2013 – NL/FR/FL

madame b. is a project by Mieke Bal and Michelle Williams Gamaker, based on Flaubert’s novel Madame Bovary.

It has been shot in Åland and in Paris and it has several forms:

• an installation of multiple screens
• feature movie
• several short movies

For more information, pease visit the project’s website.

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.

2020 – 4 channels – 8 min

A fixed-media composition to be premiered at the Bangor Electroacoustic Music Festival.

A research exposition about this composition is published in the Research Catalogue.

2018 – 4 channels – 25 min

2016 – 4 channels – mixed media

A live performance that looks into the idea of sound-acting. It was premiered in Barcelona, played in Lisbon, Prague and The Hague.

“Something to Hold Onto” is an exercise on white noise.

It belongs to a series of studies within the project “Acousmatic Foley”. One of the main ideas is that of treating sound as an actor. Thus, the piece explores an attempt to make a single sound sound-like many other things. By recording an object on stage and sampling it live, the sound proceeds with other forms in order to produce other sorts of suggestions beyond what was seen as the original source of it. The title of the piece is borrowed from a project originally created by Leigh Landy (1990) and followed up by Rob Waele (2006), the “Intention/Reception” project, which studied the relationship between the listener and the sounds, the listener’s ability and willingness to figure out what is happening based on what sort of information is given beforehand. For that reason, the piece starts with providing the visual source of the sound, to be held onto as a reference.

2016 – 4 channels – 30 min

For a residency in Q-02, Acousmatic Foley took Chantal Akerman’s first short movie “Saute Ma Ville” (1968) as a case study. Throughout Akerman’s sound-work, the project foregrounded concepts as “sound-motif”, “sound-actor” and “sound-prop”.

This residency was kindly authorized by Chantal Akerman’ State, through the Beligium Cinematek.

The performance starts of with Live Foley for the silent parts of the film, and then proceeds acousmatically with the samples taken from the original track. It has been performed at PAF (2018) and Ponrepo (2019).

In 2020, a study of the movie has been published in Iluminace (2019/4).

2015 – 17 channels – 60 min

Treatise of a purr is a play in three acts. It starts with curiosity did nothing to the cat, follows with the cat and the glove and ends with a scalded cat, who was said to be afraid of cold water. The scalded cat is the final act, which completes the “treatise of a purr”. In it, the cat returns to face a new element. May fire walk with him.

Although each act can be played autonomously, they depend on one another to formulate its sense. The piece uses a variable arrangement of loudspeakers, in three different sets. It is an exercise of “sound theatre” as a result of “staging sound fiction”.

2014 – 6 channels – loop

This piece is a site-specific composition created for the passage in Usti Nad Labem (Cz), turned into a gallery dedicated to sound art.
6 channels are aligned in the corridor, a passage that connects the centre to an older part of the town.

Jenga Walking is a sound installation based on affection. Due to the characteristics of the passage (a dark, cold and impersonal space) I chose a sound that relates to the passers-by in a friendly way. Eventually, each of the transients has its own affection for the sound in question, once it is recognized. Moreover, the sound is not foreign to the space itself, not only because it happens “in reality” quite frequently, but also because its acoustic properties match to the space. The piece results from the prominent presence of dogs in czech society and the charming quietness of individuals walking their dogs at the end of the day, when social routine is in pause and it gives turn to personal habits. Ideally, the sound will relate to the space as a cross over between these two moments just as much as the gallery is a cross over between two distinct parts of the city.

I’m in debt to my dear friends Isabel and Pedro, for Jenga is the name of their inspiring dog.

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 – 4 channels + headphones – 17 min

“to know the momentum of a society, measure the footsteps of its citizens” (r. murray schafer, in the tuning of the world).
The curiosity to break geographical limitations, trying to be in different places at the same time, in between, the possibility of being nowhere, the edge of a continuous transition. Seeking for unbalanced positions, that of the surroundings, allowing my body to swing freely, throughout intuition, creating micro routines in an improvised perception, learning with my own ambiguity of listening, making choices. And wondering about listening and how I can open the door for an invitation that has no claims beyond the act itself of inviting.

A composition for 4 channels + headphones premiered in studio loos in The Hague.

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.