Installation — Adega  — 18H00
SAMUEL GAPP & JOÃO GHIRA
ARTIGO INDEFINÍVEL

Samuel Gapp and João Ghira present at ARCA an exhibition-based interpretation of the work they developed during their artist residency in February of this year at OSSO: an installation that combines textile and sound materials in direct interaction with visitors.

As part of an ongoing artistic research project, *Artigo Indefinível* examines how perception and subjectivity are shaped by movement, sound, materials, and space as ecosystems in flux. The work manifests itself in a series of site-specific pieces, shaped by each context and by the presence and actions of the public, establishing a situational interaction that questions the very reality of the artistic object.

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Artigo Indefinível
Samuel Gapp
João Ghira

Performance — Salão São Gregório — 17H00
HUGO BERNARDO & BABAK BAHARESTANI & RADIN BAHARESTANI
NÛR

Hugo Bernardo – Voice, Tanbura e Metalophones
Babak Baharestani – Setar and voice
Radin Baharestani – keybords

Baharestani

Nûr (light) is an audio-visual project that brings together Babak and Radin Baharestani in collaboration with Hugo Bernardo. The project establishes a dialogue between the Persian radif, the ritual tambura, the percussive shimmer of metal, and the cadence of the voice, revealing the heritage and intersection of different artistic paths in a single improvised encounter.

Structured in eight movements, the performance blends improvisation and choreographed composition, drawing close to the modal universe of Dastgāh. The exploration of traditional stringed instruments, percussive metallophones, synthesized sound, and singing sets in motion an experience that unfolds in an indescribable sensory realm.

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Hugo Bernardo
Babak Baharestani

Woekshop — Salão de São Gregório — 15h00  < 19H30
AIXA FIGINI
COLLECTIVE VOCAL IMPROVISATION AND RHYTHM WITH SIGNALS

Argentine singer, songwriter, and producer Aixa Figini invites the audience to join an improvised choir, transforming the voice, rhythm, and body into tools for collective creation.

Through games, vocal improvisation, body percussion, and world music, participants are challenged to explore their musicality in a dynamic and participatory environment. The activity is based on the “Ritmo com Sinais” method, a gestural language that allows for the direction of compositions and soundscapes in real time. In a playful and creative way, this workshop offers a space for experimentation that develops listening skills, coordination, and presence, valuing mistakes as part of the process and allowing each person to discover the potential of their voice in dialogue with the group.

Duration: 3 to 4 hours
Target audience: Open to participants with or without experience. Adaptable for musicians, singers, amateurs, and anyone interested in exploring their musicality.
Cost: 10 ossos per person
Capacity: 20 participants

Registration Here

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Aixa Figi
Vídeo

Soundwalk — Eira — 17H30
SARA MARQUES & SANTIAGO TRICOT
HOLDING LISTENING

Holding Listening emerged within the framework of the research project [𝖋𝖎𝖓𝖎𝖘ˈ𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖗𝖆] Practices and Theories for the End of the World, and builds upon the performance-publication Undoing Listening (2025). Continuing the exploration of gestures and economies of attention, this audio walk traces a path through the landscapes of São Gregório as an exercise in expanded listening.

Between walking and listening, the project invites participants to make space for their surroundings, the invisible, and the inaudible, calling upon not only hearing but also seeing, contemplating, moving, and imagining. Holding Listening thus becomes a collective listening walk that seeks to sustain attention for a few moments and allow new imaginaries to take shape.

Registration Here
Max: 20 people

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Finisterra
Sara Marques
Santiago Tricot

[𝖋𝖎𝖓𝖎𝖘ˈ𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖗𝖆] Support: Fundação GDA (PT); DGArtes – Direcção Geral das Artes (PT); “Artistas Douro” – mala voadora&CMP (PT); “Reclamar Tempo” – CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva (PT); fAUNA (PT), Artists’Shelter – Sekoia (PT), ApalleirA (ESP), Gnration (PT), CRL – Central Elétrica (PT), Binaural Nodar (PT), O Espaço do Tempo (PT).

18 Jul  — Performance — Adega — 19H15
19 Jul — Installation — Adega — 11H < 15H
JUJU BENTO
O PULMÃO DE LUSTRE

Juju Bento joined OSSO’s long-term residencies in 2025 with the transdisciplinary project “O Pulmão de Lustre,” in which she combined artistic and sensory practices to explore the question, “What is ordinary light like?” The research explored the relationship between air, light, and the body, as well as the presence of night in everyday light, resulting in a sensory structure developed around the São Gregório neighborhood.

“O Pulmão de Lustre” is presented at Arca as a performative installation, combining sound, sculpture, and image in a visual and auditory choreography, offering an immersive environment rooted in gesture and sensibility.
The process culminates in the publication of a tactile, portable book—to be presented during the event—that reflects the project’s visual and material vocabulary.

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Juju Bento
Video

suported by The Swedish Arts Grants Committee

Concert — Sala Piano — 19H
MAFALDA COSTA & MARCELO REIS
VESTÍGIOS DA FURNA

Mafalda Costa – Candles
Marcelo Reis – Electronics

In *Vestígios da Furna*, Mafalda Costa and Marcelo Reis explore a unique interaction between fire and sound. The candle-sculptures created by Mafalda Costa—forms of great plasticity and organicity—become “living scores” for the sound processes triggered by Marcelo Reis, transforming the combustion process, the variations in the flame, and the liquefaction of the wax into sound. As the fire melts the wax, the sound is activated, but at the same time, the small candle-sculptures are destroyed. Between the slow passage of time of the candle and the precision of the computer, the project investigates how the rhythms of combustion can generate visual and auditory compositions, creating a soothing and deeply hypnotic performance.

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Mafalda Costa
Marcelo Reis

Instalação — Salão São Gregório — 11H < 15H
HUGO BERNARDO & BABAK BAHARESTANI & RADIN BAHARESTANI
LITANIA DO AR

As a legacy of the concert-performance *Nûr*, the collaboration between Babak, Radin Baharestani, and Hugo Bernardo remains in the space in the form of the installation “Litania do Ar.” Organized around an altar-table and a set of suspended objects or projected images, the piece constitutes a ritual device that articulates elements of memory, oracular simulacra, and a constellation of projections.

At this central altar, multiple symbolic layers intertwine, extending into the space the sensory and contemplative atmosphere evoked by the performance.

 

Concert — Eira — 21H
JOÃO SILVA & ANDRÉ HENCLEEDAY
SUCURI

André Hencleeday – Percussion
João Silva – Trumpet

In 2021, trumpeter, professor, and researcher João Silva joined forces with performer and composer André Hencleeday to develop ZYKLVS—an instrumental concrete music duo in which both artists explore unconventional objects and devices within a multidisciplinary performative environment geared toward active and immersive listening.

From this collaboration now emerges SUCURI, a new territory where compositions become sonic rituals that balance order and chaos, structure and spontaneity. The duo invites the audience to traverse a space where the boundaries between composition and improvisation dissolve and sound reveals itself as pure matter.

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SUCURI
Video

Cinema — Café Fidalgo “Amanhecer” — 16H00
CINECLUBE .CR

Acting as agents for the dissemination of cinema in the region, the Cineclube das Caldas da Rainha is dedicated to young auteur cinema, promoting access to the seventh art and highlighting Portuguese cinema. It holds biweekly screenings with guests, followed by open discussions that encourage critical dialogue.

The project extends cinema beyond traditional theaters, bringing screenings to cafés, community spaces, and outdoor venues, encouraging audience participation and engagement. The team is currently working to ensure that all projects—both current and future—are fully accessible to the community.

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CINECLUBE.CR

Concert — Armazém 75 — 19H00
PAULO MORAIS E KÁTIA SÁ
LUZONORA

Paulo Morais – Objects
Kátia Sá – Visuals

For ARCA 2026, the duo SÁMORAIS (Paulo Morais and Kátia Sá) presents LUZONORA, the first public sharing of a process they have been developing in informal improvisational contexts.

In the performance, the artists reactivate and expand an instrument-sculpture developed by Paulo Morais during a residency at OSSO—which gave rise to the piece OSSO ACASO—exploring the relationship between gesture, listening, and chance.

The performance now being presented establishes an immediate dialogue between sound and image: while Morais’s electroacoustic instruments investigate resonances and textures, Kátia Sá’s real-time projections manipulate light, objects, and optics, creating a visual field that continuously responds to and interacts with the sonic stimuli.

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Paulo Morais
Kátia Sá

Cinema — Café Fidalgo “Amanhecer” — 16H00
VEREDAS

The VEREDAS project presents a session dedicated to collaborative and community cinema, combining discussion and film screenings.
Positioned as a traveling showcase of Portuguese cinema, the project was conceived to take place in small towns, strengthening ties between filmmakers and audiences who are typically excluded from these circuits. Through a wide-ranging selection that spans genres, production scales, and generations of filmmakers, VEREDAS offers a decentralized perspective on national cinema, where each work engages directly with the identity and territory of the host location.

Its goal is to create a national traveling program whose identity is rooted in a collaborative network involving local creators, producers, distributors, and programmers.

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Veredas Pelo Cinema

Culinary — Salão de São Gregório  — 20H00
DINNER W/ HUGO BRITO

A leading figure at OSSO’s Open House events, Chef Hugo Brito is now an indispensable presence at the restaurant’s community dinners.
With his refined technique and sophisticated palate, he always makes a point of prioritizing local ingredients to create his delicious dishes—and anyone who’s had the privilege of tasting them knows exactly what we’re talking about.

Hugo Brito, former chef and owner of the Boi-Cavalo restaurant, earned degrees in Sociology and Fine Arts before settling on a career in gastronomy, having worked at 100 Maneiras and Delidelux.

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Concert — Salão de São Gregório — 21H30
OMNISPECTRUM
JORGE QUINTELA, HENRIQUE FERNANDES & INTI GALHARDO

Orchestrated by the Portuense Cultural Association Sonoscopia and the visions of Jorge Quintela, Henrique Fernandes, and Inti Galhardo, *Omnispectrum* emerges as a performance that evokes the memory of territories where life and death intersect. Inspired by animism, the work presents an entirely analog performative device in which cinematic landscapes, real-time sound manipulation, and bodily gestures intertwine to open up a space of ritual. In this encounter, body, ruin, and landscape create a tension, revealing dimensions of the invisible in which the ephemeral takes on a presence and silence becomes matter. Featuring film footage of the Atacama Desert (Chile), the territory of the Chinchorro people, the work articulates ancestral memory, ecology, and spirituality, unveiling the web of relationships that unites humanity with nature.

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Sonoscopia
Vídeo

Co-production: Lisboa Soa, Space Festival, Bando à Parte, Ceis8, ÁNCORA Coop

Concert — Sala do Piano — 22H45
HARPOEMACTO
ANGELICA SALVI & NUNO MARQUES PINTO
HARP’OEMAS

Angélica Salvi – Harp
Nuno Marques Pinto – Voice, Poems

Nuno Marques Pinto and Angélica Salvi present HARP’OEMAS, a project that blends poetry, music, and performance to create an interdisciplinary whole—in harmony yet simultaneously in tension, fostering a rupture. The harp thus evokes an unusual atmosphere where experimentation plays a central role in exploring new territories. The voice also functions as a performative instrument, seeking to establish a connection not only with the harp but also with the audience in the form of a ritual.

As they themselves describe it:
The encounter between a Harp and a Voice,
the creation of a new language,
digging Holes everywhere,
a whirl of heads,
a shot in the bumpy darkness of wonder.
HARPO MARX IN AN OPERA VERSION.

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Harpo Acto
Vídeo
Vídeo

Cinema — Café Fidalgo “Amanhecer” — 16H00
HIRUNDO
HISTÓRIAS SEM FRONTEIRAS

The Association for Critical Thinking, Culture, and Development – Hirundo presents the “Stories Without Borders” project at Arca, an educational initiative that uses animated films as a pedagogical and inclusive tool, promoting the personal and social development of participants, especially young migrants. Through a practical and interdisciplinary approach, participants create short films based on real-life stories in a collaborative environment.

Based on “learning by doing,” the project addresses the integration challenges associated with cultural, linguistic, and social diversity by involving participants in all stages of the creative process and developing their technical, artistic, and socio-emotional skills.

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Hirundo
Vídeo

Support: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian e Fundação “la Caixa” através da iniciativa PARTIS & Art for Change
Partners: Cola Anima; Centro de Formação Maia Trofa, Câmara Municipal da Maia

Concert — Pátio Osso — 18h00
VOZES EM IMPROVISAÇÃO COLECTIVA
AIXA FIGINI AND WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS

The results of the collective vocal improvisation and “Ritmo com Sinais” workshop, led by Aixa Figini, will be presented to the public in a relaxed session in the OSSO courtyard.
The audience will be able to witness the realization of this collective work, in which the group uses voice, body, and percussion to structure musical compositions based on improvised dialogue, mutual listening, and spontaneous coordination.

Concert — Sala do piano — 19h00
GONÇALO ALMEIDA
RESONANT DEBRIS

Gonçalo Almeida – doublebass and turntables

*Resonant Debris* is Gonçalo Almeida’s latest solo work, which explores the amplified and prepared double bass in dialogue with manipulated turntables. Through repetition, texture, and resonance, deep drones, subtle harmonics, mechanical noises, and fragmented rhythms emerge from the friction between wood, metal, vinyl, and the needle. Amplification reveals hidden details and expands the instrument’s resonance, while the turntables add loops, skips, and surface noise as compositional material. An interactive lighting system reacts to the sound, transforming the music into atmosphere and movement.

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Gonçalo Almeida

Concerto — Eira — 21h00
@C & VISIOPHONE

Pedro Tudela & Miguel Carvalhais – Computars and sound
Rodrigo Carvalho – Computar, Lights and Visuals

The duo @c, consisting of Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais, has spent the past 25 years developing a practice marked by rigorous experimentation with computer-generated sound, which has taken the form of hundreds of performances, recordings, and installations.

On this occasion, they are joined by artist Rodrigo Carvalho (Visiophone, a member of the Openfield Creativelab collective and the Boris Chimp 504 project) to present 30×N, an audiovisual performance featuring a modular system and three performers who interact in a generative composition involving sound, lights, and visuals. 30×N explores the use of computers as creative agents and partners, with each performance emerging from the encounter between the machines and the performers.

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30xN
Video

Concert —  Sala Piano — 19H00
MARIANA DIONÍSIO, JOÃO CARREIRO & LUCAS XERXES
REQUIEM

João Carreiro – Guitar
Mariana Dionísio – Voice and electronics
Lucas Xerxes – Guitar and electronics

A project conceived by Mariana Dionísio and João Carreiro that explores the iconic text of a funeral mass—in its original Latin—to rethink the format of a Requiem.
In this presentation, they are joined by artist Lucas Xerxes, who contributes to the construction of electronic instruments.

REQUIEM reveals itself as a flexible and adaptable form, adjusting to different collaborations and contexts to pay tribute to diverse causes and cultures. Although rooted in the tradition of sacred music, it incorporates the spontaneity of improvised music, using group dynamics that make each performance unique and distinct from the compositional processes typical of the genre.
Based on open-ended and exploratory material, the project seeks to balance awe and beauty in an evocation that stands as a tribute in constant transformation.

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João Carreiro
Mariana Dionísio
Lucas Xerxes

Culináry  — OSSO — 20H00
JANTAR COMUNITÁRIO
GABRIELA SILVA

Gabriela Silva is from São Gregório, and she was one of the first people in the village to open her doors to OSSO; in doing so, she brought the entire village on board.

She is also the caretaker of a small museum filled with antique objects from the village’s history, which she has collected over the years. There we find clothing, various tools, and implements—memories of life in a village that refuses to fade into oblivion. She also cooks at festivals and gatherings, with the generosity of someone who has learned that feeding others is a way of caring for the world.

When OSSO arrived in São Gregório, she came to meet us, to find out what was going on, and brought people with her. Tonight, she’s the one cooking for everyone.

Performance — Eira —  21h30
MARIANA FERNANDES
DEBAIXO DA TERRA

During her residency at OSSO, Mariana Fernandes integrated the local territory into her creative process, mapping the landscape through direct contact with the earth’s forms, materials, smells, and textures, and allowing these impressions to become the substance of her compositions. Inspired by local traditions and topography, she translated this experience into her ceramic pieces through a context-specific approach that linked place and artistic practice.

The project’s final phase consists of a ritual in which she buries the objects created by herself and her local guests, so that one day they may be rediscovered and spark curiosity about the history of this place. Each piece is integrated into the landscape through a performative ceremony, in an act that pays homage to the territory and the people who inhabit it. Fragments of time are buried—a true archaeology of the future—where the funeral rite opens up the possibility of eternal life and an infinite dialogue with what is yet to come.

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Mariana Fernandes

Concerto — Eira — 21H30
ENSEMBLE OF OTHER LIVING BEINGS

João Almeida e Yaw Tembe – trumpets an conduction
João Pereira – drums
Carlos Godinho – percussion and electronics
Álvaro Rosso e Bernardo Álvares – double bass
Joana Guerra e Helena Espvall – cello and voice
Norberto Lobo – electric guitar
Bernardo Tinoco – saxophones
Teresa Costa – flute
Leonor Cabrita – voice and piano
Raquel Lima – voice

The Ensemble of Other Living Beings is an organization that brings together creators from different backgrounds, with the aim of experimenting with new forms of production and actively rethinking the structures of the collective imagination through sound. It is an expanding orchestra, open to the cross-pollination of diverse forms of expression and to the listening relationships that emerge from the inevitable dynamics of interdependence and coexistence.
The project blends folk traditions with contemporary approaches to composition—spanning jazz, free jazz, electronic music, and other musical languages yet to be categorized.
They view the phenomenon of sound as a means of transforming the sensory world, a space where new ways of relating to the visible and the invisible are explored through small rituals that give rise to ephemeral mythologies in constant flux.

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Facada records

This project is supported by Direção-Geral das Artes

THE SELVA
MISTÉRIOS NEGROS

Ricardo Jacinto — cello and electronics
Gonçalo Almeida — double bass and electronics
Pedro Oliveira — percussion and electronics

LADO A – [20:30]
I – CENTRO
II – EXPLOSÃO
III – SUSSURRO

LADO B – [19:40]
I –  FOGO
II – BOCA
II –  PROCISSÃO
IV – OBSIDIANA
V – MISTÉRIO

Original music by The Selva
Recorded at OSSO studios in February 2025.
Mastered by Manuel Pinheiro
Mixed by Ricardo Jacinto e Gonçalo Almeida
Design & artwork by Travassos
Produced and edited by OSSO
OSSO #6  [2026]

ALFREDO COSTA MONTEIRO & RICARDO JACINTO
FENDINEBBIA

Alfredo Costa Monteiro — amplified objects and oscillators
Ricardo Jacinto — cello and electronics

SIDE A – ABISSAL [20:31]
SIDE B – SUSPENSÃO [20:31]

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Recorded at OSSO, January 2025
Mixed by Ricardo Jacinto and Alfredo Costa Monteiro
Mastered by Suse Ribeiro
Cover design and artwork by Travassos
Edited by OSSO
OSSO #007  [2026]

SIDE A:
01.ECOS DO ÉTER (for double bass and mechanical violins)

SIDE B:
02.LAPSO CONTINUUM (for double bass and mechanical double bass)
03.MEMENTO RUMORI (for double bass and tape)

Recognized as a tireless creator, Gonçalo Almeida has explored different musical territories with remarkable versatility—from jazz to hardcore, post-rock, doom, and contemporary improvised music. Always underpinned by a common element — experimentalism, the driving force behind all his artistic creation. Gonçalo Almeida now presents Ecos do Éter, a new album that expands his already vast artistic palette.
Throughout his career, Gonçalo Almeida has pushed the double bass to its sonic limits, exploring extensive techniques, new forms of amplification, and innovative strategies in the search for unprecedented timbres and textures. Each album confirms his creative restlessness and reveals a positively nonconformist artist who, in this edition, goes even further into distinctly new territory in his musical creation.

In Ecos do Éter, the artist delves into the universe of mechanized music, in a more plastic register closer to sound installation and art music. The double bass dialogues with motorized objects, autonomous mechanisms, and pre-recorded analog tape material, giving rise to a sound narrative shaped by the relationship between musician, instrument, devices, and sound.

The album brings together three pieces — Ecos do Éter, Lapso Continuum, and Memento Rumori — which, although distinct, share the same approach: the exploration of the double bass in interaction with external devices and complementary elements. In Ecos do Éter, two violins are activated by unpredictable mechanical gestures, creating a constantly changing sound environment in which the double bass player intervenes subtly. Lapso Continuum uses electric motors applied to the body of the double bass and light sensors, producing mechanical sounds and deep bass tones that create a dense and ritualistic atmosphere. In turn, Memento Rumori uses pre-recorded materials and alternative techniques, creating landscapes of reminiscence and memory.

There are many reasons to be curious about listening to this breathtaking work by Gonçalo Almeida. More than a musical record, it is a creation that reflects his artistic maturity, where each piece highlights the bassist’s versatility and his ability to transform the instrument into an authentic laboratory of experimentation.

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Ricardo Jacinto cello & electronics
Christoph Weilbach drums & electronics

Limited edition cassette, featuring Ricardo Jacinto on cello and electronics and Christoph Weilbach on drums and electronics.
A fruitful encounter between two musicians who operate in seemingly disparate spheres, but with common ground and interests in the areas of improvisation and discovering new sound possibilities for their respective instruments.
The music of “FAROL” is inspired by Virginia Woolf’s iconic work To the Lighthouse. In this prosperous quest, the musicians tread this vast field of electroacoustic music, alternating between delicate and enveloping textures and passages of intense energy, making insightful use of their resources and techniques, always in an inventive and fearless way. The result is a unique, vibrant, and challenging fusion.

[SIDE A] WINDOW
1 HER STROKE [0:00]
2 APPROACHING THE LIGHTHOUSE [5:30]
3 A SUNNY ROOM FOR AUGUSTUS
CARMICHAEL [8:28]
4 NO JOY FOR THE FATHER OF EIGHT[10:54]
5 LEERING SIDEWAYS [14:40]

[SIDE B] CANVAS
1 PRINTEMPS [0:00]
2 YOU GONNA BE SEASICK, DARLING [1:39]
3 WHAT BEAUTIFUL BOOTS! [4:32]
4 SALT CELLAR [6:50]
5 CAN’T PAINT, CAN’T WRITE [08:49]
6 NEVER MARRY ANYBODY [11:50]
7 VISION [15:53]

All music by Christoph Weilbach and Ricardo Jacinto. Recorded at OSSO in March 2023.
Recorded, Edited and Mixed by Christoph Weilbach and Ricardo Jacinto.
Mastered by Manuel Pinheiro.
Design and Artwork by Travassos
Titles inspired by Virginia Woolf`s “To the Lighthouse”, which is also the source of the texts quoted
Price: 10€
Order: ossocultural@gmail.com

ANGÉLICA SALVI + NUNO MARQUES PINTO
CATARINA MACHADO
HUGO BRANCO
JOÃO GODINHO + GRAÇA SANTOS
MATTIA DENISSE
OSSO COLETIVO
SOFIA CABRITA
THE JUNE CARRIERS + KRAKE
TERCEIRA PESSOA
WRONG WRONG MAGAZINE

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REVEIL (2026) is a collective production, proposed by SOUNDCAMP , consisting of broadcasts from multiple listening points around the globe. On the morning of Saturday, May 2, 2026, starting from south London, near the Greenwich Meridian, the broadcast will successively incorporate different live transmissions, following the sunrise from microphone to microphone, tracking the sound wave that travels around the planet every 24 hours at the first sign of light.
The transmissions come from diverse places and contexts, at a time of day when many people are rarely awake or outdoors, but when sounds become particularly vivid, especially in the spring. The Reveil broadcast creates space by largely avoiding speech and music, focusing instead on places where human and non-human communities meet and where different sound worlds overlap.
Each broadcast continuously adds to and transforms the ongoing sound cycle.

Listen here: https://streams.soundtent.org/2026/streams/utc1_-306e6fa4-40c1-4b60-b431-e153013a966f

OSSO will broadcast live from its artist residency space in the village of São Gregório (Caldas da Rainha, Portugal). A stereo microphone, placed among the trees of an orchard, will capture the wind dancing in the treetops and the birdsong at dawn.

OSSO is located in a predominantly agricultural region with rugged terrain, characterized by hills and valleys. It sits at one end of a village that stretches for approximately four kilometers along a ridge, overlooking two deep valleys dotted with orchards and patches of woodland.

This year, the OSSO team responsible for the live broadcast of Reveil includes Lourenço Trindade, Suse Ribeiro, and Ricardo Jacinto.

 

The Incomplete Open Unit presents its first public performance, scheduled for November 21 at the Covilhã Municipal Theater.

The ensemble brings together Angélica Salvi, Ricardo Jacinto, Ece Canli, João Silva, and Pedro Oliveira in an exploration of the relationships between system, space, and sound, through the harp, trumpet, flute, electronics, and voice. Combining composition and structured improvisation, the ensemble develops open systems of interaction inspired by Sol LeWitt’s Incomplete Open Cubes, creating “tectonic music” based on layers of sound in constant displacement, collision, and transformation.

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Ricardo Jacinto presents his new piece, “Manto,” at the Semibreve festival in Braga. The concert takes place on October 25 in the unique Medieval Hall of the Rectory of the University of Minho, at 3:30 p.m.

“Manto” is a piece for prepared cello, electronics, and multichannel sound diffusion that conceives of and explores sound material as a tectonic phenomenon. Through extreme amplification of the body of a cello prepared with resonant objects—subjected to a feedback-driven electroacoustic field, long-duration reverberations, and constantly shifting spectral processes—the piece proposes that musical development occurs within a dense and unstable sonic magma, where the cello’s gestures emerge and disappear like a mineral formation in transformation. Inspired by the discontinuities of the Earth’s mantle—characterized by invisible transition zones where matter changes state, density, and behavior—the piece develops a dramaturgy of friction, pressure, and subterranean propagation. A multichannel sound system moves massive sonic textures through space like slow convective currents, foster

Ricardo Jacinto’s artistic journey spans music, visual arts, and architecture, with the cello at the center of a practice that conceives of sound as an occupation of space. *Manto* extends this logic: in a multichannel system, it transforms the Rector’s Office into an environment of massive sonic textures, where resonance and matter merge, creating an immersive experience of gestures, response, and continuous movement. Expect a space filled with sound, deterministic gestures, creation and response, and tectonic currents that will place us at the center of a living score.

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Semibreve  

Continuing their promotional tour for their new album *Mistérios Negros*, The Selva will hit the road again on October 3 to perform as part of the Portuguese Exploratory Music Series at the Misericórdia Church in Leiria. The concert begins at 7:00 p.m., and admission is free, subject to venue capacity.

The Selva is a Portuguese trio consisting of Ricardo Jacinto, Gonçalo Almeida, and Pedro Oliveira, who work at the intersection of improvised music, electroacoustics, and minimalism. Their music blends the expressiveness of acoustic instruments with electronic manipulation, creating hypnotic and ever-changing atmospheres. Since 2016, the group has released four albums and developed a musical language that balances instrumental organicity with digital expansion. Over the years, the growing presence of electronics and electroacoustic devices has broadened the trio’s exploratory and experimental character, reinforcing the fusion of the acoustic, the electroacoustic, and the electronic in their musical discourse.

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At the invitation of the Impulso Festival, The Selva will perform on September 17 at the Igreja Nª Sr.ª do Pópulo in Caldas da Rainha. The concert is part of a promotional tour for their latest album, “Mistérios Negros.” The Selva is a Portuguese trio composed of Ricardo Jacinto (cello and electronics), Gonçalo Almeida (double bass and electronics), and Pedro Oliveira (percussion and electronics). Moving at the intersection of improvised music, electroacoustics, and minimalism, the group explores the relationship between the expressiveness of acoustic instruments and electronic manipulation, creating dense sonic atmospheres, in a continuous and slow transformation. Video / Music  + Festival Impulso 2026

The play *The Blue Mountains Are Always on the Move*, directed by Maria Gil, will be performed at ZDB — Marvila from September 16 to 26, 2026, Wednesday through Saturday, at 7:30 p.m.

In the midst of World War II, Nan Shepherd wrote *The Living Mountain*, describing her journeys through the Cairngorms in a meditation on the solace and strength of untamed landscapes, focusing on the hidden elements of the mountain and our imaginative relationship with the wild world. In 1940, the manuscript was rejected for publication and would remain tucked away in a drawer for more than three decades.
This performance draws on *The Living Mountain* and Shepherd’s idea that the mountain is not a peak to be climbed, but a place to be entered—a crevice that opens up. Things happen—some of them in this performance.

With a bachelor’s degree in Actor/Director Training from ESTC (2003) and a master’s degree in Autobiographical Performance from the University of Glasgow (2009), she is the founder and artistic director of Teatro do Silêncio, where she develops projects in theater, performance, hikes, and educational activities. She has taught at the elementary and secondary school levels, and since 2012 has collaborated with various institutions to create pedagogical strategies that bring together imagination and thought.
She is a co-author of the series *Outra Escola* (RTP2, 2019) and an artist-educator in the *LADO P* project, which gave rise to the documentary series *Fechado* (2019–2023). She teaches in the Theater Program at ESAD.CR. She lives in Sintra and practices therapeutic Chi Kung.

Director: Maria Gil / Created in collaboration with Bruno Alexandre / Initial project development and creative support: James Riordan / Performers: Beatriz Baião, Isabel Xavier, and Lupa Fernandes / Lighting design: Ângela Bismarck / Set design and music: Ricardo Jacinto / Construction and Assembly: André Reine and Paulo Luís / Costumes: Tânia Guerreiro / Management and Administration: Susana Martinho Lopes / Production: Teatro do Silêncio 2026 / Co-production: Negócio ZDB; Teatro Municipal da Covilhã

Support: OSSO, Carnide Parish Council, Lisbon City Council
Local partner: Lua Cheia Teatro Para Todos
Creative residencies: OSSO (Caldas da Rainha); Brú Theatre (Ireland); TranziT – European Festival of Contemporary Theatre Practices (Croatia).
This project received support from the Directorate-General for the Arts – Ministry of Culture.

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The Selva is heading to europe to present their new album, “Mistérios Negros”

Comprising Ricardo Jacinto (cello and electronics), Gonçalo Almeida (double bass and electronics), and Pedro Oliveira (percussion and electronics), the trio explores the boundaries between improvisation, electroacoustics, and minimalism. After an initial phase with a more chamber music-oriented sound, the group has expanded its sonic universe through the intensive use of electronic devices.

In 2025, Pedro Oliveira, known for his work with Peixe-Avião, Clã, and Rui Reininho, joined the project, bringing new energy and deepening the group’s exploratory and experimental dimension.

31.05 – Koffie & Ambacht, Rotterdam, NL
01.06 – De Pletterij, Haarlem, NL
02.06 – POM, Eindhoven, NL
04.06 – Ponava, Brno, C
05.06 – Punktum, Prague, CZ
06.06 – Noise Fest, Leipzig, DE
07.06 – Klanghaus, Klein Jasedow, D + info – photo © João Quirino

Ricardo Jacinto’s solo tour, following the release of his album “Seven Pieces for Cello, Electronics, Audio Feedback, and Resonant Gong”

This work builds upon the MEDUSA electroacoustic system, in which the cellist employs multiple microphones on the instrument and multi-channel diffusion through resonant objects. This system allows the sound of the cello to be fragmented and expanded, integrating it into the acoustics of the space. The recording is the result of a decade of development of this sonic organism, in which the instrument is reinvented through a blend of acoustic material and electrical transductions. The music traverses textural territories marked by feedback, resonances, and physical noises, forming an enigmatic and unique sonic universe.

23 May – Vic Aveiro Arts House
24 April – TPK Art i Pensament Gontemporani (Barcelona)
26 June – Hotelier (Porto)
27 July – Centro Cultural e Congressos das Caldas da Rainha
4 July – Casa da Cultura (Setúbal)

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PIANOS+FORTES is a project that forms part of the long-term initiative PIANOFORTE, produced by the Associação Oficinas do Convento in co-production with the Municipality of Montemor-o-Novo, the Cine-Teatro Curvo Semedo, and the Network of Portuguese Theaters and Cinemas. It is conceived as an interdisciplinary program that brings together music, visual arts, heritage, and experimentation, grounded in the exploration of the piano as a historical instrument, a sculptural object, and a field of sound research. PIANOS+FORTES features the collaboration of artists Ricardo Jacinto, Carolina Garfo, Inês Castanheira, Nuno Rebelo and Simão Costa.

The name PIANOFORTE evokes multiple meanings: from the historical fortepiano to the “piano” as a common ground, and stems from the artistic and human legacy of Ulf Ding. Drawing from his estate and his connection to Montemor-o-Novo, the project weaves together historical and experimental references, from John Cage’s prepared piano to sound sculpture, exploring new forms of relationship between sound, object, and space.

More than a tribute, PIANOFORTE transforms this legacy into an artistic proposal, expanding it through experimental practices, unconventional techniques, and dialogues between music, sculpture, and memory.

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ESCOLA DOS LABIRINTOS returns to the road in 2026 with a new creation featuring Valéria Caboi (dance), João Silva (music), Lucas Resende (animated film), and Ricardo Jacinto (visual arts-music). Workshop-installation, aimed at children aged 6 to 10, where small groups of children will have the opportunity to experience a set of activities where music, drawing, sculpture, theater, sound, video, radio, and architecture are articulated in games and hybrid devices for collective creation and enjoyment, articulated with the material, immaterial, social, and cultural conditions of the host context.

The presentation will take place on January 30 and 31 at the Arquipélago Contemporary Arts Center, São Miguel (Azores).

Following Ricardo Jacinto’s musical composition for the contemporary chamber opera, promoted by Terceira Pessoa in collaboration with OSSO, we will continue the show’s tour, visiting various national theaters.

After having already been presented at Cine-Teatro Avenida in Castelo Branco; Teatro Municipal da Guarda, Guarda; Teatro José Lúcio da Silva, Leiria; Teatro Municipal de Bragança, Bragança; Teatro Municipal de Vila Real, Vila Real; Teatro Ribeiro Conceição, Lamego; Teatro Sá da Bandeira, Santarém; Teatro Municipal de Ourém, Ourém; Teatro-Cine de Gouveia, Gouveia; in 2026 it will be presented at the Auditório Carlos do Carmo, Lagoa; Cine-Teatro São João, Palmela and Teatro-Cine, Torres Vedras.

“Dois Dias para Além do Tempo” is a theatrical project directed by Óscar Silva (Terceira Pessoa) with Musical Direction and Composition by Ricardo Jacinto (OSSO), with a new ensemble that includes Angélica Salvi (harp and electronics), Pedro Oliveira (percussion and electronics) and Manuel Pinheiro (sound design).

This formation will accompany the circulation of the piece in question throughout the second half of 2025. This project is based on the work Ulysses by James Joyce, in the light of the structural arrangement of the episode “The Cattle of the Sun” or “The Cattle of Helium or Hyperion” (or 14th chapter) of Ulysses, by James Joyce. The structure of the show and the associated music generally follows the formal arc associated with the creative process, making direct references to the arc of life (being born, growing up, dying), the epic arc (beginning of the journey, development, return home).

Auditório Carlos do Carmo, Lagoa
10 de Janeiro, 2026

Cine-Teatro São João, Palmela
17 de Janeiro, 2026

Teatro-Cine, Torres Vedras.  
24 de Janeiro, 2026

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A research and creative project dedicated to the reconstruction and reactivation of Alfred A. Tomatis’s analog equipment, exploring listening as a sensory, technical, and performative experience, and proposing new relationships between technology, the body, and sonic sensitivity. Tomatis demonstrated that the voice reproduces only the frequencies that the ear picks up and developed devices capable of filtering and amplifying sounds to recover missing frequencies. The repetition of this stimulation generates lasting changes in hearing—the Tomatis Effect—through the electronic modulation of music and voice, reorganizing the act of listening and unlocking sensory registers of the nervous system.

Sofia Gomes (b. 1988, Caldas da Rainha) develops a practice that brings together visual arts, sound, and therapy. She holds a degree in Visual Arts from ESAD and in Piano Tuning, becoming the first female piano tuner in Portugal. She has collaborated with various artists on projects that explored the physical and narrative potential of sound. In 2019, she specialized in Audio-Psycho-Phonology in Belgium, becoming the first certified Tomatis Method therapist in the country. She founded Projeto 360º and Espaço Casa Mater, dedicated to neurosensory stimulation through filtered music and artistic practices.

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Master’s Degree in Photography at Lusófona University

A residency dedicated to the second phase of research by a group of students in the Master’s Degree in Photography program at Lusófona University, focused on documentary research and photographic practice regarding the physical and social territory where OSSO operates.

The Master’s in Photography offers a rigorous second-cycle program, developing technical, creative, and research skills within the broad field of photographic expression. Its curriculum combines advanced practice, theoretical reflection, and immersive experiences through artist residencies, encouraging experimentation and critical thinking. The program is grounded in a professional technology park, a faculty that bridges artistic practice and academic research, and infrastructure dedicated to photography.

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A residency dedicated to deepening and expanding the series *Two Days and a Storm*, with a view to recording and releasing it on cassette in 2027. Building on compositions based on field recordings, the project explores the formal and emotional elasticity between states of serenity and collapse, blending ambient, drone, noise, and free jazz. The residency functions as a laboratory for experimentation, instrument building, analog recording, and musical collaboration, including sessions with guest musicians, critical listening, and reflection on the final work, establishing itself as a central stage of artistic maturation within OSSO’s experimental and community-based context.

Jorge Trindade, Aka Travassos, is a designer, visual artist, musician, editor, and curator with a strong focus on music. With a degree in design from the University of Aveiro, he worked at CDN in Barcelona and served as art director and producer at Clean Feed. He founded the Rescaldo, Muco, and Algo de Jazz festivals, and is a mentor and editor at Shhpuma. He was a guest programmer for Serralves em Festa (2015–2016).
He has collaborated with institutions such as Gulbenkian, Culturgest, MAAT, CCB, TBA, Casa da Música, ZDB, Teatro Nacional D. Maria II, Goethe-Institut, the Cerveira Biennial, the Architecture Triennial, RTP, and Público, among many others. He has worked with internationally and nationally renowned musicians, including Pharoah Sanders, Thurston Moore, Fred Frith, Marc Ribot, Mats Gustafsson, Evan Parker, Ken Vandermark, Louis Sclavis, Rob Mazurek, William Parker, Joana Gama, Carlos Bica, Rafael Toral, Lula Pena, Tó Trips, Sei MIguel, Bernardo Sassetti, Pedro Burmester or Antonio Pinho Vargas.

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Lucas Resende — TRUZ TRUZ

An animated short film that poetically and symbolically addresses the construction of identity and questions binary gender models. Through a sensory narrative without dialogue, the film follows Lilo and the metaphor of a red door as an intimate and unexplored inner space. Between romance, loss, and transformation, TRUZ TRUZ proposes a vision of identity as plural, fluid, and constantly under construction, rejecting fixed definitions.

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A sound research project focused on feedback as an autonomous sound source. The residency is divided into two phases: the construction of an object inspired by *La Timée* (IRCAM)—a suspended cube with six speakers and six microphones, forming a closed feedback loop—and the creation of a musical composition based exclusively on the feedback produced. The work is developed through the programming of volume, equalization, and effects automations, resulting in a piece performed without direct human intervention.

Nuno Rebelo (1960), an architect and self-taught musician, rose to prominence in the 1980s with Streetkids and Mler ife Dada. He has created works for film, theater, and dance, produced notable pieces such as *Pangea* (Expo 98) and jingles for Lisbon 94 and Euro 2004, and has remained actively involved in improvisation, collaborating with national and international musicians. He participated in projects by John Zorn and Evan Parker, presented numerous performances, and taught workshops on improvisation and sound sculptures.

A residency dedicated to creating a site-specific work inspired by the concept of Dark Ecology. Through frottage using natural elements and the reuse of pigments from magazines, the project reflects on interdependence, temporality, and ecology, inviting a sensitive and contemplative perception of the environment.

Nina Fraser (1984) is a British multidisciplinary artist based in Portugal, whose practice explores memory, place, and collaborative processes through collage. With a bachelor’s degree in Textile Art and a master’s in Curating and Public Art, she develops site-specific projects, solo exhibitions, and artist residencies in Portugal, Italy, and the United Kingdom. Her work is included in international publications and collections, and Fraser is actively involved in creating community projects, notably Art & Craft Refúgio and the Collage Working Club. She also serves as a visiting artist and guest lecturer at institutions in Lisbon.

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RITA OLIVENÇA “MOVEMENT AS INTERACTION: CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE USE OF INTERACTIVE TEXTILE ARTIFACTS IN THE PERFORMING ARTS”

This residency is part of the doctoral project by Rita Olivença, a researcher at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, titled “Movement as Interaction: Contributions to the Use of Interactive Textile Artifacts in the Performing Arts.” The work proposes practical and theoretical research on movement as a form of interaction, exploring the potential of interactive textiles as performative devices and mediators between body, space, and technology.

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RESIDENCY FOR STUDENTS OF THE SKYNET INTERDISCIPLINARY COURSE – CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES – DCAM – LUSÓFONA UNIVERSITY, LISBON

Residency for students of the Skynet course in the Department of Cinema and Media Arts at Lusófona University in Lisbon, under the guidance of Ricardo Jacinto and Orlando Franco.

The Skynet course unit is an interdisciplinary space within the Department of Cinema and Media Arts (DCAM) that responds to today’s rapid social and technological transformations. Through a methodology focused on projects and immersive artistic residencies, the course unit promotes the exchange of knowledge among students from different fields. The educational program begins with seminars led by guest professionals and culminates in the production of creative works that utilize diverse languages of sound and image to critically reflect on challenging contemporary issues.

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MASI: MASTER’S PROGRAM IN SOUND AND IMAGE ARTS AT ESAD.CR
WITH ANTONIO JULIO DUARTE, ÂNGELA DA PONTE, AND TIAGO HESPANA

A 3-week artist residency for MASI (Master’s in Sound and Image Arts) students, their 3 project instructors, 3 guest artists, and 18 students, to develop a series of practical artistic research projects in the fields of Sound Arts, Photography, and Documentary Film. The participating faculty members will be Susana Nascimento Duarte (film), Riccardo Wanke (sound arts), and Diogo Saldanha (photography). The guest artists for next year will be Tiago Hespanha (film), António Julio Duarte (photography), and Angela da Ponte (sound arts).

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 ANTÓNIO ARROIO ARTISTIC SCHOOL

Facilitators: Mariana Fernandes, Elsa Gonçalves, and Rita Thomaz
Two days of landscape observation activities around OSSO, accompanied by drawing exercises in which color will serve as the theme for the creation of a collective archive that brings together the explorations of all participants.

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UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA “ESCOLA DAS ARTES (PORTO)” MESTRADO SOM E IMAGEM”

Supervision: Marcelo Reis and José Vasco Carvalho
The residency program for students in the Master’s in Sound and Image is a practical research environment where hypotheses are tested and practical approaches are explored, with the aim of refining their master’s projects.

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JOÃO GODINHO + GRAÇA SANTOS “NO LODO”

A project based on a collection of photographic slides damaged by the 2022 Lisbon floods. The residency focuses on the creation of a book that transforms destruction and the actions of non-human agents into a creative act, reflecting on memory, archives, and imagination.

Teatro Do Silêncio “As Montanhas Azuis Estão Sempre A Caminhar”

Residency integrated into the development of this wordless performance piece, which combines movement and sound in an immersive environment. The work explores rhythmic patterns and small variations that generate continuously transforming forms, delving deeper into costume-instrument and sound design, with its premiere scheduled for 2026.

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Ricardo Jacinto “Incomplete Open Unit”

Ensemble dedicated to researching the relationship between system, space, and sound, combining composition and structured improvisation. Inspired by the conceptual principles of Sol LeWitt, the group develops works based on systems and diagrams that define open rules of interaction. Their musical practice, described as “tectonic music,” is organized into layers of sound that shift, collide, and reorganize, exploring textures, resonances, spatialization, and prolonged processes of timbral evolution. The work is developed in residence, based on the mapping of the aural architecture of the spaces, resulting in long-duration performances, close to performative sound installations, where the audience can circulate freely.

“Incomplete Open Unit”

Angelica Salvi : harp, electronics
Ece Canli : voice, flute, electronics
João Silva: trumpet, electronics
Pedro Oliveira: percussion, electronics
Ricardo Jacinto: cello, electronics

Guest voices by Carla Galvão, Gio Lourenço and Mariana Dionísio
musical direction and composition by Ricardo Jacinto

Ensemble of Other Living Beings

The Ensemble of Other Living Beings is the formalization of a collective that brings together people who have been collaborating spontaneously and continuously for over a decade. Through the connection between different musical trajectories, the ensemble aims to promote collaborative and horizontal practices, using music as an exercise in freedom and as an instrument to foster artistic experimentation and community practices.
The project is based on the intersection of different references: from folk traditions to contemporary production in collectives such as the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, driven by Muhal Richard Abrams.
In addition, it dialogues with philosophical thinking about organic interaction with the world (Emanuele Coccia, Bruno Latour, and Donna Haraway) and is inspired by the liberating potential of imagination (Sun Ra and Ursula K. Le Guin).

The band is: Yaw Tembe, João Almeida, Bernardo Alvares, Joana Guerra, Norberto Lobo e Leonor Cabrita

 

Rita Thomaz – Natural Pigments

This project (started in 2022) enters its final phase in 2026, dedicated to the systematization, editing, and public presentation of the results of four years of artistic research. The work focuses on the publication of a book/document that brings together processes, chromatic archives, herbarium, handmade papers, and supports developed throughout the project, as well as on the realization of a final exhibition that integrates the Color Archive, artistic objects, and an Artist’s Book. Through the exhibition and moments of mediation with the community, the project affirms the relationship between landscape, color, and sustainable artistic practices, closing the research cycle with a reflective and public sharing.

Mariana Dionísio + João Carreiro — REQUIEM

João Carreiro and Mariana Dionísio are two musicians of exceptional talent, whose rise to prominence over recent years has been meteoric. The former, a guitarist, made his debut in 2022 as the leader of the album Pequenos desastres, surrounded by serious, multigenerational jazz talent in Portugal. The latter, a vocalist, has been charting a diverse and inspired course in collaboration with percussionists, trumpeters, and other voices also tangential to the most remote territories of jazz in the country.

Together, they continue in this residency their newly discovered mutual interest in liturgical music associated with funeral rites, proposing to explore an improvised requiem, “stripped down and fragile” because it is necessarily intimate and minimal, bringing to the stage instinct, sensitivity, and exploration – an ad-hoc evocation of fear and beauty as they deign to arise. The residency deepens the mechanisms of conduction, interaction, and sonic plasticity of the work.

Hugo Bernardo + Babak Baharestani — YAR

Sound research focusing on ethnic and oriental instruments — Ottoman oud, Kurdish tanbura, and Gnawa guembri — integrating voice and singing. The project combines tradition and modernity through improvisation, composition, and collaboration, including recording and sound documentation, with the participation of guest musicians and poets.

Samuel Gapp + João Ghira — Artigo Indefinível

A performative work in development that investigates the interdependence between movement, sound, and sculpture in an interactive and site-specific context. Through the manipulation of textile structures and the activation of space by performers and audience, the project creates constantly changing visual and sound phenomena, also addressing social, ontological, and philosophical issues. The residency deepens the relationship between body, object, and sound, with the participation of dancer Inês Zinho and guest musicians.

Samuel Gapp, born in Germany, has developed musical, interdisciplinary, and educational works linked to improvisation and written composition. Active as a pianist and composer on the contemporary scene, he has collaborated with multiple artists and institutions internationally on cultural and educational initiatives. His work has been recognized with awards in Portugal in recent years.

João Ghira, born in Portugal, has developed work in the field of visual arts. His practice is fueled by different areas of interest and research such as psychology, philosophy, and literature. The creation of objects has not been serial or strictly limited to a single form of communication. His work demonstrates a symbiosis between painting and sculpture, exploring the limits of the two-dimensional entity of surfaces.

Photo by Maria Bicker

The residency proposes to explore the transduction of flame into sound, using candles as an ephemeral notation, read only once. Fire simultaneously activates and destroys the piece, placing time and temporality at the center of the investigation. The work combines technical objects with different temporal resolutions—candles and computers—to explore how different times construct visual and sound pieces.

Mafalda Costa (Porto, 1996) is a visual artist.
Her practice develops experimentally, based on research into plants, dreams, mythology, and magical objects. She has a degree in Fine Arts from ESAD, in Caldas da Rainha. Her work explores ritual and evokes spiritual and artisanal practices through drawing, sculpture, and installation.

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Marcelo Reis (Porto, 1993) is a visual artist and music producer.
He holds a degree in Cinema and Audiovisual Arts from ESAP, a master’s degree in Fine Arts from FBAUP, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Fine Arts at FBAUP. His body of work focuses on thinking about the plastic possibilities of the sign and how transcoding to different media affects the referent of the message that the sign conveys. This work is presented in formats such as installation, sound, and printed image.

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Nuno Alves “Special Sound Effects for Films”

How can we imitate the sound of the sea? Can a kitchen object be an instrument?

In this workshop, participants have the opportunity to replicate and invent sounds using their own instruments, less conventional objects, and electronic devices. In this workshop, we explore how we can give new meanings to moving images through sound, revealing some of the techniques used in our film-concerts.

An activity for all ages, requiring no prior musical knowledge.

Cultural programmer since 1993, founder of the Paredes de Coura Festival, Space Festival, and Canal180. Artistic director of Space Ensemble, with extensive creation of film-concerts regularly presented in the country’s main venues. Founder and director of the Paredes de Coura School of Rock (since 2014), distinguished by the University of Minho. He has developed and directed multiple community and educational projects in various regions of the country. Graduated in Electrical Engineering from the University of Coimbra, with extensive experience in team coordination and software project development.

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Mana Terra “Experimental textile laboratory”

In this workshop, children are invited to explore the world of sewing and textiles through experimentation, touch, and play. After a brief introduction to materials, fabrics, and manual techniques, the group is challenged to discover the infinite creative possibilities of textile work. Through tactile exploration and free composition exercises, the materials take shape in dialogue with the body, opening up space for imagination, creation, and the construction of small magical worlds.

Susana Santos (Mana Terra) is a textile designer, costume designer, and independent researcher from Porto. In 2019, she founded the Mana Terra studio, an experimental and self-taught laboratory for textile practices and artistic creation. She collaborated with the Xalabas project, guiding sewing training for the Achada Grande Frente community, and worked with the Marques’Almeida brand between 2020 and 2022, developing collaborations for bags and accessories. Her work crosses textile design, costume design, performance, and artistic research, with a sensory and artisanal approach.

Area: Textiles

As 2026 draws to a close, OSSO’s Open Workshops series continues—a hands-on educational project integrated into the Escola dos Labirintos. This phase features artist-in-residence Lucas Resende, who is dedicated to exploring experimental film through scanography, stop motion, and the use of light. The team of instructors includes Andreas Reine, who focuses on hands-on crafting, and Paulo Luís, who guides students in creating pieces using digital tools.
The Open Workshops take place in OSSO’s studios on Fridays, from 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., serving as an ongoing workspace for children to develop artistic projects based on their interests. With guidance from resident artists and instructors, the initiative promotes autonomy, the creative exploration of materials and techniques, and an appreciation for the process over time within a cross-disciplinary creative laboratory.

OCTOBER
9, 16, 23, 30

NOVEMBER
13, 20 NOV

DECEMBER
11, 18

Ages 6–10
Fridays: 11:00 a.m. — 1:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. — 5:30 p.m.
Registration: osso.equipa@gmail.com
Capacity: 15 participants
Fee: 5€
*Children enrolled in the EB1 de São Gregório elementary school have free access to the open workshops.

Éditions n’importe quoi “Infinite Bookbinding + Observe, Collect, Record, and Paste”

The Infinite Bookbinding workshop teaches participants how to bind their own notebooks in an intuitive and simple way. So simple, in fact, that by the end they will be able to teach anyone else how to make their own notebooks. After binding, the Observe, collect, engrave, and paste challenge encourages participants to look for elements outside OSSO, and then use them as engraving templates that will be cut out and composed on the covers of the notebooks made in the first part of the workshop.

The Éditions n’importe quoi publishing project was founded in Montpellier in 2019 by Kevin Claro and Laura Figueiras. In 2021, Tomé Figueiras Claro joined the team, and in the same year, the GRACAL printing company in Caldas da Rainha became our home and our main source of raw materials. The project aims to produce books and notebooks mainly from reused materials, demystifying the idea that publishing is difficult or expensive, and valuing the content and creativity of those who use them. Since 2019, we have published 30 publications, created several hundred graphic diaries, and participated in projects with schools and cultural institutions, always maintaining an experimental, accessible, and sustainable approach.

Area: Bookbinding + Engraving

“Sound and Meaning” is the guest project selected to be part of our 2026 Summer Labyrinths. This initiative was created with the aim of promoting free artistic expression and critical thinking among children. Throughout the process, children are encouraged to suggest themes, words, phrases, and melodies that inspire musical creation. The proposal is rooted in the concepts of freedom, democracy, and the contemporary context in which these children are growing up. Within this framework, the work unfolds collaboratively, following the creative flow that emerges from the group.

The artistic team consists of Luís Bittencourt, responsible for exploring sound objects, body percussion, rhythmic dynamics, voice recording, welcoming, and listening; Sara Yasmine, who will guide the rhythmic dynamics, the creation of lyrics and melodies, and vocal expression; and Tatiana Vargas, who will work on breathing and movement techniques, preparation for the performance, production of the performances, as well as welcoming and listening.

During the workshops, the artists, in collaboration with the children, will develop lyrics and melodies for musical works previously conceived by the musicians. This process unfolds through activities that stimulate the children’s expression of ideas, themes, and musical reflections. Initial activities are always proposed to lay the groundwork for collective creation. The ultimate goal is to build moments of musical performance that culminate in a performance.

 

Basile “Clown Workshop – The Art of Clowning”

In this workshop, we use theatrical improvisation games and the art of clowning to explore the body, emotions, and creativity. Through pair work and group activities, we work on trust, listening, nonverbal language, and self-awareness through play. In the process, we discover how mistakes can be a starting point and how laughter paves the way for presence and empathy. Expected side effects: fun.

A Frenchman living in Portugal since 2001, he graduated in theater, circus arts, and clowning, having studied at ESTC, Evoé, and the Escola da Máscara e Comédia dell’Arte, in addition to several international masterclasses. Co-founder of the Usina association, he has taken forum theater to over 100 schools and received the Inatel Best Storyteller award. An actor in film, television, and advertising, he has developed animation projects for various brands and municipalities. Since 2011, he has been part of Operação Nariz Vermelho as “Enfermeiro Champignon.” A motivational speaker in the area of Global Respect, he finds the balance that permeates his work in nature, badminton, and music.

Area: Theater

João Godinho and Graça Santos “destruction-creation”

In December 2022, after two consecutive floods in Lisbon, a family collection of photographic slides was submerged in mud for several weeks. When the slides were recovered, the images had disappeared completely or partially. What do we do with these images now? Has destruction created other images? What is “destruction as creation” anyway? In these workshops, we will explore this concept through the technique of manual collage.

Graça Santos
Graça Santos studied fine arts at FBAUL and ESAD in Caldas da Rainha, specializing in the technique of manual collage, with which she has been working since 2003. She has a postgraduate degree in Illustration and Visual Narrative.

João Godinho
João Godinho studied Composition at the Lisbon School of Music and has been an author and radio presenter on Antena 2 since 2019 (Fora de Formato, Pausa para Dançar, Quem canta assim).

Area: Collages

 

The movement of small play objects

In this workshop, each child creates their own wooden doll that can do somersaults. Using a basic kit with pre-cut pieces and others ready to be sawn and sanded, the children draw and paint directly on the wood, shaping their character before assembling it. The experience combines artistic expression with the physical principle of movement, arousing curiosity and enchantment with the handmade object.

Maria Terra is an artist, cultural mediator, and arts and crafts teacher. She works with children aged 6 to 12 in sustainable arts education contexts. Her work combines art, nature, and craft, exploring the movement and poetry of handmade toys.

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The Open Workshops, led by guest artists-in-residence from Escola dos Labirintos, offer children a space for technological and artistic experimentation. They are held three days a month, with two sessions each day. Following the expansion in 2025 of the different workstations—3D printing and laser cutting, woodworking, drawing, radio and multimedia, screen printing and engraving, textiles, and library—the goal for 2026 is to consolidate their use by children and resident artists.

Held in OSSO’s studios, these workshops provide an environment that stimulates projects born out of children’s interests, allowing them to explore various techniques, from sound experimentation to movement, animation, carpentry, or digital manufacturing.
We promote an open and process-oriented approach, encouraging individual or collective exploration. Projects can extend over several sessions, following the pace of each participant’s discovery and giving shape to ideas as they arise.

In the first cycle of activities, these workshops are led by resident artists: Lucas Resende, André Reine, and Paulo Luís.

Upcoming dates:

JANUARY: 16 e 23 (com Lucas Resende, Valéria Caboi e João Silva)

FEBRUARY: 13, 20, and 27
MARCH: 13, 20, and 27
APRIL: 24
MAY: 15, 22, and 29

OUT: 9, 16, 23, 30
NOV: 13, 20, 27
DEC: 11, 18

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Registration: osso.equipa@gmail.com
Maximum capacity: 15 participants at a time.
A contribution of €5 per day is suggested.

The Legend of Fire is a collaborative creative workshop where we will think about and design our first contact with fire. What is it and where does it come from? Are there alternatives to the story we already know? Together, we will create a new narrative and tell it through shadow theater. The elements and characters are cut out of cardboard and then projected. In this way, we aim to question the arrival and impact of fire in our daily lives.

Mafalda Costa (Porto, 1996) is a visual artist.
Her practice develops experimentally, based on research into plants, dreams, mythology, and magical objects. She has a degree in Fine Arts from ESAD in Caldas da Rainha. Her work explores ritual and evokes spiritual and artisanal practices through drawing, sculpture, and installation.

Marcelo Reis (Porto, 1993) is a visual artist and music producer.
He holds a degree in Cinema and Audiovisual Arts from ESAP, a master’s degree in Fine Arts from FBAUP, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Fine Arts at FBAUP. His body of work focuses on thinking about the plastic possibilities of the sign and how transcoding to different media affects the referent of the message that the sign conveys. This work is presented in formats such as installation, sound, and printed image.