“guitarras variáves” (variable guitars) at Balleteatro: the concert and the late night rehearsal the day before
EME.LL : was pleased 2 B part of this “laptop ensemble” organized by Vitor Joaquim: 16 laptops live!.. 4 stereos!!! 4 cool projections…it was powerful!
had lots of fun making sounds with lost and transformed toys with Miguel Pipa (NuvemVoadora), and jammed with some great musicians/artists i had never played with before: Nuno Aroso (percussion) + Durán Vázquez (noises) + Alvaro Almeida (trumpet) + João Martins (sax) + João Santos (bass) + Tiago Ferreira (vocals and sounds) + Luis Teixeira (processed bandolin) + João Ricardo (laptop and noises) + Jaime Soares, Raquel Rua, Carlos Silva (body expressions) and Jerome Faria + Ivan Franco + Nuno Moita + Alba G. Corral + Laetitia Morais + Hugo Olim + André Sier (laptops)
i tuned some radios,..tsssssssshhhhhhh…ckrrrrtsshhhh…. for Crónicaster…tshlblrtsssss…and some guitars!!!!… damn! i turned myself into a radio station!….
respect to Victor Gama’s Tsikaya project with the sounds of musicians living and working in the rural areas of Angola
the ipodTouch has no mic so “Mickey Blue” was the solution for my field recordings
drawing: Jorge Colombo kicks ass like he has always done but this time on an iPhone, and couldn’t help buying Lia’s 2 iphone apps, cause there’s thin lines, pencil curves, and gesture forms all over!!!
Laracrafts: R4 installations “Integrated in the European Week 2009 Waste Reduction”: “Vinyl rotations” and “whiteDolls”. Also, this was the year i designed and conceived Laracrafts.org
the last days of the decade at Balneario Mondariz, Spain
RIP: will miss the creations of Joao Aguardela (musician) and António Sérgio (radio: the voice)