Biography

I improvise music with concrete sounds and field recordings. I design my own instruments and plugins. Seeker by nature, I have a PhD in environmental engineering. I've been applying that same curiosity to sound for more than ten years.

I work from a principle I call fuzziness. I build my tools around the facts that human attention wanders and hands are imprecise. In live improvisation, I shape the conditions under which musicality emerges. I leave the actual scheduling to the machine.

Sonically, what interests me is the contrast between raw recordings and their processing to reveal the inner qualities of the sounds. Hidden patterns emerge — the clicks, the breaths, anything we don't pay attention to. The goal is to change the way people listen in everyday life. The work has landed when someone starts telling me about a sound they heard.

Recent work includes Barreiro Improvised, a grant-funded project exploring Barreiro's soundscape through live performance, and pieces broadcast on Radiophrenia.

Based in Barreiro, Portugal, on the south bank of the Tagus.