Pedro Mourinha is a filmmaker, musician, and multidisciplinary artist from Santarém. He graduated in Documentary Film from the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar in 2019 and has since worked as a freelancer in various areas of cinema, such as directing, cinematography, and sound.
In 2023, he won the award for Best Regional Film at FICS (Santarém International Film Festival) with the film "DeNegas."
In recent years, he has collaborated with the documentary film association Waves of Youth, with which he co-created the RASGO collective in Santarém, aiming to promote interdisciplinarity and artistic-cultural dynamism.
Through his work, he explores themes such as memory, tradition, and ethnography.

Someone said that nothing is created with an empty mind. 

Himalayha music assumes this way like a bastard son between the Zbigniew Preisner 
erudite and cinematic sound, with Fennesz and Alva Noto experimental music, 
adding the melancholy of composers like Erik Satie and Debussy.

Blending piano with chords instruments, some minimalist electronic and field recordings, 
this project uses sounds to tell various stories, building this way a marked cinematic 
sound, with shapes of an autumn atmosphere, very nostalgic and melancholic. 

It is music about persons, livings; it is a travel around memory, a soundtrack to 
be accompanied by imagination.
For contact use himalayha@gmail.com

aka Chaplin 
aka Carlos Manuel 
aka Catedrático
Rapper da Maluca

3830/2745

[PT] M-PeX é um músico multi-instrumentista, compositor, sound-designer e produtor que tem na guitarra portuguesa o traço distintivo da sua identidade musical, posicionando-a enquanto instrumento solista em ambientes sonoros diversificados, incluindo música electrónica. As suas criações ensaiam modernizar e globalizar este instrumento tradicional da cultura portuguesa, culminando numa arrojada e inovadora confluência musical.

BIOGRAFIA

Natural de Lisboa, Marco Pinheiro Miranda cedo começa a tocar viola de acompanhamento de Fado com o seu avô Luís Pinheiro (instagram.com/p/CTfnIeOjO8j/), mestre da guitarra portuguesa, acompanhando-o em inúmeras casas de Fado e em eventos privados. Pouco mais tarde, o seu avô oferece-lhe a sua primeira guitarra portuguesa e transmite-lhe a técnica, a escola e os métodos. Entusiasta da produção de música electrónica, e recusando circunscrever a guitarra portuguesa ao universo do Fado, adopta, em 1999, o nome artístico de M-PeX, criando uma sonoridade em que combina a guitarra portuguesa com este segmento musical. Enquanto engenheiro físico, e em paralelo com a actividade artística, dedica-se à investigação científica (cienciavitae.pt/1919-8DA5-4720) do efeito da música e do som nas ondas cerebrais humanas, com áreas de interesse em computação sonora-musical, processamento de sinal, mapeamento, sonificação EEG e outros biosinais. Dedica-se igualmente à composição e produção de bandas sonoras originais (autoria e co-autoria, bit.ly/mpex-sound-pt), realizando também licenciamentos, arranjos, remisturas, sonorização, sonoplastia, sound design, edição, produção e pós-produção de áudio para cinema, televisão, teatro, web, videojogos e rádio, executando também trabalhos de gravação, mistura e masterização. Ao vivo, actua a solo, fazendo-se acompanhar da sua guitarra portuguesa, pedaleiras de efeitos e do seu computador.

PROMO-KIT (PDF): bit.ly/mpex-promo-pt [PT]
SOUND DESIGN (PDF): bit.ly/mpex-sound-pt [PT]
mpex.bandcamp.com/
soundcloud.com/mpex
m-pex.pt/

REPORTAGEM TV 'Outras Histórias':
https://youtu.be/O95h1VWL1zo

[EN] M-PeX is a multi-instrumentalist musician, composer, sound designer, and producer who has in the Portuguese guitar the hallmark of his musical identity, merging their sound with diverse soundscapes, including electronic music. His creations aim to modernize and globalize this traditional instrument from Portuguese culture, culminating in a bold and innovative musical confluence.

BIOGRAPHY

Born in Lisbon, Marco Pinheiro Miranda soon began playing Fado accompanying guitar with his grandfather Luís Pinheiro (instagram.com/p/CTfnIeOjO8j/), a Portuguese guitar master, accompanying him in countless Fado clubs and at private events. Soon after, his grandfather gave him his first Portuguese guitar and teached his technique, school, and methods. Enthusiastic about electronic music production, and refusing to confine the Portuguese guitar to the universe of Fado, in 1999 he adopted the artistic name M-PeX, creating a sound that combines the Portuguese guitar with this musical segment. As a physics engineer, and in parallel with his artistic activity, he dedicates himself to scientific research (cienciavitae.pt/1919-8DA5-4720) into the effect of music and sound on human brainwaves, with areas of interest in sound-musical computing, signal processing, mapping, EEG and other biosignals sonification. He is also dedicated to the composition and production of original soundtracks (authorship and co-authorship, bit.ly/mpex-sound-en), also carrying out licensing, arrangements, remixes, sound design, editing, production and post -audio production for cinema, television, theater, web, video games and radio, also carrying out recording, mixing, and mastering work. Live, he performs solo accompanied by his Portuguese guitar, effects pedals, and his computer.

PROMO-KIT (PDF): bit.ly/mpex-promo-en [EN]
SOUND DESIGN (PDF): bit.ly/mpex-sound-en [EN]
mpex.bandcamp.com/
soundcloud.com/mpex
m-pex.pt/

TV INTERVIEW 'Outras Histórias':
https://youtu.be/O95h1VWL1zo

Ni! is a composer and multi-instrumentalist based in Portugal.
Working with bass clarinet, saxophones, trumpet, kalimba, keys, and electronics, he builds immersive, emotionally charged soundscapes.

Combining woodwinds instruments with live looping and effects, Ni! explores themes of beauty, tension, sensuality, and solitude.
His music moves between improvisation and structure, always rooted in deep listening and a cinematic approach to sound.

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