"Exploratory Tracks" is a series of tracks, not necessarily related to each other, that intend to explore different musical paths and compositional ideas. Tracks will be added here as I create them. Some of these tracks are seeds to future albums or independent projects.

Exploratory Tracks (compilation)

Gas forming light

2022

Includes recordings from a BBC radio broadcast.

Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957 as part of the Soviet space program. It sent a radio signal back to Earth for three weeks before its three silver-zinc batteries ran out, and continued in orbit for two months until atmospheric drag caused it to fall back into the atmosphere on the 4th of January 1958.

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Satellite

Streets

Birds sleep in trees

2022

Includes a recording of the late Terence McKenna during a public lecture on DMT.

Terence Kemp McKenna (November 16, 1946 – April 3, 2000) was an American ethnobotanist and mystic who advocated the responsible use of naturally occurring psychedelic plants. He spoke and wrote about a variety of subjects, including psychedelic drugs, plant-based entheogens, shamanism, metaphysics, alchemy, language, philosophy, culture, technology, environmentalism, and the theoretical origins of human consciousness. He was called the "Timothy Leary of the '90s", "one of the leading authorities on the ontological foundations of shamanism", and the "intellectual voice of rave culture".

McKenna formulated a concept about the nature of time based on fractal patterns he claimed to have discovered in the I Ching, which he called novelty theory, proposing that this predicted the end of time, and a transition of consciousness in the year 2012. His promotion of novelty theory and its connection to the Maya calendar is credited as one of the factors leading to the widespread beliefs about 2012 eschatology. Novelty theory is considered pseudoscience.

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Fields

Industrial wind

Late by the beach

Children have the right to be wrong

Ray Gun

Leaves are heavy

Little Hammers

Tuesday 8 Late I

Piano 2

Tuesday 8 Late II

Tuesday 8

Sunday 6

Wednesday 9 Late I

Blasting Rocket

Plasma

Helder Luis is a designer, photographer, multimedia artist and musician.

Studied graphic design and typography and since 1996 has worked for numerous companies and institutions inside and outside Portugal while working freelance or through his studio. His graphic design work has been exhibited at various national and international events and published in numerous publications. As a multimedia artist and musician he developed numerous works individually and in collectives. He also collaborated, as an artist, multimedia designer and consultant, with several artists, and presented his work in individual and collective exhibitions and in events and institutions in Portugal and elsewhere. In 2018, he presented the installation MAR at the Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, which opened the doors to the exploration of the theme of the sea and fishermen and since then he has photographed, filmed and captured sound on board of several vessels offshore the Portuguese coast and around the Açores islands. In the same year he presented the installation Under the Above at Solar, exploring the theme of drowning and the feelings of abandonment and loneliness in high sea. In July 2019, he launched the documental photography book entitled Atlântico, which documents the voyages aboard the Iris do Mar fishing boat in the Açores islands. In 2021 he finished his Master of Documental Photography and Cinema and in early 2023 he published the book Sardinha, his largest documentary photography project to date, documenting the fishing of the sardine in Portugal. In April of the same year, he presented the exhibition "Sleeping Giants," a photography project that looked at trees during one of the lockdowns of the recent pandemic as potential guides for difficult times.
At the beginning of 2014, he presented the sound installation "Búzio," a reflection on memory and our relationship with the sea. Recently, he published the book "Rumo à Pesca," a book about a purse seine fishing boat.
Currently, he is involved in various documentary and artistic projects within maritime culture and other areas of his personal interest. He also continues to compose and produce music.

Exploratory Tracks (compilation)

Helder Luís