Other Lands Other Sounds

Other Lands Other Sounds offers a supportive environment for advanced musicians and artists (professionals, amateurs, students) to develop their practice through cross-arts experimentation and collaboration.

We bring people together to create temporary communities based on play, inclusivity, curiosity, and creativity. Away from the distractions of normal life, we hold a carefully curated space in which we imagine into being a world where people can be themselves, inspire each other, and learn from one another. We see every moment as an opportunity to practice noticing, listening, and transforming experience into art. 

We do this in specific connection to place. We think that context matters: land, nature, culture, language, and its people. We connect locals and outsiders to come together as co-questioners, seeking to make art that grows from a unique place and moment in time. 

Other Lands Other Sounds ran yearly in the beautiful mountainside town of Góis, Portugal from 2016-2019, in collaboration with arts organization RaizVanguarda. In 2024 the course has been revived in a new home, the tiny railway town of Casa Branca, in Alentejo, Portugal, hosted by Estação Cooperativa.