Music For Friends #3 slowed down version, played on acoustic piano

Music For Friends #3a

Music For Friends #6

Soundtrack for "SAL", a short film produced by Teatro do Mar's MAR Out 2020 Festival. 

Directed by André Costa Santos and choreographed by André de Campos
Photographed by Mariana Machado

Full performance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cG998xPFLI

MAR Out - Sal

Excepts from the soundtrack for "Albano", a performance by Rui Paixão - 2021

Full performance:
https://www.rtp.pt/play/palco/p9609/albano

Albano - Introduction

Emotional Song (Demo A) for Ana Libório's “Capturing you | Fictional Politics of movement” - 2021

https://ruadasgaivotas6.pt/events/capturing-you-fictional-politics-of-movement/

Ana Libório - Emotional Song (Demo A)

Excerpts from the soundtrack of the installation "The Sunlight Will Break The Party", composed together with Isabel Cordovil.

The Sunlight Will Break The Party - Rave

Excerpts from the soundtrack of the installation "The Sunlight Will Break The Party", composed together with Isabel Cordovil.

Voice and poem by Isabel Cordovil

The Sunlight Will Break The Party - Poem 3

Video teaser for "My Body Is A Cage", a performance by Mariana Magalhães - 2022

My Body Is A Cage (theme)

Excerpt from "My Body Is A Cage", a performance by Mariana Magalhães - 2022 - Recorded live at Centro de Artes de Lisboa, August 2022

My Body Is A Cage (excerpt)

Theme for untitled Mafalda Miranda Jacinto's performance. Presented at Trust's "Dias Abertos" in September 2022
Words and Voice by Mafalda Miranda Jacinto

Control Freak v0 (vocal demo)

Disco theme for Golden Numbers, a performance by Thamiris Carvalho - 2023

Golden Numbers - Disco theme

Dance theme for Sapo, a performance by André de Campos - 2021

https://ruadasgaivotas6.pt/events/sapo/
https://portugueseplatform.pt/sapo-andre-de-campos/

Sapo - Pinhata (demo)

Excerpt from Íla, a performance by Natacha Campos  

Recorded live at Rua das Gaivotas 6, November 2023

https://ruadasgaivotas6.pt/events/ila/

Íla (excerpt)

Haddaway

Ambient soundtrack for GUC Agency's site (Sound and ambience test)

GUC - MAX MSP Polysynth

Ambient soundtrack for GUC Agency's site (version 1)

GUC - Ambient 1

Sound piece for Ernesto de Sousa's 1969 short film “There was a Man who Ran"/"Havia Um Homem Que Corria"

Sousa's short film was inspired by the equally titled poem from by Herberto Helder that came out in 1968 as a single, read by the poet himself.

Video: https://vimeo.com/417297292

Havia Um Homem Que Corria

Short sound piece for a mobile phone recorded movie.

Uma Recensão Crítica

1984, Lisbon
Diogo has a master’s degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from ISEL, in Lisbon, and a post-graduation in Sound Art from FBAUL, in Lisbon, while also taking classical piano lessons.

His work approaches Sound from different lenses such as music, installation work, field recordings and developing custom musical instruments and sound generators. 

Since 2011 has worked as composer, musician and sound designer with Sónia Baptista, Miguel Bonneville, André de Campos, Natacha Campos, William Cardoso, Isabel Cordovil, Ana Guedes, Ana Libório, Maurícia | Neves, Diana Niepce, Xana Novais, Rui Paixão e André E. Teodósio/Teatro Praga.

In 2021 Diogo started Electronic Warfare, a music and sound art residence programme aimed at performance artists, sound artists and musicians in collaboration with Rua das Gaivotas 6.

Since 2022 he lectures at the Faculty of Fine Arts - University of Lisbon and at ETIC.

Diogo Melo

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