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With a background in music and Fine Arts, Adriana Sa is a trans-disciplinary artist, performer improviser/ composer. She has been developing and presenting her work around Europe, USA and Japan. Building theinstrumentationis part of Adriana's creative process.
Sound can be plastically connected with light, movement, architecture, weather, words... it's about the poetry of the universe.
Some of Adriana'sinstrumentationis conceived for acquiring new characteristics each time it gets installed, on architectural scale - one gets inside to play it; space turns reactive.
Whatever instruments she uses, architectural or portable (requiring much less set-up time), her work places music performance as related to specific contexts involving site, memory and people. Sensations are products of context. Prior to awareness, they are 'selected' subjectively by each individual's body through the orientating reaction - a biological function that exists to prevent us from a permanent stimuli overload. Interesting is also to investigate upon these physical criterion... this body-intelligence.
Working with sound provocatively, Adriana is playful with the transitions between different psychic-physic states. Her graphical scores choreograph texture, density, dominance and sequence variations rather than clock-time or note arrangements.
In collaboration, Adriana emphasizes individual particularities as challenging material for experiments and discussions on further artistic hybridization possibilities.









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Member Since: 2/9/2007
Band Website: http://adrianasa.planetaclix.pt
Band Members:
Current stuff:

EMOTIONAL OBJECT by Adriana Sá & John Klima & Sofia Oliveira & Jared Hakney
This is an interactive installation consisting of a physical structure with a corresponding 3D game interface. Rotating like a child's spinning top, the object, both physical and virtual, is divided in sections mapped onto 24 emotional states represented by colors and sounds.The goal of Emotional Object as a multiuser game/ composition is for 1 to 4 players to pass through the various emotional states, while keeping the object moving and in balance.

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WINDOWMATTER by Adriana Sá & John Klima
The performance set-up includes zither (played by A. Sa), Portuguese guitar (J. Klima) and a co-created software called 'audiographics' as well as multiple press and light sensors. The real-time sound-spectrum produced by the analogue instrumentation drives a camera-movement within a 3-D world while simultaneously leaving a audio-graphical path. Additional sound-samples are mapped onto the virtual territory; these get triggered and processed as the virtual camera crosses the corresponding geography.

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Listed bellow is the MOMENT IN MOVEMENT project series.
META(LOCAL)MORFOSE was a sounding-light installation: an island of ocean in the middle of the city; made for the Luzboa Biennale, Lisbon. There was also a performance in this habitat of maritime sounds, with: David Maranha (dobro), Manuel Mota (guitar), Sei Miguel (pocket trompet), Fala Mariam (trombone), Pedro Lourenço (light tunning); adriana played sitar, modular synth and light percussion upon the pre-programmed sounding light instrument.

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3 x (META)LOCAL VS. WET BEHIND THE EARS was an installation hosting performances: an unfolding exchange within Yvette Poorter's This Neck Of The Woods - a shed-sculpture to host artistic residency projects. The room Adriana slept-lived in turned a musical instrument itself; in Rotterdam. Her instrumentation was: bodiless instrument, sounding light instrument, press and turn sensors, light percussion; Yvette projected disaster slides onto the light sensors.

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LIFE OR LIFE - LIFE HEARD was a performance-installation in Lisbon; Adriana played sounding light instrument, bodiless instrument, light percussion, modular synth, press and turn sensors, sitar. LixoLuxo Poético collaborated on musical level with his instruments built upon urban trash: milk and soda, insidefluxos, balança.

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ELASTIC RETURN was an installation within a deactivated codfish factory; developed with LixoLuxo Póetico during a residency commissioned by the Circular festival, Vila do Conde. Most instrumentation was built upon materials gathered on-site...

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Click here to view and listen to some isolated past event:
I'LL BE DICKSON DEE AND ME

See also some previous work series:

Click here for the PARALLAX series' (hi)story and audio

Click here for the PARALLAX DEVIATION series' (hi)story

Click here for the METAPARALLAX series' (hi)story and audio



IN BETWEEN PERCEPTION AND THING is a workshop whose underlying strategies adapt to most diverse circumstances.

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