mestre andré
is a sound and intermedia explorer
he also is o morto, alacrau and notwan

ma musical arts (new university of lisbon)
ba sound arts and design, first class graduate (university of the arts london)

keywords:
radical aesthetics, art politics, noise, soundscape, ecology, field recording, free improvisation, deep listening

bio_↓

Évora, 1989. Academically, I have a background in acoustic ecology and sound studies, a master's degree from Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL) and an external research student at Simon Fraser University (SFU) Burnaby, where I studied and was supervised by Barry Truax in 2015. My research has been on active listening to the environment... read more_↓

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banha da cobra - lava love (discrepant 2025)

jibóia - salar (discrepant 2024)


The Fishing Boat installation at Nitja, Particular Universal exhibition, part of Ultima Festival 2024


o morto - lila (discrepant 2024)


o morto - dans la gorge d'un monstre (discrepant 2023) / ifrits habitent (sucata tapes 2023)

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Nominated for Best Field Sound Recordist shortlist on the first Sound of the Year Awards prize (2020)

O Morto + Ayoub ElAyady - Lila (TBA,18&19.12.20)

O Morto live set @ Keroxen in Santa Cruz, Tenerife (6.12.20)

Banha da Cobra live set @ Keroxen in Santa Cruz, Tenerife (6.12.21)

audios
O Morto -— The Forest, the People and the Spirits featured at AUDIOSPHERE: Social Experiment Audio: Pre-and Post-InternetMuseo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid — curated by Francisco López
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POST-DRUMMING: O Morto - A Rainbow of Sand // Vítor Joaquim - Lines & Lines & Lines

Dwelling Poetics of Dystopia #1 solo exhibition @ Casa Independente, Lisboa(12-14.11.19)


Lisboa Soa 2020, photo by Vera Marmelo


Recording Lisboa Soa 2017, photo by Vera Marmelo


listening with two pairs of ears to my friend Sam Auinger, Lisboa Soa 2017, photo by Vera Marmelo


JIBÓIA live at Damas Bar by Vera Marmelo (11.05.17)

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portrait by Lais Pereira, Alförjs concert at Galeria Zé dos Bois (Lisboa, 30.11.2016)


portrait at Simon Fraser University's Sonic Research Studio (Burnaby, Canada 2015)

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with Barry Truax at Sonic Research Studio (Canada, 2015)


with Hildegard Westerkamp at her beautiful garden (Canada, 2015)