Serralves Foundation, Porto, Portugal
Performance on June 30, 2018 - 6 pm

I/E is an archaeology of sound, a research in sonic stromatography, cracking into hidden frameworks of the city. Sounds are recorded from below the surface, the sea and the underground world, moving upwards in an attempt to locate, decipher and understand the identity of the place. The recordings transcribe the multiple layers of the landscape. [...]

The raw material amassed through the sound recordings forms the point of departure for an interpretation of the site, a composition and a series of performances that extrapolate outwards into the space, re-introducing to the site the sounds of its own unapparent stories.
I/E was originally conceived by Tarek Atoui as a sound studio, a listening space and a performance platform housed inside a sound-proof shipping container. Atoui thought of I/E as a polyvalent tool that would allow him to record sound, perform and collaborate with a variety of musicians in unusual outdoor contexts. In the case of its iteration in Porto, the sound studio work will be housed at Sonoscopia and the performances staged at Serralves Park with the participation of the recordists and Sonoscopia associated artists and musicians Alberto Lopes, Gustavo Costa and Henrique Fernandes.

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