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DJ, musician, promoter and editor @ variz.org

Current member of the music groups: Whit, Producers, Lumpen Trio, A Parte Maldita and Instantâneos. Former member of: Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzp! and 1/2 of the infamous DJ duo TRA$H CONVERTERS.

Co-founder of the record label/promoter variz.org (with Fernando Fadigas) and of the record shop, distributor and promoter Matéria Prima (with Jorge Pereira & Paulo Vinhas).

Miguel Sá is a multidisciplinary artist with interventions and creations in the context of contemporary art – music, video and performance – made with different teams and in several places: Galeria Zé dos Bois | Museu do Chiado | 7/10: Sete Artistas ao Décimo Mês (2001) and Imagens Projectadas 2005 - Centro de Arte Moderna da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian | Experimenta Design 1999 / 2003 and 2009 | Festival Número 2001 and 2005 | Festival Offf (2008) - LX Factory | Disseminações (2001) - Culturgest | Festival Número-Projecta 2006 and 2007 - Cinema São Jorge | +Olhares Pocket Fest (2007) - Chapitô | FinnFest (2003) | Galeria Monumental - Festival em_Trânsito (2004) [Lisboa] | Serralves em Festa 2004 - Fundação de Serralves | Clubbing (2007) - Casa da Música | Bienal da Maia 1999 and Urbanlab.Bienal da Maia 2001 | Faculdade de Belas Artes [Porto] | Toxic, Festival Hertzoscópio 2004 [Oeiras] | Festival Mau 2008 [Baixa da Banheira] | BRG 2000/2001 [Braga] | Demo AV (2008) [Arcos de Valdevez] | Out.Fest 2006 and 2008 [Barreiro] | VilaTone (2008) - Museu Arqueológico do Cerro da Vila e Nikki Beach [Vilamoura] | EXPerimentaClub'06 and Electronica Portuguesa (2007) - La Casa Encendida [Madrid] | Faculdade de Belas Artes - Festival IFI 2003 [Pontevedra] | Glasgow School of Arts, Plano XXI (2000) - The Arches [Glasgow] | Mör Festival 2003 - Blackbird [Dublin] | Veneer/folheado (2003) - Menagerie [Belfast] | Yerba Buena - Center for the Arts [San Francisco]; among others.

Sound composer for video/installations by the following visual artists: Alexandre Estrela ["Hi8" - Festival Atlântico (Lisboa, 1997) and Museu do Chiado (Lisboa, 1999)], Marina Recker [Bienal da Maia (Porto, 1999)], Carolina Vasconcelos [Nonstop Opening, Galeria Zé Dos Bois (Lisboa, 1999)], Inês Pais ["IP#2: home_pleasures", Disseminações, Culturgest (2001)], João Onofre ["Untitled: Sun 2500" - 12th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia (Venice, 2010)].

Music for TV spots for two editions of Mostra de Teatro de Almada; Opening Music Score for the festival VideoLisboa;

Author of the sound art/installations:
&rt; "Untitled" sound instalation with a pile of records rolling over one single turntable @ Nonstop Opening, Galeria Zé Dos Bois (Lisboa, 1999);
&rt; "I left my Heart in San Francisco" @ Go to Frisco, Yerba Buena (San Francisco, 2000);
&rt; "7/10": seven soundpieces created together with Fernando Fadigas (as Producers), reworking and using the original sounds of each of the seven art pieces represented in the exhibition "7/10: Sete Artistas ao Décimo Mês" @ Centro de Arte Moderna, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisboa, 2001). Each one of the 7 soundpieces could be listened seperatly during the exhibition and were then released on a CD as a catalogue insert.
&rt; "Mon(o)rquestra": installation/performance with 8 musicians and other 5 sound art and interactive installations created with Fernando Fadigas @ VilaTone, Museu Arqueológico do Cerro da Vila (Vilamoura, 2008);
&rt; "Linha de Montagem": installation concept and direction (laptop assembly line of 18 musicians reprocessing field recordings into one single chain) @ Chão: Rua Rodrigues Faria, 103 / LX Factory (Lisboa, 2008);
&rt; "Mon(o)rquestra": installation/performance among 9 musicians @ Palácio Galveias (Lisboa, 2009);
&rt; "A Invenção do Dia Claro", soundpiece performed live with Jari Marjamäki (laptop) and Lula Pena (voice) @ Chão: Rua da Anchieta, 31 (Lisboa, 2009);
&rt; "Pull my Strings, and I'll go far" @ Chão: Rua Mendo Estevens, 78 / Festival Escrita na Paisagem (Évora, 2009);
&rt; "You Too Bar" sound/video installation with João Onofre @ Chão: Nimas, Cinema Nimas (Lisboa, 2010);

Co-producer of the multidisciplinary project SuperStereo Demonstration, which occurred in 2002 at ZDB Gallery and in 2005 at Linhares of Beira medieval castle. Also curated the music program of two editions of the Número-Projecta festival in Lisbon and the first edition of VilaTone - Vilamoura Mixed Media and Music Festival MMVIII.
In 2008, he became part of Projecto Chão.

Performing since 1991 in several cities: ABRANTES (Cine-Teatro São Pedro), ALBUFEIRA (Capítulo V), ALMADA (Atelier Bar), ARCOS DE VALDEVEZ (Casa das Artes, Ribeira Bar), AVEIRO (Olaria, Parque de Feiras e Exposições), BARCELONA (La Capella), BARCELOS (Auditório da Biblioteca Municipal), BARREIRO (Out.fest 2006 and 2008), BELFAST (Menagerie), BERLIN (Sanatorium, Für Fetten Ecke, Bar 23), BRAGA (Insólito), BRUSSELS (N.E.M.O. party @ Bulex, Le Tavernier, Dali's Bar, Quentin, Bar du Marché, Otatti's @ The Marquee), CALDAS DA RAINHA (Auditório do GAT, ESTGAD), COIMBRA (A Noite Tem 1000 Olhos, Via Club, C.A.V.), DRESDEN (Puschkin Club), DUBLIN (Foot Fetish - The Hub), ESTORIL (Sushimoto), FARO (Nordik, Sui Generis, Sociedade Recreativa Artística Farense - Os Artistas), FIGUEIRA DA FOZ (Bergantim), GENT (Limonada), GLASGOW (Glasgow School of Arts, The Arches), GUARDA (Aquilo Teatro, Teatro Municipal da Guarda, Zincos), GUIMARÃES (Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Spot), HAMBURG (Komm in Die Gänge - Gängeviertel), IDANHA-A-NOVA (Boom festival 2002), KÖLN (Die Wohngemeinschaft), LEIRIA (Abadia, Fish, Studio, Alibi), LINHARES DA BEIRA (Castelo), LISBOA (A Capela, Pistão! @ Lounge, Cabra Cega & A Quinta Dimensão @ MusicBox, Clube Ferroviário, Left, Incógnito, Crew Hassan, Lux-Frágil, zdb, Kubik, Europa, Ko-zee Club, Majong, Clube da Esquina, Maria Caxuxa, Odessa, Trem Azul Jazz Store, Espaço Nimas, Jardim da Estrela, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Museu do Chiado, Warehouse Experience @ Museu da Electricidade, Culturgest, Experimenta Design and festival Número-Projecta 2007 @ Cinema S. Jorge, festival Cosmopolis @ Castelo São Jorge, Frágil, Teatro São Luiz, Chão, festival OFFF and Casting Club @ LX Factory, O Século, Armazém F, Fábrica Braço de Prata, Chapitô, Clube Mercado, Cabaret Maxime, Underground Lisbon, Universidade Nova, Faculdade de Belas Artes, Grémio Lisbonense, Caixa Económica Operária, Captain Kirk, etc), LAGOS (Pop), LONDON (110 Old Street Bar), MADRID (La Casa Encendida, Oui), MONTEMOR-O-VELHO (Citemor), OEIRAS (Fundição de Oeiras, Fábrica da Pólvora - Pátio do Sol), PONTEVEDRA (Facultade de Belas Artes), PORTO (Triplex, Serralves em Festa 2004 @ Fundação de Serralves, Clubbing @ Casa da Música, Passos Manuel, Plano B, Maus Hábitos, Faculdade de Belas Artes, Teatro Sá da Bandeira, Meia-Cave, Aniki-Bobó, Labirintho, Menos que Zero, Trintaeum, Swing, Penguin Café, K-Max, etc), PRAIA DA AREIA BRANCA (Barraca, Foz Bar), TOMAR (Café Paraíso), TORRES NOVAS (Café Concerto do Teatro Virgínia), VILAMOURA (Museu Cerro da Vila, Nikki Beach), VILA NOVA DE GAIA (Hard Club), ZAMBUJEIRA DO MAR (Espera-me Entrando), etc.

Miguel Sá www.variz.org, Lisbon, Portugal

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  • DJ set recorded @ A Capela bar, Bairro Alto - Lisboa | June 13th 2009 |

    Miguel Sá on June 22, 2009 16:50

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