The fourth edition of the Som Riscado Festival brought to Loulé, from the 11th to the 14th of April, leading actors and reference projects in the areas of experimental music and image, many of them making their absolute debut in the Algarve.
With a "significant public adhesion" to most of the proposals presented, this event, with no parallel in its artistic concept south of the Tagus, once again ventured into an innovative artistic program, thinking both of minorities and of a wider audience. mainstream.
The program included concerts, interactive installations, performances, multidisciplinary shows, training and debates with names such as Vítor Rua, André Tentugal, Noiserv, Chassol, Radar 360º, Lixoluxopóetico, Carlos Zíngaro and The Metaphysical Angels.
This year's edition was marked by a strong commitment to the formative dimension, with several masterclasses and performative conversations, strongly involving the school community in the municipality of Loulé and the Algarve region (linked to the audiovisual area), with the participation of musician Vítor Rua and director André Tentugal. The two trainers focused on new approaches to Sound and Music and the creation of Image for musical content.
Previewing the event, Vítor Rua and André Tentugal developed artistic mediation actions in the week prior to the festival (between 1 and 5 April) at Loulé Secondary School, Drª Laura Ayres Secondary School (Quarteira), ETIC_Algarve, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences and the Higher School of Education and Communication (both from the University of Algarve), and at the EB2,3/S da Bemposta School (Portimão) – partner institutions of the festival –, covering a total of more than 300 students and their teachers.
This aspect constitutes, in fact, «one of the programmatic priorities of the Som Riscado festival, in order to gradually contribute to the creation and greater expansion of audiences at the level of experimental and exploratory universes», stresses the Câmara de Loulé.
Som Riscado then opened on April 11th, with a full house at the Chapel of Nossa Senhora da Conceição, in Loulé, an unusual location, for which the organization called the “Concílio (crossed out) of the Gods”, in an evening that brought together some of the protagonists of the festival in a lively informal conversation about creative and public processes, preceded by a solo violin performance by a great name in Portuguese experimental music, long absent from the Algarve stages: Carlos Zíngaro.
Also on the 11th, Vítor Rua's masterclass (six hours) dynamically involved students from the Multimedia course at Loulé Secondary School, from the Musical Creation, Production and Sound Techniques course at ETIC_Algarve and from the Jazz Instrumentalist course at EB2,3 School .XNUMX/S of Bemposta (Portimão).
It was an entire day dedicated to exploratory approaches to the sound and musical universes, in a relaxed atmosphere, in which Rua deconstructed various concepts and models, interacted with trainees and proposed various practical formats with musical performances by students.
On the 12th, it would be André Tentugal's turn to present a lively masterclass (equally six hours) with students from the Multimedia and Graphic Design courses at the Loulé Secondary School, the ETIC Film and Directing course, the Photography course at the Drª Laura Ayres Secondary School in Quarteira and the degrees in Animated Image at the School Superior of Communication Education of the University of Algarve and Visual Arts of the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences of the same higher education institution.
Exemplifying with his eclectic professional career and conveying numerous practical advice on techniques and methods of image creation for musical content, Tentugal also dedicated a substantial part of his training to the production, together with the students, of a video clip that had the special participation by the musician Noiserv, which is being publicized on social networks by the Cine-Teatro Louletano.
During the festival, many people, from children to adults, joined in the performance “Há:som Directa”, by Lixoluxopóetico, the master of sound sculptures who debuted in the south, coming from northern lands, in three sold-out sessions in which amazement was the watchword, with the audience vibrating (and interacting with the artist trying out the devices used during the show) with the contagious sounds that cathodes, vacuum cleaners, typewriters and other unconventional objects produced, under the baton of the creative sound plastic sculptor.
For its part, the interactive installation “Noiserv in your hands”, open to the public in the foyer from Cine-Teatro Louletano, delighted children and adults alike, with a very enthusiastic adherence to this proposal by musician Noiserv, one of Som Riscado's guests, to dive playfully and emotionally into its sounds.
The show “Manipula#Som”, by the Porto association Radar 360º, was one of the highlights of the festival on its second day (April 12th), with the numerous audience, of various ages, present at the Cine-Teatro vibrating with creativity and originality of a proposal that combined, with undeniable artistic quality, the circus arts, namely the manipulation of objects, and the universe of sounds and its multiple derivations and developments.
Exploring the question of how sound influences movement and how it shapes corporeality/physicality, the performer António Oliveira presented a performative work that excelled in a great balance between technique, visual art and interpretive sensitivity.
On Saturday, April 13th, it was the turn of a great international name to take the stage at the Cine-Teatro Louletano, for one of the most anticipated shows at Som Riscado. The renowned and disturbing French composer and pianist Chassol made his debut in the south, with the concert “Big Sun”, a show that defied any attempt at classification, with an audience surrendered to his captivating audiovisual compositions that combine voices, music, sounds and images .
On Sunday morning, also included in the festival's schedule, Chassol promoted a stimulating masterclass – it was the first time that the musician did something like this in Portugal – in which the participants had the privilege of having a close contact with the pianist and of understanding in depth his creative processes.
On the same night, but at the Solar da Música Nova Auditorium, the most experimental moment of this year's edition of the festival took place, with the debut of a luxury collective: Vítor Rua & The Metaphysical Angels.
The band came to Loulé to present the double album “Androids Dream of Electric Guitar?”, in which the guitar is at the epicenter in hybrid approaches of free jazz matrix and where the musical affiliation of the themes becomes a constant challenge, with the intervention of each instrument to reveal itself, at every turn, a surprise.
Perhaps for this reason, music critic and producer Vasco Completo, from the digital magazine “Rimas e Batidas”, who accompanied all of Som Riscado, stated that in this festival “the record turns and never plays the same”.
Closing the festival, an order that Noiserv joined by photographer Luís da Cruz from Loulet, revealing the ongoing programmatic commitment (not only in terms of Som Riscado) to Cine-Teatro Louletano's programmatic commitment to valuing local talents and promoting unprecedented encounters with renowned figures of the national artistic panorama.
So, on Sunday, April 14, the Auditorium of Solar da Música Nova received a surprising concert installation, in an unconventional scenic device in which Noiserv played inside a structure composed of three projection screens, which massively transported all that joined the singular performance for a contemplative and poetic universe in which the sound of Noiserv dialogued harmoniously with the images of Luís da Cruz, in one of the highlights of the festival, as many spectators would later point out.
The commitment to the affirmation and consolidation of Som Riscado – Loulé Music and Image Festival is thus one of the priorities in the programming of the Cine-Teatro Louletano, contributing to the training and expansion of audiences derived from the diversity and boldness of the offer. presented, for greater democratization of access to Culture and for a reinforcement of the educational and training component as well as artistic mediation with both the school community and the general public.
Taking risks, innovating and getting involved are the mottos of this unique event, which returns in 2020 with new protagonists, approaches and formats.
O Cine-Teatro Louletano is a cultural structure in the field of performing arts of the Municipality of Loulé and is part of Rede Azul – Network of Theaters of the Algarve and Rede 5 Sentidos.
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