PLASMORPHĒ is the title of my latest electroacoustic work, featured on the 15th digital compilation “MICROTOPIES 2026: 141 miniatures de música i geografia”, curated as part of the international open call organized by the experimental music collective Gràcia Territori Sonor (Barcelona). My miniature has a duration of one minute and appears as track 129 on the album. The compilation brings together 141 works from 103 locations across 35 countries and is available as a free download on Bandcamp. MICROTOPIES 2026 will be officially launched on July 25 at 11:30 during the“VERMUT MICROTÒPIC” event, held at La Barraqueta / Ateneu Independentista de la Vila de Gràcia, in Barcelona. MORE INFO

My acousmatic work “SIMULACRA – on discrete movements and dense textures” (2013), has been selected as one of 37 compositions chosen through the international open call for the 1st Electroacoustic Music Cycle “Meridianos da Escuta” (Meridians of Listening). This cycle is co-organized by three Brazilian academic departments: the Sound Art Research Department at the Federal University of Pelotas; the Composition Department at the State University of Ceará; and the Sound, Music, Media, and Spatiality Research Group at the Federal University of Ceará. The selected works are being presented in a series of concerts throughout July at several venues, including the Federal University of Pelotas Conservatory of Music (Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul), the Museum of Photography (Fortaleza, Ceará), the Alberto Conservatory of Music (Fortaleza, Ceará), among others. Composed at the Electronic Music Studios of Leeds Metropolitan University and previously selected as a finalist in the DESTELLOS 2013 International Acousmatic Music Competition, SIMULACRA will be featured in the second concert of the Meridianos da Escuta (Meridians of Listening) Electroacoustic and Acousmatic Music Concert Series on July 22 at 7:30 p.m. at the Federal University of Pelotas Conservatory of Music, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, alongside works by Henrique Vaz Maia, Andreja Andrić, Panayiotis Kokoras, Ivan Simura, and Valentin Sismann. MORE INFO

On this year’s World Listening Day (July 18), I will participate in a panel discussion on listening as part of the second edition of Festival Extremo 2026 (Braga/Guimarães), an event dedicated to artistic intersections between music, art, and landscape. The discussion will begin at 5:00 PM at Falperra, the festival's main location, and will be moderated by Miguel Bica, host of the “Dedo Invisível” podcast. A recording of the conversation will be made available for listening after the event. MORE INFO

I'm glad to share the premiere of ANABASIS, a new videodance collaboration with North American choreographer Mimi Garrard of the Mimi Garrard Dance Theatre Company. ANABASIS presents a sonic journey through whimsical drones, minimalist pulses, electronic synthesis, strong experimental rhythms / beats (during the 2nd section), evolving harmonies, and cosmic atmospheres.
For full sonic appreciation, watch / listen to it loud, via good headphones or proper studio monitors. For full sonic appreciation, watch / listen to it loud, via good headphones or proper studio monitors.

For more info / pieces of Mimi Garrard Dance Theatre Company, checkhttps://mimigarrarddance.com/ and the Youtube channel.

I am glad to announce the premiere of SHIFT + COMMAND + B(odies), a new videodance collaboration with North American choreographer Mimi Garrard of the Mimi Garrard Dance Theatre Company. This work probes a hypothetical realm where corporeality encounters digital command. The title, drew from common keyboard shortcuts and computer programming languages, functions both as an analogy and as the piece’s generative poetic premise: what happens when the body becomes simultaneously the instrument and the interface of command? One can expect to listen to glitchy textures, asynchronous polyrhythms, mechanical and industrial sounds, distorted arpeggios and immersive drones, gradually unfolding into a hypnotic and meditative electroacoustic landscape. For full sonic appreciation, watch / listen to it loud, via good headphones or proper studio monitors.

For more info / pieces of Mimi Garrard Dance Theatre Company, checkhttps://mimigarrarddance.com/ and the Youtube channel.

"THE NON-HUMAN GESTALT” (2026), "DYSTUTOPIC" (2025) and "HASTEBOUND" (2025) are 3 videodances that are part of a series of works I have been developing since 2021 with North American choreographer and former dancer Mimi Garrard. These works will be screened as part of the “VIEWS” event at the Rubin Museum of Art, in New York City, on May 2nd, presented by the Mimi Garrard Dance Theatre Company. This event will also feature two additional videodance works, namely “INNER SPACE” and “PEACOCK”, with music by Mimi Garrard and Tom Hamilton respectively, performed by dancers Tim Bendernagel, Kate Jewett, Cynthia Koppe, and Samuel Roberts.

For more info / pieces of Mimi Garrard Dance Theatre Company, checkhttps://mimigarrarddance.com/ and the Youtube channel.

On April 16th, my acousmatic piece "Circumsphere: to bounce and rebounce" will be presented in the first concert of the 3rd edition of "Listening Room 2026," organized by the Electronic Music and Sound Art program of the Faculty of Music and Visual Arts at the University of Pécs, Hungary. The piece was selected through an international open call that received 164 submissions, divided into two groups of 82 works, from which the program for the concert at the Zsolnay Cultural Quarter of the University of Pécs was curated.

Concert Program:

Alexis Blais – "animal farm"
Christopher Bailey – "Harvest Kitchen Part 1"
Ana Gamboa – "Lúmina"
Bagaván Gyöngyössy – "dust + filth + debris"
Rosario Di Rosa – "O quando tutte le notti"
João Castro Pinto – "Circumsphere: to bounce and rebounce"

More info about the event

"The NON-HUMAN GESTALT” is my most recent videodance collaboration with North American choreographer Mimi Garrard of the Mimi Garrard Dance Theatre Company. This piece explores what a non-human gestalt might consist of and, consequently, gravitates around the idea of the confrontation between this gestalt and humanity and what it would represent.
The work includes ultra-processed / distorted samples and field recordings of various origins (in an acousmatic approach), contrasted with electronically generated phrases from digital and analog synthesizers, as well as dark and luminous drones.

For more info / pieces of Mimi Garrard Dance Theatre Company, checkhttps://mimigarrarddance.com/ and the Youtube channel.

The day has come: I am pleased to share the official release of the latest album by the Greek band Lost Bodies: HOT STORIES. This double vinyl album includes collaborations with Nikos Veliotis (MΜΜΔ / Mohammad), Celia Tsioufi, and a piece I composed, which records in physical form a collaboration that began live in Athens, in 2003, between myself and Θάνος Λοστ. The piece, titled “Απολαύστε Ελεύθερα” (Enjoy Freely, 17’48”), is structured around Thanos’ voice and texts and is inspired by the work of Austrian writer Peter Handke, particularly “Offending the Public. Calls for Help”. Lost Bodies are a legendary Greek band, founded in Kallithea (Athens) in 1984 by Thanos Kois and Antonis Papaspyros. Since then, they have freely orbited a vast pleiad of genres without fixing in any, gaining recognition for their anarcho-punk attitude and for an uncategorizable musical practice that blends mordant and sardonic social/political commentary with experimental avant-garde music, post-punk, industrial, funk, trip hop, and everything else you can imagine. In every sense of the word, they are a punk band, and their music is intentionally uncategorizable and can only be described as “outer limits”. This is a fully DIY vinyl edition, released by the Lost Bodies’ non-label DIY Airlines. For those in Athens, HOT STORIES will be available for purchase tonight during the album’s official release concert at ILION Plus (doors open at 9:30 PM; more details below). For potential listeners elsewhere, I am awaiting the arrival of 4 copies for sale, so if interested, do contact me via private message. Finally, there is, since February 20 2026, a digital version of the album on Bandcamp. You can also freely enjoy the piece “Enjoy Freely”, via anexcellent video, which is in itself another beautiful artistic object, that has been created by Misouridis Giannis, which can be watched on YouTube and through which the piece can be heard in its entirety:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdWOWD1GtYg
For full sonic appreciation watch / listen to it loud, via good headphones or proper studio monitors.
(note: although the translation is not perfect, if you want to read Thanos' words in English or in your native language, enable YouTube’s real-time captions and select your language.)

“Απολαύστε Ελεύθερα” (Enjoy Freely)

Texts, narration: Thanos Kois
based on the book by Peter Handke "Insulting the Audience. Calls for Help."

Electronics / electric guitar / field recordings / samples / composition: João Castro Pinto

Visual composition, cinematography, editing: Giannis Misouridis

"Tempus Sidereum” is my latest videodance collaboration with North American choreographer Mimi Garrard of the Mimi Garrard Dance Theatre Company. This work is a meditation on the coexistence of multiple temporal dimensions: < cosmic, chronological and inner >. The piece reveals time as living and spiritual matter, pulsating between concrete and abstract dimensions. You can expect to listen to electronically generated sounds, processed and organized into distinct rhythmic patterns, mixed with diverse micro-transients, drones, evolving textures, spectral sounds, and euphonic harmonic motifs that continuously unfold throughout the three sections of the piece, leading to an experience in which temporal perception becomes fluid and contemplative

For more info / pieces of Mimi Garrard Dance Theatre Company, checkhttps://mimigarrarddance.com/ and the Youtube channel.

It is with great pleasure that I share the announcement of the forthcoming publication, by the Margarida Losa Institute for Comparative Literature (Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto), of the book "Between the Roots and the Stars: António Ramos Rosa in Dialogue", which brings together texts by various researchers and artists who reflect, in multifaceted ways, on the work of António Ramos Rosa, a Portuguese poet whose centenary is being celebrated throughout 2025. I am pleased to have been invited to take part in this project through the ideation and realization of a musical installation, which was presented a year ago in the exhibition Matéria Viva (Instituto Pernambuco do Porto), as well as an article that will be included in this book and addresses the conception of the installation, in which I also discuss certain aspects related to the composition of soundscapes. The book is currently in press, updates regarding its publication will be shared in due course.

More info @https://ilcml.com/cassiopeia-18_-no-prelo/

I am stoked to share the Chinese premiere of my acousmatic work Circumsphere: To Bounce & Rebounce, at the MUSICACOUSTICA 2025 FESTIVAL. My participation in this event follows an invitation from Miso Music Portugal, within the framework of the 43rd ICEM - International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music’s General Assembly, which this year integrates the Musicacoustica Festival 2025. Circumsphere is included in the program of the 4th concert of the ICEM series at the Musicacoustica Festival, to be held on September 28th at 7:30 PM, in the Standard Concert Hall of the Zhejiang Conservatory, in the city of Hangzhou.

More info @MUSICACOUSTICA FESTIVAL HANGZHOU CHINA 2025

Sharing “The Jolly Autocrat”, a new videodance collaboration with North American choreographer Mimi Garrard of the Mimi Garrard Dance Theatre Company. “The Jolly Autocrat” was inspired by the current U.S. political situation. One can expect to listen to manipulated military marches, groovy beats, electronic and electroacoustic sounds, shortwave radio samples, magnetic noise recordings, eerie and dense ambiences, and, towards the end, some strong glitchy experimental rhythmic patterns.

For more info / pieces of Mimi Garrard Dance Theatre Company, checkhttps://mimigarrarddance.com/ and the Youtube channel.

Interlocking Paroxysms is the title of my newest collaboration with North American choreographer Mimi Garrard of the Mimi Garrard Dance Theatre Company. This videodance piece was directed / produced by Mimi and features dancer Samuel Roberts (costumes were designed by Mindy Nelson).
The idea of paroxysm is, in a figurative / emotional sense, a sudden and extreme peak of an emotion, sensation, or reaction, such as joy, pain, or laughter. Hence, Interlocking Paroxysms can be seen as a musical exploration of the unconscious in turmoil, a realm where archetypal forces collide and erupt through symbolic patterns. The piece features erratic electronic glitches that were mixed and processed, along with irregular rhythmic patterns / beats, minimal synthetic arpeggios, a few voices of theremin electronics and organic drones.

For more info / pieces of Mimi Garrard Dance Theatre Company, checkhttps://mimigarrarddance.com/ and the Youtube channel.

An excerpt from my latest long-play soundscape composition Faux Naturel (sections 5 & 6), released in November 2022 by Unfathomless (Belgium – U-77), has been selected through the international call for sound pieces issued by Bolivia’s SUR AURAL Festival 2025 – RE/SONANCIAS.
The piece was selected from over 140 submissions by artists and collectives from around the world.
From July 16 to 26, the festival will present a new daily broadcast featuring the selected works via Radio Sur Aural.

Hastebound is the title of my newest collaboration with North American choreographer Mimi Garrard of the Mimi Garrard Dance Theatre Company. This videodance piece was directed / produced by Mimi and features, as dancers, Tim Bendernagel and Cynthia Koppe (costumes were designed by Mindy Nelson).
“Hastebound” is a piece built around a neologism that merges “haste” (urgency, speed) with “bound” (both constraint and direction). Inspired by Futurism and the global impact of technology — especially cyberspace — it explores the paradox of being propelled forward while simultaneously feeling confined. Sonically, the piece weaves together processed field recordings of trains and locomotives,

For more info / pieces of Mimi Garrard Dance Theatre Company, checkhttps://mimigarrarddance.com/ and the Youtube channel.

My acousmatic work “Circumsphere: to Bounce & Rebounce (2024)”, is one of the 26 pieces selected within the international call of the Ars Electronica Forum Wallis 2025 festival (Switzerland), which received 274 works, from 39 countries. In this context, Circumsphere will be spatialized during the 4th concert of the Forum Wallis Festival 2025 by the MEbU (Münster Earport by UMS'nJIP) loudspeaker orchestra, which will take place today, July 5th at 7:00 PM, in Münster/Goms, Switzerland. Premiered last year at Miso Music Portugal’s at Música Viva Festival 2024 , Circumsphere: to Bounce & Rebounce «is an immersion into the sonic and musical richness of spherical objects (marbles, rubber/ ping pong balls, wooden spheres and styrofoam). The aim was to explore sonically and musically the physical and phenomenological quality evident in the idea of “roundness”, a kind of acousmatic circumnavigation through a cartography of movement»
More information about the event and program at: https://forumwallis.ch/fw25-arselectronica-selection-program.pdf
Venue _ Adress:
MEbU (Münster Earport by UMS'nJIP)
Furkastrasse 647, Geschinen, Switzerland

DYSTUTOPIC is the title of my newest collaboration with North American choreographer Mimi Garrard of the Mimi Garrard Dance Theatre Company. This videodance piece was directed / produced by Mimi and features, as dancers, Tim Bendernagel and Cynthia Koppe (costumes were designed by Mindy Nelson).
This piece relfects about the relationship between the utopias and dystopias.

For more info / pieces of Mimi Garrard Dance Theatre Company, checkhttps://mimigarrarddance.com/ and the Youtube channel.

The videodance “Through Ashes We Rise” (2024), an audiovisual piece that is part of a series of collaborations that I have been developing since 2021 with American choreographer and former dancer Mimi Garrard, will be screened as part of the “DARK AND LIGHT” event at the Rubin Museum of Art on April 26th at 2:00 PM in New York City.
Organized by the Mimi Garrard Dance Theatre Company, this event will feature the presentation of four additional video dance works, created in collaboration with composers Jonathan Melville Pratt, Tom Hamilton, James Seawright, and Mimi Garrard herself, and performed by dancers Samuel Roberts, Evan Copeland, Michael Francis, Cynthia Koppe, Kate Jewett, and Tim Bendernagel.

For more info / pieces of Mimi Garrard Dance Theatre Company, checkhttps://mimigarrarddance.com/ and the Youtube channel.

My most recent acousmatic piece Circumsphere: to Bounce & Rebounce (2024) is part of the program of the 4th edition of the Immersive Festival 2025 (organised by the DME Project), an annual event dedicated to electroacoustic music and the exploration of sonic space. This year’s edition will occur between March 20 and 23 at the Lisboa Incomum in Lisbon. The festival focuses on dome-shaped sound systems, offering an immersive listening experience, where the space becomes a key element in musical composition and perception. In this context, on the first day of the festival, on the 20th of March at 19:30, I will spatialise his work using the multichannel sound system at the Lisboa Incomum, DME Project’s headquarters.

More info about the festival @ FESTIVAL IMERSIVO 2025

Sukut is the title of my newest collaboration with North American choreographer Mimi Garrard of the Mimi Garrard Dance Theatre Company. This videodance piece was directed / produced by Mimi and features, as dancers, Tim Bendernagel and Cynthia Koppe (costumes were designed by Mindy Nelson).
This piece is a meditative piece that represented the inner need of merging with the unknown.

For more info / pieces of Mimi Garrard Dance Theatre Company, checkhttps://mimigarrarddance.com/ and the Youtube channel.

My most recent acousmatic piece Circumsphere: to Bounce & Rebounce (2024), was one of the selected pieces by the international call for works of the ARS ELECTRONICA FORUM WALLIS 2025 Festival (Switzerland), which received 274 works, from 39 countries. The festival organization will determine, until April 10th, the program of the 26 selected pieces, some of which will be programmed at the Forum Wallis 2025 Festival, whose concerts will take place on May 28th and 29th 2025, in Münster/Goms, in Switzerland, others in the Ars Acusmatica electronic music concert series (+ info TBA). Circumsphere was recently awarded 2nd prize ex aequo by the Destellos 2024 International Acousmatic Music Competition, having been also a finalist in the MA/IN 2024 (Italy) and Métamorphoses 2024 (Belgium) competitions and selected by the EMPIRICA / Mid-Side International Call for Works for the 4th edition of the RESILIENCE FESTIVAL 2024, in Foggia, Italy.

More news soon @ ARS ELECTRONICA FORUM WALLIS

Through Ashes We Rise is the title of my newest collaboration with North American choreographer Mimi Garrard of the Mimi Garrard Dance Theatre Company. This videodance piece was directed / produced by Mimi and features, as dancers, Tim Bendernagel and Cynthia Koppe (costumes were designed by Mindy Nelson).
Musically this piece is the result of the composition of synth electronics with field recordings, processed improvised guitar sounds and other found sounds (suggestion: listen to the piece loud and through the best headphones or monitor speakers you own).

For more info / pieces of Mimi Garrard Dance Theatre Company, checkhttps://mimigarrarddance.com/ and the Youtube channel.

Circumsphere: To Bounce & Rebounce (2024), was one of the selected pieces in the context of the international call for acousmatic works by the Italian publisher Empirica Records/ Associazione Mid Side. In this sense, the work will have its performance in the context of the 4th edition of the REF – Resilience Festival 2024 at the RISONANZE EMPIRICHE - International Electroacoustic and Multimedia Works Concert, in December 6th @ Arci Jaco APS, in Foggia (Italy), organised by the MID SIDE Aps (Associazione di Promozione Sociale).

+ info @ EMPIRICA CALL /RESILIENCE FESTIVAL 2024

I am glad to announce that my collaboration with Mimi Garrard, a videodance entitled Orphic Laments, will be aired on MNN - Manhattan Neighborhood Network, alongside pieces composed by Mimi Garrard, Jonathan Melville Pratt, and with the dancers Tim Bendernagel, Evan Copeland, Cynthia Koppe. MNN operates two state-of-the-art emerging media production and education facilities in Manhattan and run Manhattan's public access TV channels, reaching some 400,000 cable subscribers in the borough. The presentation will be broadcast by cable tv (NYC only) and streamed, on www.mnn.org on Channel 2 Lifestyle, on Sunday November 24th & December 8th, 2024 at 5pm _ NYC's time.

Mimi Garrard began working with dance and video in the late 1960s when she collaborated with James Seawright on three dance videos, two for WGBH and one for CBS. Medium is the Medium, created for WGBH in 1968, was possibly the first “videodance”. Since digital video editing systems became affordable for home use, she has devoted full time to this medium and, since July 2001, has created more than 900 videodances. They have been presented in Europe, Asia, and the United States.
Mimi Garrard’s video dances are partially funded by The Harkness Foundation for Dance; The David Bermant Foundation: Color, Light, Motion and individual contributors.

For more info / pieces of Mimi Garrard Dance Theatre Company, check https://mimigarrarddance.com/ and the youtube channel.

My recent acousmatic music piece entitled Circumsphere: to Bounce & Rebounce (2024), was premiered / played in the radio program "SEC.XXI", of the RADIO BEETHOVEN FM, in Chile (06.11.2024), alongside the laureate works of the 16th Destellos 2024 International Acousmatic Music Competition.To listen to the podcast of the emission click HERE

“o todo da redonda natureza - narrativas electroacústicas a partir da obra de António Ramos Rosa” is the title of my most recent piece, which will be on display at the “Matéria Viva” exhibition, dedicated to the portuguese eminent poet António Ramos Rosa, which will take place at the Instituto Pernambuco Porto. Curated by Bruno Ministro and Patrícia Esteves Reina, “Matéria Viva” will also include works by Catarina Braga, d1g1t0 individual_coletivo, Isabel Carvalho, among other artists. The piece I was commissioned will have the format of an audio installation, and will consist of a soundscape composition inspired by the author's poetic work, with voice/recitation of poems by Sofia A. Carvalho. The “Matéria Viva” exhibition will open on October 17th, at 18pm, at Instituto Pernambuco Porto, and will run until November 15th.
This exhibition is part of the colloquium: “Entre as raízes e os astros: António Ramos Rosa em diálogo", which will take place between the 17th and 18th of October, at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto and at Casa dos Livros. Finally, both the colloquium and the exhibition are part of the Digital Environmental Humanities research project, entitled “Ver a Árvore e a Floresta. Ler a Poesia de António Ramos Rosa à Distância (2022.08122.PTDC),” from the Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa (ILCML) of FLUL (Universidade do Porto), which is funded by FCT through the R&D Project Competition in All Scientific Domains 2021.

I am glad to share that, on October 16th, my most recent acousmatic musique piece entitled Circumsphere: To Bounce & Rebounce (2024) will integrate the set of eight competing pieces presented at the final of the 13th Biennial Acousmatic Composition Competition – Métamorphoses 2024, at the 31st L’Espace du Son Festival, at the Théâtre Marni, in Brussels

On the 11th of October, at 23, me (field recordings / electronics) and Michael Fischer, saxophone (Austria) will perform live at DARC - Desterro, in Lisbon, continuing their collaborative project that, since 2012, in festivals such as: Wien Modern (Vienna), Interpenetration Festival (Graz) and Ostinato Festival (České Budějovice). In order to highlight the individual aesthetic approaches of the musicians in question, this event will take the form of two short solos and a subsequent duo. The duo will consist of an experimental electroacoustic narrative around free improvisation, hypnotic minimalism, noise and silence.

I am glad to share that most recent acousmatic music piece entitled Circumsphere: to Bounce & Rebounce (2024), was one of the works awarded by the Destellos 2024 International Acousmatic Music Competition. The piece received second prize ex aequo, along with the works “Gritscape”, by Roeland Luyten (Belgium) and “OWN.k”, by Kramer Elwell (USA). In addition to this distinction, this work was also a finalist in the MA / IN 2024 (Italy) and Métamorphoses 2024 (Belgium) competitions.

+ info HERE

I am very glad to be part, through a short live stream performance (laptop / field recordings / synths), of an amazing event dedicated to the extraordinary Minimalist composer Phill Niblock, Phill Niblock Forever: A Marathon Memorial Celebration in Music, Images, Words, Movements… @ Roulette, in NYC. My performance will be around 21:30, Portugal’s time, 16:30 NY time. The event will be streamed in its entirety via Youtube. Artist and curator Katherine Liberovskaya, Niblock’s partner of the last 22 years, puts together a Marathon 12 hour Memorial Celebration of the iconic minimalist composer and filmmaker Phill Niblock (1933-2024) a few days after what would have been his 91st birthday. The event brings together brief artistic interventions by a wide range of Phill’s close friends and colleagues, old and young, from near and from far, participating live in-person and remotely, via streaming and via video, in solos, duos, formations or several and orchestras, including among many others:

LIVE
David Gibson, Gerd Stern, Jim Staley + Shelley Hirsch + Susan Hefner, Yasunao Tone + Keiko Uenishi, Anthony Coleman Al Margolis + Leslie Ross, David Behrman + John King + Barbara Held + Yoshiko Chuma, Tom Buckner + Tom Hamilton + David First, etc.

STREAMING / VIDEO
Julian Knowles, Lawrence English, Carl Stone, Kasper Toeplitz, Jens Brand, Arnold Dreyblatt, Francisco Janes, Mia Zabelka, Annea Lockwood, Maria Blondeel, Matt Rogalski, among many other artists

I am happy to announce that the videodance “CAUSA SUI”, which is part of the series of collaborations that, since 2021, I’ve been creating with the North American choreographer and former dancer Mimi Garrard, will be shown in the context of the film event / videodances exhibition “GLOBAL” which will take place at the Rubin Museum of Art, on September 21st, in New York City. Organized by the Mimi Garrard Dance Theatre Company, this event features the presentation of three more videodances, composed in collaboration with composers Alice Shields, Tom Hamilton and José Halac, and dancers Tim Bendernagel, Cynthia Koppe, Michael F. McBride and Samuel Roberts. Dear fellow artists / colleagues, if you are in NYC drop by the Rubin Museum of Art.

More info about CAUSA SUI @HERE

My new acousmatic music piece “Circumsphere: To Bounce & Rebounce” (2024) is part of the selected works of the international contest"MA / IN Intermedia and Electroacoustic Music Festival 2024", within the Category A (acousmatic music). In collaboration with the CRM (Centro di Ricerche Musicali) of Rome, the selected works will be played at MA / IN’s partner festival "ArteScienza 2024", which will be held at the Goethe Institute, in Rome, between July 4th & 14th. From the selected works, the jury will determine the category winners, plus any honourable mentions, and the awarded pieces will also be featured at the MA/IN festival, later in 2024.

+ info selection & concert @ MA / IN ^ ARTESCIENZA2024

“Causa Sui” is the title of my latest collaboration with North American choreographer Mimi Garrard of the Mimi Garrard Dance Theatre Company. This videodance piece was directed / produced by Mimi and features, as dancers, Tim Bendernagel and Cynthia Koppe (costumes were designed by Mindy Nelson).
Mimi Garrard began working with dance and video in the late 1960s when she collaborated with James Seawright on three dance videos, two for WGBH and one for CBS. Medium is the Medium, created for WGBH in 1968, was possibly the first “videodance”. Since digital video editing systems became affordable for home use, she has devoted full time to this medium and, since July 2001, has created more than 900 videodances. They have been presented in Europe, Asia, and the United States. Mimi Garrard’s video dances are partially funded by The Harkness Foundation for Dance; The David Bermant Foundation: Color, Light, Motion and individual contributors.
For more info / pieces of Mimi Garrard Dance Theatre Company, check https://mimigarrarddance.com/and the Youtube channel.

I am glad to share that the absolute premiere of my latest electroacoustic piece - “Circumsphere: to Bounce and Rebounce” - will happen at the 30th edition of the MÚSICA VIVA FESTIVAL 2024, on the 11th of May, in Lisboa, Portugal. I will have the pleasure of spatializing the piece through MISO MUSIC's wonderful Loudspeaker Orchestra.

More info @HERE

I am happy to announce that the videodance “Seasons of the Mind”, which is part of the series of collaborations that, since 2021, I’ve been creating with the North American choreographer and former dancer Mimi Garrard, will be shown in the context of the film event / videodances exhibition “A Spiritual Journey” which will take place at the Rubin Museum of Art, on April 13th, in New York City, organized by the Mimi Garrard Dance Theatre Company, this event features the presentation of three more videodances, composed in collaboration with composers Jonathan Melville Pratt and Tom Hamilton, and dancers Austin Selden, Cynthia Koppe, Kate Jewett and Tim Bendernagel. Dear fellow artists / colleagues, if you are in NYC drop by the Rubin Museum of Art.

More info about Season of the Mind @HERE

I am thrilled to announce the release of “(C)OVID'S METAMORPHOSES”, an international experimental interdisciplinary ART project developed during the last 3 years, with the participation of 133 international artists (sound artists, film makers, writers, photographers, etc.), that was conceptualized and curated by Bernd Herzogenrath and Lasse-Marc Riek during and about the covid19 pandemic. It’s a gigantic broken telephone game / exquisite corpse, inspired by Ovid’s classic text “Metamorphoses”. I am very glad to have contributed to the project with a sound piece entitled “The Rod of Asclepius”, and to be representing Portugal alongside artists as Francisco López, Annea Lockwood, Thomas Köner, Robin Rimbaud (Scanner), Lee Scratch Perry, Brandon LaBelle, Angélica Castello, Thelmo Cristovan, Jörg Piringer, and many more amazing artists. This huge ART project includes a box set with a 200 pages full color book, 7 CDs, and 2 data DVDs, and was recently released by the wonderful meakusma label. This is an extraordinary project, which probably represents, thus far, the biggest collective artistic meditation about the covid19 pandemic, as it proves that ART is one of The main keys and ways to resist and creatively metamorphose dramatic contexts and situations! Special thanks to Bernd Herzogenrath & Lasse-Marc Riek for the kind invitation!!!

More info @MEAKUSMA (site) | BANDCAMP

I am very glad to share the release of HYPO-STASIS, which is the title of the collaborative album by me and Anastasis Grivas - Greek composer, performer and curator -, which will be published by the Swiss label Grimaces Éditions on November 24th. This is the edition of a book-record of improvised electroacoustic music, with design and visual work by João Castro Pinto, and that will be published in a risography printed edition, limited to 50 copies. Hypo-Stasis is the musical result of this collaborative duo, which started in 2003, between Anastasis Grivas (custom prepared guitar, objects and contact mics) and João Castro Pinto (laptop, electroacoustic processing).
To mark the release of HYPO-STASIS, on the 24th at SMOP - Sociedade Musical Ordem e Progresso, in Lisbon (at 9pm), João Castro Pinto will give a concert, organized by Nariz Entupido, using samples from the album and reinterpreting it via laptop (field recordings), controllers midi and synthesizer.

More info @GRIMACES ÉDITIONS

I’m thrilled to announce that on 2023’s Halloween night was the online premiere of “When The Lights Go Out”, a micro short film by Nolan McWorther / Gloom Room Films (San Diego _ CA), for which I produced the music soundtrack, foley & sound design (suggestion: listen loud through headphones). Here's the link

More info HERE

I am glad to announce that my latest collaboration with Mimi Garrard, a videodance entitled Magnetaris, will be aired on MNN - Manhattan Neighborhood Network, alongside pieces composed by Mimi Garrard, Tom Hamilthon and with the dancers Cynthia Koppe, Michael Francis McBride, Samuel Roberts and Austin Selden. MNN operates two state-of-the-art emerging media production and education facilities in Manhattan and run Manhattan's public access TV channels, reaching some 400,000 cable subscribers in the borough. The presentation will be broadcast by cable tv (NYC only) and streamed, on www.mnn.org on Channel 2 Lifestyle, on Sunday October 29th & November 12, 2023 at 5pm _ NYC's time.

Mimi Garrard began working with dance and video in the late 1960s when she collaborated with James Seawright on three dance videos, two for WGBH and one for CBS. Medium is the Medium, created for WGBH in 1968, was possibly the first “videodance”. Since digital video editing systems became affordable for home use, she has devoted full time to this medium and, since July 2001, has created more than 900 videodances. They have been presented in Europe, Asia, and the United States.
Mimi Garrard’s video dances are partially funded by The Harkness Foundation for Dance; The David Bermant Foundation: Color, Light, Motion and individual contributors.
For more info / pieces of Mimi Garrard Dance Theatre Company, check https://mimigarrarddance.com/ and the youtube channel.

“FAUX NATUREL” (Unfathomless 2022 - U77), my latest soundscape composition piece recently released by Unfathomless, was selected by the international call for entries of the French association APNÉES (Association pour la Performance, l’Électroacoustique et les Expérimentations Sonores) to be part of the installation / listening device of the 3rd Edition of the festival PAYSAGES | COMPOSÉS 2023 - Écologie sonore ‧ Musiques de recherche, an event centered on field recordings, sound ecology and acousmatic music, that will take place in various locations of the city of Grenoble, between the 8th and 10th of September 2023. This event features a program of conferences, round tables, workshops, performances and concerts by guest artists, such as: Jérôme Noetinger, Juliette Volcler, Mélia Roger, François Leclère, Collectif PePaSon, among others, also featuring a plethora of pieces (stereo, binaural and multichannel), that derive from the call for entries, which received 191 submissions, from 37 countries. Movements n.º 5 and 6 of Faux Naturel, namely: "dramactions / fence et al." & "dock / orchestral autopoiesis & other forms", will be listened via the installation in the Garden of Plants of the Natural History Museum of Grenoble, on Sunday, September 10th (10:00 - 18:00).

I am glad to announce the pre-release of the CD “LISBOA SOA - Sounds Within Sounds” (Crónica Electrónica - ce 207 / official release date: 26.09.2023). This first discographic edition of Lisboa Soa Festival includes Efflux (2021), a piece I composed in 2021 which was recently distinguished by Sound / Image Festival 2022 (University of Greenwich, London). This album contains four pieces that correspond to the result of commissions made to Portuguese composers / sound artists, for the creation of new works based on the sound archives of the first five editions of the festival (2016-20). The CD will have its pre-release today around 5 pm, at Quartel Largo Cabeço de Bola, in Lisboa, as part of the installations program of the festival. The installation “Sounds Within Sounds” will continuously play the four pieces that compose the album, which will be on sale during the festival.

I am thrilled to announce that I will be participating in a 2 day music event, organised by Miso Music Portugal, entitled ELECTROACOUSTIC SPRING EQUINOX at O'Culto da Ajuda, in Lisboa, an event dedicated to electroacoustic Portuguese music. In this first edition 2 composers were invited to present their work, namely António Ferreira and me. On the first day, on April 1st, I will make a small conference about my work , and António will present some of his pieces. On Sunday, the 2nd of April, António will make a conference and afterwards will be the Portuguese premiere of my latest solo soundscape album FAUX NATUREL. I will spatialize the album in its entirety via Miso Music's Loudspeaker Orchestra. On both days there will also be debates on electroacoustic music, moderated by Miguel Azguime.

I am very glad to share my newest collaboration with North American choreographer Mimi Garrard, from the Mimi Garrard Dance Theatre Company.
This videodance piece was directed / produced by Mimi Garrard and features Tim Bendernagel & Cynthia Koppe (dancers) and costumes designed by Mindy Nelson.
This piece entitled “Seasons of the Mind” and explores natural ambiences (birds dawn chorus; aquatic scenes / sounds (beach sounds, rain, wind, etc…) and has 3 different parts. The first part is meditative / minimal, the 2nd more open and diversified, in terms of field recordings and electronic sounds concatenation, and, finally, the 3rd part delves into dissonances and melancholic ambiences.
Watch / listen to it loud, via good headphones or proper studio monitors, due the enhanced deep low frequency content throughout the piece!

Mimi Garrard began working with dance and video in the late 1960s when she collaborated with James Seawright on three dance videos, two for WGBH and one for CBS. Medium is the Medium, created for WGBH in 1968, was possibly the first “videodance”. Since digital video editing systems became affordable for home use, she has devoted full time to this medium and, since July 2001, has created more than 900 videodances. They have been presented in Europe, Asia, and the United States.
Mimi Garrard’s video dances are partially funded by The Harkness Foundation for Dance; The David Bermant Foundation: Color, Light, Motion and individual contributors.
For more info / pieces of Mimi Garrard Dance Theatre Company, check https://mimigarrarddance.com/ and the youtube channel.

Happy to announce that, later on tonight, “stealth practices & manipulations / indistincta materia / quiet shore”, a piece from my latest soundscape composition solo album - FAUX NATUREL - U77, released last November by Unfathomless (Belgium), will be aired this early morning of March 17th, at 01:00am, in the next edition of MUSIC OF INVENTION & RESEARCH RADIO SHOW radio show, on RDP ANTENA 2 public national radio. The broadcast will be aired via FM and online streaming (94.4FM Lisbon).
I take the opportunity to inform that the special limited edition of Faux Naturel is almost sold out, only 2 copies are remaining. You can listen to the full album HERE
To listen to the excerpt from the broadcast of the last program of RDP ANTENA 2 - MUSIC OF INVENTION & RESEARCH RADIO SHOW, on 03.17.2023, in which Faux Naturel was summarily presented and played, just click on the following LINK

Glad to announce that Faux Naturel, my recent solo soundscape composition album released by Unfathomless, was included [track 7.stealth practices & manipulations / indistincta materia / quiet shore] on the next A DUCK IN A TREE radio show, on RESONANCE FM RADIO 104.4FM. If you are in London you can tune in via FM Radio or via stream through @ RESONANCE FM.
The radio show was aired on February 11th. You can listen on podcast at this LINK.

I am very glad to announce my 5th collaboration with the international acclaimed and award winning North American choreographer Mimi Garrard, from the Mimi Garrard Dance Theatre Company. This is the result of a commission to compose a musical piece for one of 2023 Mimi Garrard's videodance works. The videodance piece was released on January 18th and is entitled WHITE NUKE: SPIRALING TOWARD TRANSCENSION.

Faux Naturel my recently released [14.11.2022] solo soundscape composition album by Unfathomless, got its first review by VITAL WEEKLY. Here's an excerpt of the review, to read the entire review check it @ VITAL WEEKLY Nº 1363
"I believe Pinto does a great job in these eight pieces, that act as one long piece of music. His processing is just enough, his sound choice is excellent, and his editing is superb. The soundscape takes you from nature into the city, and from then, it slowly alienates the listener. [...] I am told that Pinto works with surround sound installation pieces, and I can imagine that it works very well with this kind of delicate music based on field recordings. Also, in 'just' stereo, Pinto knows how to create tension and atmosphere. An excellent release. (FdW)"

Glad to announce that Faux Naturel, my recent solo soundscape composition album released by Unfathomless, was included [track 5. dramactions / fence et al.] on the next Lost and Found Sounds FM radio show, on New South Wales’s 2BOB RADIO 104.7fm. If you are in Australia you can tune in via FM Radio or via stream through www.2bobradio.org.au.
The radio show was aired on November 21st. You can listen on podcast at this LINK.

EFFLUX, a recent piece of soundscape composition I composed, which was commissioned by Festival Lisboa Soa 2021, was selected from a universe of more than 400 proposals (among articles and pieces), for the International Festival / Music Conference “Sound - Image 2022”, organized by the University of Greenwich, which will take place in London between the 18th and 20th of November 2022. The Festival has the presence / pieces of composers and field recordists such as Trevor Wishart and George Vlad, among others.
I will spatialize EFFLUX through the Sound - Image Loudspeaker Orchestra, on the 19th of November at 16:00, in the Stockwell Street Building, of the University of Greenwich (10 Stockwell St, London, SE10 9BD).

I was selected within the scope of an international call to carry out an artistic residency at the DOCK ZUID centre, in Tilburg (Netherlands), which will take place between the 3rd and 16th of November. The residency is intended for the composition of a new piece of soundscape composition based on the soundscape of the city of Tilburg. In the context of this residency, I will be interviewed on the 9th of November for a podcast, (which will be uploaded on a date to be announced) and I will give a concert and a short talk about his work on the 13th of November at Dock Zuid, at 2:00pm. At 15:30, I will also have the pleasure to do a live improv electroacoustic collab concert with Roel Meelkop (acoustic instruments & objects), Jos Smolders (live granular modular processing / electronics) and me on field recordings and processing.
+ info @ HERE

I will participate in the Field Recordings IV event, organized by WORM, in Rotterdam, an event in which the absolute premiere of a long excerpt from the piece FAUX NATUREL will take place, a piece that in which consists my new monographic the soundscape composition, released by the Belgian Unfathomless, and whose pre-release will take place during the event. The official release of the album will take place on Monday the 14th of November. This event will be attended by composers dedicated to the art of soundscape composition, such as Justin Bennett and students of The Institute of Sonology at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague.
+ info @ WORM | Unfathomless

Today, the 21st of October 2022, at 21:30, in the second edition of Sonika Ekrano - documentary Film Festival dedicated to Music, will be the absolute premiere of Luís Fernandes' film "Na Corda Bamba - dialogues on sound experimentalism in Portugal", for which I was invited to contribute with a brief testimony about my artistic / musical path.

+infohttps://sonicaekrano.com/na-corda-bamba/

I gladly announce the airplay of my latest interview for RDP Antena 2's "MUSIC OF INVENTION & RESEARCH" radio show, the only Portuguese FM radio program extensively focused on contemporary experimental forms of contemporary and electroacoustic music. The program will also feature music from previous and latest works of mine. This radio program is produced by Miso Music Portugal and by the Portuguese Music Research & Information Centre, for the RDP Antena 2 (Portuguese National Radio Broadcast).The program will be aired this friday morning, specifically, by the early hours of Friday the 16th, from 01:00am to 2:00am UTC +1, both on national FM RADIO (94.4 FM in Lisbon) and live via online streaming. It will be available, soon after it's aired, as Podcast at RTPlay. To listen to the live stream tonight click HERE

RE-CYCLE @ DME / PERSPECTIVAS SONORAS FESTIVAL 2022 (MEXICO) / 7th CONCERT _ JUNE 2022

La Hora Acusmática has the support of the Chair of Counterpoint of the National University of Córdoba; Felix T. Garzón Conservatory of the Provincial University of Córdoba; Espacio Buena Vista and Espacio de producción musical Tlon-Uqbar.

HIANTE v.02 @ MANTIS (MANCHESTER THEATRE IN SOUND) ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC FESTIVAL 2022 [SOUNDS IN WORDS] MARCH 2022

I’m glad to share that Tejo Soundwalk, a piece I composed in June 2021, within the scope of the RIVERSSSOUNDS online artistic residency (organised by DZESTRA / SEMI SILENT), will be presented today, alongside with the soundwalks of the other residents, via radio - 87.9FM Glasgow - between 7 pm and 10 pm, at the RADIOPHRENIA itinerant Festival, an event that is running 24 hours a day, from the 7th to the 20th of February, in Glasgow (Scotland).
RADIOPHRENIA is a temporary art radio station broadcasting intermittently from the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow – a two-week long festival exploring current trends in sound and transmission arts.

More info About the program HERE

More about the event HERE (only Portuguese)

I am glad to announce that Nolan McWhorter's "SCOPAESTHESIA", a short film for which I did the sound design (all sound editing, foley sounds, sound mixing and experimental music score), was selected for 2021's edition of Another Hole in the Head Film Festival, in San Francisco, California, USA.
San Francisco's ‘Another Hole in the Head’ Film Festival is a cinematic excursion into the realms of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and assorted other genres. Taking its cue from other legendary festivals such as Cannes, Sundance, and Crazy Steve’s Bootleg Basement Extravaganza, Another Hole in the Head pulls together a diverse collection of films representing all varieties and budgetary considerations [...] Another Hole in the Head provides a unique vehicle for independent cinema. This year’s festival takes place December 1st - December 15th, 2021 online and at New People Cinema in San Francisco's Japantown.

RUGITUS, my acousmatic piece that was one of the laureate works of INA-GRM's international electroacoustic music contest "Banc D'Essai 2016", and which I had the pleasure to spatialize in concert at the historical GRM's ACOUSMONIUM (Paris, Oct 2016), will figure on the program of the 5th edition of the MAtera INtermedia FESTIVAL 2021. MAtera INtermedia festival is an electroacoustic music and digital art festival and is held annually in the city of MATERA since 2016.
Rugitus is part of the Audior Loudspeaker's Orchestra concert program, that will happen on the 12th of November, featuring 54 speakers / 44 amplifiers. Spatializing the pieces of the concert will be Audior's founder - the Italian composer Dante Tanzi. The program is made of works selected specially by Dante for this concert, including pieces of Denis Dufour, Emma Margetson, Lieutenant Caramel, Nicola Fumo Frattegiani, Paul Ramage and Daniel Judkovski. More info @
More about the festival and the program HERE

Eufonia Festival = Sound/ Art + Science commissioned me a new soundwalk piece to integrate the batch of virtual soundwalks that, in addition to 9 installations, will be part the offer of the Sound Circuits 2021 Festival's program. The installations will be physically disposed in Lisboa, available for visiting, while the soundwalks will be listened online. The festival will run between the 12 and 14th of November. My virtual soundwalk is entitled “(de)ambulatorium: a soundwalk in & around Martim Moniz” and was composed from sounds captured by me in the area of Martim Moniz square, in Lisbon, the city's most multicultural area. From the 12th to the 14th you’ll be able to access the website and listen, via a symbolic payment, to the 30 soundwalks that explore Martim Moniz area. More info / tickets to listen online HERE

My 8 channels acousmatic piece "PAREIDOLIA, or of the dreamt gardens" was selected within the context of the call for entries for the 3rd edition of the EPICENTROOM_International_Audiovisual_Festival_2021, that will run from today, the 9th, till the 17th of October, in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The festival will present several concerts, performances and works from international artists working with experimental music and audiovisual art. EPICENTROOM received more than 110 multichannel submissions, from 21 countries, and PAREIDOLIA was programmed in the (pro)STRANSTVO multichannel sound program Vol.2. The selected pieces will be played through an 8-channels audio installation, allowing the audience to sit and listen to various multichannel spatial works - both electronic compositions and sound installations using field recordings.
EPICENTROOM's (pro)STRANSTVO multichannel sound program Vol.2 will take place on October 10th, at Navicula Artis Gallery, Pushkinskaya 10 Art Center, in Saint Petersburg, from 12:00 to 20:00.
More about the festival and the Vol.2 program HERE

Last 3rd of October was the premiere of "Soundscape Composition: between mimesis and abstraction", a radio show I produced about the art of composing with field recordings for the framework radio. The show's premiere was @ Resonance 104.4fm, London, and played in several other radio stations during this last week. If you are into phonography, field recordings electroacoustic driven music and soundscapes, check it out for I share some ideas and pieces of very interesting composers. You can listen to the show via podcast - at framworkradio’s page HERE

The electroacoustic poetry piece HIANTE, published in a Book-CD format by Grimaces Éditions (Switzerland), with illustrations, poems and voice by Sofia A. Carvalho and my music and illustrations, officially released in September 2019 at O'culto da Ajuda, in Lisbon, was distinguished within the scope of an international competition that received 140 proposals from all over the world, having been selected for exhibition and sale at BOOKED – Artists' Book Fair. Booked is a fair devoted to artists’ books, workshops, and new text-based visual art projects and is taking place at MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre at the Cable Factory’s new multi-use space, in Finland, since the 1st till the 9th of October. HIANTE''s selection implied a live performance by our duo at the fair but, sadly, and due to the pandemic, the organization decided to invite only Finnish artists for the live performances. For more info check HERE

"WINNER WINNER", a short film by the Australian filmmaker / director Kalani Gacon, for which I did the sound design, was selected by the 15th Annual Sydney Underground Film Festival 2021. Established in Sydney, Australia, in 2007, the Sydney Underground Film Festival showcases the newest voices of underground and independent films.This year's edition will be online and the streaming on demand will happen from Thursday the 9th until Sunday the 26th September 2021.

In 2021 the Lisboa Soa festival, in a "non-edition" aimed at recovering and thinking about the work carried out in previous editions, will release the book "Sound Art, Ecology and Listening Culture: Lisboa Soa 2016 – 2020". In this context, the artistic direction of the festival commissioned me a piece based on the sound archives of the 5 editions of the festival, with the aim of recreating and recomposing the festival's sound archive. The premiere of the piece will take place within the scope of the book launch event, in a listening session that will also present works by other composers. The event will take place at Castelejo do Castelo de São Jorge, in Lisbon, on the 19th of September at 18:00.

I am glad to announce that my electroacoustic piece "Simulacra - on discrete movements and dense textures" (2013), was part of the program of C.I.M.E. [International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music] 39th General Assembly's online festival, as part of the Miso Music Portugal selection of pieces for the event. The Festival will happened during September 17th & 18th online. For more info about the program - the 17th & 18th - and to listen the concerts click on the following LINK

I will do a collaborative performance with the singer Leonor Arnaut, at the Convento de São Francisco, in Coimbra. This performance is part of the program of the event “DAR A OUVIR. SOUNDSCAPES OF THE CITY. 2021” and it's co-organized by the City Council of Coimbra / Convento de São Francisco and by the Education Service of Jazz ao Centro Clube. The performance will be based on field recordings made by me in the city of Coimbra and along various locations on the River Mondego.

I am glad to announce that Nolan McWhorter's "SCOPAESTHESIA", a short film for which I did the sound design (all sound editing, foley sounds, sound mixing and experimental music score), was selected for 2021's edition of Horrible Imaginings Film Festival, in California, USA.
Established in San Diego, CA in 2009, the annual Horrible Imaginings Film Festival showcases the newest voices in horror, sci-fi, and fantasy genre cinema over a multi-day event that consists of film screenings, diverse panels, parties, and networking sessions.
"SCOPAESTHESIA" will be premiered / screened, on Saturday, September 4th, 1:00 PM @ The Frida Cinema, in Santa Ana, California, within the "Social Anxiety" Short Film Showcase program.
The film's title refers to the extrasensory phenomena of being watched!

I am very glad to announce my first collaboration with the international acclaimed and award winning North American choreographer Mimi Garrard, from the Mimi Garrard Dance Theatre Company. This is the result of a commission to compose a musical piece for one of 2021 Mimi Garrard's videodance works. The videodance piece was released on July 19th and is entitled Ab Uno and you can check it HERE

Glad to announce that I was one of the 16 international selected composers / sound artists to do an online residency, in the month of June, for RIVERSSSOUNDS, a recent platform for virtual sonic experiences, that invites listeners to navigate the rivers of Europe via the microphones of sound artists. 20 years after focusing on my city's river, in the context of the Ernesto de Sousa Fellowship 2001, my work will be again centered on the soundscape of the Tejo River (Tagus river), in Lisbon, Portugal, where I'll do various field recording sessions. So, expect a new soundscape composition and other initiatives related with this residency! Really looking fwd to this! YOU CAN LISTEN TO THE RESIDENCY PRODUCTIONS THROUGH THE FOLLOWING LINKS: SOUNDSCAPE / SOUNDWALK / ARTIST TALK with Q&A

It's with great pleasure that I announce the official launch of the book "Cultural Geographies of Music, Sound and Silence", in which I have the pleasure of participating with an article. This book was coordinated and edited by The 'Laboratory of Landscapes, Heritage and Territory' (Lab2PT), an R&D unit at the University of Minho, dedicated to Social and Human Sciences, integrating a vast research team from different scientific areas (Archeology, Architecture and Urbanism, Design, Geography, Geology, History and Visual Arts). The book gathers, specifically, the academic contributions of the 2nd International Cultural Geographies of Music, Sound and Silence Meeting, which should have been held in April 2020, at the University of Minho, but which, due to the pandemic, remains to be held. My article is entitled "The Composition of Soundscapes: theoretical delimitations and compositional approaches", and it's part of the research that I concatenated for my PhD dissertation. In the near future this article will be translated to English and will be readable online at my website, more news soon!

I am glad to announce that my 2012 and 2020 soundscape solo albums, namely, Panaural (Triple Bath - Greece) and The No Land Soundscape (Hemisphäre の空虚 - Australia) will feature on the next edition of CONNEX radio show @ Orange94.0FM, Vienna _ Austria! The No Land Soundscape will be broadcast in its entirety and Panaural's Invocatio - ascribing soundimages into silence and Water-Dreamt-by-Forest will also be played.
The emission will air next Tuesday, February 2nd, 22pm, MET (21pm Lisbon time) and will be exclusively focused on my compositions. You can also listen to the radio show via live streaming @ https://o94.at/de/player/live

I am very glad to announce that my last soundscape piece entitled The No Land Soundscape, published in January 2020 by Hemisphäre の 空虚 (Australia), was selected to be premiered in Mexico, by the call for entries of the Ventanas Acústicas initiative, within the context of the second REA _ MX International Meeting: Red Ecología Acústica México (Red Acoustic Ecology Mexico). This academic and artistic encounter, focused on the discipline of Acoustic Ecology and soundscapes, will happen in Mexico City, from the 9th to the 12th of December 2020. Due to the pandemic, the event will be broadcasted virtually - via youtube HERE - presenting conferences and concerts by artists from all over the world. More detailed information about my piece and the rest of program @ http://rea-mx.org/

I will do a soundscape composition concert within the context of the EUFONIA 2020 festival, in Barreiro, Portugal. In this concert I will use as main sound sources field recordings gathered while I was on tour in east Europe, in Russia and Estonia, in 2019, and other sounds that were utilized for the composition of my latest soundscape composition solo album "The No Land Soundscape", published in January 2020, by the Australian label Hemisphäreの空虚. Due to the pandemic of COVID-19, this festival was postponed to 2021.

HIANTE, a collaboration electroacoustic poetry BOOK-CD with illustrations, poems and voice by Sofia A. Carvalho and music and illustrations by João Castro Pinto, published in 2019 by Grimaces Éditions (Switzerland), was distinguished by being selected to be exposed at BOOKED 2020 - ARTISTS BOOK FAIR, within an international call for entries that received 140 propositions worldwide. This fair is devoted to artists’ books, publications produced by small presses and related forms of art processes and it's organized by MUU, a Finnish interdisciplinary art association. The Fair was supposed to take place at Helsinki’s Cable Factory, between 6-8 November, in Helsinki, Finland, but due to the pandemic of COVID-19, was postponed to the spring of 2021. More news about the fair soon.

In September 2020, in the context of the series Portuguese 20th and 21st Century Music Notebooks, the MIC.PT - Portuguese Music Research & Information Centre released a new Notebook, dedicated to João Castro Pinto (number #18). This Series of bilingual editions constitutes an “introspection” into the work of each composer, published by the MIC.PT, at the same time being an incentive to explore and (re)discover not only their music, but also their reflection on music philosophy and aesthetics. Each Notebook, in Portuguese and English, is composed of a biographical note, questionnaire/ interview or musicological article, two catalogues of works – according to instrumentation and chronological –, as well as a complete discography. Newsletter_MIC.PT
If you want to buy this catalog send me an email at agnosiia@gmail.com (printed version 5€ + postal costs - for the digital version click HERE).

I am happy to announce that my latest solo soundscape album - The No Land Soundscape - released on January 24th 2020, by the Australian label Hemisphäreの空虚, on pro dubbed cassette (SOLD OUT) / Digital format (available), will be aired tonight on Radio Orange's CONNEX radio show [94.0 FM], in Vienna, Austria at 10 pm, local time, (9 pm Lisboa). My album will be featured alongside works from Jay Needham and Katharina Klement. Tune in later on tonight via live stream https://o94.at/de/player/live? for some field recordings oriented music.

I am very glad to announce that my new soundscape album - The No Land Soundscape - released on January 24th, on the Australian label Hemisphäreの空虚 and that has already sold out, will be featured in alonside my electroacoustic poetry collaboration with Sofia A. Carvalho, entitled Hiante, released in September 2019, by Grimaces Éditions (Switzerland) @ MÚSICA HOJE RADIO PROGRAM _ ANTENA 2 PUBLIC BROADCAST FM RADIO 94.4 MHz (Lisboa), in an emission dedicated exclusively to my music.

I am glad to announce that an excerpt of my soundscape album "Suntria - imaginal sonotopes", released in 2017 by Unfathomless (Belgium), was featured in a new piece composed by Esther Bourdages and played at CKUT radio 90.3 FM in Montreal - Canada, on March 27th 2020. A week after, on the April 3rd, my acousmatic pieces - Rugitus and Interspersed Memories, on strings murmurs and gongs - from my 2017 solo album ESOFONIA - acousmatic works 1999-2017, released by MISO RECORDS (Portugal), were also featured the radio show "CAFE" @ CKUT radio 90.3 FM. T. On April 6th, utopus, the second piece from my 2020 solo soundscape solo album, was featured at Lost And Found Sounds radio show @ 2BOB radio 104.7 FM, in Tarre - Australia.

I am very glad to announce that my new soundscape album - The No Land Soundscape - was just released today, January 24th, on the Australian label Hemisphäreの空虚. The work has two pieces - à-τόπος / où-τόπος - and I gathered its field recordings between 1998-2019 in Amarante, Budapest, Coimbra, Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Sesimbra, Travanca do Monte,Tallinn and Vienna.
Field recordings (mono, stereo & binaural), contact mic, hydrophone & computer processing by João Castro Pinto.
The album was released on limited edition tape and in digital format, you can listen and purchase it on Bandcamp

I am very glad to announce that I am returning to the United States of America to do a 4 concert tour (3 solos + 1 collaboration), with Sofia A. Carvalho. I will be playing in Philadelphia, Washington DC, Easton and New York City. The solo shows will be soundscape oriented and the collaboration will be an intermedia performance, focused on the poetry universe of Teixeira de Pascoaes, intitled SPECTRUM EXTENSO, with text selection and voice by Sofia A. Carvalho and music, field recordings, voice processing and video by me. The tour begins on the 10th, with a performance at the Vox Populi Gallery, in Philadelphia; continues on the 12th with a concert at the Rhizome, in Washington DC. The third solo concert of this tour will take place December 13th, at the Gallery on Fourth in Easton, Pennsylvania. Finally, on the 16th, me and Sofia A. Carvalho will present the intermediate performance - SPECTRUM EXTENSO - at the EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA FOUNDATION, in New York City.
SPECTRUM EXTENSO is a work-in-progress centered on the artistic re-perspective of Teixeira de Pascoaes' poetic universe. The duo's debut took place in Geneva, in November 2018, as part of the ninth edition of the Makaronic Helvetica Association's annual meeting, pem # 9 - poésies en mouvement, which resulted in an commission materialized in the first album of the duo, entitled Hiante, which was published in Geneva, on September 2019 by Grimaces Éditions.

USA TOUR 2019
Philadelphia - Fire Museum / Washington DC - Rhizome / Easton - Gallery on 4th / NYC - EIF
December 10th, at 20:00pm / December 12th, at 20:00pm / December 13th, at 19:30pm / December 16th, at 21:00pm

On Friday, the 6th of December, I will perform a solo concert @ O'Culto da Ajuda, in Lisboa, that marks the release of my new monographic soundscape composition work, which will be published by Australian label Hemisphäreの空虚.The concert will have two parts, in the first part I will spatialize, through the Miso Music Portugal Loudspeaker Orchestra, three electroacoustic pieces, released on Esofonia - acousmatic works 1999-2017, album that was published in 2017 by Miso Records. In the second part, João Castro Pinto will present, in an absolute premiere, the two works that integrate this new album, namely atópos (18:02) and utópos (15:47). This work was composed from field recordings made and gathered by João Castro Pinto, between 1998 and 2019, in cities like: Amarante, Budapest, Coimbra, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Sesimbra, Travanca do Monte, Tallinn and Vienna.
More info @ https://hemispharenokukyo.com/

On Friday, the 6th of December, I will perform a solo concert @ O'Culto da Ajuda, in Lisboa, that marks the release of my new monographic soundscape composition work, which will be published by Australian label Hemisphäreの空虚.The concert will have two parts, in the first part I will spatialize, through the Miso Music Portugal Loudspeaker Orchestra, three electroacoustic pieces, released on Esofonia - acousmatic works 1999-2017, album that was published in 2017 by Miso Records. In the second part, João Castro Pinto will present, in an absolute premiere, the two works that integrate this new album, namely atópos (18:02) and utópos (15:47). This work was composed from field recordings made and gathered by João Castro Pinto, between 1998 and 2019, in cities like: Amarante, Budapest, Coimbra, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Sesimbra, Travanca do Monte, Tallinn and Vienna.
More info @ https://hemispharenokukyo.com/

I am glad to announce that my 8 channels piece - Pareidolia, or of the dreamt gardens - was selected to be presented at ESPACIOS SONOROS 2019, a concert cycle that is part of the "III Jornadas de Audio y Acústica en Salta", in Argentina. The event will happen from the 8th to the 11th of October 2019 at the Palacio Zorrilla Cultural Centre, in Salta.
Pareidolia will be played on the 11th of October at 18:00, within the context of the IV concert of the selected works from its international call.

João Castro Pinto + Sofia A. Carvalho in concert for the release of the Book-CD of electroacoustic poetry: 'Hiante',

I am very happy to announce the release concert of 'Hiante' @ O'Culto da Ajuda, in Lisboa, Portugal, next Saturday, the 28th of September 2019.
This concert marks the occasion of the release of 'Hiante', a small electroacoustic poetry Book-CD with illustrations, poems and voice by Sofia A. Carvalho and music and illustrations by João Castro Pinto, published by Grimaces Éditions (Switzerland).
'Hiante' is, simultaneously, Sofia A. Carvalho's first released short poetry book and the result of the ongoing collaboration between her and the composer, performer and researcher João Castro Pinto. The concert will have two parts: the 1st part will be composed by the spatialization of 3 electroacoustic pieces by João Castro Pinto; the second part will consist on a live performance duo, that will intreprete a few segments of 'Hiante' (Sofia A. Carvalho - poetry / voice + João Castro Pinto live electroacoustic dsp / samples).

Finally, the night will end with the integral spatialization of 'Hiante', the electroacoustic poetry piece João Castro Pinto composed for this collaboration project, through Miso Music's Loudspeaker Orchestra.

'Hiante' is the first artistic object developed by this duo, and it is the result of the live electroacoustic work-in-progress entitled 'Spectrum Extenso', focused on the poetry of Teixeira de Pascoaes, which had his first performance in Geneva, in November 2018, as part of the event "pem # 9 poésies en mouvement - réflexions" (organized by the Makaronic Association).

This BOOK-CD is a 50 copies limited edition of, printed in silkscreen, and will be available at sale at the concert venue.

more info about HIANTE @ GRIMACES ÉDITIONS

I am glad to announce that I was invited to present one hour of my music at RECOVERY radio show @ online radio - PURE RADIO HOLLAND (Rotterdam). Tune in to the show next Sunday, the 28th of July, at 11:00 am, Netherlands time / 10:00 am Lisbon's time. This radio show will feature pieces from my 4 solo albums: PANAURAL (2012); ARS ABSCONDITA (2013); SUNTRIA – imaginal sonotopes (2017) & ESOFONIA (2017).

Glad to announce that my 2009 piece inspired by Goethe's Faust, "Invocatio - ascribing soundimages into silence", from my debut solo full leght album PANAURAL (2012 - Triple Bath - Greece) and re-released on my last solo album ESOFONIA (2017 - Miso Records - Portugal), was aired 2 times, last May 6th & 8th, on the 24-7 online Radio On Berlin

I am very glad to announce that my 2017 acousmatic piece "Obsidia - of the invisible sounds or of the audible images", which was a commission from the Música Viva 2017 Festival, and that integrated the application of the Portuguese section of the ISCM - International Society for Contemporary Music, was selected to be performed at ISCM's World Music Days 2019 Festival, which will take place from May 2 – 10 in Tallinn and Tartu, Estonia. Estonian Composers’ Union received over 500 submissions in total, of which 99 works were selected for performance. Portugal will be also represented by 2 other pieces from composers Clotilde Rosa and Hugo Vasco Reis. My piece will be performed on May 5th 2019 at the Estonian Public Broadcasting, Studio 1, in Kreutzwaldi 14, Tallinn.

more info @ https://www.worldmusicdays2019.ee/#works

.: Poetronica 2019 - Noise Room Series - Helikoosolek Series - World Music Days Festival 2019 :.

I am thrilled to announce that I will be doing an eastern European tour in Russia and Estonia, specifically in the following cities: Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Tartu and Tallinn, from April 19th to May 5th 2019, playing five concerts.
The first concert results from an invitation to play and give a short lecture about my work / soundscape composition at the 11th edition of POETRONICA 2019, a festival featuring a synthesis of sound art, video art, and contemporary poetry. This festival will take place at the National Centre for Contemporary Art / ROSIZO State Museum and Exhibition Centre, in Moscow. The NCCA is the leading Russian state institution specializing in the issues of contemporary art. The activity of the Centre evolves in close cooperation with artists and independent experts in the sphere of contemporary art, art culture and various organizations, such as museums, research institutions, public organizations, both in Russia, and abroad. On the 20th I will participate in a collective collaboration concert with artists featured in POETRONICA program, such as: Alex Pleninger, Pavel Zhagun, Alexander Skidan, Ekaterina Zaharkiv, Nina Alexandrova, Sergey Sdobnov, Gala Pushksrenko, Danila Davidov, etc.

The third concert will be a solo performance at the Sound Museum, in Saint Petersburg, on 26th April 2019, at the Noiseroom concert series of experimental music events.

The fourth concert will happen in Tartu, on May 1st, at Helikoosolek series, where I will also give short lecture about my work.

The last concert of this tour will be at the 40th World Music Days Fesival 2019, in Tallinn. My acousmatic piece "Obsidia - of the invisible sounds or of the audible images", which was a commission from the Música Viva 2017 Festival, and that integrated the application of the Portuguese section of the ISCM - International Society for Contemporary Music, was selected to be performed at ISCM's World Music Days 2019 Festival, which will take place from May 2 – 10 in Tallinn and Tartu, Estonia. The concert will happen at the studios of the Estonian Public Broadcasting, Studio 1, Kreutzwaldi 14. +

details about the tour:

solo experimental electronic music / soundscape composition concert + collaboration concert @ POETRONICA 2019
NCCA - National Centre for Contemporary Art | Zoologicheskaya Ulitsa, 13, стр. 2, Moscow, Russia.
Friday & Saturday, 19 & 20.04.2019 - at 19:30pm

Noiseroom Concert Series - Solo concert + collaboration @ Sound Museum
Ligovsky Ave, 53, Sankt-Peterburg, Russia.
Friday, 26.04.2019 - at 20:00pm

solo electronic music / soundscape composition concert @ Helikoosolek series
Tartu, Estonia.
Wednesday, 01.05.2019 - 17:00pm

8 channels spatialization concert of the electroacoustic piece Obsidia @ World Music Days Festival 2019
Estonian Public Broadcasting, Studio 1, Kreutzwaldi 14, Tallinn, Estonia.
Sunday, 05.05.2019 - at 16:00pm

João Castro Pinto interprets "SUNTRIA - imaginal sonotopes" through the Loudspeakers Orchestra (absolute premiere) @ O'Culto da Ajuda _ Lisboa _ 24.11.2018
It is in consonance with the celebratory motto of the 20 years of his trajectory in experimental music that João Castro Pinto proposes to interpret, through Miso Music’s Portugal Loudspeakers Orchestra, "SUNTRIA - imaginal sonotopes", a soundscape composition focused on the soundscape of Sintra’s mountains (Sintra-Cascais Natural Park), released in 2017 by Unfathomless, which will have its absolute premiere at this concert.

João Castro Pinto and Sofia A. Carvalho present "SPECTRUM EXTENSO" @ Cinema Spoutnik, Genève - Switzerland - 20.11.2018

I will present, in collaboration with the researcher and performer Sofia A. Carvalho, the project SPECTRUM EXTENSO, a performance of electroacoustic poetry centered on the work of the poet Teixeira de Pascoaes. The presentation will take place within the context of the annual initiative, organized by the Swiss cultural association Makaronic, entitled: pem # 9 - poésies en mouvement # 9, this time marked by the theme: réflexion / s. This initiative will include presentations by other international artists.

João Castro Pinto - live electronics _ samples / field recordings
Sofia A. Carvalho - voice / texts selection

"Water-dreamt-by-forest: a binaural oneiric walk" @ DME's Symposium Culture and Sustainable Cities 17.11.2018 - Concert#2 @ Lisboa Incomum

My soundscape composition "Water-dreamt-by-forest" will integrate, along side composers as Nikos Stavropoulos, Marie-Jeanne Wyckmans, etc. the second concert of this symposium, an event that will gather experts and practitioners from different fields and discuss different concepts of culture and their relations to environment, sustainability, ecology and other topics.
The symposium themes are divided in areas such as:

- music, soundscape and ecology
- industries, policymaking and sustainability
- sustainability as a way of life
- environmental activism in art

Interview + Music @ Música Hoje - "In the 1st Person" radio program _ RDP Antena 2 (national radio) _ 16.11.2018

I will be the featured composer at the 16th of November emission of Antena 2's Música Hoje radio program new cycle entitled: "In the 1st Person". In this program Portuguese composers dedicated to experimental sound art are interviewed, revealing to the public several aspects of their creative universe - from the issues linked to the aesthetic and compositional / musical technique, passing through reflections of philosophical or even political nature, to the most practical subjects that pertain to their daily life. Several pivotal musical pieces composed by João Castro Pinto will be aired. You can now listen to the podcast, check the link below.

solo concert (laptop + midi control) @ Kék Ló - Budapest _ Hungary _14.11.2018.

I will be doing a soundscape composition approach concert at Kék_Ló, (Blue Horse) venue, in Budapest, Hungary.
For this solo performance, João will use as main sound sources field recordings from his album, released last year on Unfathomless, Suntria - imaginal sonotopes.

Kék Ló, Víg utca 28, Budapest, Hungary
Friday, 14.11.2018 - at 21:30pm

SUNTRIA @ FRAMEWORK RADIO #659

Glad to announce that SUNTRIA - imaginal sonotopes [IV-VI-X-XII] was featured on the 659_edition,of the FRAMEWORK RADIO show on 28.10.2018. In order to listen to the radio show, go to the mixcloud.

Suntria - Imaginal Sonotopes I-IV, will be featured on DME Festival @ MUSLAB 2018, in Mexico city. The piece will be played in a program along with other Portuguese composers, such as: António Ferreira, Miguel Azguime, João Pedro Oliveira and Jaime Reis. The concert will be at Jardin Sonoro del Bosque de Chapultepec, on August 4th, at 13:00.

I am glad to announce that I will spatialize "EFFLUVIUM" for the first time at MISO MUSIC's LOUDSPEAKERS ORCHESTRA, at the 24th edition of Música Viva Festival 2018. EFFLUVIUM is a 2012 piece, released on my solo album ARS ABSCONDITA. I will play on 12th meeting of the festival, on friday the 25th of May, at 21:30 @ O'Culto da Ajuda, in Belém, Lisboa. Afterwards, the great composer Horacio Vaggione will spatialize 3 pieces at 22:30. If you are in Lisbon drop by to hear some music!! more info HERE

I am very glad to post Massimo Ricci's review on TOUCHING EXTREMES about "SUNTRIA - imaginal sonotopes" - U43 -, my soundscape solo album published by the exquisite label UNFATHOMLESS, in May 2017! Check it out HERE

Very glad to announce that my last acousmatic piece - Re-Ciclo - published on new solo album released on October 7th 2017, by MISO RECORDS, entitled ESOFONIA - acousmatic works 1999-2017, will have its international premiere at the 25th edition of Poland's AUDIO ART FESTIVAL 2017 on November 22nd 2017, in the context of the

My latest solo album released, on October 7th 2017, by MISO RECORDS, entitled ESOFONIA - acousmatic works 1999-2017, will be the focus of the 100th edition of Miguel Azguime's MÚSICA HOJE radioshow. Tune in to hear several complete electroacoustic pieces!

I gladly announce that I am participating in the 55th edition of DME_-_Electroacoustic Music_Days_Festival, in Lisboa Portugal. I have five field recordings integrated in the audivisual permanent installation. On Saturday, October 28th, I will spatialize an edited version of my soudscape piece "Catachresis", and, finally on the same day, I will give a talk / conference about soundscape composition.
Due to a partnership between DME festival and MUSLAB - International Festival of Electroacoustic Music 2017, my recent piece SUNTRIA - imaginal sonotopes (sonotopes I to IV _ released last May by Unfathomless) will have its absolute premiere, on October 30th @ 16:00, in a concert programmed by DME, among other reference compositions from Portuguese composers as: Miguel Azguime, António Ferreira and João Pedro Oliveira. This concert will happen @ the Autonomous and Metropolitan University of Mexico, Unidad Xochimilco, in Mexico City _ Mexico. More info @ facebook event HERE

I am very pleased to announce that my new solo album, entitled:
"ESOFONIA - obras acusmáticas 1999-2017", will be released next Saturday, October 7th, by Portuguese label MISO_RECORDS. I will spatialize 6 pieces throught MISO MUSIC's Louspeaker Orchestra , check the program HERE. Esofonia is an anthology of acousmatic pieces that illustrates part of the musical journey of João Castro Pinto (from 1999 to 2017). The album is in a professional inviolable USB memory card.

I am very pleased to announce that my new solo album, entitled:
"Suntria - imaginal sonotopes", will be released next Friday, May 26th, by Belgian label Unfathomless. It is now available for pre-order.
The album is a soundscape composition focused on the landscapes of Serra de Sintra (in Portugal), released in a limited edition CD (200 hand numbered copies) with beautiful treated images, including an extra art card.
I am also happy to share that, the direction of 23rd edition of Música Viva Festival 2017, commissioned me a new acousmatic piece, which will have its absolute premiere on the same day of the release of Suntria - imaginal sonotopes.
Hence, the spatialization of my new acousmatic piece entitled Obsidia - dos sons invisíveis ou das imagens audíveis, will mark the celebration of both the new acousmatic piece and the release of Suntria - imaginal sonotopes.

"SUNTRIA - imaginal sonotopes" - U43 -, my soundscape solo album published by the exquisite label UNFATHOMLESS, in May 2017, is now available on Bandcamp for full streaming, and to be bought on CD or Digital format! Check it out HERE

I will tour again in Austria, during the end of April and beginning of May 2017. I'll do a solo performance at ORF's KUNSTRADIO RADIOKUNST and new collaborations with turntablist Jorge Sánchez-Chiong and composer / painter Philippe Lamy. I am also looking fwd to a collaboration quartet (a recording session and a concert) with Michael Fischer, Bernhard Loibner and Clemens Hausch!! info bellow:

1- Solo performance of "The No Land Soundscape Project" @ KUNSTRADIO RADIOKUNST _ ORF Studios _ Funkhaus Wien 30.04.2017, at 23:00pm (local time / 22:00pm Portugal's time)
More info go->to: KUNSTRADIO

2- João Castro Pinto (laptop) + Philippe Lamy @ ALTE SCHMIEDE _ STROM SCHIENE
Alte Schmiede - Wien, Österreich
_ 03.05.2017 at 19:00pm
More info go->to: ALTE_SCHMIEDE

3- João Castro Pinto (laptop) + Jorge Sánchez-Chiong (turntables) @ Interpenetration 2017 at Klub Wakuum
_ 04.05.2017 at 20:00pm
More info go->to: INTERPENETRATION

4- Improv Quartet _ w. Michael Fischer (tenor sax / violin) + Bernhard Loibner (modular synths) + Clemens Hausch (ppool, artificial spaces), João Castro Pinto (laptop) @ Small Forms _ 06.05.2017 at 19:00pm More info go->to: SMALL_FORMS

I will spatialize "RUGITUS" at the 51st edition of DME Festival at Conservatório de Música De Seia. This will be my last performance in 2016. The event will occur from 27th to the 230th of December and my concert is programmed for the 28th of December at 16:00.

"RUGITUS", my latest electroacoustic piece, will have today its Polish premiere at the 24th edition of Audio Art Festival 2016, which is running, in Kraków, Poland, from June 25th until November 28th. The piece will be played within the context of a concert curated by CIME/ICEM - INTERNATIONAL CONFEDERATION OF ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC. More info

It is time to announce another short tour to Austria, during the end of October and beginning of November 2016!!!
I am thrilled to announce that I was invited to play on the 29th edition of the historical WIEN MODERNfestival. During one month, from October 30th until November 30th 2016, WIEN MODERN will present 88 concerts of the world's best contemporary music.I will integrate an electroacoustic improvisation duo with composer, conductor & saxophonist Michael Fischer.
@ Café Korb, on Friday, November 4th, at 22:00pm. The rest of tour is as follows:

- duo with Clemens Hausch @ WOW!Signal series @ Kramladen _ 27.10.2016 @ 22:00pm

- solo concert @ Zentrale - Raum für Klang-und Prozesskunst _ 29.10.2016 @ 20:00pm

- solo concert @ PORGY & BESS _ JAZZ & MUSIC CLUB, LOST & FOUND series _ 29.10.2016 @ 19:00pm

Fench premire of RUGITUS v02 _ The INA-GRM listening committee has auditioned, blindly, the hundred and twenty pieces sent for “Banc d’Essai 2016”. I am glad to announce that I was one of the 11 laureate composers of this year's INA-GRM's Banc d' Essai Acousmatic Music International Competition / Concert. "RUGITUS" v.02, my latest piece, had its French premiere at the Banc d' Essai Concert, on Sunday, October 9th 2016, at the MPAA Saint Germain. I spatialized "RUGITUS" through the historical ACOUSMONIUM. More info @ HERE

Mexican premiere of RUGITUS v01 _ I was invited by MISO MUSIC PORTUGAL / Portuguese Music Research & Information Centre to participate with "RUGITUS" in the 12th edition of VISIONES SONORAS in Morelia, México. My piece represented Portugal, on Friday, October 7th, within this year's CIME/ICEM - INTERNATIONAL CONFEDERATION OF ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC Annual General Assembly's Musical Program at this festival. More info @ HERE

The World Premiere of RUGITUS v0.1 at the 22nd edition of Música Viva 2016 20-28th May 2016. During the 8th concert of the 22nd edition of Música Viva 2016, I will spatialize my newest electroacoustic piece entitled RUGITUS v0.1. May 27th of 2016, Lisboa / Portugal.
More info @ HERE

"PAREIDOLIA, or of the dreamt gardens", my latest 8 channels electroacoustic piece, will be spatialized within the program of the MUSLAB 2015 - International Exhibition of Electroacoustic Music, which is taking place in four countries: Mexico, Argentina, Brazil and France, and in nine different cities, in a total of 20 concerts, organized by the Mexican Association CaminArt. My piece will be played at Centro Cultural Recoleta - Laboratorio de Investigación y Producción Musical in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on November 5th at 18:00.
More info about the event

I am glad to announce the international premiere of "PAREIDOLIA, or of the dreamt gardens", my latest 8 channels electroacoustic piece, that will be spatialized within the program of the 30th concert of the 41st International Computer Music Conference 2015, with the theme "Looking Back, Looking Forward". The conference is happening at the University of North Texas, Denton, USA, from September 25th to October 1st, 2015. My piece will be played at the Lyric Theatre, on October 1st 2015, within the programme of the 30th concert of the conference alongside pieces of Annette Vande Gorne and other composers.
More info about the event

I will do a solo concert at the Electronic Geographies Festival 2015, in Lisboa, on saturday the 28th of March 2015 at 21:30.
This will be the occasion for the national premiere of "Interspersed Memories - on strings, murmurs and gongs", a piece that had its world premiere at the 19th Seoul International Computer Music Festival 2012 (Seoul - South Korea) and the absolute premiere of a remix of "Athanor", a piece composed in 2006. The Portuguese representation in this festival also includes a work from the composer Ângela Ponte.
More info about the event

I will do a solo concert at the 20th edition of Música Viva Festival 2014, in Lisboa, on saturday the 29th of November 2014 at 21:30.

In this concert I will have the opportunity to spatialize 3 recent tape music pieces through the Loudspeakers Orchestra, an array of speakers specially idealized and indicated for the sound projection of tape music pieces.
This will be the occasion for the world premiere of my latest piece, composed at Miso Music's LEC - Laboratory for Electroacoustic Creation, and the national premiere of a piece composed at the Electronic Music Studios of Leeds Metropolitan University, where I was an invited composer in residence, in January 2013. The program is as follows:

1 . Pareidolia, ou dos jardins sonhados (2014) World Premiere (LEC piece - for 8 channels)
2 . Invocatio / ascribing soundimages into silence (2009)
3 . Simulacra, on discrete movements and dense textures (2013) Portuguese Premiere (for 8 channels)
More info about the event

I will participate on the 1st SYMPOSIUM OF ACOUSTIC ECOLOGY @ UNIVERSITY OF KENT, England, with a paper on soundscape composition. Catachresis, a soundscape piece composed and released in 2012 (Triple Bath _ more info), will be played at this symposium within the installations program.

Dates: 8th and 9th of November

I gladly announce that I am currently composer in residence at LEC - LABORATORY OF ELECTROACOUSTIC CREATION @ MISO MUSIC PORTUGAL.

Dates: 10.2013 to 01.2014

I gladly announce the release of my latest solo album - ARS ABSCONDITA - by Japanese label OtO.
ARS ABSCONDITA is released on the context of my performance @ the Portuguese National Pantheon, within a Deep Listening Concert Series.
Release date / concert: 07.07.2013
More on the album
More info on the event

I was invited to play at the deep listening series concerts at the Portuguese National Pantheon, where I will present my latest piece entitled SEPTUA - the 7th Part of 1.
This piece is based on field recordings captured in Lisboa, Vienna, Bratislava and Seul and instrumental sounds: tibetan singing bowls, santur, hindu chimes, piano strings and harmonium.

I am glad to announce that I was invited to collaborate with, Berlin based, Swedish sound artist / performer Hanna Hartman and also Portuguese artists: Henrique Fernandes, João Ricardo and Filipe Silva, for a workshop at Casa da Música (Porto - Portugal) and a collaboration performance @ the 10th edition of SERRALVES EM FESTA 2013 (more than 220 events, 40 hours non stop, from 8:00 am - June 8th - to 00:00, June 9th). The workshop is about working with amplified objects and close up listening, and the performance will consist on the results of the workshop. 09.06.2013 - 15:00 @ CASA DE SERRALVES.

I am off for a blitz tour in Austria, England and Czech Republic, doing some collaborations with Michael Fischer (Sax, AT), solo concerts and field recordings.

1st- ALTE SCHMIEDE KUNSTVEREIN WIEN - electroacoustic duo with composer and sax player Michael Fischer (AT) | 17.05.2013 _ Vienna / Austria.

2nd- SOUNDkitchen series #3 - solo laptop improvisation using field recordings collected during my recent tours to England, Austria and South Korea | 23.05.2013 _ Birmingham / England.

3rd- OSTINATO FESTIVAL - electroacoustic duo with composer and sax player Michael Fischer (AT) | 28.05.2013 _ České Budějovice / Czech Republic.

4th- KLUB MOOZAK - solo laptop improvisation using field recordings collected during my recent tours to England, Austria and South Korea | 29.05.2013 _ Vienna / Austria

EMILLE - vol 10 - OUT NOW! 07.04.2013

The EMILLE - Journal of the Korean Electro-Acoustic Music Society, Volume 10, has just been published.
My paper "What is a Soundscape Composition" - towards a paradigmatic definition - is featured in this edition. For more info on the Journal click on the link above.

I gladly announce that I was invited by the School of Film, Music & Performing Arts of the Faculty of Art, Environment & Technology of LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY to be a Composer in Residence, at its Electronic Music Recording Studios. I will give guest lectures, focusing on my work, and also addressing to Soundscape Composition & Electroacoustic / Acousmatic Music theories and practices.

Dates: From 17th to 27th of Januray 2013 (LEEDS) / 28th to 30th (FOLKSTONE)

1st- INTERPENETRATION FESTIVAL - 13 to 15 December @ Forum Stadtpark | Graz | 13.12.2012

2nd- FOOLING THE FOLEY - A RADIO PARODY ON THE ART OF SOUND FOR CINEMA @ ORF - KUNSTRADIO RADIOKUNST - 16.12.2012

3rd- Concert with Vienna Improvisers Orchestra @ Brick 5 Gallery | Vienna | 17.12.2012

4th - Solo concert @ RHIZ / at Der Blöde Dritte Mittwoch concert series | Vienna | 19.12.2012

5th - My latest Piece "CHASM" will be premiered in the planetary event name "THE END OF THE WORLD" @ STREAMING MUSEUM| New York City _ U.S.A. & Worldwide via web | 21.12.2012

Sound performance @ LOWRISE | Seoul - South Korea | 26.10.2012

ABSOLUTE PREMIERE and spatialisation of "INTERSPERSED MEMORIES - on strings, murmurs and gongs" electroacoustic piece @ SICMF - SEOUL INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER MUSIC FESTIVAL | Seoul - South Korea | 25.10.2012

Sound performance @ DOTOLIMPIC - Festival for Improvised and Experimental Music | Seoul - South Korea | 21.10.2012

I was invited by MISO MUSIC's RDP Antena 2 : "ELECTROACOUSTIC ART", the only Portuguese FM radio program extensively focused on contemporary electroacoustic music, for an interview about my work.
The program will feature 30 min of music from previous and latest works (specially focused on my 2012 release : PANAURAL). The program will be aired on national FM RADIO, by the early hours of Saturday the 13th, from 01:00am to 2:00am, and is available in Podcast: HERE

I gladly announce the official release of my latest work: PANAURAL - interspersed soundwalks and soundscapes, by Athens based Triple Bath label. The national release concert event happened at Flausina Gallery in Lisboa, Sat. 09.06.2012, 22:00.