Sonoplastia e Desenho de Som

Francisco Leal is Sound Engineer and Sound Designer. He has Classical and Jazz musical studies. Designing sound mostly for theatre for more than 30 years, his work is split between live sound for music, theatre and dance and sound recording and editing.

"Sonoplastia" (plastic of sound) is a exclusive portuguese term to designate Sound Design as the process of sound molding to create SFX, soundscapes and musical ambients, somehow related to "L'Arte dei Rumori" (Art of Noise) preconized by the Futurist Manifest of Luigi Russolo and developed by Pierre Schaeffer (musique concrete) and explored by electronic music, borned with Edgar Varese.

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