LISBOA SOA
August 24th to 27th, at the Barracks Largo Cabeço de Bola and Carpentarias de São Lázaro - Free Entry
Sound Installations, Unique Performances, and Auditory Education Workshops with the participation of names such as Davide Tidoni, Marta Zapparoli, Lula Pena, Rafael Toral, Rudolfo Quintas, Stefanie Egedy, and Tarek Atoui, among many others.
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This year’s edition of Lisboa Soa takes place at Quartel Largo Cabeço de Bola and Carpintarias de São Lázaro, between the 24th and 27th of August. There are several unique sound installations that await the visiting public.
Have you ever imagined being touched and embraced by sound waves? Feeling the invisible touch of sound is the experience that Stefanie Egedy provides in a sound installation that no one will be indifferent to. From the 24th to the 27th of August, at the Barracks Largo Cabeço de Bola. From France, Vincent Martial brings us a different way of composing music using candles and burning matter. Flowers, wood, salt, and a multitude of materials are layered in wax to produce their sound temporally through the effect of fire. Crackling Songs, from August 24th to 27th, at Barracks Largo Cabeço de Bola.
In this same space, Cláudia Guerreiro will present an audiovisual installation in collaboration with Rui Carvalho (Filho da Mãe), a moving drawing that is an excavation in real time that searches for light, building, and deconstructing, excavating as if it were a cave. Marta Zapparoli presents the installation and performance of Interdimensional Generated Space, based on antennas that capture the invisible network of wireless and high-frequency communication that runs through our bodies on a daily basis. These radio waves are the representation of the “Other than-the-human” and an open door to the awareness of the multiplicity of our urban environment.
Lebanese artist Tarek Atoui presents a solo performance that brings together varied ethnic sound material and electronic sounds synthesized with his own software and interfaces. During this performance, materials and bodies mutually express each other until all geographical, temporal, and physical limits collapse. The Crossing at 11 pm at Carpintarias de São Lázaro. Also at Carpintarias de São Lázaro, Rudolfo Quintas presents the exhibition Darkless – A journey of Acoustic Embodiment, where he brings together, for the first time, a set of immersive and interactive installations, including “Black hole” and a new interactive and luminous version of the work “Can I Hear You Dance?”, the film “SONIAL” and the workshop “Blind Sounds”, allowing a broad look at this artistic investigation in which the artist collaborates with blind people in creation processes in digital arts, involving artificial intelligence and virtual reality.
Lula Pena presents himself in a quite different register than usual. The Portuguese poet, composer, and visual artist is currently developing intermedia and interspecies exploratory work. On the 27th of August, at 7 pm at Quartel Largo Cabeço de Bola, the sound composition will open the concrete so that the spontaneous springs up, and the concrete is heard, a dialogue between Plant and Human, in which the artist embraces the terrain of uncertainty and listening time.
During this edition, the festival launches its first record edition, Sounds Within Sounds, an album edited by the Porto label Crónica Eletrónica, which results from an order placed by Lisboa Soa to four Portuguese artists, who immersed themselves in the festival’s sound archive and created from it new interpretations and meanings.
PROGRAMMING FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY
Lisboa Soa’s program includes workshops for children that promote an experimental and sensitization universe, in the relationships between the themes of ecology, the plastic side of craftsmanship, and exercises in listening and sound production. On the 26th and 27th of August, between 2.30 pm and 4 pm, Angela Martin, Nuno Torres, and Tiago Fernandes from Musgo Azul invite the youngest to participate in the Gambozinos Workshop (Saturday) and Seed Pumps (Sunday). The Educational Program also includes workshops on sound and performative listening, body and low frequencies, interactive music, improvised singing, and multisensory walks. Entry is free but limited to the capacity of each workshop, so registration is required via the festival’s email.
Lisboa Soa, a festival of sound art, ecology, and auditory culture, seeks to value contemporary artistic creation by giving it a social and ecological context, of direct intervention in space and encouraging the participation of different audiences through the enjoyment of installations and sound performances, participation in auditory education workshops, meetings, and walks focusing on the sense of hearing.
This edition of Lisboa Soa is based on the idea of Multipli.Cidades, seeks to highlight the importance of embracing differences and promoting coexistence between communities, human and non-human, within urban spaces.
“The city wants to be plural, egalitarian, dignified, so it must respect diversity and adopt inclusive policies as a key element of individual and social well-being, as an expression of cultural richness and the vital basis of its identity. We know today that these values are intrinsically linked to ecological processes and that systemic inequalities challenge the ability of cities to achieve real sustainability”
says Raquel Castro, founder of Lisboa Soa, which has been taking place since 2016.
Marta Zapparoli ©IAN STENHOUSE
Lisboa Soa is inspired by public spaces that are not only ecologically aware but also socially fair and inclusive. In this context, Lisboa Soa’s proposal for Quartel Largo Residências and Carpintarias de São Lázaro is to create a collective space that enables a sound experience, but also a multisensory one, in close connection with the city in its multiple cities within.
Program at: www.lisboasoa.com
About LISBOA SOA
Lisboa Soa is a sound art, ecology, and auditory culture festival, created in 2016 by Raquel Castro, which results from a long journey of research and dedication to the study of sound and acoustic ecology.
Through installations and sound sculptures, performances, and walks, music generated by computers, processed instruments, or various devices such as everyday objects, organic elements, or scientific data that are converted into sound, Lisboa Soa aims to frame and focus people in they are listening and provoke a reflection on the environment and society. Stimulate listening to better understand the place we occupy and awaken greater awareness of the impact of human presence on the planet.
Lisboa Soa is the first festival in Portugal to focus on the intersection between sound art, ecology, and auditory culture, offering national and international artists a space for experimentation and discovery, sharing, and community. Lisboa Soa’s programming focuses on the idea of citizenship and collective responsibility through listening, as an elementary principle for attention and empathy. Listening becomes, essentially, a political act.
The festival is produced by Associação Cultural SONORA, in partnership with CML/EGEAC, Largo Residências, and Carpintarias de São Lázaro.
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