09. "The Magic in the Music" by Shawn Kelly (aka Y?Arcka)

Born in Viseu in 1962.
Completed the course in Painting at the Oporto School of Fine Arts (ESBAP) in 1987.
PHD (Arte e Design) at FBAUP in 2011
While studying at the ESBAP he was a co-founder of the “Missionário” Group.
He has organized national and international exhibitions of painting, mail art and performance; he was the author of and presenter of the radio programmes “Choose a Finger” and “Reduced Atmosphere” on the XFM radio station between 1995 and 1996.
In 1992, on the occasion of the exhibition “Mute... life”, he founds the collective Multimedia Mute Life Dept. (MLd).
Co-founder and one of the members of the electronic music project @c.
Co-founder and one of the members of the Media Label Crónica.
Associate Professor at the Oporto Fine Arts Faculty.
He has regularly exhibited in Portugal and abroad since 1982.
Lives and works in Oporto, Portugal.

New: 
A Field Guide to Phantasmic Birds
https://room40.bandcamp.com/album/a-field-guide-to-phantasmic-birds

My 33 1/3 series book about the Aphex Twin album <i>Selected Ambient Works Volume II</i> was published in 2014. The book was one of the top 5 bestselling titles for the calendar year, and in 2015 was ranked by Pitchfork as one of the "33 best" of the 100-plus books in the 33 1/3 series. It has subsequently been translated into Japanese (2019) and Spanish (2018)

Since 2012 I have moderated the Disquiet Junto group, which began on SoundCloud. More at disquiet.com/junto. 

I've written for Nature, Pitchfork, The Wire, Down Beat, Boing Boing, NewMusicBox, Red Bull Music Academy, Art Practical, the website of The Atlantic, and many other publications. 

I've exhibited sound art at galleries in Los Angeles (Crewest), Manhattan (apex art), and Dubai (DUTAC), and I had a audio-visual installation at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of its 45th anniversary.

And since 1996 I've run the website Disquiet.com about the intersection of sound, art, and technology.

Drifting in the audio void.  Somewhere between the chaos and the calm.
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Production (Fragile X) 
Label Owner (soundcloud.com/bricolage-g5)
Sleep Research as (soundcloud.com/leit-motif-sleeper)
The visible half of (soundcloud.com/futurendeavours)

Music released on Bricolage, Intellitronic Bubble, Waxing Crescent, Móatún 7, noci miste, Cue Dot, Neo Ouija, Soundtracking The Void, Disintegration State, See Blue Audio, Subplant, Triplicate Records, Tribal Pulse, Light At The End, Unstrung, Gorecki Productions, Neotantra, Soundscape Versions, BFW Recordings and Bath Dub.
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Quando eu morrer batam em latas,
Rompam aos saltos e aos pinotes,
Façam estalar no ar chicotes,
Chamem palhaços e acrobatas!

Que o meu caixão vá sobre um burro
Ajaezado à andaluza...
A um morto nada se recusa,
Eu quero por força ir de burro.

Mário de Sá-Carneiro