*100 copies limited edition* This new chapter of the Sound Mapping series focuses on Portugal, tracing a cartography of contemporary electroacoustic practices that unfold across a wide and diverse spectrum. The compilation presents a constellation of approaches that oscillate between abstract electronics, music directly influenced by Iberian tradition, ritualistic impulses, and slow-moving electroacoustic drone. What emerges is a porous sonic territory shaped by memory, landscape, and experimentation. Portugal’s electroacoustic underground has developed along singular lines, absorbing influences from traditional rhythms, coastal geographies, and a long-standing dialogue between isolation and openness. In these works, electronic sound often remains connected to corporeal and material references. Pulses evoke archaic dances and percussive ceremonies rooted in Iberian heritage, while drones stretch time into meditative or suspended states, recalling sacred spaces and raw natural environments.
As with previous Sound Mapping projects, the intention is to offer an immersive journey through sound. The thirteen compositions collected here explore the tension between the ancestral and the synthetic, inviting the listener to experience Portugal through sound, as a shifting terrain where electronics, Iberian tradition, ritual memory, and abstraction converge.
