Antonina Nowacka @ Quinta da Fornalha

28/04/2023 @ 6:00 pm

Quinta da Fornalha

Quinta da Fornalha, 8950-186

Antonina Nowacka is a vocalist, composer and a sound poet from Warsaw, Poland. Her main interests as an artist oscillate around subjects such as organic sound synthesis, abstract narration, minimalism, symbolism and surrealism, soundscapes and reverberation, the nature of sound, particularly how the sound can influence the nervous system and the ways that music can put the performer and audience in a specific, dream-like mindset. She uses the voice as the most organic synthesizer and a primary tool of creation, involving extended vocal techniques, folk and eastern culture influenced vocal practices, space resonances as well as various forms of sound processing and synthesis in creating minimalistic, imaginative soundscapes.

In her residency in Castro Marim, to which she applied via the Open Call we launched in January, Antonina will interpret the poetry of the region’s birds’ “dreams”, by imagining a sound and musical language capable of translating those unknown, oneiric worlds. She will present her work in the shape of a walking show at Quinta da Fornalha (where she’ll take up residence), at 6pm on April 28th.