RADIANT, by Alfredo Costa Monteiro

RADIANT

by Alfredo Costa Monteiro

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	1.	Alfredo Costa Monteiro - RADIANT 52:49
	2.	RADIANT (excerpt) 09:01

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Radiant energy is one of the mechanisms by which energy can enter or leave an open system.

This notion, present in this multilayer composition, where sounds are constantly appearing and disappearing, is the structure of a flowing mass that evolves slowly in its apparent minimal form.

RADIANT is heavily inspired by the idea that subjective simplicity can contain objective complexity, and that sound energy that can be resourced in the creation of a system without hierarchy, and expanding within this apparent contradiction.

The idea's output is music that defies replication.

- Alfredo Costa Monteiro w. Al Jones, March 2024
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Alfredo Costa Monteiro is a sound artist, improvisor, composer and sound poet born in Porto, Portugal. He has been living and working in Barcelona since 1992, when he graduated in sculpture/multimedia at the Paris School of Fine Arts.

His sound pieces are conceived from unstable processes often resulting in a lo-fi character; one can hear in his work a disconcerting simplicity while making inherently phenomenological inquiries.

In sound poetry, his work focuses on the musicality of language pushed to the limit of its phonetic restraints, evicting semantics for the benefit of sound, in a combinatory framework that generates its own architecture. His performances, built from snatches of conversation,can be noisy and polyglot: he uses Portuguese, French, Spanish, Catalan and English to play with perceived intent.

Costa Monteiro has collaborated with numerous musicians, composers, choreographers, video artists, filmmakers, and has presented his work throughout Europe, Canada, the USA, Russia, Mexico, and Japan. He has an extensive discography in solo and collaborative formats.

www.costamonteiro.net
Music | alfredocostamonteiro.bandcamp.com
Music | montefimer.bandcamp.com

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released April 16, 2024

Alfredo Costa Monteiro
electronics, feedbacks, resonant objects & recordings

Recorded, composed and mixed at
Mont Efímer, Barcelona, between February and June 2023

Painting, layout, design, and mastering: Alan F. Jones, laminalaudio.com

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