Sound Shaped by Hand
Percussion, self-built instruments, and resonant encounters from Porto to elsewhere.
Live Work
Handmade Instruments
Percussion as architecture: resonant metal, skin, wood, and silence shaped through listening, tension, and open-ended movement.
Recordings
Hand-built gongs and cymbals extend the instrument beyond function, giving each performance its own unstable, evolving voice.
Collaborations
A selection of recordings, collaborations, and live encounters from Porto’s experimental music community and far beyond.
Visual Work
Images, objects, and traces from a practice where sound becomes material, gesture becomes form, and listening becomes space.
Sound Work
Live Practice
Working across percussion, electroacoustic music, and free improvisation, João shapes attentive encounters between body, metal, resonance, and silence.
Hand-built gongs and cymbals for expanded sonic worlds.
Practice
Porto Studio
2019—Present
Hand-built gongs and cymbals for expanded sonic worlds.
Base
International Stages
Ongoing
Based in Porto, active across international stages.