// ROLES, FUNCTIONS AND DEGRADATION 2025
. Multichannel electroacoustic and acousmatic music
Santiago, Chile _ April 2025
Organized and curated by Espacios Resonantes
Centro GAM
"ROLES, FUNCTIONS AND DEGRADATION" is a music piece for 16 channel ambisonics sound installation SONOMETRO. It explores the possibilities given by the objective and subjective qualities of sound, such as for meditational use, its spatial properties for sound localization and/or a more abstract approach where those sounds can be taken out of context through synthesis and processing. From pure acoustic to digital sounds and its degradation.
// INTERMITA 2023
. Multichannel sound installation
Nogueira de côta, Viseu _ June 2023
Organized and curated by Binaural Nodar
"Intermita" is a sound piece for 4 channel sound installation that resulted of a 2 weeks long residency “Ecos da ida e do retorno”. It explores migrational complexity, capturing some of the intervenients emotions during the field work while getting into my own experience of the space.
The composition was made with sound design techniques, Max/MSP grain synthesis of field recordings and a tenor saxophone recorded at the old mine of Queiriga.
Curator : Luis Gomes da Costa
// FRAGMENTO 2021
. Multichannel interactive sound installation
Barreiro, Setúbal_May 2021
With the support of Mural 18, CM Barreiro and OUT.RA - Associação Cultural
Organized and curated by OUT.RA - Associação Cultural
A sound installation using the living archive provided by the project Cidade Som,
“Fragmento” is a 12 channel sound installation with interactive elements, such as a phone-in made by a contributor exploring the city soundscape, while other live sound manipulation and spatialization takes place. Sound programming and spatialization being done on Max/MSP and Nuendo 10.
8 hours of live performance on May 23rd at EMEF - Railway train factory.
Artistic Director, creation and performance: José Bica
Remote phone calls: Rafael Ayres
Sound Technician: João Medina
Curator: Vítor Lopes
Photo credit: Vera Marmelo
// ANEXO 2020
. Immersive audiovisual installation
Vila Nova de Gaia, Porto_ 2020
With the support of Kale Companhia de Dança on the event Curtas de Dança 2020
An immersive audiovisual installation exploring an introduction for the dance video "ANEXO" (Yana Suslovets) for a 4 channel installation and a visual call for the screening.
Concept, creation : José Bica & Yana Suslovets
// EXTRAI 2020
. Program and audience development
Lousal, Grândola_December 2021
With the support of DG Artes, CM Grândola and OUT.RA - Associação Cultural
Organized by SMFOG - Música Velha
Five multidisciplinary artistic residencies with the motto "Arts and community in action". Exploration of the five senses
Artistic Director: Sérgio Vicente
Production and Management: Inês de Oliveira, José Bica and Gabriela Moura
Audiovisual team: Fernando Fadigas, José Bica and António Santiago
Design and Communication: Gabriela Moura, António Santiago and Abel Quental
Artists: Ângela Ferreira, Pedro Vaz, Rogério Taveira, Letícia Larin and Tiago Rocha Costa
https://www.extrai.pt/
// CIDADE SOM 2018
. Sound mapping
Barreiro, Setúbal_May 2020
With the support of DG Artes
Organized by OUT.RA - Associação Cultural
Project about the aural identity of the city of Barreiro.
Coordination: José Bica and Rui Pedro Dâmaso
Concept: José Bica
Field Recordists: José Bica and Rafael Ayres
Web Design: Diogo Carneiro
https://cidadesom.pt
// O VOO DO PEIXE 2017
OUT.RA Creative grant 2017
SUBÚRBIO SONORO
. Immersive and Interactive sound installation
ADAO - Association for the development of arts and crafts, Barreiro_May 2017
First moment of the project "o voo do peixe"
Nature vs Industry
+Nature octophonic sound installation - the concept was to show how the sounds of the nature surrounding the Barreiro city can be so calming
+Industry 5.1 interactive sound installation - this installation was conceived to make people interact with the industrial sounds of Barreiro and to make an environmental point sound with it. All the interaction would manipulate the industrial sounds and make the sound flow around the installation.
Concept:José Bica
Sound: José Bica
Decor: Inês Souto
Interactivity Programming: José Bica (Max MSP and Pure Data in Windows and Raspbian environment)
CHEIO E VAZIO
. Short film documentary
screened at an old and abandoned train station named Estação ferroviária do Barreiro_June 2017
Second moment of the project "O voo do peixe".
+Documentary on the city's material and immaterial heritage
Concept: José Bica
Photography: Daniel Assunção, Vitor Pereira and Ricardo Silva
Image post-production: José Bica and Vitor Pereira
Sound: José Bica
Live Music and Foley art: José Bica and André Neves
Director: José Bica
DIÁSPORA
. Multimedia interactive and immersive performance
Convento de Madre Deus da Verderena, Barreiro_December 2017
Third and last moment of the project "o voo do peixe".
+Performance piece and contemporary dance, accompanied by film projection and interactive sound. Greek mythological inspiration in pheonix as a symbol of the representation of the nature and environmental awareness rebirth in contrast with the devastation created by the efusive movement of the people in search for the industrialization.
Concept, Sound and Image edition and post-production, Interactivity mapping and programming, Live quadraphonic sound spatialization, Foley art: José Bica
Live music: José Bica and Ricardo Graça
Solo performance: Daniela da Silva
Interactive contemporary dance performance: Inês Maló, Rita Pinto and Yana Suslovets
Lights: Igor de Brito
Decor: Inês Souto
// DOBRART 2015
. Live Sound Painting
Festas do Barreiro / Palco Juventude_ August 2015
Live Sound from Painting with David Antunes, Miguel Amado, André Neves, António Camarão and Pedro Marques
- Piezoelectric microphones, live sound processing from Ableton Live, an external analog delay and tape delay+reverb unit.
// OVER&OUT 2013
. Multimedia interactive installation
LX Faktory, Lisbon_2013
Project envolving arduino, interactive sensors, cameras and Max/MSP processing video and sound with Daniel Camalhão (Max MSP with Arduino hardware)
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