Cavernancia & Maria da Rocha

Debut presentation from this collaboration filled with meaning, taking place in the more than adequate setting of the OUT.FEST. High expectations for the conjoined vision of these two figures, who come from different backgrounds but find common ground in their approach to sound as a means to levitation: drone, noise and volume. Maria da Rocha is a classical violinist and viola player driven by a verve that refuses to settle into the numbness of academic conventions. Drifting between Berlin, Stockholm, and Lisbon, guided by a thirst for new ways of thinking, she's been doing residencies in various respectable institutions like the EMS in the Swedish capital, on a quest for knowledge that recognizes different schools – minimalism, modern composition, drone, improvisation or electroacoustics – in a concoction to reach her own conclusions about how they interact with each other. nolastingname, released last year through Holuzam, is a beautiful artefact of such research, poised between emotion and reason. Pedro Roque aka Cavernância is a photographer, musician, music lover and enthusiast from Barreiro whose honesty, will and panoramic vision towards all things heavy – be it metal, noise or drone – has been garnering some well deserved praise. His releases – Em Ciano and Manto – and live apparitions, surrounded by a haze of smoke and shards of light, reveal how the theatrics of Sunn O))) can become redundant and/or cartoonish when sound itself creates a vortex so physical and mesmerizing.