Soon: Gigantiq at Madeira Dig 09 and Whit at Um Festival

Gigantiq, December 5th, live at Madeira Dig 09.
+ info:
http://www.madeiradig.net


Whit, November 13, live at Um Festival.
+info:
http://www.1um1.net

Upcoming performances at this year's Sonic Scope Festival

+ info:

http://www.grainofsound.com/

http://teatromariamatos.pt/catalogo/detalhes_produto.php?id=141

Record Store Day :: April 18, 2009

Thanks goes out to the portuguese record store Flur who invited music fans, musicians and sound artists to answer some questions about their favorite records, covers for records...in sum, their relation with music and the music business.

You can find my answers here (portuguese version only, sorry):
http://blog.flur.pt/2009/04/28/rsd09-questionario-75

More info about the Record Store Day and Flur, here:
http://blog.flur.pt/2009/04/23/rsd09-creditos-finais
http://www.flur.pt/FLUR/flur1.html

Upcoming Performance: Magenta Interior + Decrepticon + Nuno Moita

Live at Abertura 3 Festival,
Fábrica do Braço de Prata, July 19, Sala Visconti, 21:30

+ info:
http://www.visual-agency.net/abertura3

Upcoming performance: Gigantiq + Gabriel Ferrandini

Live at Abertura 3 Festival,
Fábrica do Braço de Prata, July 19, Sala Wolf, 23:30

+ info:
http://www.visual-agency.net/abertura3

Whit at Festival Mau 2008

+ Whit photos at Moda Lisboa 2008

Whit playing live at the Lidija Kolovrat fashion show during Moda Lisboa 2008 at the Casino do Estoril.

This Saturday, March 28 at 6:00 PM, at the Chili store in Lisbon

Whit live at the Chili store in Lisbon: 18:00, Rua dos Fanqueiros nº174, 1ºEsq.

Drawing by Marcos Farrajota

Design: Mau Amor

+ info:

http://chilicomcarne.blogspot.com

Upcoming performances: January 17 and February 6

One-Off at Festival Rescaldo on January 17:
http://rescaldo08.blogspot.com/

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Whit at Festival Chão in Lisbon on February 6

dormente

Photos from my "dormente" series, just posted on Issuu.

Taku Unami, Nuno Moita, Pedro Boavida - Live at Mascavado PT2 :: 29.07.2008

Taku Unami: electronics
Nuno Moita: turntable
Pedro Boavida: laptop

(photo: João Silva)

Holy Ghost | Instant Drawings :: 06.09.2008 - 29.09.2008

(polaroid: João Silva)

(polaroid: Nuno Moita)

40 polaroids + 1 rasterização de Nuno Moita e João Silva em exposição na loja Trem Azul em Lisboa.

Inauguração: dia 6 de Setembro, sábado, às 17h com Dj set de Nuno Moita e João Silva.

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40 polaroids + 1 rasterization by Nuno Moita and João Silva at Trem Azul Jazz store in Lisbon.

Dj set by Nuno Moita and João Silva at the opening of exhibition on September 6, saturday, at 5 P.M.

Gigantiq :: Tiny Noise Festival, 10.04.2008

Photos: Paulo Andringa

Tomorrow: Gigantiq at Tiny Noise Festival 2008

...we do this because noise makes us feel so much better...

tiny noise tiny noise tiny noise tiny noise tiny noise tiny noise tiny noise tiny noise tiny noise tiny noise tiny noise tiny noise tiny noise

website has been refreshed!!!! you'll find a cleaner look and more complete archives.
Still at the same link www.tinynoise.com

and yes... its true, the 8th edition of tiny noise is coming up....

tiny Lisboa tiny Lisboa tiny Lisboa tiny Lisboa tiny Lisboa tiny Lisboa tiny Lisboa tiny Lisboa tiny Lisboa tiny Lisboa tiny Lisboa

008 LISBON, PORTUGAL, Thursday April 10th
tiny noise 008 LISBON, PORTUGAL, Thursday April 10th
9pm -> 2am [free entry]
@ O Século Center for Advanced Art
Rua de O Século, no-80-88 1200-436 Lisboa
[Bairro Alto]
MAP

+ Gigantiq / lisbon
+ PLAN / lisbon
+ EVOL / barcelona
+ Iana Reis / lisbon
+ Fernando Fadigaz / lisbon + Sandra Zuzarte (video) [lisbon / portugal]
+ Vidéodrome par Dominic Gagnon / montreal
+ Playmobil / lisbon/barcelona



http://www.tinynoise.com
[full artists info on the official website]

Stilb at Festival Mau 2007

Photos by João Silva

+ info:
http://stilbsound.blogspot.com

Whit + Travassos at Moda Lisboa 2008

Performing live during the Lidija Kolovrat fashion show on March 8, 2008.

Whit > Fernando Fadigas, Miguel Sá, Nuno Moita, Pedro Lopes: turntables.
Travassos > analogue electronics, circuit bending.

Today at Faculdade de Belas Artes de Lisboa :: Gigantiq at Bang Festival

+ info at:
http://www.bangfestival.net

photo: NASA

Whit + Travassos at Mascavado 2008

Whit will perform live with Travassos at the Mascavado 2008 festival in Lisbon. The festival will happen this next February 8 and 9. Our performance starts at 22:45 on February 9.

+ info about Whit (portuguese only):
http://radiozero.pt/

+ info about our special guest Travassos:
http://travassos.podomatic.com/

All info about Mascavado:
http://mascavado.blogspot.com/

The Very Greatest Best Of Ultimate Top Collection of records released in 2007 ::

In no particular order ::



BJ Nilsen - "The Short Night" (Touch)

Anthony Pateras – “Chasms” (Sirr)

David Maranha – “Marches Of The New World” (Grain of Sound)

GoGoo – “Long, Lointain” (Baskaru)

Organ Eye – “Organ Eye” (Staubgold)

Otomo Yoshihide – “Multiple Otomo” (Asphodel)

Pedro Carneiro – “Improbable Transgressions” (Sirr)

Variable Geometry Orchestra – “Stills” (Creative Sources)

Alva Noto - "Xerrox Vol.1" (Raster-Noton)

Miles Davis – “The Complete On The Corner Sessions” (Columbia/Legacy)

Devendra Banhart – “Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon” (XL Recordings)

John Zorn – “Six Litanies For Heliogabalus” (Tzadik)

PJ Harvey – “White Chalk” (Island)

Original Silence – “The First Original Silence” (SmallTown SuperJazzz)

V.A. – “Yasujiro Ozu – Hitokomakura” (and/Oar)

Pomassl – “Spare Parts” (Raster-Noton)

Two Bands And A Legend - Feat. Cato Salsa Experience And The Thing With Joe McPhee (SmallTown SuperJazzz)


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MP3 single, 7” & 12” records ::

Fennesz - "On A Desolate Shore A Shadow Passes By" (Touch)

Pop Dell'Arte – “Querelle” (Bloop)

LCD Soundsystem – “North American Scum (DFA)

Deep Chord presents Echospace - "The Coldest Season Part1" (Modern Love)

Deep Chord presents Echospace - "The Coldest Season Part2" (Modern Love)

Photos by João Silva reporting the Atlantic Waves Festival performance in London on November 9, 2007

full view at:

http://stilbsound.blogspot.com/

Soul Surf / Instant Paintings

Just uploaded, the complete photo report about my polaroids exhibition with Joao Silva at Fábrica Features Lisboa. Check it here:

http://nunomoitapublishedworks.blogspot.com

F E S T I V A L M A U ^ 07

Snow White And The Seven Secrets Of Hades

{Stilb will be performing live at this year´s edition of the Mau festival for performance, video and experimental music}

+ info:
http://olfactopelaforma.pt/festivalmau07.htm





Branca de Neve e os sete Segredos de Hades.

A Olfacto Pela Forma, organização sem fins lucrativos sedeada em Faro, organiza o FestivalMau, evento internacional direccionado às diversas formas de expressão e motivação "má", pretendendo divulgar através de mostras de vídeo, espectáculos e exposições de carácter pouco usual, trabalhos e concretizações de autores com uma visão contemporânea nociva.

Datas e locais de apresentação vídeo / performances:

13 Outubro, 22 h, Baixa da Banheira - Fórum Cultural José Manuel Figueiredo:
»» Stilb (pt), Calhau (pt), Filhos du grizo (pt)

08 Novembro, 22h, Faro - Associação de Músicos:
»» João Castro Pinto (pt), Talibam (usa)

09 Novembro, 22h, Lisboa - ZDB:
»» Nalalana (pt), Talibam (usa), mostra video

10 Novembro, 22h, Lisboa - Kabuki:
»» Carlos Santos / Nuno Morão (pt), mostra video



info:
http://olfactopelaforma.pt/festivalmau07.htm

Manuel Mota, Margarida Garcia, Plan, Tinfoil: Live at Sonic Scope 2006

My set-up at Sonic Scope 2006 at Fonoteca Municipal de Lisboa on June 22: sampler SP-404, PMA-5 portable workstation and Handytrax turntable. I performed as Tinfoil.
Image: João Vicente.

Gigantiq - Live at MusicBox, 12.04.2007

Photos: Pedro Tudela.

Gigantiq - Live at Auditório da Biblioteca Municipal de Barcelos, 05.05.2007

Photos: Pedro Tudela.

Variable Geometry Orchestra - Live at Outfest 2007

I´ve played sampler in this live performance at Outfest, Barreiro.

+ info:
www.myspace.com/outfestbarreiro

Draftank + Manuel Mota - Live at Hertz Extend #1_2005

Photos: Catarina Santos

+ info:

http://www.hertzoscopio.com/

http://www.zoom.pt/

Draftank Vs. Plan feat. M0rph3u - Live at Outfest 2006

Photos: Vera Marmelo
+ info:
http://www.myspace.com/outfestbarreiro

http://v-miopia.blogspot.com/

Draftank + PL - Live at EME Festival 2005

Photos: Rui Minderico.

+ info:

http://www.emefestival.org/

http://www.ruiminderico.com/

Out Now: Sonic Scope Quarterly #10

The latest number of the Sonic Scope Quarterly PDF magazine includes 10 new graphic works of mine. 5 spontaneous photocopies and 5 inkjet image transfers, both series of works from 2006.
The eZine is downloadable for free from the Grain of Sound website: http://www.grainofsound.com

Digital Cardboard

Working in my own private tiny home studio. I call it the Digital Cardboard. It comprises:

Sound ::

Korg Mini Kaoss Pad
Zoom H2 Handheld Digital Recorder
Sony ECM-DS70P Microphone
Sony MZ-R909 Minidisc
Powerbook G4 1.25MHZ computer
Vestax Handytrax portable turntable
Vestax PDX-2000 turntable
Roland PMA-5 portable workstation
Electro Harmonix Little Big Muff pedal
Electro Harmonix Frequency Analyser pedal
Ixos Dj 1003 headphones
Tannoy Stratford studio monitors
Sony EX70AV Amplifier
Behringer EuroRack UB802 mixer
Novation Nocturn controller
American DJ Pro-Scratch 1 cd player

Vision ::


Supersampler
Pentax Zoom 105-R
Polaroid Image Elite Pro
Polaroid The Button
Polaroid ProPack
Polavision
Canon MV500i MiniDV camcorder
Imac G5 1.8GHZ computer
HP Photosmart Scanner 1200
Canon Ixus 2.1MP
Panasonic Lumix TZ-4

Stilb - "Optical Soundtracks"

The debut release from my new solo moniker, Stilb, is coming out on Ristretto late this month. A concert to launch the record is already schedule to take part at Fábrica Features Lisboa (Chiado) next September 1 at 18:00. It´s included in a series of live events, curated by André Gonçalves, parallel to his own "Untitled #6" exhibition happening at Fábrica from August 17 to September 13. The great graphics and handmade packaging are from the beloved artist run outfit CãoCeito.

+ info:
http://www.caoceito.com.
http://fabrica-features-lisboa.blogspot.com
http://www.ctrl.tk

"Test Loop" is a music video i´ve made for Gigantiq.