On the occasion of the presentation of the exhibition Fragments d’un segon oblit and the opening concert of the LEM Festival 2025, we will have the chance to experience Fragments d’oblit, an electroacoustic piece composed from recordings of instruments from the reserves of the Museu de la Música, usually kept out of sight.
Alfredo Costa Monteiro (Porto, 1964) is a sound artist, sound poet, improviser, and composer from Portugal, based in Barcelona since 1992. His work explores the materiality of sound through everyday objects, modified instruments, electroacoustic processes, and sound poetry.
He studied sculpture and installation at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he was a student of Christian Boltanski. His artistic practice lies at the crossroads of visual art, visual poetry, and sound, and is characterized by unstable processes, raw materials, and gestures that explore the manipulation of objects as instruments and vice versa, with a strong phenomenological focus.
He has taken part in various collective projects such as Superelvis, Cremaster, i treni inerti, Atolón, Astero, and 300 bajos. He has also collaborated with numerous musicians, choreographers, visual artists, and filmmakers, and has presented his work throughout Europe, Canada, the United States, Russia, and Japan.
In collaboration with Gràcia Territori Sonor.
Repertoire
Alfredo Costa Monteiro: “Fragments d’Oblit” (2023)
Artists
Alfredo Costa Monteiro, sound artist