Joao Bento
Sound Designer for voice of nature: THE TRIAL
João is a Sound and Visual Artist. He graduated in Visual Arts at ESAD, Caldas da Rainha. Since 2004, he has made sound design for performances, experimental films, theater pieces, and live acts. His work articulates analogical instruments and amplified sound objects, used in multimedia / multidisciplinary artistic contexts. Studied improvised music with the musician Gregg Moore and Theremin with Pamela Kurstin. Responsible for Canal Zero (2004-2014) experimenting with sound and image with João Cabaço, performed for the first time at Cinema S. Jorge – Lisbon. Winner of Loop prize Temps d´Images Festival 2018 with the vídeo “That Old Question About Sound and Image”, collective exhibition until Fev 2019, National Museum of Contemporary Art - Lisbon. His work has been presented in Portugal, Spain, France, Mexico, Germany, India, and Bangladesh.