Samuel Martins Coelho presents Unselfing, the new album by the error project
February 21st, 10pm - CAAA – Guimarães Center for Art and Architecture Affairs
“Unselfing” is the second album by I ERROR, an electronic music project by multi-instrumentalist and composer Samuel Martins Coelho. The new work is based on Iris Murdoch’s idea of unselfing: stepping away from the ego and everyday concerns to observe with genuine attention.
The album will be presented on February 21st, at 10 pm, at CAAA – Center for Art and Architecture Affairs in Guimarães.
If the first album, I ERROR, released a year ago, explored different phases as a musician and presented mistakes as a new opportunity, a perspective that transforms failures into possibilities, this new work deepens the search for moments of clarity and focus on the essential. Each track on “Unselfing,” released by Invisível, invites the listener to disconnect from distractions and find space to simply listen. Without complications or pretensions, it seeks to translate this idea of pausing and listening directly. It’s a step forward that maintains the experimental spirit of the project.
The I Error project is a set of sketches collected over time, which reflect the different stylistic interests of a violinist who ventures into the electronic world.
BIOGRAPHY:
Samuel Martins Coelho (1980) is a violinist, composer and multi-instrumentalist. He has been on a journey of discovery and constant reinvention of his musical language. With roots in classical music, it has been developing its language, using different sound sources. His work spans several genres and musical universes, from classical music to conceptual, experimental and improvisational music.
His artistic activity is developed in several projects, such as Samuel Martins Coelho, Tosco, Peixe Míope, Estranhofone, Space Ensemble, Escola do Rock, Colectivo Invisível, Ondamarela, JP Coimbra, I ERROR. In recent years he has collaborated as musical director, composer and instrumentalist in several Dance and Theater companies. Develops activities with communities and leads creative musical interventions, aimed at children and the general public, collaborating with different artists. In 2017 he was a resident artist of the AiR Programme, in Malta (Gozo), as part of the Fondazzjoni Kreattivitá and Valletta 2018 – European Capital of Culture programme.
He participated in the 2nd Musical Animator Training Course of the Casa da Música Educational Service, having collaborated as a facilitator in subsequent courses.
In his artistic career, he has already composed several soundtracks, in 2018 he composed a new soundtrack for the film Giuseppi by Maltese director Cecil Santariano, which was presented live in the European Capital of Culture in Malta in 2018. He collaborated on the soundtrack for Regina Pessoa’s short film “Uncle Tomás, Accounting for the Days”. Since its international premiere in June 2019 in Croatia, the film has already been distinguished at the Annecy Film Festival in France with a special jury prize, at the Animamundi Festival in Brazil, and at Caminhos do Cinema Português in Coimbra. It was also nominated for an Oscar and won the race for best short film at the Annie Awards.
In 2024, he composed the soundtrack for the film The Worst Man in London, directed by Rodrigo Areias, produced by Paulo Branco-Leopardo Filmes, with a script by Eduardo Brito, and a cast that includes Albano Jerónimo, Edward Ashley, Victoria Guerra, Scott Coffey, Christian Vadim, Carmen Chaplin, Simon Paisley Day, and Jean-François Balmer.
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