The question challenged my trio with Atau Tanaka and Maria do Mar to intertwine sensibilities in May 2025. The possibility emerged through a show at Teatro do Bairro Alto (TBA), which we were offered two days to prepare on-site. The creative process was intense. I proposed a score with four sections, cued through stage scene changes - we used mobile light spots, shadows, light flashes, and a large visual projection onto multiple surfaces, transparent and opaque.

I played my audio-visual instrument, which includes a custom zither and a 3D software that processes pre-recorded sounds and graphics based on the acoustic sound. I also used a pocket synthesizer, a light sensor and a stroboscope to produce audio-visual flashes.

Tanaka entered states of the body that were rendered in sound. Heart, muscle, voice and breathing became sources of sound and data to excite and be sculpted by a modular synthesizer system. His body became a module of the system.

Mar explored her violin with extended techniques and electroacoustic prosthesis. Her sonic emissions and her Butoh-inspired body movements revealed intention as well as full openness to the unexpected.

In combination, we shaped a dramaturgy that interlaces moments of delicacy and density, with surprising turnarounds.