Impermanence by Vitor Joaquim

“Joaquim has a great gift for drawing out rhythmic and melodic patterns from the shards of sound produced by his software” - Keith Moliné, The Wire

“an electro-acoustic version of dub music” - FdW, Vital Weekly
“splendido e poetico” - Aurelio Cianciotta, Neural

“Highly recommended" - Boomkat

“The finest in Southern European avant-garde” - Bruno Heuzé, i/e music in flux #11

“on ne les sent pas venir et les dégâts ravagent” - Marc Sarrazy, Improjazz

“Ein kleines Meisterwerk” - ms, Ikonen Magazine

Unique to the point of extremes and beautifully obtuse " - Tom Sekowski, Gaz-Eta



I have the untenable feeling that over the last few years much has changed, both in me and in the world in general. It has been such, that I doubt whether we are changing in tandem or whether it is just one of us doing so. In one way or another, everything seems to change in an uncontrolled way: the world, my body, my skin, wants and lack of will, the looks that are not perceived and undone in uncertainty, everything, everything seems to change and not at the same time.
Paradoxically, everything seems to be more and more predictable: everything decomposes, everything wears, everything loses force, everything is transformed and renewed, and nothing escapes the coming of time. Everything is impermanent and can only be so. Trapped between the gaze on the past and the expectation of a happiness that may not come, we corner ourselves in the inability to live every moment in full state. As if it were not here, and now the only moment in which we can truly live happiness.
Conceived as a matryoshka, the album is presented in 3 possible versions: (1) digital download, (2) USB-pen Visacard, and (3) a special edition of 20 RG39 acrylic sculptures designed by Rui Grazina (with an USB-pen Visacard inside). The RG39 is conceived as an object that houses and protects its content. It interacts with the user as (s)he tries to understand what lies inside, how to reach it, and discovers the whole piece using vision and touch.
We call the whole process of Impermanence, a piece inside a piece, inside a piece. A dedication to the here and now.

Vitor Joaquim

Electronic experimentalist, sound and visual artist. He started performing improvised music and get involved in experimental art by the mid 80's.
Since then, he has created extensively for dance, theater, video, installations and cross media platforms. He is graduated in sound and film directing and has a phd in computer music.

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