nuno rebelo

Bio:

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.. Ana Albuquerque's jewellery exhibition ended on the 10th December. For those who hadn't a chance to go there, here is the video i did for it. At the exihibition, the video didn't have the credits in the beggining and it was projected on a wall, looping.




Nuno Rebelo

Guitar player, sound explorer, improviser, composer, doing some things with video too (..check my videos!..).

Coming from a background of playing in pop-rock bands in the 80's (i was the leader of Mler ife Dada, one of the most innovative portuguese bands of that time), I've composed a lot of music for contemporary dance, theatre, cinema, etc, since the 90's.

In the context of free improvisation, i've played with some great musicians such as Peter Kowald, Kato Hideki, Shelley Hirsch, Gianni Gebia, Paolo Angeli, Massimo Zu, Damo Suzuki, Le Quan Ninh, Eric M, John Bisset, Philippe Aubry, Carlos Zingaro, Jean-Marc Montera, Dj Olive, Audrey Chen, Joan Saura, Agusti Fernandez, Xavier Maristany, Liba Vilavechia, Rodrigo Amado, Americo Rodrigues, Carlos Bechegas, Ernesto Rodrigues, just to name a few... I also played in an unforgettable presentation of Cobra, directed by John Zorn himself.

I've been playing in improvisation performances with dancers such as Mark Tompkins, Steve Paxton, Lisa Nelson, David Zambrano, Frans Poelstra, Julyen Hamilton, Boris Charmatz, Joao Fiadeiro, Vera Mantero, Kirstie Simson, Patricia Kuypers, Mathilde Monnier, Christian Rizzo, etc. In this context I participated on Mark Tompkins projects "On the edge" (Paris, Strasbourg and Marseille, 1998) and "En Chantier" taking place in Paris in different moments from 2001 to October 2004 and on Lisa Nelson's project "Tuning Scores" (Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 2003). Also with Mark Tompkins, we've been teaching the workshop "audible movement, visible sound" which focus the contamination of performing movement and sound making in a context of real time composition.

Although i'm no longer in the board of directors, I'm still an active member of Granular, an association for the development of experimental music in Portugal.

Member Since:

October 28, 2006

Members:

Current projects:


"Pocketbook of Lightning" - a free improv duo with Marco Franco on drums. Been playing together since more than a decade.





"Surf Faces" - duo with Vitor Rua, both playing amplified surfaces of different materials, creating abstract musical soundscapes in quadriphony.





"Separados Frutos" - an avantgard chamber quartet, featuring Vera Mantero (voice), Nuno Rebelo (guitar), Ulrich Mitzlaff (cello) and Manuel Guimarães (piano and sampler). Compositions of Nuno Rebelo


for more details & music of separados frutos, check www.myspace.com/separadosfrutos



"Mark Lewis & The Standards" - a rock band with Mark Lewis Tompkins (voice), Nuno Rebelo and Vitor Rua (guitars), Alex Cortez (bass) and Fred Ferreira (drums). Songs by Mark Lewis Tompkins and Nuno Rebelo + a couple of standards.





"Lost & Found" - kind of a pocket version of the previous band, with Mark Lewis Tompkins (voice) and Nuno Rebelo (guitar and videos).





"So Happy Together" - a zen trio with Vera Mantero (vocals), Nuno Rebelo and Vitor Rua (mutant portuguese guitars). Videos by Nuno Rebelo

for more details, music & videos of "So Happy Together", check www.myspace.com/shtogether



"Turning Points" - an instalation, different in each presentation, consisting of turning mechanisms (usually, but not allways, turntables) producing mechanical loops in different objects or instruments.

Influences:

influences during the 60's and early 70's: Burt Bacharat, Beatles, Cat Stevens, Carlos Santana, Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells

influences during late 70's: Gentle Giant, Yes, a Soft Machine concert, Frank Zappa, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Johan Sebastian Bach and western music before him

influences during early 80's: Talking Heads, Stranglers, Gang of four, Robert Fripp, Brian Eno, Thelonious Monk, Schoenberg, Edgar Varèse, Jorge Lima Barreto (who introduced me to a lot of music that was new to me)

influences during late 80's: Tuxedo Moon, Fred Frith, John Zorn, Steve Reich, Luciano Berio, Krystoff Penderecky, John Cage, Harry Partch, traditional music from africa and far east

and what about the 90's? i don't know

Present day influences: the people i play or work with and the amazing adventures that life has been offering me. To be mentioned among all the other dear friends: Marco Franco, Vitor Rua, Mark Tompkins, Vera Mantero, Steve Paxton, Lisa Nelson, Frans Poelstra, Joan Saura, Carlos Zingaro and Peter Kowald.

Record Label:

Unsigned