Sara Pinheiro
field-recording

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.

reticências
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.
SARA PINHEIRO live at Punctum from Punctum on Vimeo.

vertical chain
2018 – 4 channels – 25 min
Vertical Chain is a live performance for loudspeakers. It plays with the idea of “ground sounds” and “sky-high sounds” to produce an effect of verticality. It starts from the two loudspeakers on the floor and their dedicated sound sources, slowly moving to the two elevated loudspeakers and their aerial sounds. As these two layers interact vertically, they evoke a sense of spatial depth, inviting the audience to experience the auditory tension and consonance between these realms. The performance employs field recordings, synthesized sounds and live sound processing to create a fluid, evolving meditative experience.
- premiered at Skaut Institute Prague
- Biennale (cz)
- LOM’s festival ZVUK Bratislava
- played at TEREN (Brno), part of Cristina Maldonado’s INSIDER performance