Concerts, including one by Rodrigo Leão Ensemble, performances, exhibitions, interactive installations and debates will embody another edition of the Som Riscado festival, which will take place at the Cine-Teatro Louletano and other venues in Loulé, between the 4th and April 8th.
The event will also feature the presence of João Paulo Esteves da Silva Trio, the New Futurist Orchestra of Porto, Tiago Pereira, Triktopus and «other musicians, directors, photographers, performers and actors», according to Câmara de Loulé.
The festival is launched on April 4th, at 19 pm, with the show “Som Temperado”, a show produced by the Cine-Teatro Louletano in which DJ Miguel Neto mixes the sounds of the cataplana «with the sounds of its construction by Caldeireiros de Loulé» and those made by the Chef of the Tertúlia Algarvia restaurant. The image component of this visual concert will be in charge of Miguel Ângelo.
On April 5, a Thursday, at 21 pm, the Nova Futurista Orchestra of Porto performs, making its absolute debut in the Algarve, to present the show “Autopsya de um Futurismo Português”, which will have the participation of actor Vítor Correia. In this concert, the «brief adventure that was “Portuguese Futurism” and its authors will be evoked, highlighting the libertarian act of using all sounds in musical contexts».
Rodrigo Leão, who will be «accompanied by a guest singer, a formation anchored on a string of strings (violin, cello and viola) and a multi-instrumentalist who will reproduce on stage the soundscapes of the original recordings of “Os Portugueses”», performs on the night of April 6, at 22 pm.
The Portuguese musician and composer will present «a visual concert based on a revised and updated version of Rodrigo Leão's instrumental themes written for the television series “Portugal, um Retrato Social”, whose images will be projected during the show», revealed the municipality loulet.
On the 7th of April, a Saturday, a work commissioned by the Cine-Teatro Louletano will be presented to the trio of João Paulo Esteves da Silva, «whose jazz approach, based on improvisation, will join the universe of visual arts, in this case with a group of photographs of the musician Bernardo Sassetti that are part of the exhibition “… and on top of that it's cold”».
Another order of the festival is the visual concert to be performed by the Triktopus (João Frade, Marco Santos and Diogo Duque), scheduled for April 8, at 18 pm. This training will combine a sound "with a strong ethnic, jazzy influence and use of electronic elements, loops, samples and vocal parts", with Pedro do Vale's real-time experimental design.
The public can also enjoy the interactive installation “No Human Device #4”, by the Boris Chimp 504 project. on the five days of the festival.
On the same days, the interactive installation “Atlas of Utopian Instruments” will be on display in the auditorium of the Convento do Espírito Santo, in charge of Soncopia (Porto). On the closing day of the festival, the same entity will promote a workshop on the construction of utopian instruments/balloon orchestra.
On the 6th of April, the exhibition of self-portraits by Bernardo Sassetti can be seen at the Cine-Teatro Louletano “… and on top of that it's cold”.
Som Riscado will also provide space for reflection and debate. On April 6, at 18:30 pm, Rodrigo Leão (musician), Ivan Dias (producer/director) and Joana Pontes (director) will talk about the theme “From Image to Music: Labyrinths and Fascinations of the Creative Process”.
On the same day, at 21 pm, musician João Paulo Esteves da Silva, university professor Miriam Tavares and Cláudia Varejão, photographer and collaborator at Casa Bernardo Sassetti, «talk about the photographic legacy of musician Bernardo Sassetti, as well as the underlying creative process to João Paulo's visual concert».
The following day, at 16 pm, Raquel Castro moderates the debate between Gustavo Costa (project “Phonanbient”), Carlos Norton (project “Aspa – Sound Archive Landscape of the Algarve”), Tiago Pereira (project “Portuguese Music to Like Itself) and Pedro Glória (project “Sonda” and others), which will focus on the theme “Landscapes and Sound Cartographies: From Collection to the Artistic Reinvention of Local Identities”.
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