AGENDA (updating)
Aesthesic Waves is an installation where sound is imagined and confronted through the suggestion of vibratory movements of elastic bodies, optical illusions and visual rhythms. Cine-Teatro Garrett, Subpalco, Póvoa de Varzim - 21-24 November.
Leah Singer and Lee Ranaldo pay homage to Portuguese artist Lourdes Castro in the show Contre Jour, with the presentation of All Lights are Shadows gnration, Braga - 30 November.
Peter Broderick plays Arthur Russell. Must-see concert for all fans of the enigmatic Arthur Russell, to take place at the Serralve's beautiful Museum Auditorium on 30 November. Serralves, Porto - 30 November.
“Devendra Banhart: Offering Cloud of Scattered Genitalia” opens at Seeralves in Porto November 21st and includes drawings, watercolors and poems by the author of "Santa Maria da Feira". Serralves, Porto - from 21 November - 18 May 2025.
Monastery of Pombeiro | shot on location, 04.12.2024.
I really like these shots I did of the Saint Mary of Pombeiro Monastery on a grey day with no rain. Fujifilm XT-4 and a wide 13mm f 1.4 Viltrox lens make these captures possible.
This incredible building was one of the most important Benedictine monasteries in the area between the Douro and Minho rivers, and was founded by D. Gomes Echiegues and his wife Gontroda in 1102. The Church, built between the 12th and 13th centuries, features three naves, divided by diaphragm-arches with painted wooden ceilings on the lateral naves.
The original plant of the chancel, rebuilt in the 18th century, was semi-circular, typical of the Romanesque style, as were the still existing apses [secondary chapels]. The main portal capitals are a remarkable example of Romanesque sculpture.
The two tombs with sculpture were part of the funerary centre sheltered in the now vanished galilee, which was linked to the nobility of this territory, including families such as the Sousas or Sousões and the Ribavizelas. In the apses there are two themes of mural painting: one probably representing Saint Blaise and another representing Saint Amarus and Saint Placidus.
The image of the Patron featured in the main retable (the main altar) is possibly a Gothic-style work from between the 14th and 15th centuries. Much was altered between the 16th to 20th centuries: the Church received a set of rococo-style gilded wood, which was worked by the renowned friar José de Santo António Ferreira Vilaça.
04.12.24
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1/ best view of the Church
2/ the Altar
3/ seating area in the elevated pipe organ room
4/ the beautiful and majestic pipe organ refurbished in 2015 after 200 years of silence
Marco Fusinato is a contemporary artist and noise-musician whose work takes the form of installation, photographic reproduction, performance, and recording. As a musician Fusinato explores the idea of noise as music, using the electric guitar and mass amplification to improvise intricate, wide-ranging, and physically affecting frequencies. He performs regularly in the experimental music underground, primarily as a solo artist and has released many recordings on vinyl format.
First performed at the 59th Venice Biennale for 200 consecutive days, 'Desastres' is a sound performance consisting of a wall of amps paired and synchronized with the a wide wall of visuals that summon the spectator into a world of beastly drama and intriguing thoughts.
"I’m going back to exactly the same place my parents migrated from to represent the country they migrated to.
There’s a collapse of time. My parents were born before Italy was a Republic, my great-grandparents were born before Garibaldi unified Italy in 1861.
Australia, like Italy is a recent construct.
I was born on stolen land disguised as some European outpost. I’m at the end of my ancestors’ ancient culture, and simultaneously a parasite on unceded land.
Control-Option-Shift.
Force quit."
in 'Marco Fusinato and Alexie Glass-Kantor in conversation' - Marco Fusinato DESASTRES
Desastres
04.10.24
"NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD" - 04.10.24
"THE PLAIN TRUTH ==
we drifted through it, arguing.
every day a new war crime,
every day a flower bloom.
we sat down together and wrote it in one room,
and then sat down in a different room, recording.
NO TITLE= what gestures make sense while tiny bodies fall? what context? what broken melody?
and then a tally and a date to mark a point on the line, the negative process, the growing pile.
the sun setting above beds of ash
while we sat together, arguing.
the old world order barely pretended to care.
this new century will be crueler still.
war is coming.
don’t give up.
pick a side.
hang on.
love.
GY!BE"
Konrad Smolenski's "Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More - Time Test" is based primarily on the manipulation of the tolling of a bell — an ancient instrument which has for centuries set the rhythm of our earthly and “eternal” lives. Smoleński shares his interest in this instrument with the Polish pioneer of electroacoustic music Eugeniusz Rudnik, who has commented:
“I started working with bells because they were hard, beautiful and new. It was a question of ambition. What can I “get out” of a bell? How can I get inside it? How can I process its sound? How can I use it to create a world of my own that would correspond with the history of the sounds of bells in our reality, our culture, our history, and not just serve as a bare “parochial” code?”
L’EAU ROUGE TURNS 35 – 15.09.24
The Young Gods 'L'Eau Rouge' turns 35 this September. Their 2nd studio album, it is usually referred to as their masterpiece and was included in “1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die” in 2005, the 1st edition of the book edited by English writer Robert Dimery, who had previously worked for magazines such as Time Out and Vogue. The book is still being updated today and the album still features. Incidentally, been wanting to write about this album's milestone, which is sometime in September (a specific day for the release of the album has never been confirmed), and just heard the news of Roli Mosimann passing aged 68. The Swiss-American producer behind this album's unique sound was a respected drummer, musician and producer who worked with The The, Celtic Frost, New Order, Faith No More, Skinny Puppy, Marilyn Manson, and more.
'La Fille de La Mort' is one of the highlights of the album and makes the Mix #110
"History for the music industry repeats itself first as arrogant tragedy, second as arrogant farce. Investment banking and financial services group Goldman Sachs recently published its latest Music In The Air report on the economic health and future of the music business. It is precisely the kind of thing one might expect from an investment banking and financial services group: it goes heavy on praising the plump numbers while roaring that there is plenty more money coming. It’s like a TED Talk from Gordon Gekko in a biker jacket."
in 'How the Music Industry is in a New Age of Arrogance' - 16.05.24
The Quietus
Jung, Rothko, Tanning, Duchamp: Inside the mind of Nadav Kander, one of my favourite photographers. Known for his portrait and landscape work, Kander has a meditative approach in his London studio – and a profoundly subjective take on making images.
Re-watching Brit flicks when I miss London too much. Those with a familiar urbanity, as most movies set in England with English actors actually are. This is peak Tom Hardy before all of the Hollywood fuss. It's violent to the core, often crass but it's genuine. That scene where a large group of psychiatric inmates starts dancing to the Pet Shop Boys song 'It's A Sin', is alone worth the price of the ticket. If you like Nicolas Winding Refn movies and aesthetic, make sure to check his free curated website of films, essays and more art byNWR.