Works

Instrumentation (detailed)

Electronic / Electroacoustic

Electroacoustics

The main tension trough the piece is between clangorous sounds and more static sound objects, between impulsive/plosion type sounds and scrapping/metallic sounds – hence the title, a mechanic (mecano) fight (maquia). The piece is constructed like a huge mechanism, where we can enter and discover a sound world of great volume, vibration, resonance, rhythm, intensity and energy, cogs and wheels, groaning and straining machines but also some delicate threads and textures. All of this to point to a sound world that is going slowly into extinction - the substitution of the electro-mechanic with the digital. Hopefully taking these sounds beyond the merely transfiguring, this piece strives to bring uncommon aspects of our perception, continually apprehended but seldom noticed, into audibility.

Work	Type	Date	Organization/Event	Venue	Town	Country	Performers	Notes	Inv Row
MecanoMaquia	Performance	2008/Jul/13	Belém Art Centre / Música Portuguesa Hoje	Belém Art Centre - Luís de Freitas Branco Room	Lisbon	Portugal		Notes
MecanoMaquia	Premiere	2007/Dec/18		French-Portuguese Institute	Lisbon	Portugal		Notes

Documents
	Type (+ sub-type)	Cover/edition title Document title	Authors	Referring to	Publisher	Date
	Audio	António Ferreira SoundAbility Composições electroacústicas  MecanoMaquia		mecanomaquia António Ferreira	Miso Records	2023 2023