Sara Pinheiro
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ASYNCH
ASYNCH is a live performance that combines foley and sampling, field recording and audio morphing. Based on the ideas of sonic fiction, it is an acousmatic experience of a film that has not been done – and if it were, it would be asynchronous. It’s a confusion where one sound might sound like another, a sound as-if, a magnified detail and everything that shakes (crumbles into dust).
ASYNCH is also the return of a promise, a function that retrieves a value and resolves it. It’s a hold back.
The performance is a release of Pinheiro’s first attempt to make an EP. It consists of 6 individual pieces organised (and failing) as the format of a (foley) song. It invites critical listening and ear cleaning.
Coming soon at PAF 2024.

time metalurgist
2023 – 20′ – CZ
a film by Tomáš Rampula.
The experimental film Time Metallurgist works with found footage materials (photographs, excerpts from newspapers, letters) from the life of Eadweard Muybridge, attempting to reconstruct what happened in the second half of the 19th century in California. It describes the influence of these events on our present. It uses artificial intelligence to process all this material.
- premiered at the RAIN Film Festival 2024
- screening at the 19th Prague shorts Film Festival, February 26 – March 2 (2025)
- screening at the 27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival, March 6 – March 16 (2025)
calendar
2025
- 23/03 SHLUK performing site-specific in punctum;
- 15/03 Urban Disobedience Toolkit is premiering in One World Festival, featuring SHLUK;
- 13/03 Time Metallurgist screening at Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival;
- 07/03 playing at Slag Room (den haag), with Donia Jourabchi and chebedajha;
- 01/03 playing ASYNCH at punctum‘s birthday party;
- 28/02 Time Metallurgist screening at Prague Shorts;
- 26/02 “the critical ear 0.2″ workshop at Synth Library Prague;
- AERA, featuring Jonáš Kucharský, is now available on Ponava Radio;
- 15/02 playing ASYNCH at the Bangor Electroacoustic Music Festival, Wales;
- REGARDLESS, featuring Mary C., is now available on Ponava Radio;
- 15/01 playing reticências at AUSLAND (Berlin), under fem-noise x synth library exchange;
- SHLUK’s podcast episode “Noise Pollution and Sound Beyond Sound” is available on Ponava Radio;
2024
- “the critical ear” is published in VORTEX Music Journal;
- 5/10 ASYNCH release performance also taking place in PAF 2024;
- The second part of Vanessa Theme Ament’s podcast Whole-y Foley is available here;
- 5-8/12 Thieves, dir. Michelle Williams Gamaker, will be in PAF 2024;
- 21/11, I will perform vertical chain at kampus hybernska. Before the performance, there will be a talk about the role of field recordings regarding climate change moderated by Jiří Slabihoudek;
- Vanessa Theme Ament, the author of Foley Grail, has kindly hosted me on her podcast Whole-y Foley. The first part is available here;
- 05-10/10 White by Night, dir. Elan Gamaker, will have its World Premiere at the International Competition of the INTERFILM Berlin 2024;
- 29/10 “the critical ear” will be part of Michal Cáb’s exhibition Music Is Obsolete (curated by Miloš Vojtěchovský). Gallery AVU, Prague;
- 27/10 KINETOPSIA will have its World Premiere at Ji.hlava Film Festival;
- “Noise pollution and sound beyond sound” (by SHLUK) is now published at Sonic Studies (Oct, 2024);
- 19/09, Acousmatic Echoes of Ruchový Archive (AERA) will premiere at Archival Assembly #3 (Berlin) – curated by Jonáš Kucharský NFA Prague;
- 30/07 the book “Southern Gothic in Contemporary Television Series” (Jižanská gotika v současných televizních seriálech” – ed. Veronika Klusaková), will be presented at the Letní filmová škola (LFŠ). I contributed with a chapter entitled “Sonic environments vs. Sonic fiction – Elements of the Gothic Southern Soundscape” (“Zvukové prostředí vs. zvuková fikce — zvukové krajiny jižanské gotiky”);
- 23/07 I will be holding a new workshop called “the critical ear” at Synth Library Prague. In this workshop, I will share a very specific endeavour of mine: a constant sway between a technical understanding of sound and a socio-political reflection on being a listener;
- 09/07, I will lead a soundwalk at Pristav (Prague), in collaboration with Synth Library and Mary C.;
- 21/06 SLAM will be premiered in Lisbon, at the Cinemateca Portuguesa;
- 13/06 Time Metallurgist premiering at RAIN+ festival, Barcelona;
- 27/05 “Noise pollution and sound beyond sound” will be presented at Noise Floor in Lisbon;
- 16/04, I will be playing “something to hold onto“, “commotion” and “pawns grebovka” in Petrohardska (Prague);
- 11/04 SHLUK is playing at ARCHA+ (Prague);
- 22/03 I will be performing “something to hold onto” at Kulturní středisko, in Ústí nad Labem. An event organised by phonon~
- 16/01 the film KINETOPSIA directed by Thomas Svoboda will premiere in kino ATLAS, Prague;
2023
- 30/11 SLAM 5.1 original version is premiering at Ponrepo (Prague) and as an installation featured at Myslet o filmem in GHMP;
- 23/11 Beyond Listening is the new conference organised by CENSE and I will present SHLUK’s work – Noise pollution: sound in context and beyond audible;
- 12/11 Synth Library invites everyone to a one-day sound event at TROJA, Prague. I will lead a soundwalk with a few twists (:
- 09/11 ᴋᴏɴᴇᴋᴛɪᴠ Night VI – ғᴁ ʙᴇsᴛɪᴀ and I will perform at Venuse Prague; 01/12, Teren Brno and 09/12 Hradec Králové;
- 13/10, SHLUK will perform at the abandoned swimming pool in Barrandov District, in Prague;
- 15&16/09 Artur Pispalhas and I will perform at INTERFERÊNCIAS 2023, in Lisbon. This performance results from our summer residency at the Companhia Olga Roriz, in Lisbon. Here is a playlist of our favourite sounds;
- The paper “Foley Gesture” has just been published by The International Journal of Music New Sound;
- 27/08 I will present “field recordings: a manifesto” at SOA Lisboa;
- 25/07, I will be holding a sound-walk at Pristav in collaboration with Synth Lib Prague;
- 17/07 I will perform at DAR A OUVIR, Coimbra – Portugal. I will also present “field recordings: a manifesto“;
- 03/05 my paper “Foley Gesture” will be presented at NCMM/CESEM (Lisboa, PT);
- 20/05 reticências will be broadcasted on BBC Radio 3 on;
- 28/04 I will be introducing the documentary “Making Waves”, discussing “Sisters with Transistors” with Mary C. (synth library); and Invisible Landscapes with Ivo Bystřičan at AFO;
- 27/04 reticências will be performed at AFO (Olomouc).
- 31/03 THIEVES will premiere at South London Gallery (until 18/06/2023);
- 10/03 k-o-l-e-k-i-t-i-v playing at punctum;
- 21/01 reticências will be performed at DX10 (Prague); 18/02 at the EAM festival (Bangor, Wales) and on 26/02 on kool spot in Berlin;