AGNOSIA

Music:

Member Since: 11/3/2007
Band Website: hertzoscopio.com/agnosia.swf
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J. Castro Pinto is a portuguese artist active since the mid nineties in the areas of experimental sound art, electronic / electroacoustic music and intermedia art.

In 1999 was selected within the national contest Jovens Criadores 99 (YOUNG CREATORS 99) in the music area with an electroacoustic piece named Impressões Sintéticas (Synthetic Impressions). In the meanwhile developed and deepened interest in Philosophy and in multiple expressions of the experimental art : video, installation, intermedia, etc..
Due to this strong interest won, in 2000, the 8th edition of the portuguese experimental intermedia art fellowship "Bolsa Ernesto de Sousa" (Ernesto de Sousa Fellowship), dedicated to promote and stimulate portuguese intermedia artists, with A SENSE OF FLOW, an intermedia performance project focused on the natural landscape of the Tejo river (Tagus river | Portugal).

This fellowship is organised and supported by the portuguese Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Luso-American Foundation for the Development and by the Experimental Intermedia Foundation of New York.

Attended an intermedia trainee at the University of Iowa and performed A SENSE OF FLOW at the Experimental Intermedia Foundation of New York City, on March 16th 2001.

Often does artistic residencies to conceptualize and present intermedia performances, the latest happened at Fournos Center for Digital Arts in Athens, to present the intermedia project CONT@MINATION.

He has presented his intermedia and sound work in several countries including: U.S.A., Austria, Germany, Italy and Greece


live @ Small Music Theater | Lab for electroacoustic media _ 06.03.2003
Athens _ Greece
Collaborates / plays frequently with national and foreigner artists from the sound art / experimental and improv music scenes. Actual and past collaborations include: Tom Hamilton (U.S.A.), Koji Asano (Japan), Nathan Fuhr (U.S.A.), Sei Miguel (PT), Paulo Raposo (PT), the portuguese audiovisual colective [des]integração (PT), 1986! (PT), John Grzinich (Stonia), Carlos Zíngaro (PT | via [des]), Variable Geometry Orchestra (PT), Rafael Toral (PT | via V.G.O.), Ernesto Rodrigues (PT), Nuno Rebelo (PT), Gilles Aubry (CH), Guilherme Rodrigues (PT), Alípio C. Neto (PT | via V.G.O.), Rodrigo Amado (PT | via COBRA & V.G.O.), Rui Faustino (PT), ANISOTROPUS (PT), Manuel Mota (PT), Margarida Garcia (PT), Nuno Moita (PT), Adriana Sá (PT), Nuno Torres (PT), Anastasis Grivas (GR), Thanos Kois (GR), Coti (GR), Dr. Karlheinz Essl (Austria), Boris Hauf (Austria), Bernhard Loibner (Austria), Jasch (Ch), C. Ming-Tung (China), Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta (PT), Carlos Santos (PT) André Gonçalves (PT), Eduardo Lála (PT), Gil Gonçalves (PT), Producers (PT), Miguel Sá (PT), Fadigaz (PT), Travassos (PT), Plan (PT), Eduardo Reck Miranda (BRA), Leonello Tarabella (ITA), etc...

Played in several festivals / events including the "Aveiro Síntese" 1st International Electroacoustic Music Festival of Aveiro (Portugal); FIRST FREE INTERNATIONAL FORUM OF ART AND CULTURE, in Bolognano, Italy [2003]; the 10th edition of Música Viva Electroacoustic Music Festival 2004 (Portugal); RADIALX International Radio Art Festival 2008; Número Festival; Sonic Scope Festival; MASCAVADO Festival; Super Stereo Demonstration, PORTUGUESE MUSIC TODAY FESTIVAL 2008 @ Centro Cultural de Belém; among others...

Co-founded ESPECTROS, a Portuguese organization for experimental arts that is a non-profit promotional structure for the development and promotion of contemporary experimental artistic expressions. Idealized / conceptualized and runs the Hertzoscópio - Experimental & Transdisciplinary Arts Festival, dedicated to: experimental electronic/electroacoustic music, intermedia art, installations, video art, workshops, etc...

Discography on: SIRR.ecords, Grain Of Sound, Creative Sources Recordings, Variz & Useless Poorductions, signed under different names and projects, such as: AGNOSIA, Variable Geometry Orchestra, Usines, Ludwig Vanessa, João Castro Pinto, WigVann and 1986!.

Currently, besides his solo work, plays in the following projetcs:

SEI MIGUEL : ACALANTO 5 : RITO E REALIDADE

featuring:

- Sei Miguel - Pocket Trumpet; composition, written scores
- Fala Mariam - Alto Trombone
- João Castro Pinto - Total Piano
- Pedro Lourenço - Bass Guitar
- César Burago - Percussion

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VARIABLE GEOMETRY ORCHESTRA
an improv and contemporary music orchestra

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ANISOTROPUS
an improv electroacoustic quartet

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In an ongoing collaboration for the composition of new sound pieces with composers:
Koji Asano, Bernhard Loibner.

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Castro Pinto's sound pieces / compositions & live performances range between: pure tones / frequencies drive, trans-morphed-acousmatic soundscapes & sound-objects, electroacoustic / electronic & tape music manipulations, noise, accidental gizmo soundplots & field recordings, z.for whatever d.s.processes you can't imagine;

all directed towards :

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+ info @ http://www.hertzoscopio.com/agnosia.swf
Sounds Like: my experimental duo with Rabu Dajhan : 1986! : click here to listen
Record Label: SIRR.ecords, Grain of Sound, C.S.R, Variz, U.Poor.
Type of Label: Indie