Title: “Campanologias Beirãs” (“Beira Campanologies”)

Author: Luís Costa

Artistic collaboration: Rui Costa, Liliana Silva and Tânia Rebelo


“Campanologias Beirãs” is a participatory sound project by Binaural/Nodar’s Luís Costa performed exclusively through the bell ringing of churches and chapels of city and towns in the Viseu Dão Lafões region in Portugal, that are activated by dozens of local young volunteers who follow a visual based score with instructions related both to the region’s bell ringing tradition and to the sound perception of the place itself, creating a specific and unrepeatable phonosphere. One or several routes are proposed to the audience to be followed simultaneously along with the interpretation of the work.

“Campanologias Beirãs” is drawn from various sources and influences that contributed to a narrative that act on the emotional activation of the work, which try to escape the condition of a purely sonic event: First, the symbolic and liberating aspect of youths to access bell towers, considered hard to reach places, but also the narrative connection to the theological significance of the specific churches, their patron saints and its associated anthropological rituals.

“Campanologias Beirãs” invite the public to a careful listening, in order to enable concentration, meditation and intensity in the reception of a work that unequivocally assumed its condition of sacred contemporary art.

Public presentations so far:

31 May 2014: Viseu

2 August 2015: São Pedro do Sul

10 December 2016: Vouzela

14 July 2017: Mangualde
28 July 2017: Tondela
15 August 2017: Sátão