{"id":2770,"date":"2020-06-16T10:23:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T09:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.outra.pt\/?p=2770"},"modified":"2020-06-16T14:35:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T13:35:31","slug":"entrevista-clothilde-e-hobo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.outra.pt\/en_us\/2020\/06\/entrevista-clothilde-e-hobo\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview - Clothilde and HOBO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clothilde<\/strong> \u00e9 o alter-ego musical de Sofia Mestre, colorista, fot\u00f3grafa, desenhadora e n\u00e3o s\u00f3, que se encontrou enquanto m\u00fasica na viragem para os 40. Trabalha a partir da heran\u00e7a de p\u00f3s-minimalistas, improvisadoras e compositoras de mente aberta, como Pauline Oliveros, Maryanne Amacher, Daphne Oram, Eliane Radigue ou Delia Derbyshire, para criar a partir de bases electr\u00f3nicas modulares \u2013 tecnologia feita pelo seu companheiro Z\u00e9, aka HOBO<\/strong> -, novas paisagens e realidades emocionais e est\u00e9ticas. Em Outubro de 2018, durante a edi\u00e7\u00e3o do OUT.FEST desse ano, onde testemunhamos uma bela actua\u00e7\u00e3o da artista na Escola de Jazz do Barreiro, o Alexandre Ribeiro<\/strong> e o Vasco Completo\u00a0<\/strong>tiveram a oportunidade de ter uma curta conversa com os dois – Clothilde e HOBO – sobre o sistema electr\u00f3nico \u00fanico que usam e as suas origens, bem como o despertar de Clothilde para a cria\u00e7\u00e3o m\u00fasical.<\/p>\n

When did you start building this kind of machines?<\/strong><\/p>\n

HOBO: I started thinking about this some six, seven years ago. At the time I was building some machines in cardboard (I always used the materials I had close by to build things) and one of the times I went searching for materials I went to my father\u2019s house, who did radio assembly in Guinea-Bissau during the colonial war, and he had a breadboard and some chips along with some other stuff that he told me to take. I put them in my bag and then it was stored in a drawer for about a year, until I stumbled upon something that reminded me that I had that stuff at home. Then I started building things, first an amplifier in a Scotch-Brite box, very basic stuff, and it grew from there. I started thinking, \u201cOk, I want to send the sound somewhere, so I need an amplifier.\u201d That was step number one. Number two: we need some oscillators, let\u2019s do it. From there it kept growing, I kept researching, seeing what had been done before and what I could do differently. Nowadays with the internet you can take giant steps with these things \u2013 before it was much more complicated, all the information was only in books, but now you make a quick search and you get the gist of what you need to do, and once you learn what\u2019s already been done you take a step back, explore the chip\u2019s technical specifications, and use that knowledge to create your own things. That\u2019s what the process has mostly been like, self-taught and unpretentious, doing it because I enjoy it.<\/p>\n

About the specific machines the \u201cmachinist\u201d uses, can you take us through how they work?<\/strong><\/p>\n

CLOTHILDE: There\u2019s several of them\u2026<\/p>\n

HOBO: We didn\u2019t bring all of them with us\u2026there\u2019s around ten over there, plus some keyboards, and in total we probably have around 20\u2026the idea is that each of these machines should be able to be used independently and make sound on its own, kind of like a modular system but not entirely, because in modular systems you have to carry everything with you, but here if I want to just take one machine I do that and output its signal directly through a jack, or I can use a banana jack to send its sound somewhere else. I wanted it to be very versatile, so that I could play with one, or two, or all of the machines\u2026.<\/p>\n

C: It\u2019s interesting that it\u2019s only now that we can play together \u2013 before we didn\u2019t have enough gear to play at the same time. That\u2019s a big part of why I play by myself \u2013 he\u2019s got a project with a friend where he also uses these machines and if we both played at the same time we\u2019d limit each other, because in order to make certain sounds you need these boxes to be connected, for modulating, filtering, whatever. Now we can though, and the next step is also to start a project and play together.<\/p>\n

How did your activity as a musician begin?<\/strong><\/p>\n

C: I\u2019ve always been crazy about music, but I never had the desire to make music, it was proposed to me, because people knew I played with him, and so it happened. We have a house in Meco with friends, for resting, and he [HOBO] would take his machines and we\u2019d play around with them, but I never harboured any ambition of playing in concert one day\u2026<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been friends with Sonja from Labareda, the label I released my album on, for many many years now and she knows me very well \u2013 better than myself apparently \u2013 and so she challenged me to make something and I was like \u201cYou\u2019re crazy\u2026me?\u201d. It wasn\u2019t something I ever even wanted to do before, but I ended up thinking that I couldn\u2019t spend my whole life considering it so\u2026<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve recently released your first LP, \u201cTwitcher\u201d\u2026does your career have anything to do with music?<\/strong><\/p>\n

C: Nothing.<\/p>\n

Can you tell us a little about that?<\/strong><\/p>\n

C: I\u2019ve always been a fanatic about music, ever since I was little \u2013 to the point where I\u2019d start crying if my mother put something on that I didn\u2019t like. It\u2019s true! But I never worked in music.<\/p>\n

My grandfather was the drummer for a great jazz band in the twenties, my mother made a tremendous effort to push me towards studying music (she wanted to study it when she was younger but my grandfather wouldn\u2019t let her because she was a girl), my uncle plays everything\u2026so music was always there.<\/p>\n

I worked in advertising and cinema for many years, I\u2019ve been a colorist, I like drawing, photographing, now I\u2019m setting up a project with a few friends and we\u2019re still figuring out what\u2019ll come out of that\u2026But this\u2026I made \u201cBirdwatching\u201d, which was what Sonja challenged me for, a compilation, and that\u2019s when I told her \u201cwell\u2026I\u2019ll do my best, I promise I won\u2019t let you down, even if it kills me\u2026\u201d, because I\u2019m a little demanding with myself, a little too much so even. Then she started talking about an album, and that made me go \u201cso it\u2019s not just a song anymore, huh?\u201d but I had already passed the first hurdle, I had my first concert at Damas\u2026then I played the second at Lounge, the third at Walk&Talk in the Azores, then at ZDB, by then I was even saying \u201cwell damn, there\u2019s only Maria Matos left\u201d (laughs). I don\u2019t know what happened, I wasn\u2019t expecting it, but I know I have an ear for music, I know everything\u2019s here. I don\u2019t count the measures, I feel them, it\u2019s a lifetime of listening to music with a lot of passion reflected here. I made the album (the release party was on May 25th) and strangely it came out well. I was very happy, I didn\u2019t know what was going to come out\u2026<\/p>\n

How has it been received so far?<\/strong><\/p>\n

C: It\u2019s been insane, I don\u2019t have the time to be an artist\u2026 (laughs) Just last month I had three concerts, at Festival Exquisito on the 13th, at WOS in Santiago de Compostela on the 15th, then in Porto in Passos Manuel on the 22nd, in a night organized by Fungo where Z\u00e9 [HOBO] played with Marco (o Citizen:Kane), because we couldn\u2019t play together, plus Nuno Patr\u00edcio and Nicolai, the Fungo DJs, we all played and now I\u2019m here. And meanwhile I have several proposals to answer\u2026even as far as 2020, and I get really nervous with those things, I don\u2019t even know if I\u2019ll be alive then (laughs). But it\u2019s a super interesting project and I think it\u2019s totally my thing, because it\u2019s a theatre play.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clothilde \u00e9 o alter-ego musical de Sofia Mestre, colorista, fot\u00f3grafa, desenhadora e n\u00e3o s\u00f3, que se encontrou enquanto m\u00fasica na viragem para os 40. Trabalha a partir da heran\u00e7a de p\u00f3s-minimalistas, improvisadoras e compositoras de mente aberta, como Pauline Oliveros, Maryanne Amacher, Daphne Oram, Eliane Radigue ou Delia Derbyshire, para criar a partir de bases […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2772,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[138,360,92],"tags":[511,512,24,510],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nEntrevista - Clothilde e HOBO - OUT.RA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Entrevista - Clothilde e HOBO - OUT.RA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Clothilde \u00e9 o alter-ego musical de Sofia Mestre, colorista, fot\u00f3grafa, desenhadora e n\u00e3o s\u00f3, que se encontrou enquanto m\u00fasica na viragem para os 40. 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