@c + VARIZ 002Den. CD Release date: Nov. 2001 Cover images by Lia 01 02 03 04 05 06 07

The musical work of @c (Pedro Almeida, Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais) is developed in the cross-section of complimentary approaches to sound aesthetics and electronic music. If on one hand it's immediately perceptible that there's usually a very strong rhythmic pulse, it's also common that they integrate several elements that are free from these structures. Very often these are generated algorithmically or based in field recordings or sampling, contributing to the setting up of strategies of deconstruction.
The improvisation, or real-time composition, in dialogue or discussion is the key to their performances, as is the will not to create closed compositions but rather to digitally amplify sound realities, creating cross-links between referrals and memories, playing with the balance between reconnaissance and abstraction.
@c perform developing algorithmic compositions in which audio and visual elements are integrated. The images in the @c + Lia performances are much more than a merely decorative factor, or an accessory element to sound, rather being regarded as an essential part of the experience.
@c + Lia have already performed in some of the major venues and festivals in Portugal and perform abroad regularly, having already played in Germany, Austria, Spain, The Netherlands, United Kingdom and Chile. In spite of the sharp audiovisual integration proposed by their performances, these regularly admit the collaboration with other musicians, as it is shown in "v3" with Andy Gangadeen, Vitor Joaquim, João Hora and Manuel Mota, besides Pedro Almeida that was part of the project from 2000 to 2003.

PRESS:

"... this album which includes an interactive track is without doubt one of the best made in Portugal in the last few years and one which deserves urgent internationalisation. The sounds range from multifaceted electronics to the manipulation of sounds and the result is a mosaic of a unique sonorous richness in the Portuguese panorama." - in Número Magazine

"In "+", @c perform a "noir" radio-play, without script, dialogues, characters or sets: merely ambience and props. What is heard produces all the imagery that one needs. An exemplary lesson in economics". - Jorge Manuel Lopes in Blitz

"Having created a cult-following in the city of Porto, the trio has created quite a calling card in their first CD, managing to integrate a more experimental vein that dispenses "beat" (but not pulse) and a vein that normally is associated with live-act situations, more inclined to the listening experience of the body than that of the soul. It is worthy of note, however, that the beats heard throughout the tracks of "+" are not exactly those one hears in discotheques, sometimes alluding to Steve Reich's early percussive geometry. Very good". - Rui Eduardo Paes in Jornal de Letras, Artes e Ideias


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