Sara Pinheiro: Vertical Chain | Sustain #4

Vertical Chain is a live performance for loudspeakers by Portuguese sound artist Sara Pinheiro. It plays with the idea of “ground sounds” and “sky-high sounds” to produce an effect of verticality. It starts from the two loudspeakers on the floor and their dedicated sound sources, slowly moving to the two elevated loudspeakers and their aerial sounds.

As these two layers interact vertically, they evoke a sense of spatial depth, inviting the audience to experience the auditory tension and consonance between these realms. The performance employs field recordings, synthesized sounds and live sound processing to create a fluid, evolving meditative experience.

(2018, 45 min.)

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Sara Pinheiro is a sound-maker. For film and video-art, she does sound recording, editing, foley and mixing. In her solo practice, she makes acousmatic pieces, usually for multichannel performances, radio broadcasts or installations. Her work crosses practices of sound design for film with concrete and acousmatic music. It blends natural and artificial soundscapes via
field recordings, foley practices and signal processing.

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Pinheiro graduated in Cinema (Lisbon) and holds a Master of Music in Sonology (The Hague). She teaches at CAS – FAMU since 2013. Her academic work is practice-based research under the name of “Acousmatic Foley” with which she is currently a PhD student at The School of Music and Media, in the Bangor University (Uk). She is the author of “Field recordings: a manifesto” and “Noise Pollution and Sound Beyond Sound” (with Shluk). Likewise, she has put forward the idea of “deep recording” and of “the critical ear”.

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