After we got to know Carapito in detail, moving slowly through its streets and alleys, we came to a high ground in the village, where threshing floors, granaries and barns dominate the landscape. Here we found a group of people, men and women, standing against a wall while catching the last sun of a cold [...]

When finally entering in the village of Carapito, we confirmed the strength of granite in almost every house, many of them shut, and met a slightly eccentric inhabitant, the 74 year old Mr. Manuel da Rosa, who, surrounded by a junkyard and gadgets that he adapts and rebuilds, told us very clearly where is the [...]

Arrived at the houses of the village of Carapito, we meet an old lady bent by the years, who, without being asked a thing, tells us about the high number of men who have died recently in the village and the village’s priest and his origin.
Recorded by Luis Costa on March 10th, [...]

Already near the village of Carapito, the resonance of an underground water well draws our attention. Particularly interesting how the sounds from the outside, eg from passing cars on the road, are transformed.
Recorded by Luis Costa on March 10th, 2010 at 12.56 p.m. with a Fostex FR-2LE recorder and a Tellinga PRO 7 parabolic microphone.
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A trickle of water in a pond, along a road giving access to the village of Carapito, a municipal road that connects this village to the Lapa Mountain, in the municipality of Sernacelhe.
Recorded by Luis Costa on March 10th, 2010 at 12.33 p.m. with a Fostex FR-2LE recorder and a Tellinga PRO 7 [...]

Water from the springs and streams of the village of Carapito is naturally used to irrigate the fields. Indeed the vast majority of these fields is located in the area where the river Paiva springs. While passing over a water channel that goes under the road we hear a curious bubbling, a [...]

Overlapping sounds amid the tangle of existing springs and streams in the village of Carapito, whose water flows are particularly powerful at these times of early spring rainfalls. Interesting contrast between the slight trickle of a pond and the power of a water fall.
Recorded by Luis Costa on March 10th, 2010 at [...]

On a cold morning in March 2010 began a long sound walk along the Paiva River and we started in the exact location where the river is born: the village of Carapito, parish of Pera Velha, Municipality of Moimenta da Beira, District of Viseu. It is not easy to understand the precise location [...]