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OUT.FEST -The Barreiro International Exploratory Music Festival is an annual event celebrating experimental music in all its forms since its inception in 2004. From improvised to electronic music to jazz and contemporary classical music, OUT.FEST brings together trailblazers and living legends with the present and the future of groundbreaking experimental music every year in Barreiro.
O Sonica Ekrano – Cinema Documental e as Músicas das Margens, é um evento de periodicidade anual, iniciado em 2021, que dá acesso a filmes excepcionais que retratam artistas, sons e movimentos locais e globais, procurando reflectir a música e o cinema enquanto “linguagens universais”, e homenageando simultaneamente a forte tradição esperantista na margem sul do Tejo, em particular no Barreiro.
The PARTICULAR UNIVERSAL project is centered on the Castro Marim Municipality, where between December 2021 and September 2023 a series of artistic co-creation activities related to themes of identity, memory and soundscapes will take place.
Developed with partners such as the Castro Marim Municipality, the Norwegian association NyMusikk and Lisbon associations Teatro do Vestido and Filho Único, the project includes several different work modules revolving around complementary concepts and strategies, such as (among others), the creation of a sound archive, a community archive for the “Voices of Memory”, and several themed artistic residencies directed towards Portuguese, Norwegian and international creators with a look towards creating and presenting theatrical works, new music and sound-art.
This project is financed by the EEA Grants programme. Through the European Economic Area (EEA) Agreement, signed in the city of Oporto in May 1992, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway are partners, in the internal market, of the Member States of the European Union. As a way of promoting a continuous and balanced strengthening of the economic and trade relations, the parties of the European Economic Area Agreement have established a Multiannual Financial Mechanism, known as the EEA Grants. EEA Grants have as their objectives the reduction of social and economic disparities within Europe and the strengthening of bilateral relationships between the three countries and the beneficiary countries. For the 2014-2021 period, a total contribution of 2.8 billion euros to 15 beneficiary countries. Portugal will receive 102.7 million euros. Learn more at eeagrants.gov.pt
UNEARTHING THE MUSIC is a collaborative project that unites five organizations from five different European countries, all actively interested in the history and in the stories surrounding experimental music in Europe, particularly in countries and regimes where the conditions for creative freedom were hardly met throughout the second part of the 20th century.
Cidade Som is the place for listening to the Barreiro Municipality in depth.
There we present sonic portraits of the city's spaces, activities and memories, gathered from 2012 onwards through several sound documentation projects: Sons do Arco Ribeirinho Sul, Cidade Som and 80 Anos da Água Pública no Barreiro, each of them striving to provide a new perspective over the city's heritage.
With this project we invite everyone to stop and actively Listen, to pay closer attention to the Sounds that surround us and which often go unnoticed.
Bolsas de Criação atribuídas a jovens artistas locais para o desenvolvimento de trabalho artístico relacionado com Música / Som / Artes Sonoras / Multimedia. Foram contemplados no passado os artistas Tiago Sousa (2016), José Bica (2017), Hélder Menor, João Antunes e João Pinheiro (2018), Rafael van Ayres (2019), Camila Vale, ZIMA, e João Quinteiro (2020), Puçanga e André Neves (2021) e Rita Santos (2022).
A joint project by OUT.RA, Gasoline, Hey Pachuco and the Barreiro Municipality, part of the Festas do Barreiro. The SPOT da Juventude brings an ecletic programme to the afternoons and evenings at the Avenida da Praia.
Past
REMAIIN – Radical European Music and its Intercultural Nature is a project which 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. This project is developed by OUT.RA along with three other European cultural associations (Skanu Mežs from Latvia, Wilde Westen from Belgium, and Kontraklang from Germany).
Unearthing The Music (“Desenterrando a Música”, em Português) é um projecto co-financiado pelo programa “Europe for Citizens” que tem como foco a liberdade de expressão – particularmente na música – nos países dentro da “cortina de ferro”, seguindo os desenvolvimentos nessas sociedades após o processo de “de-estalizinação” e as revoltas Húngaras e Polacas de 1956.
In the European countries that were subjected to the decade-long socialist regimes, jazz, electronics and avant-garde music acquired the aureole of martyrdom, the symbolism of underground resistance and of a quest towards democracy. The establishment of a ‘second culture’, one of unofficial music and art had an important role in the everyday life of these societies, but it still did not fully escape control. As a result, a great deal of this unofficial music remains undocumented, unspread, and deprived of context and signification in the larger history of European vanguard music, its influence in present-day creative scenes unknown. By gathering music, videos, articles, testimonies, opinions and investigative studies on an online resource center, as well as promoting awareness and discussion over this issue, we aim to contribute to understanding to what extent and how it was possible, over the diverse regime grips on the arts in the different countries of the eastern bloc, to live in a creative mindset, to develop self expression through innovative music-making, and to contribute to such an European Identity staple as is its creative, adventurous and genre-bending music happening right now.
O projecto “SONS DO ARCO RIBEIRINHO SUL” pretendeu, através de uma abordagem artística baseada no Som, contribuir para a preservação e a consciencialização do património material e imaterial, ecológico e urbano do Sapal de Coina, Mata da Machada e Frente Ribeirinha do Barreiro. Foi uma tradução criativa e cultural das importantes mudanças actualmente a tomar forma ao longo da área rural, da área urbana e de toda a frente ribeirinha do Concelho do Barreiro (e do respectivo Estuário do Tejo no qual se enquadra) e compreendeu, ao longo da sua duração, uma residência artística, a criação de um arquivo sonoro, a realização de workshops e sessões de gravação abertas a alunos das escolas do Concelho, e a produção de um filme documental.