Category: OUT.RA

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 2021. This time, we've decided to expand the geographical range of potential applicants by allowing residents in the neighbouring Moita and Seixal municipalities to apply for this grant, set at 1000€.

Since 2015, the OUT.RA Local Creation Grant has supported artists like Tiago Sousa, Van Ayres and Camila Vale. 

You can read all the necessary information regarding this grant below. Applications are open until January 31st 2021. We're looking forward to receiving your projects!

 

OPEN CALL

OUT.RA LOCAL CREATION GRANT 2021

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

  • Resident in the Barreiro, Moita or Seixal Municipalities;
  • Age between 18 and 35 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 recipient of the grant should take place between April and December 2020, and have at least one public presentation as part of its outputs.

This grant is set at 1000€.

Applications should be sent to info@outra.pt up until January 31st and contain the following information:

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

Domingo: ZIMA e Tiago Sousa apresentam ‘Grão de Luz’

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O nosso 2020 acaba já no próximo domingo, com a apresentação, às 11h, n’Os Franceses, do segundo momento do trabalho desenvolvido por Sara Zita Correia e Marta Ramos (ZIMA) no âmbito de uma das Bolsas de Criação OUT.RA. “Grão de Luz” é o título deste espectáculo, que conta com a participação especial do nosso eminente Tiago Sousa, convidado pelas ZIMA para explorar sons e métodos de trabalho.

Sei Miguel Quartet – “Swing Ratio” at the Municipal Library

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Our 2020 concert schedule continues, this time at the renewed auditorium of the Barreiro Municipal Library to host one of the great masters of genre-less music, trumpeter and composer Sei Miguel, who will present his latest work, "Swing Ratio", with his quartet.

This show will take place Friday the 11th of December at 21:00, and attendance is limited to 40 people, in accordance with the health norms in place. Tickets can be purchased here, or in person at Worten, Fnac or CTT stores.

November: Floresta Oblíqua's new album release at Os Franceses with ZZY opening

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While still navigating through these uncertain times, we're back to our concert programming, this time to present the new release by FLORESTA OBLÍQUA, the Lisbon-based entity who has, for the past two years, affirmed itself as another great representative of the ever-richer world of modular electronic experimentation in our country. 

This release will take place Saturday, the 7th of November, in a matinée at the lovely dance hall of the SDUB "Os Franceses", with Barreiro's own ZZY (who has released two great albums over the past 12 months - "Plastic Jazz" and "Disorder") opening the afternoon.

Attendance is limited to 40 people, with the usual social distancing and higiene rules in place and with mask usage being mandatory. Tickets can be purchased for 5€ (general audience) or 2.5€ (under-25) at BOL (https://outra.bol.pt/) and their partner stores (Fnac, Worten, CTT).

Concerts return to Barreiro

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For four saturdays between August 29th and September 19th, as part of the "Paz & Amizade" cycle, we will host concerts by Vaiapraia, Lula Pena, Rodrigo Amado com Ricardo Toscano, João Lencastre e Hernâni Faustino, as well as a brand new performance by local musician Fast Eddie Nelson (on September 19th) whom we've challenged to create a show around Pink Floyd, entitled "Between Barrett and the Moon" which, as the name suggests, will explore the expansive legacy of the British quartet focusing on their releases in the period between Syd Barrett's departure and the massive success of "Dark Side of the Moon".

Before that, on August 29th, Vaiapraia will open this concert cycle with their recent (and highly praised) new album "100% Carisma"; on September 5th the idiosyncratic singer-songwriter Lula Pena takes the stage, fresh off an Italian mini-tour; and on September 12th we'lll host a quartet which brings together several currents of jazz in the form of the union of the two most celebrated Portuguese saxophone players (Rodrigo Amado and Ricardo Toscano) with drummer João Lencastre and double bassist Hernâni Faustino.

These concerts will take place in the late afternoon (18:30) at the open air amphitheatre at the Paz e Amizade Park, a seldom used space inaugurated in 1983, whose name (which translates to Peace and Friendship Park) comes from the anti-nuclear proliferation events which occurred during the summer of that same year in Czechoslovakia.

Tickets (5€ or 2,5€ for under 25-year-olds) are already on sale at outra.bol.pt and associated points of sale, and we strongly recommend that you purchase them in advance to comply with the Directorate-General for Health recommendations. For that same reason, hand sanitization and wearing a mask will be mandatory at the event, and the venue's capacity will be limited to ensure a safe distance between all attending. 

Live music will in fact return to Barreiro one day prior to this however, on August 28th, with a show by the recipients of one of the three OUT.RA creative grants for 2020:  “Nuvem de Pó” is the first of several public presentations of the work developed by ZIMA (Sara Zita Correia e Marta Ramos), two creatives whose background is rooted in dance and performance and who have been investing themselves in the research of sound as a complementary and non-academic method of self-descovery. This show will take place at SDUB “Os Franceses” at 21h30, with admittance being free of chage subject to the venue's capacity and a mandatory reservation made in advance by e-mailing info@outra.pt, and also to the Directorate-General of Health's guidelines.

EM REDE II, from June 28th to July 2nd

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The EM REDE festival is back for its second edition, once again helping to draw a musical portrait of present-day Barreiro.

After a first edition where 18 artists recorded solo performances in their homes, EM REDE II (with the current context of a controlled deconfinement in mind), focuses on, almost exclusively, performances by bands and collectives recorded at the iconic ADAO, with 10 shows broadcast over 5 days, from the 28th of June (Barreiro Day) and the 2nd of June, always at 21:30 at the Municipality’s YouTube channel.

The line-up presented during these five days, once again the fruit of a partnership between OUT.RA and the Municipality, goes even deeper into the aesthetic diversity of the music made in or connected to the city, bringing to the stage representatives of garage rock, heavy metal, hip hop, cotxi-pó and jazz, with figures as established as General D, Nídia and Pista and up and coming artists beyond the borders of the Municipality like Rafa G or New Mecanica.

Access to these shows is, as always, free, but we urge you to consider supporting the artists by purchasing their music and merchandise by following the available links to their online channels.

The schedules and daily line-ups are listed below.

 

Line-up

June 28th

21h30. B2R

22h00. The Brooms

Dia 29 de Junho

21h30. Monkey Cage

22h00. New Mecanica

Dia 30 de Junho

21h30. Scorpions

22h00. General D

Dia 1 de Julho
21h30. Pista

22h00. Otavinho

Dia 2 de Julho

21h30. Rafa G

22h00. Nídia

 

The artists

June 28th

B2R

A collective of rappers and producers from Barreiro formed this decade, based around Quint da Amoreira (in Alto do Seixalinho), active in crossing trap, drill and hints of afro-house with lyrics concerning their (our) reality. Along with the relevancy of their work, their videos bring forward new perspectives over some of the city’s distinct areas and daily lives. 

THE BROOMS

Born from the ‘ashes’ of The Sullens, one of the city’s garage rock institutions, The Brooms are a quintet which lives up to their eternal promise of energy, electricity, vertigo and hypnosis. Fuzz, Vox, Beat & Groove!

 

June 28th

 

MONKEY CAGE

Quartet on a journey through the imaginary railway connecting Black Sabbath to Pixies, with stops at the Kyuss and Queens of the Stone Age stations. They’ve released “Be Well” this year, the second album in their discography.

 

NEW MECANICA

With three albums released to the world during a career spanning over a decade (the last of which, “Vehement”, was released by the Italian label “Wormhole Death Records” and distributed in Europe, the USA and Japan), New Mecanica is an all-Barreiro quintet carrying the torch of cohesive, powerful and socially aware metal.

 

Dia 30 de Junho

 

SCORPIONS

Following their “Roice Cosmos” tape, the trio Scorpions presents two new pieces at EM REDE: “Tubolata” and “Santander”, born from a continuous evolution starting from improvisation to cosmic composition. 

 

GENERAL D

A pioneer of rap in Portugal, a citizen of the world (but also, on many occasions, of Barreiro’s urban area), General D brings us classics like 'Black Magik Woman' and 'África Nossa', as well as 'Zombie', which will be part of a new album to be released in 2021 which, in the artist’s words, “focuses on the ways in which social networks changed the relationship dynamics between populations”.

 

Dia 1 de Julho

 

PISTA

Tropical, cheerful and celebratory rock music bringing the summer heat to the remaining seasons, born from its members love of bicycles and music. After releasing their debut EP (“Pista”) and album (“Bamboleio”), they revisit their sound with a new album which promises to reach ever bigger heights: Ocreza.

 

OTAVINHO

Otavinho is part of a new generation of Afro-Portuguese people well connected to their roots, bringing new life to the stories and life experiences of their heritage. His music renews and carries on with tradition simultaneously - in this case, turning funaná into cotxi po, and radiates happiness even when lamenting sadness.

 

Dia 2 de Julho

 

RAFA G

From Vale da Amoreira to the world, Rafa G is one of the brightest new lights in truly urban music made in Portugal over the last two years. “Correria”, one of his first songs released on YouTube and already a classic on its own merits, has now over 4 million views and an enormous influence in the narrative of so many of the life experiences in peripheral neighborhoods throughout the country. He has just put out his first physical release, featuring appearances by artists like Deejay Telio, Minguito, Kappa Jotta and many others.

 

NÍDIA

A 23 year old producer who already is one of the great exporters of new Portuguese music, with press from all over the world (including the New York Times, for instance) gushing over her three (!) new releases in 2020. After her debut with the Príncipe label in 2015, she’s been travelling the world in performances and collaborations with people like Kelsey Lu, Lafawndah and Mica Live. She has since won a Grammi (the Swedish music industry’s equivalent to the Grammys) for producing a song by Swedish star Fever Ray.

 

Noite da Raposa IV – June 6th, 21h30, online

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It's the return of a night which has already established itself as one of the most eclectic in OUT.RA’s programming: Noite da Raposa, bringing together local, regional, and on this occasion international creators in electronic dance music, modular synthesis, contemporary composition and ambient music (and everything in between).

Originally planned for the beginning of May in ADAO, its "natural habitat", Noite da Raposa will instead be broadcast online in OUT.RA's youtube channel, retaining its line-up of CARINCUR, ONDNESS, PHILIPPE TROVÃO, RABU MAZDA and SPELLCASTER. You can find out more about these artists by clicking here.

Access to the transmission is free, but we accept (and are thankful for) any donations through paypal through the following link: www.paypal.me/OUTRABarreiro (fees paid to the artists do NOT depend on these donations).

EM REDE, an online festival coming up this weekend

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Check out the three days of EM REDE in the links below!

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

EM REDE is an online festival which will present almost twenty concerts by local musicians over three days.

This festival will showcase the diversity and wealth of talent in Barreiro's music scene, with space for songs, jazz, hip-hop, electronic and experimental music, bringing up-and-coming and established artists together.

From their homes, these musicians accepted the invitation by OUT.RA and the Barreiro Municipality (the event's co-producers) to perform at a festival which sends a message to the city and the country that Music can't stop and that the Arts still are, today and always, an essential part of our lives.

Watching EM REDE is entirely free and shows will be broadcast on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd at the Barreiro Municipality Youtube channel. Below, you can find out about the schedules and line-ups for each day.

Join us, and please consider supporting the artists by purchasing their albums, music and merchandise by following the links listed in the festival page at our website.

LINE-UP

May 1st

Host: Ricardo Guerreiro
21h30. Tiago Sousa
22h00. Valu
22h30. Nicotine’s Orchestra
23h00. Minguito
23h30. Opus Pistorum
00h00. Van Ayres

May 2nd

Host: Joana Pimpista
21h30. Gil
22h00. Beatriz Nunes
22h30. Kyra
23h00. Nada Nada
23h30. San Fona
00h00. Berlau

May 3rd

Hosts: Joana Pimpista & Ricardo Guerreiro
16h30. George Silver
17h00. Catarina dos Santos
17h30. Fast Eddie Nelson
18h00. Jorge Moniz
18h30. Y Basics
19h00. My Noisy Twins

ARTISTS

TIAGO SOUSA

Pianist and composer, master of an unique and growing sonic language, he has published a handful of records in national and international labels and often performs live, playing his own compositions and pieces by composers like Debussy, Arvo Part or Federico Mompou.

Website // Bandcamp // Youtube // Instagram // Soundcloud

VALU

Author of songs evoking the lamentations and finger picking style of intervention singers, Valu was born in 77, the year of punk, and presents music with clear and cutting poetry which combines that spirit with that of 74.

Facebook

NICOTINE’S ORCHESTRA

One of the many pseudonyms of Carlos Ramos (also known as SUAVE, and a member of ACT-UPS, LOS SANTEROS, BRO-X and one of the founders of the HEY PACHUCO! association)

Website // Facebook // Instagram

MINGUITO

Barreiro rapper and one of the pioneers of DRILL music in Portugal. A rising star in Portuguese music, with songs mixing Portuguese with English and Creole.

Youtube // Soundcloud // Instagram

OPUS PISTORUM

Opus Pistorum is Helder Menor, one of the most active young artists of this generation of Barreiro musicians, both on his own and as part of the Linha Amarela collective. 

Bandcamp // Soundcloud // Facebook

VAN AYRES

Lisbon-born active living in Barreiro for a couple of years now, he combines sound with visual arts and performance art.

Bandcamp // Youtube // Facebook

GIL

Stage name of Guilherme Firmino, singer and songwriter for the band "Humana Taranja", here performing solo for the first time with acoustic versions of his band's songs.

Bandcamp // Facebook // Instagram

BEATRIZ NUNES

One of the best known musical figures in Barreiro, Beatriz teaches at "our" Jazz School and, along with several projects with the Portuguese jazz community, she is the current singer for Madredeus.

Website // Facebook // Youtube

KYRA

Independent artist expressing himself through hip-hop, rap and rock. In 4 years he released three works: "Apollo 13, Tenebris and Lost Files"

Youtube // Spotify // Instagram

NADA NADA

The solo project of Cláudio Fernandes from the illustrious PISTA, here showing off his synthesizers and taste for dancing, the heat and the beach.

Bandcamp // Facebook

SAN FONA

An almost secret project by Bruno Catarino, a discreet and talented bassist active in the Barreiro scene for over 20 years.

Bandcamp

BERLAU

Fernando Ramalho's alter ego used for his guitar experiments, with plenty of space for silence and sound dialogues with some of his favourite poets, with works inspired by Maria Gabriela Llansol, Inês Lourenço and Ana Hatherly.

Bandcamp // Facebook // Soundcloud

GEORGE SILVER

George Silver is André Neves, a young Barreiro artist active in music production and event programming and one of the most active faces in ADAO.

Bandcamp // Facebook

CATARINA DOS SANTOS

Catarina is a talented artist who, after studying and working throughout the work, returned to Barreiro to teach at the Jazz School and develop her music, which combines influences from Portugal, Africa, Brazil and New York.

Soundcloud

FAST EDDIE NELSON

A Portuguese musician who couldn't be any more American - Fast Eddie Nelson is a guitarist, blues and rock'n'roll man with many km on the road, and a frequent presence in festivals throughout Europe.

Bandcamp // Facebook // Youtube

JORGE MONIZ

Another of Barreiro's best known musicians, Jorge is a drummer, musician, and jazz teacher, and increasingly a very interesting composer for theatre, cinema and dance. 

He brings us a piece he has been working on for the past few months and which we will hear for the first time.

Website // Youtube

Y BASICS

Y Basics is José Bica, an artist born and raised in Barreiro who has developed work in sound art, field recordings and sound effects for the cinema, as well as academic investigations related to music. Here he will present a piece reflecting his growing interest in contemporary classical composition.

Bandcamp

MY NOISY TWINS

Jorge Machado is a composer, producer, percussionist and sound artist composing for theatre, dance, video-art, etc. He plays as a percussionist with several national groups and producers. After moving to Barreiro, 5 years ago, he became a parent to two noisy twins who name his solo project, which has just released an album.

Bandcamp

 

AN OUT.RA AND CMB CO-PRODUCTION

2020 Creation Grant: Three projects selected in response to these exceptional times

Diogo

Due to the current status of the local artistic community, OUT.RA - Associação Cultural felt the need to provide our support to creatives and their creations in a more significant manner and have thus made the decision to, exceptionally, award three projects with our Local Creation Grant for 2020.

This annual grant has been awarded since 2016 to musicians and audiovisual artists residing in Barreiro and the surrounding urban areas in order to create and present original works. This year, each of the selected projects will be supported with 1000€ in order to achieve its aims and host at least one public presentation (when possible) of the work developed.

The projects selected cover a wide range of audio and visual creations and their intersection: the cross between sound experimentation and dance proposed by Sara Zita Correia and Marta Ramos, the multi-channel video installation devised by Camila Vale and the composition of three satellite-pieces to a contemporary opera by João Quinteiro.

Throughout the following months we'll be revealing more details regarding the selected projects and their journey towards completion.

 

Sara Zita Correia & Marta Ramos


Marta Ramos (born in 1990) is a graphic designer, with degrees in Communication Design (ESAD Matosinhos) and in Performance (Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto). Sara Zita Correia holds a degree in Dance (Escola Superior de Dança de Lisboa).

Camila Vale

Born in 1993 in Viana do Castelo and a resident in Barreiro since 2017, Camila Vale is a director and cinema producer, holding a degree in Visual Arts, Cinema (AR.CO Lisbon) and Fiction Writing (Universidade Lusófona).

João Quinteiro

Born in Lisbon in 1984 and a long-term resident in Baixa da Banheira, João Quinteiro is a Composition graduate from the University of Aveiro) and a Master in Philosophy (FCSH - Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

REMAIIN - Exploring non-western influences on European music with OUT.RA's new project

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Together with three other European cultural associations (Skanu Mežs from Latvia, Wilde Westen from Belgium, e Kontraklang from Germany), we're happy to announce the start of a new project co-funded by the Creative Europe programme: REMAIIN - Radical European Music and its Intercultural Nature.

This project strives to investigate non-European cultural influences on the experimental, avant-garde and innovative music of the present and the past. The project’s primary activities are concerts, exhibitions and performances, paired with discourse activities that dissect the presented work in the context of the project’s topic.

Due to the worldwide coronavirus pandemic, the concerts and presentations of the projects are most likely to occur in the second half of 2020, but the project is moving ahead with its online activities, the first being an upcoming essay by free improviser, educator and music writer Joe Morris. This will be one of several articles that will lead up to the central project activities in autumn. We're also glad to announce an open call for musical proposals that deal with or incorporate non-western influences in experimental and new music. The deadline for submissions for this open call is April the 15th, and projects should be submitted through a form available at remaiin.eu, where you can also discover all the relevant info regarding this open call and the REMAIIN project in general.

Föllakzoid / Green Milk From the Planet Orange tours canceled

Diogo

Inevitably, both FÖLLAKZOID and Green Milk From The Planet Orange have been forced to cancel their European tours and thus their dates in Barreiro.

If you purchased a ticket to one of these shows you may ask for reimbursement through BOL. However, OUT.RA would like to suggest that you consider forgoing that refund and thus contribute to mitigate the impact of the many expenses we had to incur in promoting these and other cancelled shows.

We would like to thank everyone for their support in these trying times for all of us, particularly those working in the cultural field who live in complete uncertainty over their situation during the coming months.

Stay safe and stay home.

HERÓIS INDIANOS ROMANOS AFRICANOS to be presented behind closed doors and broadcast online

Diogo

After deliberating with Associação NÓS over the current situation in regards to the prevention and mitigation of the impact and propagation of the COVID-19 virus, and taking in account the World Health Organization's recommendations, as well as the directives published by the Direcção Geral de Saúde and the decisions made by the local and national authorities regarding the use of and presence in public spaces, we're sad to inform you that the show scheduled for this Saturday (HERÓIS INDIANOS ROMANOS AFRICANOS - Alan Courtis with WE2 and guests André Neves & Bernardo Álvares) will not take place as previously announced.

The work developed by these musicians over the last week won't go unpresented, however, as we'll be be holding this concert behind closed doors and broadcast it over the internet to all interested at the date and time originally scheduled for the show (Saturday, March 14th at 17:00). We'll post the link for this stream on the day of at OUT.RA's Facebook page, so be sure to like and follow the page and stay tuned.