Spectrum Awareness is a trio comprised of João Pedro Fonseca (synths and visuals), Inês Carincur (voice and loops) and João Valinho (drums). The project, which would end up integrating ZABRA Records' colective, has its origins by the end of 2019, with a presentation at Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado, within the scope of Temps d'Images Festival. With their respective trajectories and with distinct connections to music, plastic arts and performance art, the three share an impulse to push, blend and break aesthetic boundaries, turning the process itself into the outcome of creation. It was, thus, natural that the initial focus behind the collaboration was live performance, taking on the contingency that improvisation entails, as opposed to developing a composed, planned structure beforehand.
There will be a set of atmospheric conditions that are the starting point of each test. The scenography created in the live setting are a reflexion of it, as are the initial moments of each piece. Given the tone, a semi-controled process unfolds, with synchrony at its limit and of unexpected results. Over the course of five and a half minutes, one wanders amidst dense atmospheres, metal in entropy and a shifting drum kick in a somewhat organic repetition that distinguishes the ritualistic tone of an ancestral mythology or the elegiac motifs of forsaken metallurgical plants. At one point in time, a voice is heard, something on the cusp of operatic chanting, perpetually disturbed by indistinguishable vocalizations, hostages of a never ending feedback loop. We're left uncertain of what is archive material and what is played or sung live. Everything arrives at us interstitially, as fragments of a whole which cannot fully be restored.
Anjos70, Lisboa - 2020
in ZABRA i n t e r f a c e
MNAC - Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea, Lisboa - 2019
Photos by Alípio Padilha
Em 2005, quando foi feita a primeira simulação virtual do Cosmos pela The Millennium Simulation, Cosmological Supercomputer Simulations, saíram de imediato os primeiros artigos a compararem o resultado das imagens com os redes neuronais humanas. Perante esta visível semelhança voltou a repensar-se a consciência planetária e, sobretudo, os padrões e formas repetitivas que o espectro do visível apresenta - questionando o conceito de iteração e eternidade.
Fractal Memory Of A Spectrum Awareness criado por João Pedro Fonseca é uma abordagem audiovisual construída ao vivo pela voz de Carincur, a electrónica e visuais de João Pedro Fonseca e bateria de João Valinho, onde se vai compor um diálogo entre simulações cósmicas e neuronais.
LOCAL: MNAC - Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea, dentro do LOOPS.LISBOA do Temps D’Image.