Rui Costa is a sound artist from Lisbon, Portugal. He has been publicly presenting his work since 1998. He is a founding member and artistic director of Binaural. He developed a series of sound works focused on the translation to the sonic domain of other realities such as the tourist’s experience of Lisbon (“Sightseeing for the Blind”) and an account of a train trip (“Le Train de Bordeaux”, based on a short story by Marguerite Duras).
Rui Costa collaborated with the Spanish musician Iñaki Ríos, with whom he developed electronic composition systems programmed on Max/MSP, Lisa and Csound and developed a series of site-specific works in Nodar. In 2007, he started a collaboration with the vocal performer Manuela Barile with a project entitled “La Scatola”, which was conceived as a series of installations and audiovisual performances. Rui Costa is a regular speaker in lectures and gives workshops dedicated to sound art.
