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Contos do Edgar

Invited by general director Pedro Morelli, Matheus Leston composed the score for all the episodes and the opening theme for Contos do Edgar, which adapted Edgar Allan Poe’s texts for a Brazilian audience.

For this project, different directors were invited for each episode, so the challenge for the score was creating a universe that connected all the different stories while keeping with their particularities.

The central question Morelli proposed was: how do we create a typical horror movie score that sounds Brazilian? At the center of the score, then, we employed Brazilian instruments like the viola, pandeiro (a sort of tambourine), agogô and accordion, which gradually build and create the film’s tension.

For the opening theme, the challenge was different: how do we create a song that is simultaneously tense and Brazilian, like the compositions of Arrigo Barnabé or Tom Zé, but also goofy and fun like the Inspector Gadget theme?

C&A Namorados

C&A Brazil’s 2019 Valentine’s campaign was a a manifesto film created with the intention of affirming the brand as a supporting voice for affective relationships in their most varied appearances, and especially non-heteronormative forms.

The soundtrack was conceptualized with the purpose of subjectively foregrounding hope and freedom in an energetic and pulsating way, through a less romanticized, real and urgent viewpoint. Raw, distorted electronic beats were combined with synthesizer instrumentals and edited samples, layering ethereal harmonies with vibrant melodic lines.

FFWMAG + Calvin Klein

Shot in a penthouse in downtown São Paulo, the audiovisual editorial for Calvin Klein by FFWMAG in 2016 was almost entirely on 35mm, with few digital interventions.

For the soundtrack we tried to maintain the same ratio between analog and digital, using synthetic industrial tones layered over processed acoustic sounds with effects and distortion, in an energetic mixture of rock and electronic music highlighting the pulsating atmosphere of youth and of the area shown in the video.

AXE Find Your Magic

For the release of its new catalog of beauty products for men in Brazil, AXE developed a digital campaign consisting in a series of 15 second videos. Each capsule presents a persona with a specific style carrying out daily activities, be them hobbies or a professional activity. From a dancer to a skater, barista to biker, cyclist to hairdresser, each track adapts to the necessary context taking into consideration the different aesthetics and visual narratives built by the director.

Limbo

The exhibition Limbo, by photographer and director Hick Duarte, is a reflection on the emotional state of young people in a particularly troubled period in Brazil. Through different media, the artist exercises observing the suspended state of youth: a place of uncertainty and disquiet occupied by a generation overloaded with information, where everything gets mixed up and the notion of relevance is lost.

The exhibition ran for 2 weeks in October 2019 and featured an approximately 12-minute main film that was shown every half hour. The sound design was prepared for a quadraphonic system, that is, four speakers on separate channels arranged in each corner of the room, which allows much more realistic and complex spatial effects than common stereo systems.

The piece’s score was developed by Marcelo Gerab based on a constant exchange with the artist, from the drafting of the storyboard to the sound constant, and is structured in 5 main moments:
1. The intro is filled with melancholy and tension, where continuous synthesizer chords are layered over distorted feedback from a guitar played with a cello bow;
2. Later, we have a brief transition that makes the mysterious tone settle in, with electric piano lines layer on off-grid loops that result in an unsynchronized repetition, combined with digitally sequenced percussive snippets;
3. Next, we reinterpreted capoeira and the berimbau, playing using dissonant and noisy synthetic tones, in an analog to the mosh pit, common in metal and hardcore concerts;
4. Next, the film enters a more delicate and introspective interlude, with a more romantic and dreamy character, whose sound was made from digital editing of audio clips;
5. The end of the film has an atmosphere that mixes hope and uncertainty, and the score goes into a chord progression that, combined with synthetic percussion, gradually passes through all 12 musical notes and concludes in a grand finale inspired by classic Bach compositions.

Artist Matheus Leston carried out the multimedia production and programming of the show’s centerpiece: a film that is shown on a large main screen, with spatialized audio and synchronized lighting. In the minutes between sessions, the montage is deconstructed into cutouts of isolated scenes, displayed on four independent side screens, which fade as the film begins. The entire system works automatically, with no need for operation.

The ending credits track is composed by Rico Jorge.

Dispositivo de reflexão psicomorfônica

Artist Guilherme Cunha’s work establishes relationships between social structures, science and perceptual models. In his final project for his residence at Red Bull Station, the visitors’ cerebral activity is transformed into sound and, through structures similar to antennas, projected into the downtown cityscape.

We developed software that captures brain waves through an EKG machine and converts them to an audio signal. Each of the six speakers was associated with a region of the brain so that the more intense thoughts corresponded to higher sounds.