Alfredo Costa Monteiro
Alfredo Costa Monteiro (born 1964) was born in Porto (Portugal), and he lives and works in Barcelona since 1992. His work often crosses the boundaries into the visual arts, visual poetry as well as the audio. Since 1998, he is member of an independent collective for contemporary art 22a.
Alfredo Costa Monteiro (born 1964) was born in Porto (Portugal), and he lives and works in Barcelona since 1992. His work often crosses the boundaries into the visual arts, visual poetry as well as the audio. Since 1998, he is member of an independent collective for contemporary art 22a.
Centre Of Mass (For Cymbal And Resonant Objects)
Solo improvisation for cymbal and rotating objects
Suspension Pour Une Perte
*200 copies limited edition* "Suspension pour une perte was created with a gap in time. A first recording of a broken piano was made by chance in 2012. This recording was forgotten for a long time, as its nature was that of a very limited sonic range…
Abstand
*200 copies limited edition* "Abstand" was conceived to enhance the particularities of the combination of accordion and melodica, both wind instruments, one played with movement and the other by blowing. This dichotomy of difference and similarity re…
Cinq Bruissements For Solo Accordion
Endlessness is the long-awaited and last instalment of a trilogy of
pieces for electric organ by artist Alfredo Costa-Monteiro. A follow-up
to Umbralia (2011) and Insula (2014), this third piece is composed by
two parts, essentially austere in app…
Etwas
*2022 stock. 90 copies limited edition* "Etwas" is a new Tanuki Records cassette presenting two tracks (22:13 and 21:35 respectively) by Ilia Belorukov, Miguel A. Garcia and Alfredo Costa Monteiro, appearing for the first time as a trio. The three mu…
Soleils Noirs
** Edition of 200 ** Soleils Noir by Bruno Duplant and Alfredo Costa Monteiro is the first in a series of collaborations between various musicians who release on Moving Furniture Records before. After a collaboration for the Moving Music compilation …
Aq'Ab'Al
The second appearance of Alfredo Costa Monteiro after critically acclaimed Contour with Keith Rowe, Kurt Liedwart and Ilia Belorukov, and the first physical release of Miguel A. Garcia after Uropygi with Kurt Liedwart, Ilia Belorukov and Dmitry Krote…
Not Knowing
**200 copies** "Not knowing is my fifth accordion solo and a new challenge for the instrument itself, here treated as an object in space. Whereas in the other recordings the centre of attention was put in materiality, structure or deconstruction, wit…
Endlessness
Endlessness is the long-awaited and last instalment of a trilogy of
pieces for electric organ by artist Alfredo Costa-Monteiro. A follow-up
to Umbralia (2011) and Insula (2014), this third piece is composed by
two parts, essentially austere in app…
Insula
A multi-channel composition for electric organ, commissioned by L’ull Cec for The Game of Life Foundation’s spatialisation sound system (consisting of 192 speakers and 12 subwoofers, using the Wave Field Synthesis technique). Performed on 20 June 201…
Contour
Weird recording for Mikroton featuring a duo recording of Keith Rowe and Alfredo Costa Monteiro and a quartet recording of them with Ilia Belorukov and Kurt Liedwart, two recordings made at the same day at spina!studio in St. Petersburg during Ten…
Anatomy of Inner Place
Recorded at home in winter 2006. Mixed in january and february 2007 in Barcelona. All the sound sources are part of my domestic environment every sound is used here as it was recorded with no electronic effects or processing except for dynamics some …
Rumeur (for solo accordion)
Alfredo Costa Monteiro, accordion. Recorded by Ferran Fages, March 2003 in Barcelona. Rumeur was conceived in continuity; but not in the narrative sense; each piece was developed independently, but always with a common preoccupation: The timbric cont…