About
Joana de Sá (field recordings, voice, flute & other instruments, electronics, composition and electroacoustic improvisation) was born in 2001 and grew up in a small town in the interior of Portugal, Mortágua.

She has a degree in Communication Design from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto and is currently taking a master’s degree in Museology and Museography in the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. With a brief stint at the Porto Jazz School, Joana de Sá considers herself a self-taught musician.

Her work - intrinsically linked to sound art - combines field recordings, the voice or classical/traditional instruments in musical compositions, in a storytelling logic, often using poetry, frequency manipulation and soundcollage.

As well as working in the field of sound art, Joana also works with drawing, photography, writing, video and performance, combining graphic objects with any of these discourses - the starting point for these practices often comes from her personal daily life, the landscape, elements from her personal or public domain archive that she finds pertinent to address in her work.

Over the last few years, Joana has presented her work solo or sharing the stage with other artists such as Manja Ristić, Tiago Sousa, Joana Guerra or the Lisbon Contemporary Music Group.

Education
2023 - present
Master degree in Museology and Museography at Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa

2019 - 2023
BA degree in Communication Design at Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade do Porto

Contact

send me an email
joanagdsa.work@gmail.com
or find me through my instragam
@deixamedormir
or bandcamp
or
soundcloud

I often appear behind my computer

or

loose pages

a signal

a microphone

a camera

a recorder

image by Cláudia Simões

Comissions and Collaborations and others

2025 — Sound piece for Maria Constanza Ferreira’s Midnight Zone installation, Centro Português de Fotografia, Porto, PT

2025 — sound piece for DEPOIMENTOS DO FUTURO: Investigations on Portuguese Underground Hauntology, out on Russian Library’s bandcamp

2025 — Remix for @c+ Visiophone’s 30xN LRJ1 out in crónica’s bandcamp

2025 — Wound Paralax and the Culture of Sensing, a playlist by Manja Ristić out on CIFRA

2025 — Residency at TRAFO Trafostacja Sztuki w Szczecinie, Młode Wilki, Szczecin, PL

2025 — Sound composition for “Carnaval Canibal”, an installation by Inês Leal for “SOMOS TODOS CAPITÃES - 50 ANOS EM LIBERDADE”, a curatorial project by Paulo Mendes, presented as part of the Braga25 Capital Portuguesa da Cultura program in Museu Nogueira da Silva (Braga) and La Casa Icendida (Madrid)

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2024 — comissioned piece for “From Chronos to Kairos”, based on field recordings conducted in the Aveiro region by Jez riley French and local workshop participants, featuring works by @c, Coldcut x Svetti, Felicia Atkinson, Kate Carr, Joana de Sá, KMRU, Nory Kimijima and Piurso (curated by Raquel Castro & Hugo Branco). listen here

2024 — Short film “Absedo” awarded for Best Local Film at Vistacurta’24, CCV, Viseu, PT.

2024 — Sound composition for “Ouroboros”, an installation by Francisca Miranda and Inês Leal for Laboratórios de Verão, Gnration; Braga, PT; CIAJG (Centro Internacional de Artes José de Guimarães); Guimarães, PT; Auditório Municipal de vila do Conde, PT.

2024 — Residency w/ Meta_ and Rita Silva for Epicentro, org: Blue House; Salão Brazil @ Praça do Comércio, Coimbra, PT

2024 — w/ Rita Silva for UNHA.pt @ Not Your Fault, Jardins do Bombarda, Lisboa, PT

2024 — Residency w/ Joana Guerra and Manja Ristić for Barreiro Shape + Festival; installations and perfomance in Barreiro, Convento da Madre Deus da Verderena, PT

2024 — w/ Apócrifos Foragidos (collaboration with Girlflux (video/visuals) + Bárbara Bruno e Cátia Tomé (poem lecture) , Passos Manuel, Porto, PT

2024 — w/ Apócrifos Foragidos (collaboration with Girlflux (video/visuals) + Bárbara Bruno e Cátia Tomé (poem lecture) , Lounge, Lisbon, PT

2024 — Collaboration/Perfomance with Luís Antero; Carmo’81, Viseu, PT

2024 — “Not Your Fault” — charity compilation of seventeen Contemporary and Free music composers from Portugal, that aims to collect funds for APAV - Portuguese Association for Victim Support.

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2023 — Disappearing Music for Face (Mieko Shiomi) +Fuses (Carolee Schneemann), Sound for Film, comissioned by Cine Clube de Viseu for vistacurta; Carmo’81, Viseu, PT

2023 — Dar a ouvir: Paisagens da Cidade - Sala D. Afonso Henriques, Convento de São Francisco; Coimbra, PT

2023 — Filho Único - Encontros de Música Nova com GMCL e Adriana João, FARWARMTH, Joana de Sá e Miguel Abras - Jardim da Galeria Quadrum, Galerias Municipais de Lisboa; Lisboa, PT

2023 — Radio Piece “Disembodied Paths” comissioned by Radia.lx for RADIA.fm

2023 — Festival Rescaldo w/ Tiago Sousa - DAMAS; Lisboa, PT

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2022 — Metamersion II w/ Clothilde - Champalimaud Foundation (curated by ADDAC); Lisboa, PT

2022 — Sound for Paulo Raposo’s video - Doc Lisboa’s 20th anniversary Digital Gallery

2022 — w/ OCP - Concertos Arca, Rádio Estação (curated by Matéria Prima), Feira do Livro do Porto; Porto, PT

2022 — Sound piece comissioned by Paulo Raposo/Radio Zero Radio Art Zone’s Buried Salt, ESCH, LUX

Solo

2025 — Residency at Appleton, Lisboa, PT

2025 — XS Micro-Concertos Galeria Anita Guerreiro, Arroios, PT

2025 — Serralves em Festa, Porto, PT

2025 — Solo at ZDB 8 Marvila, Lisboa, PT

2025 — Trafo (Młode Wilki), Szczecin, PL

2025 — SMUP, PT (org: Nariz Entupido), PT

2025 — Segundas na Z, Galeria Zé dos Bois, Lisbon, PT

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2024 — Passos Manuel; Porto, PT

2024 — Favo das Artes; Mondim de Basto, PT

2024 — Galeria Venha a Nós a Boa Morte; Viseu, PT

2024 — Casa do Miardouro — Núcleo Arqueológico Almeida Henriques, for project Absedo; Viseu, PT

2024 — Sleep Stages, (5 day residency) org. Gretua; Blackbox do Cais Criativo da Costa Nova, Aveiro, PT

2024 — Galeria Zé dos Bois, Lisbon, PT

2024 — SMUP (org. S/Título), Parede, Lisbon, PT;

2024 — Casa das Artes Bissaya Barreto, Coimbra PT

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2023 — Passos Manuel, Porto, PT

2023 — Out.fest, Barreiro, PT

2023 — Out.ra, Sala 6; Barreiro, PT

2023 — Teatro Ibérico; Highline, Lisboa, PT

2023 — SMOP; (org: Nariz Entupido), Lisboa, PT

2023 — Espaço Compasso; Porto, PT

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2022 — Living Room, Cosmos Campolide; Lisbon, PT

2022 — Festival Estaleiro; Esposende, PT

2022 — Biblioteca CCOP, Voya ; Porto, PT

2022 — Jardins Efémeros; Viseu, PT

2022 — Oficina Cobalto; Porto, PT

2022 — Espaço Musas, (curadoria OLEC); Porto, PT

2022 — Nariz Entupido, Imago Garage; Lisboa, PT

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