www.mestreandre.net - this is my portfolio!

i'm a beekeeper!
i'm a mycofile!
and i listen more than i see.

i make weird music... for dance and theatre too.

Up for adventure, listening to the sounds of the world.

'each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it' (john cage)

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

i'm really not that much... only hosted before, once.

兴趣

recording sounds from the environment - field recording, diggin' crates for records, playing with improvised instruments, making unbearable noise, making stuff, travelling, recording it, camping on random beaches, recording it, making crazy roadtrips, recording it making what people usually call art i mean making stuff, riding my vespa on hot days, being stupid, being happily stupid and do nothing...

• arts
• festivals
• environment
• traveling
• camping
• beaches

音乐、电影和书籍

MUSIC:
i'm currently specially interested in natural sounds phonography, field recordings music, minimalist electroacoustic, noise and playing free improvised music.
i'll go with the avantgarde and experimental, though I'm a big fan of free jazz, alternative hiphop, dub, idm (or so they call it), modern classical, renaissance sacred music -polyphonic chant, classical, opera, african and middle eastern, and i'm a digger for ancient ritualistic and traditional music from around the world!!!

MOVIES:
The Cremaster Cycle, Videodrome, Naked Lunch, Blade Runner, Matrix, The Color of Pomegranates, 2001 Space Odissey, Taxidermia, Hukkle, Gerry, Love is the Devil, Fight Club, Antichrist, Alien, Downtown 81, Black Dynamite, A Comédia de Deus, Vai e Vem, Le Bassin de John Wayne, Anemic Cinema...

BOOKS:
my life in the bush of ghosts - amos tutuola, papalagui - tuiavii of tiavea, the fall - camus, naked lunch - william burroughs, women - charles bukowski, animal farm - orwell, the coming revolution - invisible comite, the process - kafka, spiritual's in art - kandinsky, anaRchy - john cage, silence - john cage, thus spoke zarathustra - nietzsche

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

2019 - Toured the West and East coasts of North America with my band Alforjs
2017 - Tour with my band Jibóia in Switzerland and France
2017 - Morocco roadtrip again!
2014 - moved to Vancouver
2011 Summer - Morocco road trip!
2010-2012 Squatting in London
Today's Art Festival 2009 @ Den Hagg - Holland

教，学，和分享

sound arts
basic acoustics
sound synthesis
sound editing
Max/MSP
beekeeping

我可以与沙发主分享些什么

I can cook portuguese food, well i believe...

我游览过的国家

Australia, Brazil, Cabo Verde, Canada, France, Ireland, Italy, Morocco, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

我居住过的国家

Australia, Canada, Portugal, United Kingdom