Violeta Azevedo is a sound artist whose work oscillates between composition and improvisation. The music she creates becomes a dense, detailed universe in which each piece starts with the sound of a transverse flute that changes into unique organisms through alchemic processes by means of an electronic orchestra. In this concert, Violeta Azevedo will present Canção para Caranguejes, a piece that serves as a portal into inner reflection and explores nuances of the “self” and the intimate
connection between sound and emotional life experiences.
duration 45 min.
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Violeta Azevedo (1992, Lisbon) is by now a continuously fascinating fixture within the Portuguese circuit, whose past includes the co-foundation of Savage Ohms and collaborations with artists like Jasmim or Felicia Atkinson and presently is part of Menino da Mãe's band, Violeta Azevedo has been projecting on the flute - and also her voice - a very particular universe elevated by electronic processing. As a solo act, Violeta inhabits an aura of mystery, marked by the absence of recordings under her own name, where each apparition reveals itself as a glimpse in time & space of her occult work in progress. Filled with a deep lyricism, her flute lines, driven through a vast array of pedals - some of her own creation - ascend to a perpetual sound flow that honours the pioneering spirits of 50s and 60s electronics and their memory through hauntology, capable of evoking droney and/or pensive landscapes and the hazy glimmer of some noisy daydreams in its trail.