“João Alegria is an essential figure in the Portuguese underground music scene. With a prolific career spanning over a decade, the guitarist – as he prefers to be called – embodies artistic commitment, resilience, and a deep devotion to crafting dark, experimental soundscapes. The numerous albums the Lisbon-based musician has released testify to a sonic vision akin to its object of study: unhurried and unperturbable, yet continuous and tempestuous."

— João Morado (Beats for Peeps, Cosmofonia, Jazz.pt)

“You paint for fame & status, I paint for freedom & awareness”, reads one of the vertical graffiti that Mr.Paradox Paradise painted on some Berlin building. Likewise, there is nothing in João Alegria’s art that is done with the intention of fame or likes. He spent more than a decade editing with recognition limited to the “community” of sound nomads. “I’ve been doing this for some time and I don’t have a very wide audience”, he admits. However, who knows, knows. And who knows, like it. João Alegria’s music is for connoisseurs. Perhaps that will always be the case.
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However, the unique contours of his art, combined with a stubborn aesthetic consistency and prolificacy, are the characteristics that simultaneously nest and vitalize it. The unconditional and obstinate way in which this “guitarist” – as he likes to be called – has created his work is a rare case of perseverance. His motivation? It’s not entirely explicit, but somewhere between the love of music and the physiological need to create lives the truth of João Alegria. If he lives because he breathes, he seems to make music because he has to live. One senses in his speech an inevitability of cathartic genesis that surreptitiously emerges between the lines like a figure wandering through the night.
João Alegria can also move through the shadows, but his music definitely points to the heavens, full of verticality” 

– João Morado (Beats for Peeps, Cosmofonia, Jazz.pt)

upcoming:
05.17 - druskomanija x radio vilnius, druskininkai 
06.06 - kaņepes kultūras centrs, riga
06.08 - radio vilnius
06.27 - draugu vardai, vilnius
07.05 - cornerteateret x skåtun lyd, bergen
07.13 - yaga gathering, lithuania
07.27 - radio vilnius

past:
05.11 - radio vilnius
05.08 - robertas narkus studio, vilnius
04.18 - sodas 2123, vilnius x meetings 2  (w urte budnikaite)
04.14 - radio vilnius (w urte budnikaite)
04.12 - nida art colony, curonian spit (listening session for  ‘in the currents of memory’ show by Deimante Jasiuleviciute)
03.22 - zdb 8 marvila, lisbon (w vat lok)
03.21 - cosmos, lisbon
03.16 - radio vilnius (w soft corps)
02.28 - the lodge, berlin
02.19 - radio vilnius ~ morning sip show (w raivo)
~ 2024 ~
01.30 - kkc, vilnius (w dominyka šeibok)
01.17 - sodas 2123, vilnius x meetings 1
12.31 - sodas 2123, vilnius (w matilda)
12.28 - draugu vardai, vilnius (spin foam)
12.11 - radio vilnius
12.01 - objects and sounds, gent (midnight vultures)
12.29 - gimic radio, brussels
11.11 - radio vilnius (w urte budnikaite)
10.28 - kiosk radio, brussels
10.25 - murmur, amsterdam (w la serpiente)
10.12 - sodas2123, vilnius (disundi)
10.04 - kaņepes kultūras centrs, riga
08.16 - radio vilnius
08.10 - rotondes, luxembourg
08.07 - giri, berlin
07.26 - draugu vardai, vilnius
07.19 - gražuolė smegduobė, lithuania
07.13 - sikon 36, antalieptė
07.12 - sodas2123, vilnius
06.18 - kintai arts residence, lithuania
06.02 - niansa, ljubljana
05.30 - res.radio, vienna (w max dål)
05.22 - dublab x gare maritime, brussels
04.12 - l’embobineuse, marseille
04.09 - lyl radio, paris
03.29 - radio vilnius (paesaggi records)
03.29 - sodas2123, vilnius (paesaggi night)
03.22 - baras darbas, lisbon 
03.20 - alinea a, porto
02.17 - radio TNP, amsterdam
01.08 - kiosk radio, brussels

******* 2023 *******
11.26 - camping 58, brussels (matinée)
11.18 - les ateliers claus, brussels (in vitro)
10.25 - lyl radio, brussels
09.09 - godo, kaunas
09.02 - radio vilnius ~ sodas2123 (w teatre)
08.19 - akee space for culture, aleknaičiai village
08.12 - žeimiai manor, lithuania (w ryó)
08.11 - draugu vardai, vilnius
07.28 - radio vilnius
07.20 - braille satellite, mushroom manor (w ryó)
07.15 - sikon 35, kintai
07.01 - gifgrond, tilburg
06.30 - kiosk radio, brussels (w f.giudici)
04.30 - kiosk radio, brussels
04.20 - o tannenbaum, berlin (w ryó)
04.18 - arkaoda, berlin
04.15 - villawuller, trier
03.22 - gambiarra, radio vilnius
03.19 - draugu vardai, vilnius (w ryó)
03.15 - cultures of assembly, esch
01.30 - kiosk radio, brussels
01.14 - konschthal, esch

******* 2022 *******
12.31 - deguddewellen, luxembourg
12.03 - cna, dudelange
12.02 - casino, luxembourg
11.11 - kiosk radio, brussels
11.05 - l187, frankfurt
09.30 - sodas2123, vilnius
09.30 - gambiarra, radio vilnius
08.27 - žeimiai manor, lithuania
08.20 - rupert, vilnius
08.15 - gambiarra, radio vilnius
08.04 - autarkia, vilnius
07.23 - sikon 34, trakai
07.03 - fantomas, vilnius
07.01 - gambiarra, radio vilnius
04.08 - autarkia, draugu vardai, vilnius
04.02 - empty brain resort, vilnius

electroacoustic composer + revox performer

Théo Fernandez is a French composer and performer. Originally from Toulouse, now based in Paris. He moves through the territories of electroacoustic music. From this practice, he retains a plastic approach to the sound object: the careful, alert collection of sounds that ripen slowly; and find their consequences in the dramaturgy that link them to others. He works mainly with reel-to-reel tape recorders. Tape does not restore but re-deform again. An oxidisable nature that revisits what has been lost with digital clarity; in loops, where each passage carries a certain nostalgia for the future; where music belongs to a moment that may never have truly existed.

MJELLMË aka swantje lichtenstein creates music in a transdisciplinary, improvised as well as choreographed and composed mode. their work is based on deconstructed language / voice recordings, channelling of sounds and the opening of spheric and healing spaces of connection. they are creating and hoping to recover from sexist, racist, violent and other discriminating wounds existing on this planet for too many people.

#systemic music #sound writing #ample poetry # sonic poetry 
#transtextuality #poetronica #verbophonia #performative sound #healing sounds #antiracism #antisexism #intersectional music #transdisciplinary art #liminal agencies #love

Live Performer/Composer/Sound Artist/DJ - simply an explorer dancing on the edges of the unknown
@vararoom
Club-oriented project: @hypnohippo
linktr.ee/0tar
[Glitch/Noise / ELM/IDM / Electro/Complextro / Breakbeats/Drum&Bass / (Dark) Ambient/Chillwave…]

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