User:Andre Castro/Grad bio abstrac

BIO

André Castro (PT) is a sound artist living in Rotterdam. His practice involves DIY, exploratory, and nonsense strategies to appropriate found media-objects, such as audio-tracks from a colossal online archive, the whispers and silences of radiophonic discourse, or the stories told in spam emails.

ABSTRACT

Narratives of Deception narrates the dramas of the American soldier who captured Osama bin Laden; the daughter of Kenya's road minister who is threaten by her evil stepmother; the sick and religious widow who writes from her hospital bed; and the banker who finds the unclaimed fortune of his famous clients.

Equipment

for performance 25-June V2

• PA
• DI boxes
• sound mixer
• ceiling lights
• large table - can be made out smaller tables
• chairs (will use Petra's)

for documentation

(Andre will take care o this)

• 2 mics - centered at the table.
• 1 recording device
• 2 cameras

for exhibition

• A flat screen (bigger the better)
• 2 sets of headphones