17 OCT 2026 / 13h00
CCL – Centro Cultural de Lagos
Children and families
Limited capacity - Upon reservation HERE
35'
Concerto para uma árvore (Concert for a Tree) marks the beginning of research into sound objects and experimental musical instruments created from trees and other natural materials.
The instrument Hárvore was created from an oak cut during a land clearing in the Serra de Montemuro in February 2020. During the quarantine this small tree was slowly transformed into a musical instrument, with strings stretched between its branches and bells in place. of flowers. It is played with hands, chopsticks, violin bow, powerball, slide, stones and logs.
This and other instruments of this research, such as Ramira and Birdcage, are part of a concert that is the first stop on a path that is expected to be long and that will encompass other ramifications such as communication systems and symbiosis between plants and trees and research poetics about old age and memory.
Creation and performance: Fernando Mota
Production: Xana Libânio
Project financed by República Portuguesa – Cultura, Juventude e Desporto / Direcção-Geral das Artes
Fernando Mota, multifaceted artist, creates experimental musical instruments and sound objects from trees, rocks, water and other natural elements. Through listening, silence and shock, he questions the rhythm of everyday life and the expressive and symbolic possibilities of nature.
Composer, sound artist and performer, he combines music, theatre, visual arts and poetry to create shows, installations and other artistic objects. His work transcends geographic, cultural and linguistic boundaries. Collaborates with national and international theater, dance and film directors and companies and promotes workshops with different groups and communities.
