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João Martins

Experimental / Improvised / Free Music

About Me



I was born in 1977 and studied saxophone in my teenage years.
At a mid-point of my formal musical studies I started experimenting with non-classical music: some jazz, rock and popular music, and some contemporary and avant-garde academic stuff.
I started playing freely improvised music in 1998 in a project called Ohmalone. Since then, I’ve played in many ensembles and also in solo performances, using my saxophones, some live electronics and instruments that I build myself, studying the work of several instrument builders.
I’m also a sort of a composer, mainly doing music for theatre, music and other media. It’s not strict composition, because there’s a lot of improvisation and experimentation going on all the time, but it requires some structural work and some compositional techniques.

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/27/2007
Band Website: joaomartins.entropiadesign.org
Band Members: I play saxophones, computers and keyboards and custom-built self-made electro-acoustic instruments.
You can see information about the recordings available and a list of people that I've played with in the Blog section.
Influences:

Read more at the blog section.


Sounds Like:

Soundtracks for theatre, film and other media.
Free Jazz with punk-hardcore influences or minimalistic ambience approaches.
Contemporary electro-acoustic experiments with unconventional twists.
Nice melodies or noisy atmospheres.
All or nothing.

Discography:

Compilations:


Record Label: Let's Go To War, Rock'n'Cave
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Abril, mês de instalações | April, installation month

17 a 19 de Abril: A Casa dos Afectos, instalação interactiva de Eduardo Condorcet com banda sonora de João Martins, no Auditório Ilídio Pinho (Escola das Artes, UCP).April 17th - 19th: The House of Af...
Posted by João Martins on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:49:00 PST

Routine Check: Wind Studies

The second episode of my "Routine Check" podcast series is up.This one is a composition/improvisation played exclusively on an Akai EWI 4000S (Electric Wind Instrument), and I've called it "Wind Studi...
Posted by João Martins on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 03:42:00 PST

New Podcast Series: Routine Check

I've started a new podcast series, this weekend.It's called Routine Check, and it will feature only original music (sketches for future explorations and other ramblings) on a weekly basis.The first ep...
Posted by João Martins on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 03:40:00 PST

New music: short children's song

Just put a new short piece available at my podcast. It's an arrangement of a children's song called "A Canção dos Abraços" ("The Hugs Song"), composed by Sérgio Godinho for a TV show from my childhood...
Posted by João Martins on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 01:41:00 PST

25 de Abril Sempre!

25 de Abril Sempre!April 25th is Freedom Day in Portugal. We celebrate the birth of democracy in our country, in 1974.We celebrate all sorts of freedom, including the freedom to create music according...
Posted by João Martins on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 03:29:00 PST

Map My Name

Map My Name is a project to calculate the number of internet users and gather some information for an Internet Map. One simple step and you're in the map!, they say. And it's true.The project was born...
Posted by João Martins on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 03:26:00 PST

New Podcast Episode: O Inimigo (outtake)

I'm getting my stuff updated, so I've posted a new podcast episode at my blog. Check it out here: http://joaomartins.entropiadesign.org.--Estou a actualizar as minhas coisas, por isso, coloquei um nov...
Posted by João Martins on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 02:32:00 PST

New Track: Opening - Casa dos Afectos

This new track I've made available here is a sample for some of my latest work. It's from the soundtrack of "Casa dos Afectos", an ongoing interactive multimedia project by Eduardo Condorcet.It has al...
Posted by João Martins on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 04:29:00 PST

Virb° (português)

Desde que comecei a pensar em criar a minha página no MySpace, que me perturbava a aparente inexistência de alternativas no campo do "Social Networking", que fossem eficazes e adequadas à divulgação d...
Posted by João Martins on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 03:44:00 PST

Virb°

Ever since I started thinking about creating a MySpace profile, I got troubled by the apparent lack of alternatives in social networking tools, effective and suited for the promotion and support of in...
Posted by João Martins on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 03:46:00 PST