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portifólio - Pedro Filho
Composer, guitarist, intermedia artist, and researcher. He collaborates with various artists on projects involving music, expanded arts, graphic art, and urban intervention. In recent years, he has been developing artistic research on everyday rhythms, graphic notations, and the musicality of speech.
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SOME ARTISTIC WORKS:
composer
soundtracks for theater, installations, and audiovisual media, including:
- Meu Mundo de Areia, Mar e Vento (My World of Sand, Sea and Wind) – a mini-documentary for fulldome (360º) cinema by Karla Brunet, original soundtrack. 2024.
- Baía Vermelha (Red Bay) – soundtrack and audio editing for video in the exhibition "Invasions Project" by Lucas Feres and Lucas Lago, SESC Niterói-RJ, August to November 2024
- PÉR(O)LA – a dance performance by choreographers Paula Sacur (Chile) and Ana Trincão (Portugal) produced with resources from the IBERESCENA program. Original soundtrack and live performance – Salvador, July 2023.
- Seven Against Thebes (Aeschylus, directed by Márcio Meirelles), theatrical performance: original soundtrack for bass, guitar, percussion (trio of atabaques) and female chorus. Vila Velha Theatre – Salvador, 2015
- OLGA – Dance performance by Argentinian choreographer Paula Manaker with animations by French illustrator Ange Potier. Soundtrack composed and performed live for voice, guitar and loop pedal. Season in Rosario, Buenos Aires and Santa Fe (Argentina, 2013).
músico:
Guitarist in his own projects: Funfun Dúdú (instrumental Bahian music), Badogue Trio (Afro-Bahian jazz rock), Beto Júnior (noise).
Improvisation and collective creation projects:
Guitar in Conduction sessions and concerts (directed improvisation) conducted by New York conductor Graham Haynes (Salvador, 2025);
Improvisation exhibition Falhas – Teatro Xisto Bahia guitar and dan bau – traditional Vietnamese instrument – (Salvador, July 2025)
Improvisation session with Prof. Rogério Costa's Orquestra Errante (USP) – piano and vocal improvisation (São Paulo, 2024);
performances, actions and urban intervention:
Condução de Vozes (Conducting Voices) – interactive performance-workshop addressing the political power of collective voices. Presented at CMC – Contemporary Music Cycle, at the Goethe Institut Salvador on December 13, 2018.
Listening Instructions – lecture-performance with slide presentation to induce listening to the environment. Several presentations, notably participation in the Interaction and Connectivity Festival No. 09, in 2015. Also in print version published by Leba Comix.
Manual de Subir em Árvores (Manual for Climbing Trees) (2011–...) Long-term project with activities involving workshops on tree climbing, drawing, and text creation. It has been held in several cities since its inception in 2011: Salvador, São Paulo, Belo Horizonte, and Montevideo.
PSIU! (2010-2014) – Urban intervention carried out on two occasions: as part of the Poéticas de Multidão project (by the Coletivo Construções Compartilhadas collective, winner of the 2010 Funarte Artes na Rua award) and as an activity of the Tiragem Experimento Zero project.
lectures and talks
“Free Improvisation: the art of the unknown” round table with professors Inés Pérez-Wilke (UFBA) and Rogério Costa (USP). PAF I Auditorium, UFBA, June 30, 2025.
“Human and Mundane Rhythms: thoughts on everyday rhythms and their ethical-aesthetic power” 1st ECOARTE Art and Research Symposium (research group). EBA-UFBA Noble Hall, May 9, 2024.
“Writings of Time: investigating the relationship between everyday rhythms, common time, and graphic notation.” Image and Sound Laboratory in Anthropology, USP. São Paulo, August 14, 2023.
“Other Parties: Rhythm analysis of musical venues at the fringes of the Carnival industry.” Lecture at the 51st meeting of BEAM – Berlin Ethnomusicology and Anthropology of Music Research Group. Auditorium of Humboldt Universität, Berlin, January 30, 2020.
RESIDENCIES AND AWARD WINNER PROJECTS
Tsonami Artist Residency (2023), part of the Tsonami Sound Art Festival in Chile, in November 2023 with the IHU Environmental Art Collective.
Refluxos Sonoros (2019) – project awarded by SECULT-BA's mobility grant, held in Mexico City with workshops, radio program, and artistic presentations, with artists Edbrass Brasil and Victor Valentim.
Largo – Remontagem (2018) – project selected by SECULT-BA's mobility call for proposals, held in Mexico City with workshops, studio recordings, and artistic presentations with the Largo collective and the band Beto Júnior (noise). Project proponent.
Antologia da Árvore (2012) – Urban intervention project with LIO Coletivo, from Belo Horizonte, winner of the Funarte Artes na Rua award. Project proponent.
workshops and courses
Extension course “Rhythmic Mapping of Everyday Life,” MAC (Museum of Contemporary Art of Bahia), series of workshops offered throughout July 2024.
Workshop on phonetic music editing, in Valparaíso, Chile, broadcast by Tsonami (Chile) and π-node (France) radio stations – November 2023.
Workshop on Rhythm Analysis, Sound Mapping, and Graphic Notation, at Uniaeso College, Recife, Pernambuco – September 2023
Workshop on Rhythm Analysis and Sound Drift at the Aeromoto Library, Mexico City, 2019.
Graphic Notation Workshop, at the Palacete das Artes / Rodin Museum, Salvador (2017)
Graphic Notation Workshop for visual artists, School of Fine Arts-UFBA, where the scores for the screen printing book Experimento Zero, from the Tiragem project (2015), were created
Musical Creation and Urban Intervention, UFMG Cultural Center, Belo Horizonte – September 2013
graphic arts and publications
Mapartituras e Idiocalendários – hybrid zine/artist's book (printed and virtual) with texts, images, audio links, and maps related to the ritmundano research. Joint publication between the labels LeBA Comix (BA) and Estranhas Ocupações (PE) released in 2023. (can be downloaded on the tab "publications" on this website)
Beto Jr. No. 1 – Zine and CD by the band Beto Júnior noise. Comics and text in multiple languages. Published by Duna Editora in 2015
Tiragem Experimento Zero – collective artist book in silkscreen, created from a graphic notation workshop, released by Tiragem Editora (EBA-UFBA) in 2014.
Since 2022 has been producing self-publications under the LeBA Comix label – a label for publishing comic book zines, linocuts, silkscreen prints, and other graphic arts created under the pseudonym LeBA
Argila - Bom dia (Clay - Good Morning) – Comic book composed using oil pastel technique, launched by LeBA Comix in 2024.
Levante! (Rise Up!) – Comic book composed entirely of linoleum and rubber engravings, launched by LeBA Comix in 2023.
academic activity
Professor at the Center for Culture, Languages, and Applied Technologies, Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia (CECULT-UFRB). Interdisciplinary professor, teaches classes in Musical Composition, Musical Reading and Writing, Poetics of Environmental Intervention, Sound and Movement Workshop, among other topics. Professor in the Master of Arts program at the same institution, teaching Art Research and Artistic Methodologies.
Coordinator of the research project “Ritmundano” and the extension project “Radio, Sound Art, and Audio Technologies” (RASTA). Postdoctoral fellow under the supervision of Prof. Karla Brunet at IHAC-UFBA, with research on rhythmic mapping of everyday life (2023). PhD in music composition from the Graduate Program in Music at the Federal University of Bahia (PPGMUS – UFBA) with the thesis: “Composing in the World, a model for composing music on phenomenological bases.” Master's degree in composition from the same institution with the dissertation “Poetics of Experience: an investigation into indeterminism in music.”
some articles and book chapters
(some of the texts can de downloaded in the tab "texts" on this website)
(2025): Creating Common Time: Shared Rhythms and Spontaneous Musicality in Latin American Cities’ ‘Old Centres’; capítulo do livro "The Symbolic Universes of Art in Society", editado por Marc Antoine Campill, Lia Lordelo e Katrin Kullasepp. Ebook, Springer
(2025): Nagô em negação: Musicalidades e letras no início da axé music. [Nagô in denial: Musicalities and lyrics in the early days of axé music]. Chapter from the book: Rhythms in transit: history, music, and musicology in Black Bahia / Katharina Döring, Fabrício Mota, Marcos Santos (editors).
(2023): Ritmos Humanos e Notações: Mapas, Partituras, Calendários, Melodias e Caminhadas,[Human Rhythms and Notations: Maps, Sheet Music, Calendars, Melodies, and Walks], in Fronteiras e Confluências, Proceedings of the IV Art, City, and Urbanities Meeting, Salvador, 2023.
(2023) Políticas polirrítmicas: o mundo é composto como música, mas não é uma sinfonia... [Polyrhythmic Policies: The world is composed like music, but it is not a symphony...] Chapter from the book: Cosmopolítica e Linguagem [e-book] / edited by Cristine Gorski Severo, Marcelo El Khouri Buzato. - 1st ed. - Araraquara, SP: Letraria, 2023.
(2021) A Música Urbana e o Tempo Comum em Salvador. [Urban Music and Common Time in Salvador]. Boletim do Observatório da Diversidade Cultural, Vol. 23, n.1. Belo Horizonte: ODC, 10 pp.
(2021) O antropoceno e a música dos insetos. [The Anthropocene and the Music of Insects]. Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia, Vol. 10, no. 2/2021, pp. 55-70. Online Open Edition Journal. <https://journals.openedition.org/cadernosaa/3823 > 16 pp.
(2020): Folia, função e folga: inflexões rítmicas em festas de rua da Bahia.[ Revelry, function, and slack: rhythmic inflections in street parties in Bahia]. Landa Magazine, Vol. 9, No. 1. Florianópolis: UFSC, 24 pp.
(2019): O meio da voz e outros meios: fala e canto na composição de um fonemoteto. [The middle of the voice and other means: speech and singing in the composition of a phonemotet]. DEBATES | UNIRIO, no. 22, pp. 139-169. Rio de Janeiro: UNIRIO, 30 pp.
(2016): Compor no Mundo. [Composing in the World]. Chapter from the book Teoria e Prática do Compor: Horizontes Metodológicos, Paulo Costa Lima (org.). Salvador:EDUFBA, 80 pp.
(2015): 18 Toques sobre Notação Gráfica [18 tips on graphic notation]. In Tiragem #1: Experimento Zero, Taygoara Aguiar (org.). Salvador: EBA- UFBA, 5 pp.
