Miguel Carvalhais and Pedro Tudela have collaborated as @c since 2000, developing sound or audiovisual work, when accompanied by the Austrian artist Lia. His work is developed through three complementary approaches to sound art and digital music: procedural composition, concrete music and improvisation. Over the years, Tudela and Carvalhais have been developing progressively more structured and complex compositions, between the fields of experimental music, sound art and live performance.

There are no great certainties as to the origin of the name of the village of Fujaco, however, the story goes that there, very close to Fujaco, a war was fought many years ago. From the front of the battle, a man who hid under a cliff deserted. In order not to fall asleep and not be surprised by the wolves, he made lace. However, he married and built a family and thus the village was born. The name of the village comes precisely from fujão, referring to the man who fled. At the bottom of a valley stands a handful of houses with one feature in common, the roofs are made of large sheets of schist.

There is something in the verbalization that has a consistency different from what is quantified in a seen and read text. The suspensions, the breath, the attack and the end of words or sentences. These, along with the timbre, are ways linked to saying and that contribute to differentiating, personalizing and identifying the voices that say it. In singing, in prayers or even in speeches, these truths dilate, because the spoken words are extended with the quality of harmonics and tones. Separating these additive results and isolating them with a subtractive process transforms the speech’s readability into noise, which neither abdicates nor completely rejects the filter to which it was subjected, but rather suggests a new sonic plasticity loose from the initial narrative.

Pedro Tudela (Viseu, 1962) is a visual artist and musician, Miguel Carvalhais (Porto, 1974) is a communication designer and musician. Both teach at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto. Like @c, they have works published by Crónica (pt), Grain of Sound (pt), Sirr (pt), Ristretto (pt), Sonic Acts (nl), Index (at), Mille Plateaux (de), Lanolin (at ), Silenceis Not Empty (ir) and Alg-a (es). Live @c perform as a duo or as an audiovisual trio with the Austrian artist Lia.