Binaural and Associação Cultural de Nodar present:
Public presentations of the projects developed by the artists-in-residence:
25 Ocotber 2007
9.45 p.m.
Museu de Olaria de Barcelos (a collaboration with Zoom)
Barcelos, PT
Live performances with:
o.blaat (JP/US) + Maile Colbert (US) + Rui Costa & Manuela Barile (PT/IT) + Nilo Gallego (ES)
3 November 2007
3.00 p.m.
Nodar, S. Pedro de Sul, PT
Commented presentation of the projects developed by o.blaat (JP/US), Maile Colbert (US) and Rui Costa & Manuela Barile (PT/IT)
5.30 p.m.
Nodar, S. Pedro de Sul, PT
Nilo Gallego & Noemi Fidalgo (ES)
Sound action with shepherd and goats
9.30 p.m.
Sequeiros, S. Pedro do Sul, PT
Joint concert with the traditional group “Sons da Beira Alta” + Nilo Gallego (percussion) and Noemi Gallego (bagpipes & Sax)
8 November 2007
10.30 p.m.
Galeria ZDB, Lisboa
Live performances with:
o.blaat (JP/US) + Maile Colbert (US) + Rui Costa & Manuela Barile (PT/IT)
Art Projects:
Nilo Gallego with Noemi Fidalgo (Spain)
Project: “Acción sonora con cabras y pastor”
Artistic Disciplines: Performance, Sound Art, Free Improvisation
Project Synopsis:
Following a first residence in March 2006 and another previous similar project by Nilo Gallego (“Felipe comes back home with the sheep sounding”), that took place back in 1999 at Bercianos del Real Camino, (León, Spain), Nilo Gallego will interview local interesting residents (such as storytellers, musicians and shepherds), will follow the interviewed shepherds during their daily routines, both out in the fields and at the paddocks, in order to set the scenario for the final sound action event. This event will combine pure observation of the actors (goats, shepherds and dogs) with an open intervention of Nilo Gallego on electronics and percussion and the spanish bagpipes player Noemi Fidalgo, along with local traditional musicians (“tocadores”).
Artistic Biography:
Nilo Gallego (Spain) is a Musician and performer born in León, Spain. Plays drums, percussion and electronics. He was also a member of the Cova Villegas Quintet (contemporary jazz) and of the Piensan Las Manos collective (with Chus Domínguez and Marino García), dedicated to ethnographic / experimental documentary films. Nilo has created several works for theatre, dance and sound installations. In 2003 he coordinated and performed in the public space sound action project “Yavestruz comoandamios parecementerio” and in 2005 directed a 2 months sound art workshop at the Contemporary Art Museum of León (Musac).
http://www.tutuguri.org/nilo/
Maile Colbert (USA)
Project: “Over the Eyes”
Artistic Discipline: Multidisciplinary Installation
Project Synopsis:
“Over The Eyes”, inspired by the old saying…”to pull the wool over the eyes”, is a multimedia installation proposed for a residency based in Nodar, Portugal.
Maile’s desire is to create an environment that, using all of the senses, provokes the viewer into thought and contemplation about the mystery of memory. One of Nodar’s main industries is wool. She will talk with local farmers about the process of sheep shearing, recording the conversations. This will be incorporated into the sound design of the installation, an eight-channel surround system, along with field recordings of the area, and text on physiological, biological, and psychological aspects to memory creation and destruction in humans. For the environment, Maile plans to purchase local wool in which she will weave and felt to create a structure of “gray matter”, much like our minds. Within these passages will be projected images of found home movies, discarded recorded “memories” from thrift stores and junk yards, methodically being erased by a super-imposed act of sheep shearing.
Artistic Biography:
Maile Colbert is a filmmaker, video, and sound artist currently working in Los Angeles, California. She holds a BFA in The Studio for Interrelated Media from Massachusetts College of Art, and a MFA in Integrated Media/Film and Video from the California Institute of the Arts. She has had multiple screenings, exhibits, and shows, including The New York Film Festival, LACE Gallery, MOMA New York, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the REDCAT Theater in Los Angeles, The Portland International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, and a two-week multi-media tour in Japan.
http://www.myspace.com/colbertmaile
Keiko Uenishi (o.blaat) (Japan/USA)
Project: “Nodar Social Composition”
Artistic Discipline: Sound Art
Project Synopsis:
The same sound will be perceived completely differently if it were placed in a different situation. How people reacts to sounds? Those who brought up in an apartment facing with busy traffic, would register certain sounds in the same manner as those who brought up in a quiet village? Can the sound of a big truck passing with rattling beer bottles, be someone’s comfort? With this project, o.blaat aims to experiment with non-language communications involving with symbols (codes) and sounds in order to create a social / collective action as musical composition. She is hoping that it would enable her to encounter with people in Nodar with different language and culture background, to build (an) alternative mean(s) of communication.
Artistic Biography:
Based in Brooklyn, New York Keiko is a sound artist, composer and core member of SHARE collective. (http://share.dj). She is known for creating various interactive audio environments resulting from her ceaseless pursuits of erasing the performer’s presence and ultimately altering listening situations. After performing with a unique, hand-made electronic “tapboard effector soundsystem” for several years, Keiko has been exploring the Powerbook’s mobility. Her performances and installations have appeared at many museums, clubs, galleries and festivals worldwide. Most recently, she completed a site-specific audio / light interactive installation, “Aboard:Fillip2” created for a cargo-container at Fortescue Avenue Gallery, London in July 2005.
http://obla.at
Manuela Barile (Italy) & Rui Costa (Portugal)
Project: “La Scatola”
Artistic Discipline: Performance, Sound and Visual Art
Project Synopsis:
‘La Scatola’ is a transdisciplinary project that explores the notion of confinement using multiple approaches and works on the border zone between the ‘I’ and the outside world in situations of incarceration. We may define this zone in purely spatial terms (“forbidden zone”, “abyss”, “barrier”) but also in terms of bidirectional “energy fluxes” created by the sensorial and emotional projection of the incarcerated individuality into the outside world (pain, desire, resistance, impotence, etc.) and by the representation (idealized, distorted, diffuse) of the outside world in the mind and body of the incarcerated individual. In the particular case of the art residency in Nodar, the artist will seek to identify its specific characteristics in terms of natural and public space, as well as types of social interaction that configure situations of incarceration.
Artistic Biographies:
Manuela Barile is an italian born vocal artist and an interdisciplinary performer who lives in Portugal. She explores the voice in all its possible musical and spoken expressions, employing Western and Oriental vocal techniques, as well as those of her invention, without recourse to any electronic manipulations. Her artistic works consists on the combination of her sounds with different medias (art installation, concert-performances, photography, video, drawing, writing).
http://www.manuelabarile.com
Rui Costa began his public activity as a sound artist in 1997. In 1998 he started a close collaboration with the Spanish musician Iñaki Ríos inside the project ja_dijiste, which covers several areas of common interests as sound art, free improvisation and video creation, using software-based (max/msp, etc.) composition & improvisation techniques and developing several conceptual projects such as the intermedia work “Nodar”, presented in 2002 at the Music Ex Machina festival in Bilbao, Spain.
http://www.myspace.com/ruigcosta