Noid

Five instruments and a gun

As I was on my first visit in Nodar in 2007,we all went to a dance party in the neighbour village of Sequeiros with a local band playing traditional music. And there was this one remarkable guy, squatting the stage once ina while and joining the band-each time with a different instrument.

The next morning, Rui Costa from Binaural/Nodar told us he talked to him later in the evening and asked him about his stage appearances-his answer was: “every time I go to a dance party, I bring my 5 instruments and a gun”. Fortunately the gun was not used in the evening! But anyway, hearing this quote something started working in my head, and some time later I told Rui about my proposal for the residency to compose a piece for 5 players distributed in the valley of Nodar, being conducted by distant gun shots and spontaneously he replied: “the gun is not a problem”.

So I thought-here we go!-As I was invited to realize the project in fall 2008. Taking the ideas from the dance party evening, transferring it to thebig stage: the valley of Nodar would not only be the stage but also the band, the natural soundscape would be the music we would join into. The instruments would be heard from big distances, balanced with the sound of the wind, the river as well as the cars passing through the valley, or the planes passing above-whatever was, there would be the score we would try to fit in as guests for the short time of a performance.

Manuela Barile: vocals, megaphone, stones

Antonio Mainenti: vocals, megaphone, stones

Manuel Paiva: violin, radio, megaphone, stones

Rui Costa: lloopp, fiat panda, stones

Noid: cello, megaphone, electronics, stones composition

Zé do Raso: the gun

Arnold Haberl (Noid) Austrian composer and improviser, using both acoustic instruments (cello) and electronics. He has collaborated with other sound artists such as Klaus Filip, Mattin, o.blaat, erikM, etc. and with choreographers or performers (João Fiadeiro, Katharina Bauer, Mariella Greil, Tetsuo Furudate and Akemi Takeya).

With his music he tries to understand the reality of the sound we live in. This reality includes imaginations, wishes, dreams and acoustical hallucinations as well as the sound of the fan of his laptop or the wolf-tone of his cello.