Alfredo Costa Monteiro
Alfredo Costa Monteiro is a sound artist, composer and visual and sound poet born in Porto, Portugal. He lives and works in Barcelona since 1992, the year he graduated in sculpture / multimedia at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
His sound pieces have in common unstable processes, conceptual constraints and minimal forms made of raw materials, where the manipulation of objects as instruments or instruments as objects has a strong phenomenological aspect.
As a multi-instrumentalist, he has been working since 1996 in various projects of improvised and experimental music, using prepared accordion, prepared guitar, manipulated turntable, homemade electro-acoustic devices, resonant objects or even paper.
In sound poetry, his work focuses on the musicality of language, creating noisy polyglot poems with multiple meanings that often defy understanding and lead to confusion.
He has collaborated with many musicians, choreographers, video artists, and filmmakers and has played throughout Europe, Canada, the US, Russia and Japan.
He has an extensive discography in solo and in different formations.