OUT.FEST -The Barreiro International Exploratory Music Festival is an annual event celebrating experimental music in all its forms since its inception in 2004. From improvised to electronic music to jazz and contemporary classical music, OUT.FEST brings together trailblazers and living legends with the present and the future of groundbreaking experimental music every year in Barreiro.
Sonica Ekrano - Documentary Film & the Musical Fringes is an annual event started in 2021, which allows access to exceptional films portraying artists, sounds, local and global movements, seeking to reflect both music and cinema as “universal languages”, while also honoring the strong esperantist tradition in the south bank of the Tagus river, particularly in Barreiro.
The PARTICULAR UNIVERSAL project is centered on the Castro Marim Municipality, where between December 2021 and September 2023 a series of artistic co-creation activities related to themes of identity, memory and soundscapes will take place.
Developed with partners such as the Castro Marim Municipality, the Norwegian association NyMusikk and Lisbon associations Teatro do Vestido and Filho Único, the project includes several different work modules revolving around complementary concepts and strategies, such as (among others), the creation of a sound archive, a community archive for the “Voices of Memory”, and several themed artistic residencies directed towards Portuguese, Norwegian and international creators with a look towards creating and presenting theatrical works, new music and sound-art.
Este projecto é financiado pelo programa EEA Grants. Através do Acordo sobre o Espaço Económico Europeu (EEE), a Islândia, o Liechtenstein e a Noruega são parceiros no mercado interno com os Estados-Membros da União Europeia. Como forma de promover um contínuo e equilibrado reforço das relações económicas e comerciais, as partes do Acordo do EEE estabeleceram um Mecanismo Financeiro plurianual, conhecido como EEA Grants. Os EEA Grants têm como objetivos reduzir as disparidades sociais e económicas na Europa e reforçar as relações bilaterais entre estes três países e os países beneficiários. Para o período 2014-2021, foi acordada uma contribuição total de 2,8 mil milhões de euros para 15 países beneficiários. Portugal beneficiará de uma verba de 102,7 milhões de euros. Saiba mais em eeagrants.gov.pt
Cidade Som is the place for listening to the Barreiro Municipality in depth.
There we present sonic portraits of the city's spaces, activities and memories, gathered from 2012 onwards through several sound documentation projects: Sons do Arco Ribeirinho Sul, Cidade Som and 80 Anos da Água Pública no Barreiro, each of them striving to provide a new perspective over the city's heritage.
With this project we invite everyone to stop and actively Listen, to pay closer attention to the Sounds that surround us and which often go unnoticed.
Bolsas de Criação atribuídas a jovens artistas locais para o desenvolvimento de trabalho artístico relacionado com Música / Som / Artes Sonoras / Multimedia. Foram contemplados no passado os artistas Tiago Sousa (2016), José Bica (2017), Hélder Menor, João Antunes e João Pinheiro (2018) e Rafael van Ayres (2019), Camila Vale, ZIMA, e João Quinteiro (2020), Puçanga e André Neves (2021), e Rita Santos (2022).
A joint project by OUT.RA, Gasoline, Hey Pachuco and the Barreiro Municipality, part of the Festas do Barreiro. The SPOT da Juventude brings an eclectic programme to the afternoons and evenings at the Avenida da Praia.
REMAIIN – Radical European Music and its Intercultural Nature was a project which strived to investigate non-European cultural influences on the experimental, avant-garde and innovative music of the present and the past. The project’s primary activities were concerts, exhibitions and performances, paired with discourse activities that dissected the presented work in the context of the project’s topic. It's developed by OUT.RA alongside three other European cultural associations (SKAŅU MEŽS from Latvia, Wilde Westen from Belgium, and Kontraklang from Germany).
UNEARTHING THE MUSIC - Sound and Creative Experimentation in Non-democratic Europe was a collaborative project that united five organizations from five different European countries in the exploration of history and the music history of experimental music in Europe, particularly in countries and regimes where creative freedom was in some way compromised. This project represents the evolution of the previous UMCSEET and envisioned the continuation and expansion of its main objectives, also co-financed by the program "Europe for Citizens".
Unearthing the Music - Creative Sound and Experimentation under European Totalitarianism was a project co-financed by the program "Europe for Citizens" which focused on liberty of expression - particularly in music, in countries under the so-called Iron Curtain, following the developments in those societies after the 'de-Stalinization' process and the Hungarian and Polish protests of 1956.
In the European countries that were subjected to the decade-long socialist regimes, jazz, electronics and avant-garde music acquired the aureole of martyrdom, the symbolism of underground resistance and of a quest towards democracy. The establishment of a ‘second culture’, one of unofficial music and art had an important role in the everyday life of these societies, but it still did not fully escape control. As a result, a great deal of this unofficial music remains undocumented, unspread, and deprived of context and signification in the larger history of European vanguard music, its influence in present-day creative scenes unknown. By gathering music, videos, articles, testimonies, opinions and investigative studies on an online resource center, as well as promoting awareness and discussion over this issue, we aim to contribute to understanding to what extent and how it was possible, over the diverse regime grips on the arts in the different countries of the eastern bloc, to live in a creative mindset, to develop self expression through innovative music-making, and to contribute to such an European Identity staple as is its creative, adventurous and genre-bending music happening right now.
The project "SONS DO ARCO RIBEIRINHO SUL" sought, through an artistic approach based on Sound, to contribute to the preservation and awareness of the material and immaterial heritage, both ecological and urban of Sapal de Coina, Mata da Machada and Frente Ribeirinha do Barreiro. It was a creative and cultural translation of important changes currently taking place along the rural and urban areas, and the riverfront of Barreiro's Municipality (and its respective Tejo Estuary, where it's located) and realized, during its duration, an artistic residence, the creation of a sound archive, workshops and recording sessions open to students from the schools of the Municipality, and the production of a documentary film.