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.

2024 – 7′ – CZ

This composition is made walking through the park with a binaural set. It focuses on the perspective of the many dogs that visit this park daily. By default, it also includes their humans and a few other elements.

It was commissioned by EBU for World’s Environmental Day.

Many thanks to Ladislav Železný.

2022 – stereo + 6 bluetooth speakers – 30 min

reticências explores FM, noise, repetition, rhythm and randomness. It is an unfinished sentence, a never-ending story, it’s a continuation, a transition in between. It departs from a broken radio that speaks on its own towards the exploration of its patterns and spatial findings. It is noise and texture. It is a sonic drama.

The original radio recording is played “untouched” from the bluetooth speakers and it can be heard here on archive.org. In the main P.A. system… I answer it.
The full performance is available in video thanks to Punctum/Radim Labuda.
The bluetooth speakers are from Synth Library Prague. Thanks to Mary C.

Performed at

• AUSLAND (Berlin, GE), Jan 2025;
• Dx10 (Prague, Cz), Jan 2023;
• MeetFactory (Prague, Cz) on Nov 2022;
• Moozak (Vienna, Austria) on Oct 2022;
• Prisma Estúdio (Lisbon, Pt) Set 2022;
• SONOSCOPIA (Porto, Pt) on August 2022;
• Punctum (Prague, Cz) on April 2022.

2014 – front array/back array – 20 min

For it is the second act, it follows the idea of a main character established in “curiosity did nothing to the cat”. However, that character did not follow a logic social context previously, and so it continues. This piece is searching for ways to frame sound, in its specificity and detail, as a sonic scanner willing to find an internal logic in its own fictionality.
The sounds in use are a slightly counter-intuitive of agglomerated sounds and their hermitic same in content and form.

2012 – 7 channels – 12 min

This piece is made for 7 speakers, which are placed under the audience’s seats. This first part is ca. 10 minutes long and it is the beginning of “teatrise of a purr” which lasts ca. 60 minutes and works the idea of sound theater.

2012-15 – 5 channels – 20 min

This piece aims at riding the listener through a walk that should sound both familiar and foreign. The sounds have a strong visual reference, for it is objectively abstract.
This composition started as an attempt to find balance between the idea (the abstraction) and the material itself (the object), thinking of the legitimacy of the former and the possibilities of the latter. It aims at generating different sensibilities in relation to reality and fiction. It is a walk, which starts after its beginning and ends before it is over. It wanders between what is present and what is not, what was been included or not; and how much weight can absence have.

2011 – 8 channels – 19 min

an exercise in the concepts of sound documentary and sound fiction. it aims to be a pleasant journey into this universe of sounds, until one is able to liberate oneself and the sounds from any referential logics.
: swing lives is my first multichannel work.
: s’wing lives was awarded the 1st prize in the category of “electronic sonorities” @ FIM.