UAKTI

The Sound texture, Density, Volume. The sound form, image and color. The magical sound of UAKTI reaches all the senses. This is the art of the group UAKTI. Full of enchantment, of tone and feeling. Their music involves and touches the soul. Don't try to explain the music of UAKTI. Simply feel it and let yourself go on this fantastic journey. The group UAKTI: led by Marco Antônio Guimarães and comprised of the musicians Paulo Sérgio dos Santos, Artur Andrés Ribeiro and Décio de Souza Ramos Filho, UAKTI develops, since 1978, a singular work of instrumental music, instrument construction and research of new sonorities. Their art craft instruments are manufactured with non-conventional materials, such as glass, PVC tubes, rubber, wood, calabash and bicycle wheels, from which an involving and original music is extracted. UAKTI's music synthesizes different music styles such as minimalism, world music, MPB, jazz, new age, atonalism, modalism, ecological and eventual music. The artistic production of the group includes ten instrumental music CDs, distributed worldwide by the labels Universal and Point Music. Having received many important awards, UAKTI has accomplished more than one hundred masterclasses and workshops in important universities and cultural institutions abroad, as the Stanford University, Palo Alto – CA, USA; UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Boston University, Boston – USA; Florida University, in Miami, USA and Jacksonville; Fayetteville University, Arkansas, USA; in Guggenheim Museum of New York, USA and Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal. In the last years, the group has also committed itself to social work, offering percussion workshops for children and young people in need, giving the opportunity of new talents appearing, valuing the students' self-esteem and favoring social inclusion.