Sara Pinheiro
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ASYNCH
Compositions
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.
field recording
Research
In relation to my practice as a field recordist, there are a few results:
2024/ – the critical ear
- The “critical ear” is a concept crossing ideas of “technical listening” and “ear cleaning”:
- An essay is now published in VORTEX Music Journal;
- A short composition version was presented at Gallery AVU (Prague), as part of Michal Cáb’s exhibition Music Is Obsolete (curated by Miloš Vojtěchovský);
- It was first presented as a workshop (Synth Library Prague, July 2024);
- The concept crosses three literary sources: Critical Listening Skills for Audio Professionals (Everest, 2007), Ear Cleaning: Notes for an Experimental Music Course (Schafer, 1967) and Deep Listening (Oliveros, 2005).
2023/ – deep recording & noise pollution (SHLUK)
- “Deep Recording” is a concept shedding light on ideas of sonic health and noise pollution:
- “Noise pollution and sound beyond sound” (in collaboration with SHLUK)
- as a podcast on Ponava Radio (Jan 2025);
- published at Sonic Studies (Oct, 2024);
- presented at Noise Floor in Lisbon (May, 2024);
- SHLUK performed at ARCHA+ (Prague);
- presented at Beyond Listening: Agency, Art and the Environment (Nov, 2023);
- SHLUK premiered at Barrandov Bazen (Prague);
- In a residency at INTERFERÊNCIAS 2023 (Companhia Olga Roriz, in Lisbon), Artur Pispalhas and I kept developing the idea of deep recording. Here is a playlist of our favourite sounds;
- “Deep Recording” was first presented at the “25th Audio Engineering Meeting” of the Audio Engineering Society (Oct, 2023).
- “Noise pollution and sound beyond sound” (in collaboration with SHLUK)
2020/23 – field recordings: a manifesto
- “Field Recordings: a manifesto” is a practice-based presentation on a political view on sonic data, particularly through the practice of field recordings:
- Presented at SOA LISBOA, 2023;
- Published at Prace Kulturoznawcze, 2022;
- First presented at The Second Life of Recorded Sounds, October 2020.
2016/20 – digital non realities
- This research aims to study and develop a context for a sound practice that is not tied to a sense of “reality” but creates its own context for a non-real experience, an experience of fiction. In collaboration with Jiří Rouš, Matěj Šenkyřík, Petr Zábrodský and Alexandra Cihanska Machová:
- Reflections on sound associations and sonic digital environments, published by Resonance (2022);
- Reflections on sonic digital unreality, published in Digital Creativity (2019);
- Digital Unrealities, Study I, published in the Research Catalogue (2018) and in ARTEACTA (Czech Version).
calendar
2025
- playing reticências at AUSLAND (Berlin), under fem-noise x synth library exchange, Jan 15;
- 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;
- ASYNCH release performance also taking place in PAF 2024, 5th December;
- The second part of Vanessa Theme Ament’s podcast Whole-y Foley is available here;
- Thieves, dir. Michelle Williams Gamaker, will be in PAF 2024, 5-8 December;
- On Nov 21, 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;
- White by Night, dir. Elan Gamaker, will have its World Premiere at the International Competition of the INTERFILM Berlin 2024, 5-10 November;
- “the critical ear” will be part of Michal Cáb’s exhibition Music Is Obsolete (curated by Miloš Vojtěchovský). Gallery AVU, Prague, vernissage Oct 29;
- KINETOPSIA will have its World Premiere at Ji.hlava Film Festival, 27 Oct 2024;
- “Noise pollution and sound beyond sound” (by SHLUK) is now published at Sonic Studies (Oct, 2024);
- On September 19, Acousmatic Echoes of Ruchový Archive (AERA) will premiere at Archival Assembly #3 (Berlin) – curated by Jonáš Kucharský NFA Prague;
- 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) on 30th July. 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”);
- At Synth Library Prague, I will be holding a new workshop called “the critical ear” – on 23rd July. 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;
- On July 9, I will lead a soundwalk at Pristav (Prague), in collaboration with Synth Library and Mary C.;
- SLAM will be premiered in Lisbon, at the Cinemateca Portuguesa, 21 June;
- “Noise pollution and sound beyond sound” will be presented at Noise Floor in Lisbon, on May 27;
- On April 16, I will be playing “something to hold onto“, “commotion” and “pawns grebovka” in Petrohardska (Prague);
- SHLUK is playing at ARCHA+ (Prague) on April 11;
- On March 22, I will be performing “something to hold onto” at Kulturní středisko, in Ústí nad Labem. An event organised by phonon~
- On January 16, the film KINETOPSIA directed by Thomas Svoboda will premiere in kino ATLAS, Prague;
2023
- SLAM 5.1 original version is premiering at Ponrepo, Prague on 30/11/2023 and as an installation featured at Myslet o filmem in GHMP;
- Beyond Listening is the new conference organised by CENSE and I will present SHLUK’s work – Noise pollution: sound in context and beyond audible on 23/11/2023;
- Synth Library invites everyone to a one-day sound event at TROJA, Prague – 12 Nov. I will lead a soundwalk with a few twists (:
- ᴋᴏɴᴇᴋᴛɪᴠ Night VI – ғᴁ ʙᴇsᴛɪᴀ and I will perform at Venuse Prague 8 Nov, Teren Brno 1 Dec and Hradec Králové 9 Dec;
- Friday 13 October, SHLUK will perform at the abandoned swimming pool in Barrandov District, in Prague;
- Artur Pispalhas and I will perform at INTERFERÊNCIAS 2023, in Lisbon, on 15 and 16 September. This performance results of 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;
- I will present “field recordings: a manifesto” at SOA Lisboa, on 27/08/2024;
- On 25/07/2024, I will be holding a sound-walk at Pristav in collaboration with Synth Lib Prague;
- On 17/07/2024, I will perform at DAR A OUVIR, Coimbra – Portugal. I will also present “field recordings: a manifesto“;
- My new paper “Foley Gesture” will be presented at NCMM/CESEM (Lisboa, PT) on 03/05/2023;
- reticências will be performed at AFO (Olomouc) on 27/04/2023. It will also be broadcasted on BBC Radio 3 on 20/05/2023;
- At AFO, I will be introducing the documentary “Making Waves”, discussing “Sisters with Transistors” with Mary C. (synth library); and Invisible Landscapes with Ivo Bystřičan 28/04/2023;
- THIEVES will premiere at South London Gallery on 31/03/2023 until 18/06/2023;
- k-o-l-e-k-i-t-i-v playing at punctum 10/03/2023;
- reticências will be performed at DX10 (Prague) on 21/01/2023; at the EAM festival (Bangor, Wales) on 18/02/2023 and on 26/02/2023 on kool sport in Berlin;