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absedo

2024
an album & short film
& few more things  

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Despite the obsession with the sound of the stones, I wanted to understand what was underneath and in the surroundings; lifting up rags of gorse, mossy shrouds, denying that life wants nothing to do with them. Passing through Fiais/Azenha, Cunha Baixa, Mangualde, Resende, Lamego, Tondela, Penedono, Vila Nova de Paiva, Sátão, Serra de Montemuro and Serra do Caramulo just to come across the stones.

The faithful stones, they always wait for us. Usually hidden, quiet or angry, at the mercy of mine and other ears; as if they didn't hear me, as if they didn't hear themselves; like someone who looks at me and watches me with such solidity, like an ordinary, silent face, in some slow waltz. “A” for absedo. Absedo, from Mirandese (mirandês), is a place where the sun doesn't shine, facing North.

listen through my bandcamp
This project was supported by the Municipality of Viseu and financed by Eixo Cultura. Thank you to Carmo’81 for lending me the space to record the instruments. Voice recordings by Miguel R.Cardoso, Oona Wilkinson, a friend and me. Cello samples by Louis Wilkinson; Violin samples by Sara Machado. It was mixed by me and usof and mastered by usof.

The short film serves as a documentary, with text, images and sound by me. It won the Local Prize for VistaCurta’24, the CineClube Viseu short film festival.



ouroboros
2024
(sound for) an installation
Inês Leal & Francisca Miranda

Ouroboros was an installation made by Inês Leal and Francisca Miranda and it was shown in Braga (Gnration) and Guimarães (CIAJG). The format of the exhibition had 2 screenings with videos made by the two artists and the sound was made to be played in a multichannel set (4 PA’s). 

12’20’’

Ecoando o significado primitivo - “aquele que morde a cauda” — e a circularidade sugerida pela palavra que The serve de título, Ouroboros, projecto de Francisca Miranda e Inês Leal, apresenta uma instalação audiovisual composta por dois vídeos e uma peça sonora. Neste trabalho, a investigação das artistas baseou-se no conceito de soundbite — expressão que perdeu o autor e é frequentemente reproduzida -, transitando entre dispositivos de cativação e controlo do pensamento individual e colectivo que certos discursos políticos e agentes mediáticos contemporâneos geram, para a partir deles procurarem outras associações, imagens, linguagens e sons. Deste modo, este projecto tanto promove a relação entre o soundbite — petit phrase ou mordida sonora — e a muito mais antiga expressão banha da cobra, pelo uso similar de argumentação baculina e paralógica para produzir convencimento e reprodutibilidade, como faz uso de imagens provenientes do mundo natural ou de determinados espaços e gestos ritualísticos.
Reclamando uma estética evocativa do ecrã e emissão televisiva, e assim reminiscente do espaço familiar e doméstico, Ouroboros cria uma paisagem que procura mobilizar todo o corpo e atenção do espectador e que, não sendo diegética, se caracteriza por uma capacidade de atração, encantamento e hipnose, mas também pela opacidade, indiscernibilidade e confusão, existindo entre a ilusão do espectáculo circense e a camuflagem do animal predador.

(Text by Inês Leal & Francisca Miranda)

Images below gently given by Inês Leal








grey paths2023
an EP Final project for my BA degree in Communication Design (Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade do Porto) oriented by professor Miguel Carvalhais. This project started from the idea of making a set of pieces in which the rule would be the use of sounds (field recordings) that refer only and strictly to the city of Porto (either processed or pure). The compositional line would have to follow the specific line of graphic scores that were drawn in the context of the field recordings. 

To accompany the pieces, I made a small book with the graphic scores, images and some notes on the work process. 

~27’’

listen through my soundcloud
The final work was presented in the 'exposição_FINAL_FINAL.pdf’ — an exhibition that presented the set of works developed by finalist students of the 2022-2023, in the context of the degree in Communication Design (LDC) of Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade do Porto.