    Selected Works 2009/2010 - The Railway Keeper - "Still today, when I can’t sleep and I hear trains in the silence of the night, I imagine the railway keeper’s house floating forever next to the railway, with my friend Carlos sleeping peacefully in his bed, next to those noisy iron machines.... Machines that feel to me more like monsters with the power to rip everything that falls in its path to pieces."
"The Railway Keeper Initial 3D Concepts" 2010 - Radial String Chimes - Radial String Chimes is Sound Art Installation developed at CCRMA - Stanford University. It consists of an entirely analog device that generates musical sounds triggered by the wind and the collision of very light straws plucking strings which resonate on a piezo sensor. The piece was installed at CCRMA (the Knoll Building at Stanford University) on the 9th of July 2010.
2010 - Pulsing Heart - Pulsing Heart is an interactive installation project that was commissioned to Sofia Thenaisie, Renato Branco, Álvaro Barbosa and Luis Gustavo Martins by Porto's Casa da Musica in order to commemorate it's 5th Anniversary. The project consisted in an interactive system that measured real time heart pulses from visitors and mapped it in a periodic red light that covered the entire Casa da Musica from the outside to the inside. The closing of the project was hosted in Casa da Musica's hallways with a live electronic performance that mapped it's musical outcome into pulses of light that spanned throughout the building. The following Video presents this concert, performed on April 14th of 2010. Videos are devided in Part #01 and #02
Pulsing Heart Concert (14.April.2010) 2009 - O Trovão - An old Portuguese legend says that silverware attracts the strike of a thunder bringing out something evil trough the mirrors of our houses. In our story an old man living in a small town just bought one of the first television sets ever produced. He believes in progress and refuses to accept old superstitions. On the contrary, His wife and granddaughter believe that legends and superstitions are part of nature and exist for a reason. Are there still monsters in the era of Television? Screenings: 2009 – BIFF-LA 2009 – Broadway International Film Festival - Los Angeles, USA 2009 – 12 Horas no Coração da Baixa - Porto, Portugal 2009 – Cineclube - Cinema Venepor - Maia, Portugal 2009 – Mostra-me: O Outro Lado do Cinema - Lisboa, Portugal 2009 – Cineclube Komba Kanema - Maputo, Moçambique 2009 – RTV: REC - Portugal 2009 – Kota 2023 Film Festival - República da Macedónia 2009 – Naoussa International Film Festival - Greece 2009 – Screening Som e Imagem: Casa Viva - Porto, Portugal 2009 – Cinejazz na Queima das Fitas - Porto, Portugal 2009 – International Short Film Festival Detmold - Germany 2008 – Les e-magiciens - Les Reencontres Européennes de la Jeune Création Numérique - França 2009 – Kimera Film Festival - Termoli, Itália 2009 – Extensão ANIMATU - Festival de Cinema de Animação Digital - Portalegre, Portogal 2009 – Casa da Animação - Mostra Fantasporto 2009 - Porto , Portugal 2009 – Fantasporto 2009 - Festival Internacional de Cinema do Porto 2009 – Casa da Animação - Mostra de Filmes de Animação Portugueses - Porto , Portugal 2008 – ANIMATU - Festival de Cinema de Animação Digital, Beja, Portugal 2008 – Festival Cinanima 2008 - Espinho, Portugal 2007 - Improvisations with Public Sound Objects- This video was produced in september 2007 as a result of a performance during the general rehearsal of the PSOs Installation commissioned by Casa da Musica. The setup consisted of 5 client instances of PSOs which controlled a Discklaveir Piano and a MIDI Sampler.
2005 Laptop-NonStop Concert . Improvised Laptop Music concert, performed as part of the HipChips Festival organized by the EMF. The Porto School of Arts session featured: Álvaro Barbosa, Carlos Santos, Carlos "Zingaro", João Cruz, Miguel Carvalhais, Pedro Almeida, Pedro Tudela e Vítor Joaquim.
2005 ShapeShifter
2 . A ShapeShifter
is an Archetype which can define the psychological profile of
a character in fictional story telling. A life form that shifts
his shape also recalls for the Science Fiction Realm.
2005 - Andar com as Próprias Pernas - Production of the Series and Main Theme Music for a documentary.
Hard Head Driver . Collaboration with the Artist Jorge Abade by realizing the sonic design of this experimental video art piece. The resulting Video was applied in an installation which was built around a sculpture of an Iron Club and the violent universe it portraits.
1994-2004 - base.ment (bas'ment) n. [`base1 + -ment] 1 The foundation or lower part of a wall or structure 2 The lowest story of a building, below the main floor and wholly or partly below the surface of the ground 3 Rock band from Porto that plays Loud and Lethal Music.
VIDEO CLIPS: PUBLISHED DISCOGRAPHY (Fonoteca Municipal): ON-LINE ARTICLES 2002 - Bouncing Ball Skin - Interface prototype developed in Flash of a Bouncing Ball Skin for the Public Sound Objects Project - A Shared Sonic Space on the Web.
Single Bouncing Ball || Multiple Bouncing Balls 2000 Compression|Decompression . In December
1999, the Curators of the Jubileu 2000 Project commissioned to
Álvaro Barbosa the realization of a 15 minutes Electroacoustic
Music Piece to be integrated as soundtrack of the Jubileu 2000
Multimedia Exhibition held at the Alfândega do Porto Building
form June to September 2000.The piece conveys the notion of a
cyclic soundscape which compresses and decompresses its sonic
density trough clouds of sound grains sculpted over real world
and computer generated sounds. 1. Grains
from a bellow (5'48'') [mp3 file: 4,65 MBytes] 1999/2000 - Initially developed in the fall of 1999 the Basement Live & Interactive CD-Rom was published in September 2000 with the CD-Single 'Where can you go?' by the label Independent Records.
2000 - Interactive CD-Rom, commissioned by the organizing committee of the multimedia exhibition "Jubileu 2000" held in Edifício da Alfândega - Porto, from June to September 2000.
1998 - Trouble Gener@tor : Piece created in the CREATE studios. This piece was later adapted to be included in the Basement's 1998 - "RANDOM". Part
#1, #2 - mp3 file: 1,04 MBytes 1998 - Life and work of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien interactive encyclopedia Demo on CD-Rom.
1997 - 3D animation Short-film"Man Bites Dog".
1997 - Cutty Sark Promotional CD-Rom demo. 1996 - Portuguese Navigators Interactive encyclopedia on CD-Rom.
1995-96 - Early Web-Sites: first web site for the Fantasporto international film festival; web site for the Radio Xfm; first directory of Portuguese Bands in the web Alternative Music Site (hosted by UA and RUM). These web-sites are probably not on-line anymore.
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