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.

2015 – radio – 16 min

This piece is based in three main sounds that result of research-project entitled “acousmatic foley”. The subject is mainly the idea that both Musique Concrète and Foley Art deal with a similar conception of sound-objects.

: full piece and interview available here

: playlist available here

: more information about the project here

In this case, each recorded object stands for one different field of interest, namely filmmaking, acousmatic sound and acoustic ecology. To support each object, a sound-field was chosen to reinforce the concrete materiality of the sounds. However, the research works towards a theory of sound objects as sound actors, instead of addressing them as tangible items. Still, each sound is likely to produce associations and connect to their referential value. This corroborates the ideas of sound acting, enactment and fictionality. Following these premisses, the arrangement of this composition is mainly a piece of dramaturgy.On that account, the idea of dramaturgy itself is based on three different conceptions of time. These conceptions emerge, once again, from the three different fields of research mentioned above. They are time as in length/duration, time as in a rhythmical pattern and time as a time-frame, in society. Each object follows one single conception, mostly because they can be thought of as icons of that specific field. The idea of contextualization is fundamental to listening to any of these sounds, which corroborates the ambiguity always implicit in reduced listening. Mostly, these are ideas in development in a proposal named “staging sound fiction”, which states that a recorded sound does not replace the experience of listening to its source, it is an experience per se. It was made with the kind support of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (PT) and the Barandov studios Cinepost – Sound4Film (CZ). It was premiered on September 25, at Radiocustica.

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.

2011 – str – 8 min

quem conta um conto, II is a study in narrative. The individual sounds in the piece grow as characters, based on film theorist Chris Vogler’s twelve stages of the Hero’s Journey. It juxtaposes sound spaces to join together disparate times and places; ignoring the physical impossibilities of their junction in order to potentiate the conflict that can emerge from their friction.

more info at radius.

2011 – str – radio – 4 min

my contribution for the 55 minutes collective work, within the context of aural tectonics lectures (Raviv Ganchrow, Institute of Sonology).
a collection of sounds, somewhere between unplanned and detailed choices, which result in the idea that sound has no borders or physical limitations (…). den haag here & there is also the product of the first living experiences i went through in this city.

2009 – str – 10 min

a sound documentary of the Swedish city växjö. a place surrounded by nature, where all the seasons make the difference, and a rich source of sounds. time kept passing, sounds kept changing and thus the city’s identity too.