Category: Agenda

Friday: Erik Dæhlin at Castro Marim Castle

Diogo

Taking place Friday, at around 17:00 at Castro Marim Castle, will be the first public presentation of work developed by the artists-in-residence of the Particular Universal project: in this instance that of Norwegian artist Erik Dæhlin, a composer working across Sound, Image and Text who has, since March 13th, explored the different places and environments within the Castro Marim Municipality (including the Castro Marim and Vila Real de Santo António Marsh Natural Preserve, with a particular focus on the Guadiana river delta), making a record of his impressions through texts, field recordings and photography, all of which he has worked on with a view towards Friday's performance / talk, which will afterwards be evoked in a piece to be presented at the Only Connect festival in Oslo, towards the end of April.

Be sure to check out the teaser below, which includes a small part of the conversations we've had with the artist during his residency and a glimpse into his working process.

Spring in bloom: what's in store for March and April

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We're super excited to share the five-yes-five events coming up in March and April throughout Barreiro - a strong return with must-see concerts which take the pulse of what's being made throughout the country and the world.

On March 11th, we'll host, for the first time, a transatlantic quartet carrying within itself all of jazz: guitarist Luís Lopes' Humanization 4tet, accompanied by Rodrigo Amado's saxophone and the drums of Texans Aaron and Stefan Gonzalez; the group's latest album, their fourth since they began playing together in 2008, has made its way into almost every international list of 2021's best albums, and their concert promises to feature the fire of free, the melody of bop, and the energy of punk. There's hardly a better way to return to a venue where we've been very happy, one under a new and dynamic management - Sala 6 (formerly the Be Jazz Café).

One week after that, two returns: the remarkable Clothilde, master of modular sonic architecture and elecronic soundscapes created with a wall of synthesizers handmade by the musician known as Hobo, returning to our city after her performances at OUT.FEST in 2018 and 2019, and the promising João Silva, the trumpeter we had the pleasure of listening to around two and a half years ago as parte of the special night dedicated to the Creative Sources label. These concerts will take place at the Auditorium of the Municipal Library on the 18th.

Onwards to April, when we'll have two more evenings of creative music: first, on the 15h, we return to Sala 6 for the explosive meeting between two stars of Portuguese jazz - Ricardo Toscano & Gabriel Ferrandini bring us their duo, full of lyricism and fury, a dialogue between the poetry of Toscano's saxophone and Ferrandini's infinite drums.

On the 29th, and again at the Municipal Library, an evening of free improvisation will take place with the Barreiro debut of Belgian artist Farida Amadou, a leading name in European new music who, with an electric bass, an amplifier and half a dozen pedals, redefines the role and the potential of the instrument. Also performing on that evening will be "our" Fernando Ramalho, doing the same with a guitar and his oblique poetry.

Tickets for these four events can already be purchased, as usual, either online, or person at BOL's associated stores (such as Fnac and Worten).

To wrap up these announcements, we can't forget the fifth event - the first one, in fact: On the afternoon of March 5th, at the Municipal Library, another public moment of the work developed by one of the OUT.RA grant recipients will take place: Vera Marques aka Puçanga will play host to another session of “Vozes Plurais“, a cycle of talks, open to the public, regarding the affective and political power of the voice in its many expressive forms, be they musical, oral or written. This time the guests will be the historic anti-fascist militants Helena Pato and Álvaro Monteiro. Admittance is free for this event.

These coming months will thus be filled with great opportunities to see each other again. See you soon!

OUT.RA Local Creation Grant for 2021: Applications open

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Picture by: Vera Marmelo

OUT.RA – Associação Cultural is now accepting applications to its creation grant by young local artists who want to develop artistic work related to music / sound / sound art / multimedia during 2022.

This year, we've decided to remove the age limit from this grant, although it remains focused on supporting emergent artists without a consolidated career.

The broadened geographical scope established in 2021 remains, and artists residing in neighbouring Moita and Seixal are still eligible for this grant, which amounts to 1000€.

Since 2015, the OUT.RA Local Creation Grant has supported artists like André Neves, Van Ayres, Camila Vale and Vera Marques, among others.

You can read all the necessary information regarding this grant below. Applications are open until January 16th 2022. We're looking forward to receiving your projects!

 

OPEN CALL

BOLSA DE CRIAÇÃO LOCAL OUT.RA 2022

The criteria considered in selecting a project for this grant are as follows:

  • Resident in the Barreiro, Moita or Seixal Municipalities;
  • Over 18 years old;
  • Education (higher or technical) in artistic fields, particularly in Music / Sound Art / Multimedia / Ethnomusicology, or alternatively relevant work already developed in Music / Sound Art which reveals an interest in seeking new solutions and an idiosyncratic artistic personality;
  • Awareness of the work developed by OUT.RA (OUT.FEST, regular programming, sound documentation, etc) and degree of project fit with said work;
  • Conceptual quality of the creative project, level of maturity presented in regards to its development, feasibility of the presentation in terms of means necessary towards realizing them;
  • The work developed by the grant winner should result in at least one public presentation.
  • This grant is set at 1000€.

Applications should be sent to info@outra.pt up until January 16th and contain the following information:

  • Name, CV and artistic biography;
  • Project description and calendarization.
  • Materials necessary for the development of the project.

Our concerts are back: Soroastra and César Burago at the Municipal Library

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After a long and intense OUT.FEST, we're back to our regular programming with brand new cosmic music from the Soroastra duo (made up of Afonso Simões and Spain's Borja Caro), in one of the first presentations of their wonderful new album "Olimpíadas de Pensamentos Acelerados", as well as the always unique César Burago in a solo presentation armed with small percussive instruments, finally returning to Barreiro after his originally planned show in the spring of 2020 had to be cancelled.
These concerts will take place in the Auditorium of the Barreiro Municipal Library on Saturday, November 13th, starting at 21:30. Tickets, priced at the usual 5€ (2.5 for under 25 yrs old) can already be purchased via outra.bol.pt

OUT.FEST 2021 second moment: full programme announced, tickets on sale

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Here's the full programme for OUT.FEST 2021's second moment, back across several venues in Barreiro from the 4th to the 9th October.

After a first moment in June, the 17th OUT.FEST returns and concludes in its usual October dates, with 14 new opportunities to witness, in the flesh, some of the most important music of these times.

One of October's highlights is the continuing of the REMAIIN parallel programme, promoting european experimental music's roots in other world cultures.

In this scope we bring you music by the historical french composer ÉLIANE RADIGUE (one diffused/spacialized electronic piece as well as the live interpretation of recent work, one of which a world premiére), but also the portuguese debut of french-born Berlin resident JESSICA EKOMANE, as well as a first public collaboration between JOÃO PAIS FILIPE and MANONGO MUJICA, a peruvian composer and percussionist connected to the first avant-garde waves in 20th century South America.

Tickets are now available (both global passes and day tickets), but keep in mind that several free admission events require registration - read the programme carefully.

SONICA EKRANO - Our new film festival begins this Thursday

Diogo

This next Friday marks the beginning of our new festival: SONICA EKRANO - Documentary film & the musical fringes, which will bring to Barreiro and Moita (Baixa da Banheira, more specifically) thirteen excellent documentaries concerning underground and unconventional musical figures and movements shown over ten days.

The festival will begin with two national premieres: "Acid Mothers Reynols: Live and Beyond", by Argentinian director Alejandro Maly will be shown in the opening session, presenting the fascinating encounter between Japanese band Acid Mothers Temple (who were present at OUT.FEST in an unforgettable concert in 2016) and the Argentinian Reynols (who have have Alan Courtis among their ranks, an extraordinary musician whom we've hosted in Barreiro for three times now for his work with Associação Nós). Then, on Friday, "Voice of the Eagle: The enigma of Robbie Basho" brings the guitarist's history to the big screen, portraying this North-American musician, composer and mystic, one of the great figures of the American fingerpicked guitar tradition alongside John Fahey. 

Tickets for the festival are already on sale online and on the usual participating stores, such as Fnac, Worten and CTT.

September begins with CAVERNANCIA at the Baía do Tejo

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September will be a month filled with firsts - even before the start of the first edition of SONICA EKRANO - Documentary film and the musical fringes (our new film festival, for which tickets are already available), we'll discover the 13th Street of the Baía do Tejo Business Park (more specifically, the warehouse no. 28/30), where the launch concert for the debut album by CAVERNANCIA, "em ciano" (released on tape by Nariz Entupido) will take place on Saturday, September 4th.

CAVERNANCIA is the latest project by photographer Pedro Roque, who we know both from his work in capturing in monochrome what his "Eyes of Madness" see as well as his part in projects like Systemik Viølence, Besta and M.O.T.Ü. On the three tracks that make up this tape, "a noite", "morre", and "em ciano", we travel through pathways with an atmosphere stained by the color spectrum that gives its name to this tape, standing on foundations of noise, drone or ambient music.

The concert will begin at 21:30, with tickets being priced at 5€ (or 2,5 for those under 25 years old). They are already available online at outra.bol.pt, ou in person at Fnac, Worten ou CTT stores.

SONICA EKRANO – Full programme revealed

Diogo

Olá a todos

As promised, today we reveal the programme for the first edition of SONICA EKRANO - Documentary film & the musical fringes, which will take place between the 9th and 18th of September in Barreiro and Baixa da Banheira (Moita Municipality).

This new festival, dedicated to the music, musicians, sounds and movements at the edges of massification and popularity, is a new space to provide the opportunity to watch cinematic works which remain (even in an age of digital platforms with on-demand content) hard to access, contributing to an increased audiovisual inclusiveness, striving to present a diversity of geographies and strike a balance between historical perspective and contemporary narratives.

Its first edition presents thirteen films, six of them national premieres, namely: Acid Mothers Reynols: Live and Beyond, by Alejandro Maly, which focuses on the Japanese band Acid Mothers Temple and the Argentinian Reynols who came together in 2017, in Buenos Aires, to create a joint record and concert;  Voice of the Eagle: The Enigma of Robbie Basho, by Liam Barker, about the unusual and extraordinary life of the north-american guitarist and composer Robbie Basho; The Albatross Around My Neck: Retracing Echoes of Loss Between Lucknow and Berlin, by Markus Schlaffkre, which presents us with Irfan Khan, one of the masters of the sarod, a string instrument part of the Hindustani musical tradition; Crestone, by Marnie Ellen Hertzler, which takes us to a deserted village in Colorado, where a micro-comunity of rappers lives in isolation, while sharing their music with the outside world through the Soundcloud online platform; Extreme Nation, by Roy Dipankar, a voyage through the indian subcontinent in search of the histories of the extreme mental community and subculture; and Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and Legendary Tapes, by Caroline Catz, a mix of documentary and biopic which portrays the personality and the precious legacy of one of electronic music's pioneers, the British composer Delia Derbyshire, whose career, while forever connected to the theme of the Doctor Who series, which she composed in 1963, goes far beyond it.

Besides this film dedicated to Delia Derbyshire, two other documentaries presented at SONICA EKRANO pay tribute to the recent wave of rediscovery of the pioneer women in electronic music. One of them is Sisters with Transistors, by Lisa Rovner, about the work and genius of the many women at the forefront of electronic music since its beginnings: Clara Rockmore, Daphne Oram, Bebe Barron, Maryanne Amacher, Pauline Oliveros, Wendy Carlos, Eliane Radigue and Laurie Spiegel. The other is Suzanne Ciani: A Life in Waves, by Brett Whitcomb, about the life and innovations developed by north-american artist Suzanne Ciani, and the way in which, starting from a classical music education, she became financially independent by creating music and sound for the world of advertising, using it as a canvas for exploration and revolutionary discoveries.

Portugal is also represented at the festival by two films: SOA, by Raquel Castro, which emerged from an investigation by the director into sound and soundscapes, silence and noise in all of the sound spectrum and its relation with those who hear them; and Caos e Afinidade, by Pedro Gonçalves, which dives into the world of improvised music in Portugal, whose centre is the Irreal Bar in Lisbon, and features the participation of names like Gabriel Ferrandini, Adriana Sá, Carlos Zíngaro and Luís Lopes. Both directors will be present at the sessions.

Wrapping up the programme for this first edition of SONICA EKRANO are the films Swans – Where Does a Body End?, by Marco Porsia, an extraordinary portrait of Michael Gira's Swans, who have built one of the most unique careers in modern rock music; Conny Plank: The Potential of Noise, by Reto Caduff and Stephan Plank, about one of the pioneers of krautrock and electronic pop, Conny Plank, who had a direct influence on bands and artists such as Neu!, Brian Eno, David Bowie, Ultravox or Eurythmics; and That Pärt Feeling: The Universe of Arvo Pärt, by Paul Hegeman, dedicated to the Estonian Arvo Pärt, probably the most celebrated living composer of our era.

These sessions will take place the the José Manuel Figueiredo Cultural Forum (9 to 12 September), the Barreiro Municipal Library (13 to 16 September) and the Augusto Cabrita Municipal Auditorium (17 and 18 September), and the tickets for the sessions at these last two venues are already on sale, while tickets for the sessions between the 9th and 12th will be available soon.

Stay tuned to all the news regarding the festival by following the festival's official website or its social media pages at facebook.com/sonicaekrano and instagram.com/sonicaekrano.

SONICA EKRANO is organized by OUT.RA – Associação Cultural, with co-financing by ICA, in partnership with the Barreiro and Moita municipalities and support by the Transportes Coletivos do Barreiro and Fórum Barreiro.

 

SONICA EKRANO - Documentary film & the musical fringes

Diogo

Today we're happy to announce the inception of a new film festival: "SONICA EKRANO - Documentary film & the musical fringes", which will take place between the 9th and 18th of September in Barreiro and Baixa da Banheira (Moita Municipality). 

The name SONICA EKRANO, written in Esperanto (meaning “Sound Screen” in English), seeks to reflect both music and cinema as “universal languages”, while also honouring the strong esperantist tradition in the south bank of the Tagus river.

This new festival is dedicated to the music, musicians, sounds and movements at the edges of massification and popularity, creating a new space to provide the opportunity to watch cinematic works which remain (even in an age of digital platforms with on-demand content) hard to access, contributing to an increased audiovisual inclusiveness, striving to present a diversity of geographies and strike a balance between historical perspective and contemporary narratives.

This first edition will present 13 feature-length films, almost half of them national premieres, and the full programme will be revealed by the middle of August at the festival's website: www.sonicaekrano.com

This festival is created by OUT.RA - Associação Cultural with co-financing by ICA and in partnership with the Barreiro and Moita Municipalities.

Meanwhile, mark the dates on your calendar!

July at the Municipal Library: Manuel Mota & David Grubbs and The Selva

Diogo

Today we announce two concerts to take place in July, with our regular programming marching on through the difficult times we live in and providing us with the ever more necessary nourishment for our spirits. 

The next Friday, the 16th, will be a momentous occasion in which we'll receive two absolute masters of the six strings, two enormous inspirations and influences in our paths as music listeners: none other than the duo of Manuel Mota & David Grubbs (yes, him!), who bring with them a beautiful and sadly neglected 2018 album, 'Lacrau', released by Drag City. We can expect their collaboration to be a sensitive, touchingly poetic one.

Then on Tuesday the 27th, the eagerly awaited Barreiro debut of the trio The Selva will take place, a group made up of first-rate Portuguese musicians who make their way through jazz, free improvisation and chamber music of a sort: Ricardo Jacinto (cello), Nuno Morão (percussion) e Gonçalo Almeida (double bass) are the protagonists.

Both concerts will take place at the Auditorium of the Barreiro Municipal Library, starting at 21h00, with tickets costing 5€ (or 2,5€ for those under 25 years old).

You can already purchase tickets online through outra.bol.pt, or in person in Fnac, Worten or CTT stores.

Saturday at the Municipal Library: DDK Trio

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We're back to our regular concert programming after three wonderful days of OUT.FEST with one of 2020's postponed shows: the DDK Trio, made up of German trumpeter Axel Dörner and the Swiss musicians Jacques Demierre (piano) and Jonas Kocher (accordion), who present their free, poetic and attentive improvisation at the Auditorium of the Municipal Library this Saturday, the 12th, at 21:15.
Tickets can be purchased at the venue from 20h45 onwards for 5€ (general audience) or 2.5€ (under 25 years old).

OUT.FEST 2021 - Lineup change / Day tickets now available

Diogo

There’s less than a week to go until the start of the first part of OUT.FEST 2021, whose lineup will regrettably have one change from what was originally announced. Due to recent health issues, IANCU DUMITRESCU’s concert with the Barreiro Ensemble will not take place on June 3rd as scheduled. Instead, we intend to present this show during the festival’s second moment, between the 5th and 9th of October.

However, we are happy to announce a new concert for that evening: taking the stage at the Augusto Cabrita Municipal Auditorium at 20:45 will be theRAFAEL TORAL SPACE QUARTET, a group which has just released their already widely acclaimed new album ‘Directions’ This will be a symbolic moment in the history of the festival, seeing as it marks the artist’s return to the place where he made his OUT.FEST debut in 2006, with his then almost brand-new Space Trio.

Day tickets for this first instance of the festival are now also available for purchase at outra.bol.pt for 10€ (good for both the afternoon and evening concerts). Passes are also still available - but only 30 of them remain, so hurry!