João Bento PT, 1980. Sound and Visual Artist. Graduated in Visual Arts at ESAD, Caldas da Rainha. Since 2004, he has made sound design for performances, experimental films, theater pieces and live acts. His work articulates analogical instruments and amplified sound objects, used in multimedia/multidisciplinary artistic contexts. Studied improvised music with the musician Greeg Moore and Theremin with Pamela Kurstin. Between 2004 and 2006 he coordinated the VS Project (international experimental video platform) for the IMAGO Film Fest. Responsible for Canal Zero (2004-2014) experimenting with sound and image with João Cabaço, performed for the first time at Cinema S. Jorge – Lisbon. In 2013 he creates “366SoundDailyProject” installation for the Lisbon Architecture Triennale in the frame of ECHOES#2 interventions on the relationship between Listening and Place and in 2016 the installation “Cactus” for Lisboa Soa International Meeting of Sound Art, Urbanism and Auditory Culture.
Bento was a sound composer and performer in “Le Coq is Dead”(2005) by Luiz Antunes,“Untitled Natura” and “Don‘t Ask, Don‘t Tell” (2011-2012) by Ben J. Riepe Company, “Songs of Blarmino” (2014) by Rui Catalão; a sound researcher for “As If” by Thiago Granato in Pact Zollverain and “Aletheia”(2010) by Ana Trincão in UDK Berlin; a sound designer and composer in “TSUNAMISM Recital for to strings in M” (2013) by Elizabete Francisca; “Future Perfect” (2011) by Kerem Gelebek, “Secalharidade” (2012) and “I am Sitting in a Room different from the one you are in Now/reposition” (2014) by João Fiadeiro, “Hale (2014)” by This Takes Time collective,“Knee” (2014) by Elena Castilla, “Pigsty” (2015) by John Romão,”The Clean and the Dirty” by Vera Mantero (2016),”Artigo 19″ (2017) by Urândia Aragão, “Mute” (2017) by Marta Cerqueira, ”Cocoon” (2017) by Mathieu Ehrlacher.
In 2014 he creates with Tiago Gandra the piece ”In Here” in co-production with o Espaço do Tempo, a transdisciplinary art center where he goes often in research.
In 2010, he was a member of the collective Interferencias – a group of artists that came out of the International Encounter in Mexico about performance practices – in the context of which he has been developing research that questions the relationships between body and sound. Currently, he is working in a new production of the Portuguese choreographer Vera Mantero – premier in 2018.The city of Fundão dedicated a year to the artist (April 2014- April 2015) with the project “Passage #1”, which included the presentation of several exhibitions, performances, live-acts, radio transmissions and the publication of a book.
His work has been presented in Portugal, Spain, France, Mexico, Germany, India and Bangladesh.