Traditional music from the Paiva river valley featured in the Paivascapes #1 festival
Multidisciplinary artist Manuela Barile opens audio and video installation conceived in interaction with the village of Pendilhe
Phill Niblock premiers new composition "Inside Paiva" during Paivascapes #1
Sound performance will interact wih the landscape and architectural elements of the Fráguas river beach on March 6th at 10.00 a.m.
Two films shot in Nodar and directed by portuguese filmmaker Sérgio Cruz will be premiered at Paivascapes #1
Paivascapes #1 – River Paiva Sound Festival, a five-day celebration dedicated to the exploration of riverside landscapes and communities through sound and multimedia art, which is produced by Portuguese sound art organization Binaural/Nodar, has its program complete.
During Paivascapes #1 festival, [...]
Following their April 2010 artist residency in the context of Paivascapes #1 project, Masayo Kajimura and Yasuno Miyauchi created an audiovisual piece using sounds and images collected along the river Paiva. The piece was premiered on May 24th, 2010 at [...]
The American visual artist Craig Dongoski worked in his residence in July 2010 from the contour of the river Paiva, through successive iterations and expressive techniques, drawings, sounds from the river and the surrounding context, sounds from the contact of [...]
After their residency in April 2010, Yasuno and Masayo met in Japan in June and they took the opportunity to further work on their project.
For the exhibition in Vila Nova de Paiva, they plan to hang an umbrella [...]
The estonian Anna Hints participated in the Paivascapes # 1 cycle of artistic residencies last April 2010 with a kaleidoscopic art project made of numerous derivations based on meetings between the body, the voice, the [...]
Lasse-Marc Riek was part of the cycle of Paivascapes # 1 artist residences in late April and early May 2010. Part of the field work of this german sound artist consisted in recording silences in [...]
Before saying goodbye to the village of Fráguas, we still had time to record the sounds of a small herd of goats crossing the main street while their owner whistled and beat with his stick [...]
When the first group of field work ends their mission, we all decided to join the youths’ willingness to dive into the river with our intention to record a specific typology of summertime sounds, common [...]
Already on the edge of Fráguas, we approached Ti Antonio who was harvesting hay on his field. In a speech marked by the years he asked the young woman who was recording if “it will [...]
Arriving in the fields of Fráguas, we found a group of people who was turning the water from irrigation canals to their fields, while in the distance an old man was harvesting hay. Also, on [...]
Going down towards the fields of the village, following the course of irrigation water, we find a community laundry nearly ingrown in the granite, which water outflow was recorded, again with the sound of music [...]