Cláudio Oliveira x Umbigo x Fonoteca

Chronogramm is a data collection and synthesis experiment commissioned by Umbigo Magazine and made in collaboration with Fonoteca Municipal do Porto.

Multiple records from the Fonoteca’s extensive collection where analysed and the collected data (such as tempo and note variations, intensity ratios etc) was translated into a visual medium.
Those images where then fed into specialized vintage software, rearranged, distorted, compressed and expanded, with those results being used to compose a new piece.

The visual element was equally inspired by the timeless nature of those records and resulting data, being created and rendered using (never) obsolete software.

Printed and released on Umbigo Magazine #85

Listen to Chronogramm here

ABRUPT

Performance art piece made in collaboration with the Portuguese collective berru.

Read about it on Umbigo Magazine and A Cabine (PT).

Presented at multiple venues around the country and its soundtrack was compiled and released in 2024 via Mera.
You can listen to it here

@ Miguel Miguel

@ Susana Valadas

Bodies Of Experience

Art Installation made in collaboration with Portuguese artist Ana Santos.

The installation is based on the prolonged accompaniment of a run. We talk about "muscular awareness"; here is reflected in the everyday practice of a body in search of adaptation to its environment and thereby gaining a kind of physical adjustment. This element of adjustment so present in the daily practice of relationship with the prosthesis is experienced in its plasticity through a sound and visual composition that is triggered through the movement of the bodies. The accumulation and continuous overlapping of information as a repetitive sound element are reinterpreted as a training simulation.

Funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation