paulo Santos met on stage for the first time in 2008, at Eletronika Festival Belo Horizonte, where Paulo featured in some of the songs from the sextet from São Paulo using wind instruments and percussion. From then on, the partnership solidified and each gig brings new version of their songs and special compositions.

Hurtmold was founded in the late 90s by Maurício Takara (drums, vibraphone, trumpet), Guilherme Granado (keyboard, vibraphone, melodica), Marcos Gerez (bass), Mário Cappi (guitar) and Fernando Cappi (guitar). In 2003, Rogério Martins (percussion and clarinet) joins the band, completing the formation that exists until today. They are known for making a brisker post-rock than usual, using several percussion instruments, with various influences that go from jazz to North-American funk, passing by minimalism, punk rock, electronic music and regional rhythms of Brazilian music. Another attribute from Hurtmold is the fact that the members usually swap instruments among themselves during their live performances, showing, not only virtuosity from each one of them, but also their sense of improvisation and sound flexibility.

Besides the fact that Hurtmold hasn’t played in Rio in 7 years (?!), the group’s participation at Novas Frequências becomes even more special for being an unseen gig in the city with percussionist Paulo Santos. The now (unfortunately) extinct Uakti, formed by Santos, Marco Antônio Guimarães, Décio de Souza Ramos and Artur Andrés, became a landmark in the history of Brazilian inventive music, mixing very complex and contemporary compositional techniques with the rescue of regional rhythms through the construction of unusual instruments like glass xylophone, pvc pipes, marimbas, idiophones, chori smetanos, jars and trilobitas.

Interspecifics Collective presents: Non-Human Rhythms

1_5.12 > Casa Rio

16h

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Interspecifics Collective is a multi-species collective which does experiments seeking the intersection between art, science and technology. Their sonority is linked to the fondness for hybridized practices that use live organisms (bacterias, plants, moss), “open knowledge” and precariousness as tool. Their work – subject of international media vehicles such as El País, CNN, Digicult, Rhizome, Reforma, The Economist and The Creators Project – explore the relation between sound, matter, electricity and other frequency physical manifestations with the intention of understanding the standards contained in different organisms and synthetic systems which are based, intimately, in vibrations to communicate.

Lead by the Mexican artists Leslie Garcia and Paloma Lopez, Interspecifics will coordinate at Novas Frequências a four-day collaborative lab with 10 musicians and local artists. Water and sediments samples will be collected from beaches in Rio and each participant will build a microbial fuel cell and a Arduino based signal amplifier. The different sounds and rhythms from the microorganisms collected will be presented by he participants and the collective in a live performance.

Juçara Marçal & Cadu Tenório apresentam: Anganga

QTV/ Brasil

02.12 > SESC Ginástico

20h30

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Juçara Marçal is the composer and creator of Encarnado, probably the best Brazilian album of 2013. Cadu Tenoruio is the prolific composer of the noise/improv scene in Rio de Janeiro, releasing an average of three albums per year since 2012. He participates in projects such as VICTIM!, Sobre a Máquina and Ceticências and has collaborated with artists such as Alice Caymmi and Marcio Bulk (in the work Banquete).

Juçara’s songs are inebriant poetry that leap between the ludic and the dramatic in a matter of seconds, generally under the energetic instrumentation of Kiko Dinucci, Thiago França, Rodrigo Campos and Marcelo Cabral (Passo Torto, Metá Metá). And Cadu’s songs are a compliment to the critical catharsis of chaos and to, simultaneously, the punctual and continuous enjoyment of the unexpected.

Their first album as a duo, Anganga, is an interesting mix of musical influences from both: a combination of noisy production from Cadu with Juçara’s reflexions about the Afro-Brazilian traditions. The majority of the songs in Anganga is based on congados and vissungos – ancient chants from the Benguelas (tribe originally from Angola) from São João da Chapada in the state of Minas Gerais.

King Midas Sound

Ninja Tune / Inglaterra

02.12 > SESC Ginástico

20h30

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King Midas Sound is the supergroup formed by the British musician Kevin Martin, the Trinidadian poet Roger Robinson and the Japanese artist and singer Kiki Hitomi. Martin is a musician, producer and journalist and was for two decades part of the English dub, jazzcore, hip-hop industrial, dancehall, ragga and dubstep scenes. His other projects include the renowned The Bug, in addition to GOD, Techno Animal, Ice, Curse of the Golden Vampire and Pressure. Kevin Martin already collaborated with characters as diverse as John Zorn, Justin Broadrick, El-P, Death Grips, Alex Empire, Grouper, Blixa Bargeld (Einstürzende Neubauten) and Mark Stewart.

In King Midas Sound, a strange mix of heavy bass, psychedelia, lovers rock and abstract hip hop is adorned with marginal poetry, ethereal vocals with a pop outline (despite being extremely dark) and intricate percussion. Their last work, entitled Edition 1, is a partnership with the Austrian composer and guitarist Christian Fennesz. Released in September this year, the EP received positive reviews due to its seductive, spacial and hallucinogenic drone covered by the characteristically lyrical spoken-work by Robinson and Hitomi.

m. takara apresenta: Cavulcão

Desmonta/ Brasil

08.12 > Maison de France

20h30

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Maurício Takara, or just m.takara is a percussionist, trumpeter and producer who nowadays plays drums in post-rock and experimental rock bands such as Hurtmold and São Paulo Underground. Since his first album as a solo artist, a self-entitled album in 2004, Takara has been highlighted for the singular language that permeates all his works in their several formations. The natural way how the musician executes acoustic and electronic instruments leaves an open path to experimentations, improvisations and solid structures.

Mundotigre, from 2014, is an exceptional work of textured minimalism. And the project Calvulcão, which will be presented for the first time in Rio as an invitation from Novas Frequências, is a set totally based on cavaquinho. Using the help of delays, effects and synthesizers, Cavulcão was created with idea of basing all (or practically all) sounds in one instrument, exploring to the maximum all possibilities of such a small and portable instrument like cavaco.

Marginal Men + DJ Sydney

04.12 > Cais da Imperatriz

23h

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Marginal Men is a duo formed by Pedro Fontes and Gustavo Elsas, two extremely important DJs and producers who stimulate the club circuits in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. As permanent residents at Wobble, for example – party responsible for bringing to Brazil heavyweight names in the international scene, such as DJ Rashad (D.E.P), DJ Spinn, Machinedrum, Scratcha DVA, Plastician, Pearson Sound and Untold – they were responsible for creating a new audience and a new context for bass music and the (new) funk carioca. After becoming well-known for several remixes and edits of emerging artists, such as MC Bin Laden, MC Brinquedo and MC Pedrinho, the pair started to release their own songs, which go towards footwork and funk carioca.

DJ Sydney comes from a similar background. Although he is still in the beginning of his career, his remixes and mashups of classics from Major Lazer and RL Grime in a “heavy baile” version show he has a lot of potential, resulting in a deserved artistic residency at the Theatre Royal Stratford East in London.

Marco Scarassatti

07.12>Maison de France

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08.12>Maison de France

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Marco Scarassatti is also giving a workshop called Deriva Sonora, a free event part of the program from Novas Frequências at Maison de France, on december the 8th at 3 pm.

Born in Campinas, Marco Scarassatti is a sound artist and compose who develops a work of research and construction of sound sculptures, installations and sound emblems. He was part of festivals in the USA, Chile, Argentina, Spain and Portugal and has already lectured at the University of Valparaiso in Chile and currently teaches at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). Marco is also the founder and curator of several festival and exhibitions and a self-taught filmmaker – his short film A Terra do Silêncio won twelve awards in 2002 and 2003.

Novelo Elétrico was thought as a poetic construction of sound spaces having as a matrix the improvisation and the recording processed with non-usual, invented musical instruments and objects situated between music and visual arts.

The proposal comes from the idea of the ball of thread (novelo), which is wrapped in yarns that precedes the weaving, or even afterwards, when the leftovers are organized. In the case of this album and this presentation in specific, the improvisations is a complex yarn torn apart to the maximum according to its capabilities. This capabilities are inside a framework linked to time, to body movements, to texture, to timbre, to noise, to the sense of depth and the quality of ambience. Each sound element should be taken to the extreme. Each yarn is an invented name, a tridimensional almost-object, a place to be heard, and that is inhabited by the elements that are performed and the body that performs and is captured in the listening as a gesture. If music is time within time, the idea of electric ball of threads is that it will be the space with the space of hearing.

Marco Scarassatti presents: Novelo Elétrico

07.12 > Maison de France

20h30

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Marco Scarassatti is also giving a workshop called Deriva Sonora, a free event part of the program from Novas Frequências at Maison de France, on december the 8th at 3 pm.

Born in Campinas, Marco Scarassatti is a sound artist and compose who develops a work of research and construction of sound sculptures, installations and sound emblems. He was part of festivals in the USA, Chile, Argentina, Spain and Portugal and has already lectured at the University of Valparaiso in Chile and currently teaches at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). Marco is also the founder and curator of several festival and exhibitions and a self-taught filmmaker – his short film A Terra do Silêncio won twelve awards in 2002 and 2003.

Novelo Elétrico was thought as a poetic construction of sound spaces having as a matrix the improvisation and the recording processed with non-usual, invented musical instruments and objects situated between music and visual arts.

The proposal comes from the idea of the ball of thread (novelo), which is wrapped in yarns that precedes the weaving, or even afterwards, when the leftovers are organized. In the case of this album and this presentation in specific, the improvisations is a complex yarn torn apart to the maximum according to its capabilities. This capabilities are inside a framework linked to time, to body movements, to texture, to timbre, to noise, to the sense of depth and the quality of ambience. Each sound element should be taken to the extreme. Each yarn is an invented name, a tridimensional almost-object, a place to be heard, and that is inhabited by the elements that are performed and the body that performs and is captured in the listening as a gesture. If music is time within time, the idea of electric ball of threads is that it will be the space with the space of hearing.

Mika Vainio

Touch, Editions Mego/ Finlândia

04.12 > Oi Futuro Ipanema

20h30

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Using a minimalist arsenal, the Finnish musician Mika Vainio develops a work which embraces the entire history of electronic music. Starting with concrete and eletroacoustic music from the 1950’s, travelling to the post-punk transgressions from industrial music, entering the techno dancefloors with confidence, until arriving at hybrid interzone of the 21st century.
Currently based in Oslo, Norway, Mika Vainio was, for many years, half of the innovative experimental techno project Pan Sonic (with Ilpo Väisänen), which performed in São Paulo in 2004. Before being part of the duo, Mika used to play drums and electronics as part of the noise and industrial Finnish scene.

His solo projects, under his own name or under the moniker Ø, are known for its analogical heat and electronic harshness. Either in abstract drones or in vanguardist techno, Vainio is always creating unique sounds. He has already released albums through labels such as Editions Mego, Touch, PAN and Raster Noton and already produced, among others, Alan Vega (from Suicide), Keiji Haino, Chicks on Speed, John Duncan, Kevin Drumm, Merzbow, Charlemagne Palestine, Christian Fennesz and Stephen O’Malley. In his last work, Halfway to White, Vainio collaborates with the French photographer Joséphine Michel in a record-book in which details, previously incidental or peripheral, take a new, yet abstract, meaning.

Phill Niblock & Thomas Ankersmit

Touch/ Estados Unidos e Holanda

05.12 > Oi Futuro Ipanema

18h

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Phill Niblock is a minimalist composer, filmmaker and director of “Experimental Intermedia”, a vanguard music institute founded in 1968 in New York. His influence expands, with an incredible impact, to a big amount of younger and renowned composers such as Susan Stenger, Lois V Vierk, David First, Glenn Branca e the eternal Sonic Youth, Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo.

In his music, Niblok uses microtonal, monolithic and digitally processed drones: the result is the complete lack of melody and rhythm. The sound movement is slow – geologically slow – with very subtle changes, almost imperceptible. His music has a tendency of ascending in you, invading you, through overlapping and juxtaposition of sharps which are obtained through the preprocessing of acoustic instrument in complex harmonious standards. His performances usually last two hours and are often matched with projections of his movies.

His most famous work is the series of movies called The Movement of People Working, a study with more than 25 hours which shows long scenes of people doing exhausting manual work in rural regions all over the world from 1973 to 1991 (including Brazil, where he was in 1984).

Thomas Ankersmit is a Dutch artist specialized in sound installations. Acoustic phenomenons, like sound reflexions, infrasonic vibrations, otoacoustic emissions and sound directional projections, have been an important part of his work since the beginning of the year 2000. Since 2006, his main instrument (live and in the studio) is a Serge modular analogue synthesizer. His electronic music is distinguished by the presence of equipment purposely badly-used, such as the use of signal interruptions to create, finely detailed but dense, sound swarms

Ankersmit had projects honoured at the prestigious Ars Electronica and his recent collaborations include recording sessions with Kevin Drumm at GRM in Paris; with Sicilian composer and performer Valerio Tricoli in a series of electroacoustic works released by the label PAN; and a new composition with Phill Niblok. His music and installations works were presented at the mythical Berghain, in the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum and Institute KW of Contemporary Art, all in Berlin; at Paradiso and Muziekgebouw, in Amsterdam; at the Cultural Center Arnolfini, in Bristol; at CCA, in Glasgow; at the Museum of Serralves, in Porto; at MoMA PS1, in New York; and at experimental and contemporary music festivals throughout the world.Ankermsit has been a guest panelist at universities such as CalArts, Stanford, Art Institute of Chicago, Harvard and Universität der Künste.

Pierre Bastien apresenta: Silent Motors

Morphine/ França

07.12>Maison de France

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Pierre Bastien gives a talk about his work at Maison de France on december the 8th at 12 pm. Free entry.

Post-graduated in 18th century French literature by Sorbonne, the French composer and multi-instrumentalist Pierre Bastien began his career in music groups (Operation Rhino, Nu Creative Methods) and soon after, worked with the dance company Dominique Bagouet. From 1986, he started to get involved with Bel Canto Orcuesta, from Pascal Comelade. At that time, he started to create – and literally build – his own orchestra, the “Mecanium”: an ensemble of automated musical pieces built from recycled mechanical parts (automata, electric engines and record players) that play acoustic instruments from all over the world such as Chinese flute, Moroccan bendir and Javanese saron.

A timeless, futuristic and slightly dadaist sound orchestra, “Mecanium” can contain up to 80 elements, evoking old traditions in its surprisingly sensual music. Over the last few years, Pierre Bastien and his machines have collaborated with video artist Pierrick Sorin, fashion designer Issey Miyake, British singer and composer Robert Wyatt and circus company Trottola in performances, sound installations and recordings. In 2015, Bastien created a new project entitled Silent Motors which consists of two frames of wheels and engines that are released in the direction of a screen through a retro-projector ordering wind instruments, machines and musicians from the past in the shape of video-images and, that way, creating a whole new projected world, full of its own delicacy.

Pigmalião

Frente Bolivarista / Brasil

04.12 > Cais da Imperatriz

23h

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Pigmalião is the result of Daniel Lucas’ experiments in merging religious references and Latin-American roots with specific sounds from other parts of the world. Pigmalião is the materialization of the archive of references of label Frente Bolivarista and stays in constant transformation along with narrative of releases from the label – an attempt to unify Latin America through electronic music.

Quiet Ensemble presents: The Enlightment

03.12 > Oi Futuro Ipanema

20h30

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INITIATIVE MADE WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE PROJECT DE.MO. / MOVIN’UP

Formed in 2009 by Italian artists Fabio Di Salvo e Bernardo Vercelli, The Quiet Ensemble’s work is constructed through the observation of the balance between chaos and control, nature and technology, creating themes that perfectly blend with these elements, that take shape from the relationship between organic and artificial subjects, and that dislocate the attention to insignificantly wonderful elements such as the buzzing of a fly or the rustle of leaves.

Their composition methods are linked to technologies that explore aesthetic and conceptual possibilities arising from new techniques of technological interactivity, so they can become music creation tools – the same way a brush is to a painter. In “The Enlightment”, performance that will be presented at Novas Frequências, classic musical instruments are translated into luminous, stroboscopic
and theatrical resources with the role of becoming a real electric and optical orchestra made by frequency, heat and noise.

Manipulating the relation between time and space, sound and image, the constantly shifting and unstable work by The Quiet Ensemble relates with space and movement, being modified through it. It emphasizes unexpected events, rejects the apparent mobility of shapes and dilutes the opposition between forces which are apparently divergent in Nature. Concrete and abstract forms are sectioned and reshaped in hybrid leaps, while, in parallel, the pure forms gain aesthetic prominence.

The Bug presents “Acid Ragga” ft Miss Red

Ninja Tune/ Reino Unido, Israel

04.12>Cais da Imperatriz

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04.12>Casa Rio

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Beyond his two performances (as The Bug and with King Midas Sound), Kevin Martin will speak about his production on a free talk on december 4th at 1 pm at Casa Rio.

Conceived to be the alternative soundtrack for the movie The Conversation by Francis Ford Coppola, the first album by The Bug, Tapping the Conversation, was released in 1997 by the seminal label Wordsound. On this first incarnation, the project consisted of a duo formed by Kevin Martin and DJ Vadim. And the sonority brought a branch that tended more to downtempo and trip-hop. Afterwards, with his second album, Pressure, released by Rephlex Records in 2003, and with the contribution of Russian DJ Vadim, the sound started to turn into a style more similar to the one these days: tracks infused in dub with constant references to ragga, dancehall and dubstep.
His most recent record, Angels & Devils, was one of the most expected in 2014 and, according to FACT, one of his best albums so far. It has a clear separation between his more silence and sinister sides, with compositions sometimes without a beat, in which artists such as Liz Harris (Grouper) and Inga Copeland (copeland, Hype Williams) collaborate, and on his more intense, brutal, explosive and chaotic side, there are artists like Flowdan, Death Grips, Manga and Warrior Queen.

Playing with Kevin – who will also perform at the festival with his other project, the trio King Midas Sound – is the Israeli MC Miss Red. Constant collaborator in The Bug, the artist has an enviable vocal reach, which gives pop saliences to the violent bass music.

Thingamajicks

Bliq, Subsubtronics/ Brasil

04.12 > Oi Futuro Ipanema

20h30

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After recording albums with black metal (Sesso Violento) and noise/improv (Coprophagic Substratum) bands during his graduation course in Sonic Arts at Middlesex University in London, the artist from São Paulo, Vinicius Duarte, took his artistic focus to electronic music. Thingamajicks has one foot in techno and the other in ambient music, which led him to be selected to be part of Red Bull Music Academy, which takes place this year in Paris.

With a 12” called Patrick’s Last Trip, released by the English label Blig Records, and the album Poison Pills, on his own label, Subsubtronics, Thingamajicks makes a synthetic and raw sound that plays with fluke and is full of textures and futuristic, psychedelic and dark environments. His hypnotic techno has very imaginative anthropologic outlines, always infused in a reconsidered and adulterated Africanness. Vinicius also produces a series of lysergic videos on his Vimeo channel to illustrate his songs and signs another project, dieckmanns, where he incorporates television iconography to the sound landscapes of Chicago House.

Timespine

Shhpuma/ Portugal

01.12 > SESC Ginástico

20h30

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It’s impossible to label the music by the Portuguese trio TimeSpine. It would be something like a folk song played in the flow of conscience, but there is also certain connotations from the contemporary erudite formats (although without the mathematic purity). It’s impossible to detect that characteristic balance from music freely improvised, but then again it’s a vague impression, because graphic scores are used. This (intentional) idiomatic uncertainty is the result of gathering musicians with different languages: Adriana Sá has a path in experimental electronic music, combining performances with art and technology; Tó Trips is a guitarist inspired by blues, co-founder of the singular and intriguing country-fado-jazz-rock band Dead Combo; and John Klima was a member of pop group Presidents of United States of America (before their MTV phase).

There is a predominance of string instruments in TimeSpine: a zither, a dobro and a guitar-bass. They appeal to some sampling and to percussion, but those are put to the service of combined flow of strings which are plucked, pinched, hit and manipulated with a bow, in unconventional tuning. Everything happens smoothly, slowly, in an abstract and non-linear way, gaining a hypnotic perspective, that seems to stop time. This is music without metric and timer – only human biological timing is followed.

Trudat Sound

05.12>Oi Futuro Ipanema

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Trudat Sound gives a (free) talk about his project in Brazil on december the 6th, 4 pm at Casa Rio.

Trudat Sound is Charlie Knox, a musician and multimedia artist interested in creating new contexts for the experimentation of sound practice. His “Public Experiments”, performing installations that include the use of sounds, lights and the space itself where they are inserted, are not exactly a concert to observe, listen and contemplate like the traditional ones, but a complete experience in which the listener is surrounded and swallowed.

His works explore plural perspectives, using the relative nature to details as a theme and having as source of inspiration the sculptural and architectonic arts, as well as the contemporary culture (mainly British) of clubbing, in its several electronic and eletroacoustic branches. Through the reconstruction of immersive audiovisual environments and the engineering of parallel textures, Charlie Knox seeks to learn about the nature of experience (as much the sound experience as the experience in the ontological sense) and about our relationship with the space we live in and in what circumstances we occupy them.

Invited by Novas Frequências, Trudat Sound comes to Brazil to perform and, through an artistic residency, research the work of Oscar Niemeyer with the mission of preparing a sound piece inspired by his main architectonic projects located in Rio and in Brasília. This new piece will be premiered in Abril 2016, at Counterflows, a Scottish festival and partner of Novas Frequências.

Tyondai Braxton

Warp, Nonesuch Records/ Estados Unidos

05.12 > Oi Futuro Ipanema

20h30

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Tyondai Braxton is a North American musician who has composed as much on his own as as part of very influential groups since the 90’s. The artist is specially known for being the founder of post-rock and avant-rock band Battles, from which he was the guitarist, keyboardist and vocalist until 2010. The band received world acclamation for their debut Mirrored, that, among other awards and honours, was pointed by Time and Pitchfork as one of the best ten albums of 2007.

Recently, Braxton, son of vanguard multi-instrumentalist and improviser Anthony Braxton, released his first solo album in six years – HIVE1 is a compilation of eight pieces conceived originally as part of a performance entitled “HIVE”, which premiered at Guggenheim in New York.

Tyondai Braxton’s music is extremely dense, full of sound and aesthetic possibilities. While in Battles, the math-rock allowed complex and dissonant melodic structures with a free jazz influence; in Hive1, the mechanic and orchestrated loops overlapping each other give consistency to the electric chaos of noises.

Tunga presents: Delivered in Voices (01-08/12)

1_8.12 > Laboratório Agnut

15h

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Tunga’s artistic career, one of the most fundamental and established Brazilian artists, who started in 70s, when he graduated in architecture and, 1974, held his first individual exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro. His work has been widely displayed in Latin America and Europe for two decades and started to be significantly presented in the USA in the mid-90s. Tunga participated in several collective exhibitions and biennale in institutions in the whole world, among them, the Venice Biennale, Bienal de São Paulo, MoMa in New York, Ludwig Museum and Kassel’s Documenta, in Germany, and The Louvre, in Paris.

Tunga creates pieces of an exuberant imaginary in drawing, sculpture, installation, film, video and performance. His multimedia drive is associated with the comprehension of art as a multidisciplinary field, where philosophy, poetry, psychoanalysis, theatre and literature – in addition to subjects like exact sciences and biology – walk side by side in visual arts. Not rarely, to an artist it’s important to surpass limits between science and phantasy, reality and fiction, resulting in the creation of his own mythology. In a few of his works, the artists invites performers to make something similar to rituals, “premiering” the piece. To name theses pieces, Tunga prefers the term “establishment” rather than performance or installation, which would define in a more satisfactory way something that, from that moment, starts to exist. It’s the case, for example, of the pavilions, True Rage and Galeria Psicoativa, displayed at Inhotim. And also the unseen sound installation (better, establishment) that the artist will premiere at Novas Frequências. During the whole festival, his shed in Barrinha, place where the piece will be exposed, will be open to visitors. It’ll be a type of occupation where different sound artists and experimental musicians will dialog live with the piece. They are: Luísa Nóbrega and Barrão (30/11 – vernissage – guests only); Ava Rocha & Eduardo Manso (1/12), Dissonâmbulos (2/12), N-1 (3/12), Lilian Zaremba & Fred Paredes (4/12), Lucas Santtana (5/12), Meteoro (6/12), Thingamajicks & Marcelo Mudou (7/12), DEDO (8/12), Félicia Atkinson (9/12 – Closing – guests only).

Tunga: Delivered in Voices (Ava Rocha & Eduardo Manso)

01.12 > Laboratório Agnut

15h

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Tunga’s artistic career, one of the most fundamental and established Brazilian artists, who started in 70s, when he graduated in architecture and, 1974, held his first individual exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro. His work has been widely displayed in Latin America and Europe for two decades and started to be significantly presented in the USA in the mid-90s. Tunga participated in several collective exhibitions and biennale in institutions in the whole world, among them, the Venice Biennale, Bienal de São Paulo, MoMa in New York, Ludwig Museum and Kassel’s Documenta, in Germany, and The Louvre, in Paris.

Tunga creates pieces of an exuberant imaginary in drawing, sculpture, installation, film, video and performance. His multimedia drive is associated with the comprehension of art as a multidisciplinary field, where philosophy, poetry, psychoanalysis, theatre and literature – in addition to subjects like exact sciences and biology – walk side by side in visual arts. Not rarely, to an artist it’s important to surpass limits between science and phantasy, reality and fiction, resulting in the creation of his own mythology. In a few of his works, the artists invites performers to make something similar to rituals, “premiering” the piece. To name theses pieces, Tunga prefers the term “establishment” rather than performance or installation, which would define in a more satisfactory way something that, from that moment, starts to exist. It’s the case, for example, of the pavilions, True Rage and Galeria Psicoativa, displayed at Inhotim. And also the unseen sound installation (better, establishment) that the artist will premiere at Novas Frequências. During the whole festival, his shed in Barrinha, place where the piece will be exposed, will be open to visitors. It’ll be a type of occupation where different sound artists and experimental musicians will dialog live with the piece. They are: Luísa Nóbrega and Barrão (30/11 – vernissage – guests only); Ava Rocha & Eduardo Manso (1/12), Dissonâmbulos (2/12), N-1 (3/12), Lilian Zaremba & Fred Paredes (4/12), Lucas Santtana (5/12), Meteoro (6/12), Thingamajicks & Marcelo Mudou (7/12), DEDO (8/12), Félicia Atkinson (9/12 – Closing – guests only).

Tunga: Delivered in Voices (DEDO)

08.12 > Laboratório Agnut

15h

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Tunga’s artistic career, one of the most fundamental and established Brazilian artists, who started in 70s, when he graduated in architecture and, 1974, held his first individual exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro. His work has been widely displayed in Latin America and Europe for two decades and started to be significantly presented in the USA in the mid-90s. Tunga participated in several collective exhibitions and biennale in institutions in the whole world, among them, the Venice Biennale, Bienal de São Paulo, MoMa in New York, Ludwig Museum and Kassel’s Documenta, in Germany, and The Louvre, in Paris.

Tunga creates pieces of an exuberant imaginary in drawing, sculpture, installation, film, video and performance. His multimedia drive is associated with the comprehension of art as a multidisciplinary field, where philosophy, poetry, psychoanalysis, theatre and literature – in addition to subjects like exact sciences and biology – walk side by side in visual arts. Not rarely, to an artist it’s important to surpass limits between science and phantasy, reality and fiction, resulting in the creation of his own mythology. In a few of his works, the artists invites performers to make something similar to rituals, “premiering” the piece. To name theses pieces, Tunga prefers the term “establishment” rather than performance or installation, which would define in a more satisfactory way something that, from that moment, starts to exist. It’s the case, for example, of the pavilions, True Rage and Galeria Psicoativa, displayed at Inhotim. And also the unseen sound installation (better, establishment) that the artist will premiere at Novas Frequências. During the whole festival, his shed in Barrinha, place where the piece will be exposed, will be open to visitors. It’ll be a type of occupation where different sound artists and experimental musicians will dialog live with the piece. They are: Ava Rocha & Eduardo Manso (1/12), Dissonâmbulos (2/12), N-1 (3/12), Lilian Zaremba & Fred Paredes (4/12), Lucas Santtana (5/12), Meteoro (6/12), Thingamajicks & Marcelo Mudou (7/12), DEDO (8/12).

Tunga presents: Delivered in Voices (Dissonâmbulos)

02.12 > Laboratório Agnut

15h

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Tunga’s artistic career, one of the most fundamental and established Brazilian artists, who started in 70s, when he graduated in architecture and, 1974, held his first individual exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro. His work has been widely displayed in Latin America and Europe for two decades and started to be significantly presented in the USA in the mid-90s. Tunga participated in several collective exhibitions and biennale in institutions in the whole world, among them, the Venice Biennale, Bienal de São Paulo, MoMa in New York, Ludwig Museum and Kassel’s Documenta, in Germany, and The Louvre, in Paris.

Tunga creates pieces of an exuberant imaginary in drawing, sculpture, installation, film, video and performance. His multimedia drive is associated with the comprehension of art as a multidisciplinary field, where philosophy, poetry, psychoanalysis, theatre and literature – in addition to subjects like exact sciences and biology – walk side by side in visual arts. Not rarely, to an artist it’s important to surpass limits between science and phantasy, reality and fiction, resulting in the creation of his own mythology. In a few of his works, the artists invites performers to make something similar to rituals, “premiering” the piece. To name theses pieces, Tunga prefers the term “establishment” rather than performance or installation, which would define in a more satisfactory way something that, from that moment, starts to exist. It’s the case, for example, of the pavilions, True Rage and Galeria Psicoativa, displayed at Inhotim. And also the unseen sound installation (better, establishment) that the artist will premiere at Novas Frequências. During the whole festival, his shed in Barrinha, place where the piece will be exposed, will be open to visitors. It’ll be a type of occupation where different sound artists and experimental musicians will dialog live with the piece. They are: Ava Rocha & Eduardo Manso (1/12), Dissonâmbulos (2/12), N-1 (3/12), Lilian Zaremba & Fred Paredes (4/12), Lucas Santtana (5/12), Meteoro (6/12), Thingamajicks & Marcelo Mudou (7/12), DEDO (8/12).

Tunga presents: Delivered in Voices (Lilian Zaremba & Fred Paredes)

04.12 > Laboratório Agnut

15h

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Tunga’s artistic career, one of the most fundamental and established Brazilian artists, who started in 70s, when he graduated in architecture and, 1974, held his first individual exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro. His work has been widely displayed in Latin America and Europe for two decades and started to be significantly presented in the USA in the mid-90s. Tunga participated in several collective exhibitions and biennale in institutions in the whole world, among them, the Venice Biennale, Bienal de São Paulo, MoMa in New York, Ludwig Museum and Kassel’s Documenta, in Germany, and The Louvre, in Paris.

Tunga creates pieces of an exuberant imaginary in drawing, sculpture, installation, film, video and performance. His multimedia drive is associated with the comprehension of art as a multidisciplinary field, where philosophy, poetry, psychoanalysis, theatre and literature – in addition to subjects like exact sciences and biology – walk side by side in visual arts. Not rarely, to an artist it’s important to surpass limits between science and phantasy, reality and fiction, resulting in the creation of his own mythology. In a few of his works, the artists invites performers to make something similar to rituals, “premiering” the piece. To name theses pieces, Tunga prefers the term “establishment” rather than performance or installation, which would define in a more satisfactory way something that, from that moment, starts to exist. It’s the case, for example, of the pavilions, True Rage and Galeria Psicoativa, displayed at Inhotim. And also the unseen sound installation (better, establishment) that the artist will premiere at Novas Frequências. During the whole festival, his shed in Barrinha, place where the piece will be exposed, will be open to visitors. It’ll be a type of occupation where different sound artists and experimental musicians will dialog live with the piece. They are: Ava Rocha & Eduardo Manso (1/12), Dissonâmbulos (2/12), N-1 (3/12), Lilian Zaremba & Fred Paredes (4/12), Lucas Santtana (5/12), Meteoro (6/12), Thingamajicks & Marcelo Mudou (7/12), DEDO (8/12).

Tunga presents: Delivered in Voices (Lucas Santtana)

05.12 > Laboratório Agnut

15h

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Tunga’s artistic career, one of the most fundamental and established Brazilian artists, who started in 70s, when he graduated in architecture and, 1974, held his first individual exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro. His work has been widely displayed in Latin America and Europe for two decades and started to be significantly presented in the USA in the mid-90s. Tunga participated in several collective exhibitions and biennale in institutions in the whole world, among them, the Venice Biennale, Bienal de São Paulo, MoMa in New York, Ludwig Museum and Kassel’s Documenta, in Germany, and The Louvre, in Paris.

Tunga creates pieces of an exuberant imaginary in drawing, sculpture, installation, film, video and performance. His multimedia drive is associated with the comprehension of art as a multidisciplinary field, where philosophy, poetry, psychoanalysis, theatre and literature – in addition to subjects like exact sciences and biology – walk side by side in visual arts. Not rarely, to an artist it’s important to surpass limits between science and phantasy, reality and fiction, resulting in the creation of his own mythology. In a few of his works, the artists invites performers to make something similar to rituals, “premiering” the piece. To name theses pieces, Tunga prefers the term “establishment” rather than performance or installation, which would define in a more satisfactory way something that, from that moment, starts to exist. It’s the case, for example, of the pavilions, True Rage and Galeria Psicoativa, displayed at Inhotim. And also the unseen sound installation (better, establishment) that the artist will premiere at Novas Frequências. During the whole festival, his shed in Barrinha, place where the piece will be exposed, will be open to visitors. It’ll be a type of occupation where different sound artists and experimental musicians will dialog live with the piece. They are: Ava Rocha & Eduardo Manso (1/12), Dissonâmbulos (2/12), N-1 (3/12), Lilian Zaremba & Fred Paredes (4/12), Lucas Santtana (5/12), Meteoro (6/12), Thingamajicks & Marcelo Mudou (7/12), DEDO (8/12).

Tunga presents: Delivered in Voices (Meteoro)

06.12 > Laboratório Agnut

15h

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Tunga’s artistic career, one of the most fundamental and established Brazilian artists, who started in 70s, when he graduated in architecture and, 1974, held his first individual exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro. His work has been widely displayed in Latin America and Europe for two decades and started to be significantly presented in the USA in the mid-90s. Tunga participated in several collective exhibitions and biennale in institutions in the whole world, among them, the Venice Biennale, Bienal de São Paulo, MoMa in New York, Ludwig Museum and Kassel’s Documenta, in Germany, and The Louvre, in Paris.

Tunga creates pieces of an exuberant imaginary in drawing, sculpture, installation, film, video and performance. His multimedia drive is associated with the comprehension of art as a multidisciplinary field, where philosophy, poetry, psychoanalysis, theatre and literature – in addition to subjects like exact sciences and biology – walk side by side in visual arts. Not rarely, to an artist it’s important to surpass limits between science and phantasy, reality and fiction, resulting in the creation of his own mythology. In a few of his works, the artists invites performers to make something similar to rituals, “premiering” the piece. To name theses pieces, Tunga prefers the term “establishment” rather than performance or installation, which would define in a more satisfactory way something that, from that moment, starts to exist. It’s the case, for example, of the pavilions, True Rage and Galeria Psicoativa, displayed at Inhotim. And also the unseen sound installation (better, establishment) that the artist will premiere at Novas Frequências. During the whole festival, his shed in Barrinha, place where the piece will be exposed, will be open to visitors. It’ll be a type of occupation where different sound artists and experimental musicians will dialog live with the piece. They are: Ava Rocha & Eduardo Manso (1/12), Dissonâmbulos (2/12), N-1 (3/12), Lilian Zaremba & Fred Paredes (4/12), Lucas Santtana (5/12), Meteoro (6/12), Thingamajicks & Marcelo Mudou (7/12), DEDO (8/12).

Tunga presents: Delivered in Voices (N-1)

03.12 > Laboratório Agnut

15h

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Tunga’s artistic career, one of the most fundamental and established Brazilian artists, who started in 70s, when he graduated in architecture and, 1974, held his first individual exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro. His work has been widely displayed in Latin America and Europe for two decades and started to be significantly presented in the USA in the mid-90s. Tunga participated in several collective exhibitions and biennale in institutions in the whole world, among them, the Venice Biennale, Bienal de São Paulo, MoMa in New York, Ludwig Museum and Kassel’s Documenta, in Germany, and The Louvre, in Paris.

Tunga creates pieces of an exuberant imaginary in drawing, sculpture, installation, film, video and performance. His multimedia drive is associated with the comprehension of art as a multidisciplinary field, where philosophy, poetry, psychoanalysis, theatre and literature – in addition to subjects like exact sciences and biology – walk side by side in visual arts. Not rarely, to an artist it’s important to surpass limits between science and phantasy, reality and fiction, resulting in the creation of his own mythology. In a few of his works, the artists invites performers to make something similar to rituals, “premiering” the piece. To name theses pieces, Tunga prefers the term “establishment” rather than performance or installation, which would define in a more satisfactory way something that, from that moment, starts to exist. It’s the case, for example, of the pavilions, True Rage and Galeria Psicoativa, displayed at Inhotim. And also the unseen sound installation (better, establishment) that the artist will premiere at Novas Frequências. During the whole festival, his shed in Barrinha, place where the piece will be exposed, will be open to visitors. It’ll be a type of occupation where different sound artists and experimental musicians will dialog live with the piece. They are: Luísa Nóbrega and Barrão (30/11 – vernissage – guests only); Ava Rocha & Eduardo Manso (1/12), Dissonâmbulos (2/12), N-1 (3/12), Lilian Zaremba & Fred Paredes (4/12), Lucas Santtana (5/12), Meteoro (6/12), Thingamajicks & Marcelo Mudou (7/12), DEDO (8/12), Félicia Atkinson (9/12 – Closing – guests only).

Tunga presents: Delivered in Voices (Thingamajicks & Marcelo Mudou)

07.12 > Laboratório Agnut

15h

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Tunga’s artistic career, one of the most fundamental and established Brazilian artists, who started in 70s, when he graduated in architecture and, 1974, held his first individual exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro. His work has been widely displayed in Latin America and Europe for two decades and started to be significantly presented in the USA in the mid-90s. Tunga participated in several collective exhibitions and biennale in institutions in the whole world, among them, the Venice Biennale, Bienal de São Paulo, MoMa in New York, Ludwig Museum and Kassel’s Documenta, in Germany, and The Louvre, in Paris.

Tunga creates pieces of an exuberant imaginary in drawing, sculpture, installation, film, video and performance. His multimedia drive is associated with the comprehension of art as a multidisciplinary field, where philosophy, poetry, psychoanalysis, theatre and literature – in addition to subjects like exact sciences and biology – walk side by side in visual arts. Not rarely, to an artist it’s important to surpass limits between science and phantasy, reality and fiction, resulting in the creation of his own mythology. In a few of his works, the artists invites performers to make something similar to rituals, “premiering” the piece. To name theses pieces, Tunga prefers the term “establishment” rather than performance or installation, which would define in a more satisfactory way something that, from that moment, starts to exist. It’s the case, for example, of the pavilions, True Rage and Galeria Psicoativa, displayed at Inhotim. And also the unseen sound installation (better, establishment) that the artist will premiere at Novas Frequências. During the whole festival, his shed in Barrinha, place where the piece will be exposed, will be open to visitors. It’ll be a type of occupation where different sound artists and experimental musicians will dialog live with the piece. They are: Ava Rocha & Eduardo Manso (1/12), Dissonâmbulos (2/12), N-1 (3/12), Lilian Zaremba & Fred Paredes (4/12), Lucas Santtana (5/12), Meteoro (6/12), Thingamajicks & Marcelo Mudou (7/12), DEDO (8/12).

FILM // Brazil 84

04.12 > Audio Rebel

16h

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Film and music by Phill Niblock
(USA/ 77 minutes)

Brazil 84 is part of a series from multidisciplinary artist Phill Niblock, The Movement of People Working. It’s images in 16mm that have long takes without edition, carefully framed to compress individual movements. The images were filmed in rural and urban environments, capturing their work environments, men and women using their hands and body for an eternal work choreography that seems tuned with Niblok’s universe of microtonal music.

Originally silent, Niblok chose to add his own music as the soundtrack, which he normally plays simultaneously at public screenings of the movie. The images are raw, the colours are saturated and the soundtrack seems to be a psychic phenomenon that overflows in every scene.

FILM // Learning to Listen

03.12 > Audio Rebel

16h

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from Dan Linn-Pearl, Marianna Roe & Andi Spowart
(UK/ 59 minutes)

Learning to Listen is a documentary produced by Deaf Pictures that crosses the dividing lines between experimental music and sound art. The movie presents a series of testimonials from important artists about their work regarding thought and creative process at the same time as it explores scenes of performances, improvisation, technology and sound art.

The movie uses guerilla filming techniques with basic equipments at their disposal, which turned the process, as a last instance, more simple and refined. Historical narratives are explores as well as being presented as new work, new visions, concepts and comprehensions about the tools of sound creations. Learning to listen hopes to toast a new audience with information about techniques of experimental and non-commercial composition, and at the same time, appeal to the sensibility of musicians who already perform and professionals intimately linked to business.

FILM // Phantom Nebula

02.12 > Audio Rebel

16h

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from Makino Takashi
(Japan/ 52 minutes)

The experience of watching Makino Takashi’s may be more well expressed through the title of one of his movies: Still in Cosmos. The filmmaker tries to create a state of frenzy through multiple exposition and overimposition, but ends up prevailing a notion that abstract chaos always exists inside a type of transcendental order. Graduated in Cinema by Nihon University of Art, Takashi moved to London to dedicated himself to the study of the techniques of musical cinema, photography and lighting. He then starts to produce his own movies after returning to Japan in 2004, influenced by Jim O’Rourke, with whom he had contact with at the time. From then on, Takashi started to challenge the traditional cinematographic production, making use of digital transfers, edition of frames per second, and overlapping visual and sound layers for the limit of digital technology and of cinema and abstract music.

Phantom Nebula is, according to the San Francisco Cinematheque, “a duel between the immaculate domination of digital and the organic irregularity of the material dissolving in multiple facets of chaos, unexchangeable fizzy masses with no definitive shape”.

FILM // Um Ouvido por um Olho

01.12 > Audio Rebel

16h

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by Lilian Zaremba
with works from: Lenora de Barros, Vivian Caccuri, Alex Hamburger, Julio de Paula, Cadu Tenório, Marco Scarassatit, DEDO, Thelmo Cristovam e Lilian Zaremba (Brazil/ 75 minutes)

“Until what point, the image is a radiophonic transmission and until what point visual impressions are part of a sound impression that encompasses them? If music takes to visual maps and ears can see, roar, when capturing the mute yell of images, what is exactly cinema and what is the radio? These are essential questions in a moment where media transmission was guided by the mass media, globalised, practically universalized, in a nauseating speed.” In Um Ouvido Por Um Olho, special series developed for the Austrian netradio, Kunstradio, one of the most prestigious in the world, Lilian Zaremba invited artists from different medias to create exercises of what would be a “visual radio”.

Lilian Zaremba is a visual artist, screenwriter, broadcaster and researcher with a PHD in communication theory. Since 1997, she explores different aspects of language and radiophonic transmissions associated to sound arts. Created, curated and coordinated the I Radio-Forum: a radio outside the Radio, at Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (1997) bringing to Rio de Janeiro representatives from public stations from France, Germany and England, and also national artists. Among her most recent work are “Evasão” (sound installation displayed at Fundação Eva Klabin, as part of project “Respiração”, curated by Marcio Doctors, 2010) and the series “Entreouvidos, sobre Rádio e Arte” (produced as a request from Rádio Visual, of the 7th Bienal do Mercosul, curated by Lenora de Barros, 2009). Lilian participated in the X Documenta of Kassel with the transmission of her phantasy radio Crab Nebula (2007).

FILM // Taking the dog for a walk

08.12 > Audio Rebel

16h

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from Antoine Prum
(Luxemburg, UK/ 111 minutes)

Taking the dog for a walk presents a map of the free improvisation music scene in Great Britain, past and present. The documentary alternates extensive musical sequences with led conversations that gravitate around the idiosyncrasies of improvisation.
Produced by Paul Thiltges and Antoine Prum for NI-VU-NI-CONNU Productions, the movie premiered in 2014 at East London Film Festival. It includes interviews conducted by Stewart Lee e Tony Bevan com Eddie Prévost, Steve Bereford, John Butcher, Alex Ward, Maggie Nicols, Phil Minton and many others. In a structural work of researching shooting archives Taking the dog for a walk analyses the net of small meeting points and labels that help shape this niche of the British music scene.

FILM // What We Leave Behind – Jean-Luc Godard Archives

07.12 > Audio Rebel

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from Stephan Crasneanscki/ Soundwalk Collective
(44 minutes)

What We Leave Behind is a sound piece composed with only heard sound fragments that were recorded in the movie sets of Jean-Luc Godard, but that ended up never being published. The sounds composition, rediscovered by accident somewhere in France, show us a very real (in the sense of authentic, sincere) audiovisual archive and in a certain way forgotten by the director.

What We Leave Behind is the portrait of contemporary cinema and a reflection about the archive as a streaming idea in artistic and philosophic thought. The intention of the piece is to show the power of the archive: keep a constellation of memories and identifies, stories, narratives. Stage directions, atmospheres of recording sets, fake beginnings, new takes and all of those details of every moment that usually pass by inconspicuous, but at the last instance, what we leave as a legacy to eternity.

WORKSHOP // Drumming with Paulo Santos

07.12 > Maison de France

17h

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Paulo Santos performs with Hurtmold on december the 6th at Oi Futuro Ipanema.

“Uakti”, from Paulo dos Santos
Uakti is an instrumental band formed by Marco Antônio Guimarães, Artur Andrés, Paulo Sérgio dos Santos and Décio de Souza Ramos, well-know for creating unconventional instruments, built by them. After a contact with Philip Glass, followed by signing with the label Point Music, they conquered international fame, which led to works in Japan and in Europe.

In this workshop, they try to emulate the process of musicalization of objects and material, the way they used to do as a composition method in the band. Because the members of Ukati fabricate their instruments – or in the case of the workshop, each participant – what comes out of them is an unique, original and unrepeatable sound. From this comes the term instrumental workshop : they are glass xylophones, pvc pipes connected and amplified, marimbas and, attention, idiophones, chori smetanos, iarras and trilobites.

If by one side, the compositional techniques are contemporary and of high complexity, from the other of the sonority of the instruments gives a primitive aspect to the music, rescuing with mastery regional rhythms from Brazil and other peripheral cultures. This dichotomy is what propels the sound of the instruments of Uakti.

WORKSHOP // Marco Scarassatti: Deriva Sonora

08.12 > Maison de France

17h

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Marco Scarassatti presents his performance called Novelo Elétrico at Maison de France, on december 7th at 8.30 pm.

Born in Campinas, Marco Scarassatti is a sound artist and compose who develops a work of research and construction of sound sculptures, installations and sound emblems. He was part of festivals in the USA, Chile, Argentina, Spain and Portugal and has already lectured at the University of Valparaiso in Chile and currently teaches at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). Marco is also the founder and curator of several festival and exhibitions and a self-taught filmmaker – his short film A Terra do Silêncio won twelve awards in 2002 and 2003.

Novelo Elétrico was thought as a poetic construction of sound spaces having as a matrix the improvisation and the recording processed with non-usual, invented musical instruments and objects situated between music and visual arts.

The proposal comes from the idea of the ball of thread (novelo), which is wrapped in yarns that precedes the weaving, or even afterwards, when the leftovers are organized. In the case of this album and this presentation in specific, the improvisations is a complex yarn torn apart to the maximum according to its capabilities. This capabilities are inside a framework linked to time, to body movements, to texture, to timbre, to noise, to the sense of depth and the quality of ambience. Each sound element should be taken to the extreme. Each yarn is an invented name, a tridimensional almost-object, a place to be heard, and that is inhabited by the elements that are performed and the body that performs and is captured in the listening as a gesture. If music is time within time, the idea of electric ball of threads is that it will be the space with the space of hearing.

TALK // Auntie Flo

Huntleys+Palmers/ Reino Unido

04.12 > Casa Rio

15h

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Auntie Flo and his partner Esa perform at Novas Frequências party on the 4th of december at 11 pm at Cais da Imperatriz.

Born in Glasgow, Brian D’Souza is the man behind Auntie Flo. Alongside names such as Daphni, Romare, Sinkane, Shackleton, Débruit and John Wizards, it’s one of the most consistent projects in electronic music with non-Anglo-Saxon influences. Theory of Flo, his last release, brings ten tracks recorded during a period of two years in Havana, Glasgow and London. The record was made in partnership with Esa, South African producer, who is also coming to Novas Frequências.

In addition to the live performance, Auntie Flo and Esa will have the mission, through an artistic residency, to record with local artists and musicians, for future releases. It’s worth mentioning they are partners in Highlife World Series, a work which motto is to explore sound landscapes from Africa and Latin America. The first three records of the compilation will be investigations of music from Cuba, Kenya and Uganda, respectively. Each release includes tracks exclusively recorded with local musicians from each of these countries and all the profits received from the sales of the records will be sent back to the countries that originated them.

TALK // Félicia Atkinson

Shelter Press/ França

07.12 > Maison de France

15h

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In addition to her talk, Félicia Atkinson performs at Maison de France on the 8th of december at 8.30 pm and she is a resident at Laboratorio Agnut, being the attraction that closes the occupation of the lab on the 9th of december, invites only.

Felicia is a French visual and sound artist and writer. Her visual pieces – sculptures, paintings, installations and collages – include a variety of medias united in a process in which fundamental technical path is the improvisation to play, arrange, write and paint. A process whose essential elements are delays, loops, saturations and a myriad of other tools of specific creations.

Pursuing a radical position in the arts world, concentrating on publishing her pieces with autonomy, being that in a financial or in an intellectual sense, has always been a crucial concern and a driving force throughout her career. Her most recent release, the album A Readymade Ceremony, for example, was entirely recorded in a laptop using a basic composing software. Atkinson reaffirms the importance of DIY in the creation process: the space of the artists as an exhibition space, the studio as recording territory, the book as incision, the record itself as a sculptural type of documentation. A Readymade Ceremony is a work of post-digital oratory and intimate concrete music in five parts. The objects speak, sculptures debate: there’s a surreal feeling in the dark whispers heard in this theatre of desires, in this dematerialisation of bodies through sound – a wide open door to sound poetry.

TALK // Kevin Martin (The Bug / King Midas Sound)

Ninja Tune / Reino Unido

04.12 > Casa Rio

14h

FREE ENTRY

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In addition to his talk, Kevin Martin performs in two versions: as The Bug together with Miss Red at Cais da Imperatriz on december 4th, 11 pm; and with his band King Midas Sound, on december the 2nd at 8.30 pm at Sesc Ginástico.

Conceived to be the alternative soundtrack for the movie The Conversation by Francis Ford Coppola, the first album by The Bug, Tapping the Conversation, was released in 1997 by the seminal label Wordsound. On this first incarnation, the project consisted of a duo formed by Kevin Martin and DJ Vadim. And the sonority brought a branch that tended more to downtempo and trip-hop. Afterwards, with his second album, Pressure, released by Rephlex Records in 2003, and with the contribution of Russian DJ Vadim, the sound started to turn into a style more similar to the one these days: tracks infused in dub with constant references to ragga, dancehall and dubstep.
His most recent record, Angels & Devils, was one of the most expected in 2014 and, according to FACT, one of his best albums so far. It has a clear separation between his more silence and sinister sides, with compositions sometimes without a beat, in which artists such as Liz Harris (Grouper) and Inga Copeland (copeland, Hype Williams) collaborate, and on his more intense, brutal, explosive and chaotic side, there are artists like Flowdan, Death Grips, Manga and Warrior Queen.

Playing with Kevin – who will also perform at the festival with his other project, the trio King Midas Sound – is the Israeli MC Miss Red. Constant collaborator in The Bug, the artist has an enviable vocal reach, which gives pop saliences to the violent bass music.

TALK // Pierre Bastien

08.12 > Maison de France

15h

FREE ENTRY

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Pierre Bastien performs at Maison de France on december the 7th at 8.30 pm.

Post-graduated in 18th century French literature by Sorbonne, the French composer and multi-instrumentalist Pierre Bastien began his career in music groups (Operation Rhino, Nu Creative Methods) and soon after, worked with the dance company Dominique Bagouet. From 1986, he started to get involved with Bel Canto Orcuesta, from Pascal Comelade. At that time, he started to create – and literally build – his own orchestra, the “Mecanium”: an ensemble of automated musical pieces built from recycled mechanical parts (automata, electric engines and record players) that play acoustic instruments from all over the world such as Chinese flute, Moroccan bendir and Javanese saron.

A timeless, futuristic and slightly dadaist sound orchestra, “Mecanium” can contain up to 80 elements, evoking old traditions in its surprisingly sensual music. Over the last few years, Pierre Bastien and his machines have collaborated with video artist Pierrick Sorin, fashion designer Issey Miyake, British singer and composer Robert Wyatt and circus company Trottola in performances, sound installations and recordings. In 2015, Bastien created a new project entitled Silent Motors which consists of two frames of wheels and engines that are released in the direction of a screen through a retro-projector ordering wind instruments, machines and musicians from the past in the shape of video-images and, that way, creating a whole new projected world, full of its own delicacy.

TALK // Trudat Sound

04.12 > Casa Rio

16h