Ressonância #28 // LLUMM by Alfredo Costa Monteiro (PT) + Ferran Fages (ES) VIC // Aveiro Arts House Wed 31 Jul | 21h30 Suggested contribution: 4€ Alfredo Costa Monteiro (PT) Born in 1964 in Porto (Portugal), Alfredo Costa Monteiro studied sculpture/installation at the fine art school in Paris with Christian Boltanski. In 1992, he moved to Barcelona, Spain, where he still lives and works. His work stands somewhere between visual arts, visual poetry and sound. His installations and sound pieces, all of a low-fi character, have in common an interest for unstable processes, raw materials and gestures, where the manipulation of objects as instruments or instruments as objects has a strong phenomenological aspect. He has been working since 2001 in various projects of sound art, improvised and experimental music, using each time a different instrumentation in order to give these projects multiple identities and directions. In sound poetry, his work focuses on the musicality of language, creating multiple meanings that often lead to confusion and defy understanding. He performs in solo polyglot and noise pieces (Portuguese, French, Catalan and Spanish), where sound establishes a different semantics. —From 1998 to 2006, he was member of Espai 22a, an independent collective for contemporary art. —From 2001 to 2006, he was also member of IBA col.lectiu d’improvisació. —Co-organizer of the festivals Improvisa , L’ESPAI de Música i Dansa, Barcelona from 2000 to 2003 and Mínim , Can Felipa, Barcelona from 2003 to 2009. —From 1995 to 2001, he was member of Superelvis, one of the major groups of the spanish underground. He has given workshops in In Situ, Sokolowsko (Poland), Hangar (Barcelona, Spain), ESDI (Barcelona, Spain), Janácek Academy of Music and Performing Arts (Brno, Czech Republic), Arteleku (San Sebastián, Spain), Facultad de Bellas Artes, (Pontevedra, Spain), ESAD (Caldas da Rainha, Portugal), Crossroads during John Cage’s Year, (Lublin, Poland) among others. He has shown his work in Europe, the U.S., Canada and Japan. Youtube: http://youtu.be/I_B0tvNU5QY Website: https://www.costamonteiro.net/ Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/movingfurniturerecords/alfredo-costa-monteiro-not-knowing-part-1-mfr071-not-knowing Ferran Fages (ES) Ferran Fages is an improviser and composer, and an international reference in the sphere of electroacoustic improvisation. Since the end of the 1990s, he has published over fifty discographic references on national and international labels. He has undertaken tours, performed concerts and led workshops around Europe and South America as well as in Canada and Japan. He plays guitar, resonant objects, acoustic turntable and electronics: “feedback mixing board”, pick-ups and oscillators. From 1999 until 2006 he was a member of the IBA col·lectiu d'improvisació, with whom he organised over one hundred concerts as well as the festivals Improvisa (2000-2003) and the Experimental Music Week at Metrònom (2005), among others. Besides his projects, he has shared a stage and made collaborations with musicians such as Christine Abdelnour, Sophie Agnel, Núria Andorrà, Derek Bailey, Pascal Battus, Tom Chant, David Chiesa, Albert Cirera, Sébastien Cirotteau, Angharad Davies, Rhodri Davies, Michel Doneda, Axel Dörner, Lluïsa Espigolé, Agustí Fernández, Jean-Philippe Gross, Will Guthrie, Robin Hayward, Barbara Held, Jason Kahn, Martin Küchen,Eduard Márquez, Wade Matthews, Mattin, Manuel Mota, Ivan Palacky, Ramon Prats, Eddie Prévost, Pablo Rega, Àlex Reviriego, Ernesto Rodrigues, Alejandro Rojas-Marcos, Ivo Sans, Joan Saura, Pilar Subirà, Vasco Trilla, Birgit Ulher, Taku Unami, Nikos Velliotis, Dafne Vicente-Sandoval, Mark Wastell, Christopher Williams and Ingar Zach among others. Youtube (album/song): http://youtu.be/yBGePwqr8DM Youtube (Live): http://youtu.be/GET9dJz9LGw Website: http://www.ferranfages.net/ Cover photo by: ISABEL CARDEIRA
