Sara Pinheiro


Research

Title: field recording

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    • A short composition version was presented at Gallery AVU (Prague), as part of Michal Cáb’s exhibition Music Is Obsolete (curated by Miloš Vojtěchovský);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:

 

2020/23 – field recordings: a manifesto

 

2016/20 – digital non realities

Title: regardless

regardless

Research

REGARDLESS is a research project focusing on pioneers of electronic music and sound art.

  • It first happened as an exhibition in GAMU (Prague, 2019), co-curated with Alexandra Cihanská Machová.
  • In 2021, it became an online exhibition hosted by ARTEACTA, designed by Lenka Jabůrková.
  • The introductory text and the graphics of the exhibition have been kindly published by NAMU, in 2023.
  • In 2024, I produced a podcast episode for UFMC about the topic, together with Mary C. (Synth Library, Prague), featuring music by Johanna Magdalena Beyer (New World Records), Diana Policarpo and Tatiana Heuman. Available here.
Title: acousmatic foley

acousmatic foley

Research

“Acousmatic Foley” is a practice-based research on sound dramaturgy that bridges Musique Concrète and Foley Art. It proposes a perspective on creating, performing and listening to sound which emerges from both traditions. 
On the one hand, the main principle of acousmatic music is to disengage sound from its visual source. On the other hand, foley is the covering of an action with sounds that are visually justifiable, although they may not naturally belong there. Nevertheless, what links an acousmatic composer to a foley artist is that the latter makes use of objects for their layout, for a sonic construction that matches visually what we expect to hear, rather than the concrete visual matter. The argument is that every foley artist is an acousmatic composer.
To this end, the project is based on the concepts of sound-motif, sound-prop and sound-actors, in order to propose a dramaturgic practice specific to sound terms.

 

Acousmatic Foley started with the kind support of Gulbenkian Foundation (2014-15) and it is currently my PhD project at The School of Music, under the Parry Williams scholarship, in The University of Bangor (Uk).

 

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