Written for Norbert Rodenkirchen. Early flutes, electronics. To be presented in 8-channel sound at the ZKM Karlsruhe on November 20th, 2025

The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity (Excerpt)

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“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)

Jesús Lastra aka Voidborn Horde, is a Venezuelan ambient electronic music composer born in 1986. Since 2002, He starts this musical journey by exploring experimental sounds, influenced by ambient music and soundscapes that evoke vast and ethereal imaginary worlds. Under the alias Voidborn Horde, he has developed an unique style with electronic elements and ambient textures, finding a kind of "false enviroment sounds" to give the listener an immersive and dreamlike experience. His music is characterized by its ability to evoke neutral deep emotions and meditative states of patience, making him a reference in the ambient music scene.

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Software

- FL Studio
- Audacity
- Virtual Instruments
- Cubase LE AI Elements 6
- Adobe Photoshop CS2
- WaveEditor Record & Edit Audio (Sound-Base Audio, LLC)

Hardware

- Vieta Pro Way 4
- MSI GF63 Thin 11UC
- Interface Scarlett 2i2
- Condenser Microphone(CM25)
- Audio-Technica ATH-M50X
- Arturia MiniLab - USB/MIDI Controller
- Nikon D3200
- M-Audio Axiom 61
- M-Audio Oxygen 61
- M-Audio Hammer 88
- M-Audio BX5 D3 (Studio Monitors)
- JVC HA-RX330-E Headphone
- AKG Headphone
- SONY SRS-D25
- Samsung S10 Edge
- Xiaomi Redmi 9C
- Xiaomi Redmi 14C

https://freesound.org/people/jalastram/

And go past the forest 
where you can slowly wake up
or you can take your time 
and let the seasons catch up
slip off your shoes 
and feel the earth 
your ears will start to ring
and life will sing.

You've just got to swing past the 
forest 
where colours can blind you 
and everything finds you 
it can drive you insane 

You've got to slow down now
or you'll grow cold.
Leap past the flowers that sleep,
The hours that spring those old 
Shadows confuse you 
and the silence is loud 
your're reaching for the light
your're losing sight 

You've just got to swing past the
forest
where colours can blind you 
and everything finds you 
it can drive you insane

and go past the forest 
where you can slowly wake up

The Factory "Path Through the Forest" 1968

www.leabertucci.bandcamp.com Please buy my music

UPCOMING SHOWS

9/1/25 - Bow and Arrow - Duo with Michael Beharie at Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock NY.  1-9pm
sets by Brandee Younger, Play Time, Evan Shornstein + Celia Hollander
tickets-> https://maverickconcerts.org/event/unexpected-music-ii-independent-production/

9/6/25- Solo at Silence Please, NYC with Matthew Ryals (album release!)

9/10/25 - Duo with Olivia Block at Black Mountain College Museum, Asheville North Carolina. https://www.blackmountaincollege.org/events/lea-bertucci-olivia-block/ 

9/12/25 - Duo with Olivia Block at Sound and Gravity Festival, Chicago

9/14 - Duo with Olivia Block at Allen Gardens Conservatory, Toronto - with Aida Khorsandi @musicgalleryto curated by Tad Michalak

9/20 - Solo at Conflux Festival, Rotterdam, NL

9/24 - Bow And Arrow at Benmarle Winery House Show, Marlboro NY

9/28 - Bow and Arrow, Duo with Michael Beharie at Three’s Brooklyn

10/22 - Record Release Party LS&D Greenpoint Brooklyn, with Ka Baird, Victoria Keddie DJ Shawn O’Sullivan

10/29 - Record Release Upstate at Avalon Lounge with Ka Baird and Keith Fullerton Whitman

Presenter of Lost And Found Sounds on 2BOB radio.

Investigating at the Outside.

https://soundcloud.com/augmented_research

Send booking request to hello.arrecords@gmail.com

The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity (Excerpt)

Lea Bertucci