Sonic Figures Project
The Sonic Figures Project is a project by Hugo Vasco Reis, whose premise is the listening and mediation of silent sonic environments, involving experimentation, reflection, collaboration, and creation.
Based on field recordings from different political, economic, social, aesthetic, and ethical contexts, the project presents a conception of sounds present in the environment, not always heard due to the limitations of our perception and memory. The aim is to incite a new sonic awareness of the "absent" reality in which we all live.
The performance will be based on the relationship between field recordings, electronic music, amplification, and improvisation, following an approach that includes metaphorical associations, projecting a sonic horizon of intention, speculation, and subjectivity.
Hugo Vasco Reis
Composition
Hugo Vasco Reis (Lisbon, 1981) is a composer and researcher. His artistic practice extends to acoustic music, electroacoustic music and sound installations, making collaborations with musicians, fine and visual artists, who regularly perform his works throughout Europe. His music is documented in a vast catalogue of scores and monographic albums, having been awarded or selected in several national and international competitions. His recent compositions include an investigation into the sound and perception phenomena, approaching agencies of listening and mediation, with the aim of including apparently silent sounds from the sonic environment in artistic practice.
He is currently a PhD candidate at the Kunstuniversität Graz (Austria). He studied composition with Isabel Mundry at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (Zurich, Switzerland), as holder of Fondation Nicati-de Luze, with Mark André and Stefan Prins at the Hochschule für Musik Dresden (Dresden, Germany) and with António Pinho Vargas, Luís Tinoco and Sérgio Azevedo at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa (Lisbon). He had private classes and masterclasses with composers Toshio Hosokawa, Chaya Czernowin, Hans Tutschku, Dieter Ammann, Franck Bedrossian, Barry Truax, Zigmunt Krauze, Åke Parmerud, Carola Bauckholt, Klaus Lang, Peter Ablinger, among others.
His works have been supported by the Ministry of Culture of Portugal, DGArtes, Antena 2, Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, SPAutores, GDA, Coro Setúbal Voz, Síntese GMC, Musicamera, Borealis Ensemble, MPMP, Duo Sigma, Arte no Tempo, ZHdK Foundation, Momento Foundation, Graf-Fonds, Gaudeamus, KWDS, Trio Elogio, GMCL, Drumming, Vertixe Sonora, Collective Lovemusic, QCC String Quartet, Trio Piazzolla Lisboa, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Miso Music Portugal, RePercussion Trio, Orquestra Portuguesa de Guitarras e Bandolins and Trio Funkloch. His scores are published and available at MIC.PT – Portuguese Music Research & Information Center.
He also studied Portuguese guitar at the Conservatory of Music in Porto and in the private class of Pedro Caldeira Cabral. He is a civil engineer, although he does not currently assume this profession.