A collective project for an unconventional Carnaval band (Bloco de Carnaval), in the city of Porto, in collaboration with Luiza Jimenez.

Instruments and outfit were hand crafted during workshop, using found objects and cheap materials.
For the electronic instruments, several homemade circuit were builts (as always combining examples from Nicolas Collins Handmade Electronics book). Participants had to choose resistors and condensers, and attach it to something they can hold like a flute or a guitar. Either connected to small 3 watt speakers, or later to bigger ones (broken parts from great brand given by a high end repair shop). Those bigger speakers were driven by ready-made amplifier board, powered by power tool batteries…

Later during during rehersal in collaboration with Frankão (aka O Gringo Sou Eu) e Francisco Aguiar, we made collective compositions. One based on the popular song Andorinha Preta, mixing singing, kuduro rythms and joyful chaos. The other was a loose composition taking it’s principles from In C by Terry Riley, but adapted for atonal instruments and non-musician perfomers…

pics by Carlos Campos ( @_carlosvcampos_ ) & Nuno Miguel Coelho

More infos (and eventually documentation of the whole process) on the dedicated website : www.carnavalatonal.pt