Other Lands Other Sounds

Surrounded by the beautiful mountainside scenery of Góis, Portugal, Other Lands Other Sounds offered a supportive environment for advanced musicians and visual artists (professionals, amateurs, students) who wanted to develop their practice through cross-arts experimentation and collaboration. 

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Offered as a professional development workshop and residency, the course was balanced between led workshops, creative group work, individual study, and one-to-one tutorials with course leaders. Musicians worked closely with composer Filipe Sousa to explore composition, improvisation, and collaborative music-making processes. Visual artists worked with Beatriz Martinez, exploring photography and video, merging aesthetics and concept into multi-disciplinary projects. In the second half of the course, small cross-arts groups formed and worked towards the curation of a final group show. Artistic outcomes encompassed everything from installations, to live performance, to performance art, and more.

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Participants gained insight into their own personal practice, as well as how to navigate in a group dynamic. They developed tools for working with artists from different backgrounds, learning how to translate ideas and processes across mediums.