Artist Blog

Every week an artist whose single image was published by Der Greif is given a platform in which to blog about contemporary photography.

mg class="alignnone wp-image-46304 size-large" src="https://dergreif-online.de/www/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/unnamed-700x700.jpg" alt="unnamed" width="700" height="700" /> Rui Almeida is a sound artist living in Guimarães working mainly with found sounds and improvisation with objects. It's an intense and sensitive universe that he creates. We had some collaborations before like ‘Vidro|Água’ video/sound performance, the soundwork 'Glass over water under light' with Nuno Miranda Ribeiro (released on Green field recordings) and ‘These walls resemble absence’, his last work as MUfi.re (released by the hungarian label 3leaves) which i would like to focus a bit more, transcribing this work's introduction text: ‘The sounds of These Walls Resemble Absence were recorded by Rui Almeida (MUfi.re) in an abandoned factory (located in northern Portugal), a complex of pavilions that are now in a deep state of degradation. In a recording process based on intuition and instinct, firstly, we can imagine objects being handled, picked and dragged but, at some point, the atmosphere feels strangely natural, as if wind and randomness, a sort of harmony in chaos is playing, or rising from latency. Objects do seem to have a voice, while being stimulated, forming a multitude of sound syllables such, that while the process endures, we can think of a redefinition of these objects and space, in a very particular interpretation, much different than what a factory imagery could suggest. A body of sound that feels large, spacious, minimalistic but complex, where you can breathe and still become aware of the tiniest detail and texture. We can wonder about what is and what is not incidental or just let ourselves be immersed in this new/old space.’ Nuno Miranda Ribeiro massa última