miguel soares

50 Fotógrafos portugueses dos anos 50 à actualidade
PMLJ collection
AIAP – UNESCO / PLMJ

November, 2002
Museu de Serralves, Oporto, Portugal

Lost in Music
curated by João Fonte Santa

Largo do Chão do Loureiro 7, 1º
Lisbon, Portugal

exhibited works: Psi 2, 1996

Under surveillance / Sob Vigilância
curated by Nuno Alexandre Ferreira

September 28 > October 06, 2002
Fábrica da Pólvora
Barcarena, Portugal

exhibited works: Expecting to Fly

Cinevideo X

September 2002
Festival X
O Olho, Espaço Gingal
Cacilhas, Portugal

exhibited works: dolo/URL

Leilão

June 22 < July 20, 2002
Galeria João Graça
Lisbon, Portugal

exhibited work: SpaceJunk prints from series 2

SpaceJunk beta 1.0
Abstraction, Surface, Air
curated by Nicolas Trembley

solo screening: June 15 – 30, 2002
Georges/Centre Georges Pompidou
Paris, France

exhibited work: SpaceJunk beta 1.0

“L’homme pense que les cieux qui entourent sa demeure sont un endroit paisible, proche du néant. Cette idée est terriblement fausse, car l’espace est tout sauf vide. Des débris de toutes tailles flottent partout, en orbite autour de la Terre. Avec l’exploration de l’espace, la multiplication des satellites représente un risque calculé dans la mesure où ceux qui les envoient là-haut calculent les probabilités pour que le satellite ne rentre pas en collision avec quelque chose dássez gros pour l’abîmer, voire le détruire.
La vidéo SpaceJunk beta 1.0, réalisée par le jeune artiste portugais Miguel Soares, met en scène dans des images de synthèse un anneau virtuel composé de satellites et d’objects divers (canettes de coca-cola, bijoux, etc)”.
Nicolas Trembley. In Abstraction, Surface, Air exhibition journal.
Bureau des Videos/Georges/Centre Georges Pompidou. Paris, June 2002

dolo / URL (Universal Remote Link)
02′52”
2002
audio : migso – dolo, 2002
triple video projection, stereo sound

made for Cinevideo X, O Olho,Espaço Gingal, Cacilhas, Portugal.

Hear/download dolo mp3 here.

“dolo”, the audio track, was released on ZOOG, my 2006 audio CD, and was later sampled by Negativland and
is featured, entirely, on their 2006 album “It’s all in Your Head FM”, ed. Seeland.

migso_002
Solo exhibition

May 04 > 25, 2002
Galeria Monumental
Lisbon, Portugal

exhibited works:

• Sparky moon 6 Durst Lambda prints on aluminium
• Sparky, 2002, 3d animation, stereo sound, 2′14”, audio: migso, sparky
• migso 002 audio CD. Album release and listening area.
• GT, 2001, 4′00”, 3d animation, stereo sound, audio: “Rackrailway to…” Roberto Musci & Giovanni Venosta, 1987

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migso_002 is my first audio cd and also the name of my 2002 solo exhibition in Galeria Monumental, in Lisbon.
migso002 cd includes 30 musics I composed and recorded between September 2001 and February 2002.
The music was composed using computer and audio software. In the cd booklet are images from the Bug series from 1999 where I photographed a small mechanic toy with a laser pointer attached, inside a mirror cube. The mirror cube is courtesy of Tiago Batista. The cd was released by Variz, ref.003den, a small independent electronic music label in Lisbon.

migso 002
Variz.org, 003den, 2002

01 Trio (2:00)
02 Euronews (2:03)
03 Kyoto (1:46)
04 Xenox (1:13)
05 Parsec (2:37)
06 Beer Canal (2:10)
07 P’u’u o’o (1:39)
08 Sparky (2:14) watch video
09 Goto 10 (1:19)
10 Warp Reactor (1:45)
11 Science Fair (1:26) watch video
12 Clust (1:32)
13 Rancho (1:36)
14 Weekend Mission (3:00)
15 Studio (1:15)
16 Germs (1:42)
17 Moon Alert (3:18)
18 Gambuzina (1:29)
19 Teimoso (1:42)
20 Sewer (1:22)
21 Guano Bay (1:59)
22 Mech (2:34)
23 Colby (1:23)
24 Konjak (2:04)
25 Blues (1:56)
26 Buzz Aldrin (1:56)
27 Display (2:10)
28 Bandai (1:07)
29 Cold Point (1:56)
30 Summer’78 (2:00)

all music composed and recorded by
Miguel Soares Sep2001>Feb2002
mastered by Rui Viana
cover images: bug Miguel Soares 1999

02′10”
composed: 2002
Track 27 of 002, audio CD,  ed. Variz.org, 2002

migso – display (192kbps, 3.00MB)
(click to hear or right-click to download)

01′56”
composed: 2002
Track 26 of 002, audio CD,  ed. Variz.org, 2002

migso – buzz aldrin (192kbps, 2.67MB)
(click to hear or right-click to download)

01′23”
composed: 2002
Track 23 of 002, audio CD,  ed. Variz.org, 2002

migso – colby (192kbps, 1.91MB)
(click to hear or right-click to download)

01′22”
composed: 2002
Track 20 of 002, audio CD,  ed. Variz.org, 2002

migso – sewer (192kbps, 1.88MB)
(click to hear or right-click to download)

01′42”
composed: 2002
Track 16 of 002, audio CD,  ed. Variz.org, 2002

migso – germs (192kbps, 2.35MB)
(click to hear or right-click to download)

01′15”
composed: 2002
Track 15 of 002, audio CD,  ed. Variz.org, 2002

migso – studio (192kbps, 1.72MB)
(click to hear or right-click to download)

02′14”
composed: 2002
Track 08 of 002, audio CD,  ed. Variz.org, 2002

migso – sparky (192kbps, 3.07MB)
(click to hear or right-click to download)

02′10”
composed: 2002
Track 06 of 002, audio CD,  ed. Variz.org, 2002

migso – beer canal (192kbps, 2.98MB)
(click to hear or right-click to download)

02′37”
composed: 2002
Track 05 of 002, audio CD,  ed. Variz.org, 2002

migso – parsec (192kbps, 3.60MB)
(click to hear or right-click to download)

02′00”
composed: 2002
Track 01 of 002, audio CD,  ed. Variz.org, 2002

migso – trio (192kbps, 2.76MB)
(click to hear or right-click to download)

02′14”
2002
audio:  Sparky, track 08 of 002, audio CD,  ed. Variz.org, 2002

Sparky is a 3d animation made for Sparky, the music included in the audio cd migso002.
It tells the story of mr. A, that was going on the street one day and is mistakenly identified as someone called Sparky by Mr. B.
Mr.B shouts: -Sparky?
Mr. A replies: No sir.
The pursuit begins. Mr. A takes a taxi to an airport, then a plane to a desert island. Followed by Mr B.
Mr. B spots Mr.A in the island: -Sparky?!
-No sir.
Mr. A takes a plane to another continent, then a taxi to the Space Agency, then takes a rocket to the moon.
Followed by Mr.B that lands on the moon seconds after Mr.A.
Mr.B: -Sparky?
Mr. A: No sir.
Zoom out. two lunar modules on the surface of the moon, facing each other. lunar mountains and behind, the earth. end.
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animation stills