Composition | Sound art | Field recording

MATILDE MEIRELES

Doc's Kingdom 2024

Ways of Listening

Programmed by Stoffel Debuysere

Odemira, Portugal

19-23 November


Reframe the Frame

Screening of The Outrun + DRIFT Listening Session in the Sonic Lab

Belfast, Northern Ireland

29 September


Belfast 2024

DRIFT Space, a floating architecure

Belfast, Northern Ireland

August-September


Residencias Incipit de investigación y creación artística

Institute for Heritage SciencesFoundation Cidade da Cultura

Santiago de Compostela, Spain

6-22 May


Sonorities Festival

Campo Próximo, Sonic Lab

Matilde Meireles and Diogo Alvim

Sonic Lab, SARC: Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Sound and Music, Queen's University Belfast

11 April


QUEST Webinar: Sound as method

The different levels of collaboration at play in Constellations: Experiments in Multi-Media Ethnography

University of Southampton

7 February


Until you Touch It symposium

Blurring vantage points: scales of intimacy and super-elasticity in field recording

Keynote talk + Concert

Swansea College of Art

6 December


Graduate Research Colloquium

Blurring vantage points: scales of intimacy and super-elasticity in field recording

University of Oxford

28 November, 5pm


Lisboa Soa Festival

Vanishing points

live performance and album launch

Quartel Largo Cabeço de Bola, Lisbon

27 August, 6pm


Handmade Music

Live performance at Accidental Theatre, Belfast

Other performances by QUBe and Michael Speers

Handmade Mausic is curated by Moving on Music and the Sonic Arts Research Centre

3 August


Covert Acoustics

A SONCITIES workshop that explored urban sounds in the context of surveillance and surveillance technologies. A response to the audio-visual exhibition Testing Ground: Tracing threads of aerial seeing by Henrietta Williams and Merijn Royaards

UCL Urban Room

8 June


Silencios (Silences)

Director: César Pedro

Sound Design: Matilde Meireles, Sara Morais

DocLisboa International Film Festival 2022


Constructing a River

Sonic Sphere by Kugel Collective

Burning Man 2022, Black Rock Desert, Nevada

August 2022


Sounding Conflict: a performance in five acts

Pedro Rebelo with Matilde Meireles and Tinderbox

Jardins Efémeros Festival

Museu Grão Vasco, Viseu, Portugal

10-16 July


Sounding Conflict: a performance in five acts

Pedro Rebelo with Matilde Meireles and Tinderbox

Performances by Geandra Nobre and Matheus Frazão

Museu da Maré, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

June-July


Echoes, Musical wandering

A collaboration between Eric de Visscher and SONCITIES

Performances by Eléonore Lemaire (soprano, Ballets Confidentiels), Matilde Meireles (field recordings and electronic sounds), and Youmna Saba (voice and oud)

The European Night of Museums

Cité de l'Architecture, Paris

14 May


From the field to the studio – Site-responsive approach to composition

Guest lecture at City University London

15 March


Intramuros: Listening to the audible and the inaudible

A SONCITIES workshop at the symposium From the Museum to the City: Listening to Urban Architecture

Cité de l'Architecture, Paris

5 March


Sunnyside (live performance) + panel conversation

Theatrum Mundi's book launch Sonic Urbanism: Listening to Non-Human Life

IKLECTIK, London

26 January


Life of a Potato

Album release

Crónica Electrónica

25 January


Sunnyside

Live performance

The Art of Noises VI: Stereophonica

Modern Art Oxford

Shiva Feshareki, Gerard Gormely, Langham Research Centre (Iain Chambers and Robert Worby), Matilde Meireles, Jonathan Packham, Photolanguage (Robin Wilson and Nigel Green), Merijn Royaards, launch of Stereophonica: Sound and Space in Science, Technology, and the Arts (Gascia Ouzounian).

25 November


Sampling Oxford + SonCities

Workshop: Introduction to critical field recording for Sampling Oxford participatory project with Shiva Feshareki

University of Oxford

4 November


Useful Constraints

Live performance

Stereophonica: Sound and Space in Science, Technology, and the Arts book launch (Gascia Ouzounian)

Cafe Oto, London

24 October


Invasor Abstracto #4

A project by OSSO Colectivo

Teatro do Bairro Alto, Lisbon, Portugal

21 Setember – 23 October


Knowing Water (Christabel Stirling, Matilde Meireles)

Immersive sonic essay

Commissioned by Open House Lisboa 2020

September


Scoring the City workshop – Guest artist

Online workshop at Darmstadt Music Festival

1 August


Campo Próximo

Paper presentation with Diogo Alvim

NCMM Contemporary Music, Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical, CESEM, Lisbon Portugal

7 May


MILL~MMXXI

New commission for online-based project

Commissioned by Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal

Response to Garbriela Albergaria's exhibitionNature Abhors a straight line

June


Invasor Abstracto #3

A project by OSSO Colectivo including The Green Drones

Gnration, Braga, Portugal

17 April - 30 June


Sunnyside

Live pre-recorded performance

Crafting a sonic urbanism: listening to non-human life

Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, France

18 March


Sonorous Cities: Towards A Sonic Urbanism (ERC funded)

Research Fellow

University of Oxford

March 2021 – March 2024


OSSO Research @ EIRA#3

Matilde Meireles and Diogo Alvim in conversation with OSSO Research residents

17 - 18 December


Useful Constraints

Cassette release by Tone Burst

December


Campo Próximo, Panteão Nacional (with Diogo Alvim)

Live performance

Lisboa Soa festival

Panteão Nacional, Lisbon

26 September


Absurdity (with Franziska Schroeder)

Distributed online performance

A collaboration with Female Laptop Orchestra (FLO) using LiveSHOUT app Physically distant #2: online talks on telematic performance

School of Music in Piteå, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden

28 July


Sunnyside

Released digitally by Crónica Electrónica

June


Prize Jury Chair, Research Catalogue Prize 2019

Society for Artistic Research

March


Intermitente (with Nuno Torres)

Artistic residency at OSSO

Collaborative radio work for The Lake Radio

February


Campo Próximo, São Gregório (with Diogo Alvim)

Site-specific live performance

OSSO Estúdios, São Gregório, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal

25 January


Campo Próximo, São Gregório (with Diogo Alvim)

Site-specific life performace

Part of the exhibition Invasor Abstrato #1 by OSSO Colectivo

Convento de São Francisco, Coimbra, Portugal

24 January


Invasor Abstracto #1, a project by OSSO Colectivo

Interactive and immersive installation

Convento de São, Coimbra, Portugal

30 Nov 2019– 22 Mar 2020


Peripatetic sonic practice: sound art in urban space (with Sarah Lappin, Conor McCafferty)

Paper presentation

AHRA 2019 Architecture and Collective Life, University of Dundee

22 November



The Green Drones

Live performance

Open Day #1, OSSO Colectivo Studios

São Gregório, Caldas da Raínha, Portugal

3 November


Cities

Live performance and album launch concert with Aaron Einbond

SPARC Symposium 2019: Land Music, City University London

13 September


We need to put inclusion at the start of the process': the disabled musicians making their own instruments

The Guardian article by Sam Davies features Performance Without Barriers Project

July


Familiar Territories: The Green Drones

Immersive exhibition

PLACE Built Environment Centre, Belfast

(Exhibition partially funded by the Arts Council NI)

April - May


Postdoctoral Researcher (MRC Proximity to Discovery funded)

Virtual reality and immersive technology to support health and social care professional training

Queen’s University Belfast: Sonic Arts Research Centre and the School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work


Wunderkammer

Live performance, Luxembourg Philharmonie

25 November


Immersion and Inclusive Music Technologies Showcase Event

Output of Immersion and Inclusive Music Technologies reserach project

Concert by Mary Louise McCord with Damian Mills, and Hard Rain Soloist Ensemble

Talk with guests Deepa Mann-Kler, Oliver Mantell, Chris Proctor, Andrew Stanford, and Michelle McCormack

Sonic Lab, Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen's University Belfast

6 November


Constructing a River (with Chrysoula Drakaki)

Project launch concert with Chrysoula Drakaki and Paul Stapleton

Lagan Weir building, Belfast

29 September


001 Maputo (with Sam Andreae)

Live performance

Socio-Sonic 2018, City University, London

14 September


The Rhythm of a Stride and other stories: finding place through sound

Artist talk

Socio-Sonic 2018, City University, London

13 September


Behind a Performance: O TUFO DA MAFALALA

Immersive installation

Jardins Efémeros Festival, Viseu, Portugal

6 - 10 July


Trigger Place — A Game of Sound and Architecture (with Diogo Alvim)

Journal article

Journal for Artistic Research

Presentation at the 9th SAR International Conference on Artistic Research

Plymouth, UK

April


Almost Sound Diaries

Group exhibition Territoires Familier?, curated by Huayra LLanque

Espace Niemeyer, Paris

10 - 27 April


Postdoctoral Researcher (AHRC funded)

Immersion and Inclusive Music Technologies, and Immersive Technologies’ and ‘Virtual Reality Inclusive Music Makers

Queen’s University Belfast: Sonic Arts Research Centre and the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science


Por tras de uma performance: Tufo da Mafalala (with Pedro Rebelo, Iñigo Sanchez)

Installation

Cultural Centre – Camões Maputo, Mozambique

February - March


Por trás duma performance: O Tufo da Mafalala

Multi-layered live performance with Pedro Rebelo, Iñigo Sanchez and Tufo da Mafalala

Mafalala Festival 2017

Maputo, Mozambique

12 November


Street Space

Live performance with Conor McCafferty

Symposia and Exhibition

PLACE Built Environment Centre, Belfast

12 - 22 May


Belfast Lough

Live performance

Sonic Lab, Sonic Arts Research Centre

Queen’s University Belfast

(Project partially funded by the Arts Council NI)

4 May


Postdoctoral Researcher (AHRC funded)

Understanding the role of sound and music in conflict transformation: the Mozambique Case Study

Queen’s University Belfast: Sonic Arts Research Centre and the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics


Soundscapes Landscapes, City Above Life Below, Medea Electronique

Two-week artist residency with Conor McCafferty for development of geo-locative app

Athens, Greece

November


Phragmites australis

Artist residency and sound installation

PS2-Paragon Studios Project Space, Belfast

13 - 25 June


The Present Instant

Group exhibition by Matilde Meireles and Richard O’Sullivan

Platform Arts, Belfast

5 - 25 November


Trigger Place: A game of sound and architecture (with Diogo Alvim)

Paper presentation

MUSICA NOVA – Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts

Brno, Czech Republic

November


Campo Próximo, Escola das Gaivotas (with Diogo Alvim)

Live performance

Old School #38, curated by Susana Pomba

Escola das Gaivotas, Lisbon, Portugal

17 October


Around a house in three parts

Live performance

JamJar Series, curated by Una Monaghan and Gascia Ouzounian

Green Room, Black Box, Belfast

27 September


Invisible Baby Orchestra (with Paul Stapleton and Craig Jackson)

Outdoor interactive soundscape installation

Soundscape Park, Belfast

27 September


Slieve Gullion (with Aidan Deery)

60’ immersive live performace

Lúnasa Festival, Ti Chulainn, Northern Ireland

(Project partially funded by the Arts Council NI)

15 August


/ BOAR / bunú / Clutterbuck & McEvoy

Live performance

Lawrence Street Workshops, Belfast

25 July


Correspondence – Transition #2 (with Aidan Deery)

Group exhibition

Sound & The Urban Environment

Brighton University

28 May – 3 June


Trigger place: A game of sound and architecture (with Diogo Alvim)

Paper presentation

Recomposing the City’s Postgraduate Student Symposium

The Graduate School, Queen’s University Belfast

18 May


Trigger place: A game of sound and architecture (with Diogo Alvim)

Paper presentation

BEAST FEaST 2015, Birmingham University

30 April – 2 May


On or under the surface of land (with Aidan Deery)

Immersive live performance

Sonorities Festival 2015 – Fractured Narratives

Sonic Lab, Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast

24 April


Saturdays: Urban Sound

Workshop with Conor McCafferty

PLACE Built Environment Centre, Belfast

19 March


Correspondence - Transition #2 (with Aidan Deery)

Live performance

Sound Documents Curated by Pedro Rebelo

Sonic Lab, Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast

March


Saturdays: Urban Sound

Workshop with Conor McCafferty

PLACE Built Environment Centre, Belfast

February


PLAY (with Diogo Alvim)

Live immersive performance

Belfast International Festival

Physical Education Centre, Queen’s University Belfast

24 and 25 October


Som da Maré – um projecto participativo de arte sonora (with Pedro Rebelo)

Paper presentation

Sounds Alive, Dublin, Ireland

September


Correspondence (with Aidan Deery)

Released digitally by Sonic Terrain

September


Extended Phonography: Intertwining of Soundscape and Landscape

Paper presentation

Invisible Places Sounding Cities

Viseu, Portugal

July


Lough Foyle (with Aidan Deery)

Broadcasted on Resonance FM

Also available as a podcast – listen to the full edition here

(Project partially funded by the Arts Council NI)

July


X Marks the Spot

Featured in The Acoustic City, book chapter by Recomposing the City project

Book edited by Matthew Gandy and BJ Nilsen and published by Jovis

May


Som da Maré: um projecto participativo de arte sonora

Group exhibition

Museu da Maré, Maré, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

20 May – 20 June


Lagan:Behind (with Aidan Deery)

Released digitally by Sonic Terrain

April


48Hz

Sound installation by Miguel Negrão, curated by Matilde Meireles

Platform Arts, Belfast

28 - 30 March


Call for Work (with Pedro Rebelo)

Festival Multiplicidade, Parque Lage

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

26, 7 and 8 December


Lough Foyle (with Aidan Deery)

Commission by Resonance fm

Broadcasted on Resonance fm and Void Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland

Derry-Londonderry City of Culture 2013

November


Lagan:Behind (Aidan Deery)

Symposium on Acoustic Ecology

University of Kent, UK

November


Lagan:Behind (Transition# 1) (with Aidan Deery)

Released digitally by Green Field Recordings

Green Field Recordings, World Listening Day 2013

October


Transitions (with Pedro Rebelo)

Belfast Culture Night

Edwards and Co stairs space, Belfast, Northern Ireland

20 September


Lagan:Behind (Transition #1) (with Aidan Deery)

Itinerant surround sound installation Listen To Your Place!

Mid-Antrim Museum, The Braid, Ballymena; The Burnavon Arts & Cultural Centre, Cookstown; Flowerfield Arts Centre, Portstewart, Strule Arts Centre, Omagh

September 2013 – January 2014


Lagan: Behind (with Aidan Deery)

Household Festival 2013

138 Sunnyside Street, Belfast, Northern Ireland

23 – 25 August


Chasing ∞ (with Rui Chaves)

Video installation

Music, Digitalization, Mediation: Towards Interdisciplinary Music Studies

Modern Art Oxford

July


Research Residency

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil

Research supervised by Samuel Araújo and Rodrigo Cicchelli Velloso

Funded by Santander Mobility Scholarship

May - July


Soundmapping workshop

PLACE Built Environment Centre, Belfast

Belfast, Northern Ireland

10 April


Chasing ∞ (with Rui Chaves)

Sonorities Festival 2013 – ‘Beyond Soundscape’

Lecture Theatre, Ulster Museum, Belfast

27 - 28 April


28˚

Live performance with FoirmFada

Sonorities Festival 2013 – ‘Beyond Soundscape’

Sonic Lab, Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast

26 April


| CODE | IMPROVISE | PERFORM

Series of workshops and live performance by Collective EARS

Catalyst Arts Gallery, part of the Sonorities Festival fringe

April


Sound of the City – Belfast (with Pedro Rebelo)

Sound art exhibition

Espaço Cultural Ecco, Brasília, Brazil

March - April


Chasing ∞ (with Rui Chaves)

Released digitally by Green Field Recordings

November


Sounds of the City ( with Pedro Rebelo, Rui Chaves, Aonghus McEvoy)

Metropolitan Art Centre, Belfast

April - June