Alfredo Costa Monteiro

costamonteiro[at]yahoo[dot]fr

sound poetry

sound / visual poetry

 

 

 

Sound poetry, text-sound
Poems in portuguese, french, spanish, catalan and english.
The purpose of this work lies in the musicality of language: language pushed to the limit of its phonetic entrenchments, evicting semantics for the benefit of sound, in a combinatory framework that generates its own architecture.
The text is built of snatches of conversation, malleable to a multitude of meanings: the meaning no longer reaches out to a passive listener, but one in a constant state of tension, in his attempt to detect the sense amidst the sound.
Or, at worst, surrender to the litany.
Behind what is said stands another language, resonant and inherent in every manner of discourse, which does not usually manifest itself, but, in this context, acquires a place which is its own by right: that of being, also, an object of communication.

 

 

 

 

online works


 

 

quem ser
a new piece for the book
POESIA PROGRAMABILIDADE PERFORMANCE: Projetos, processos e práticas em meios digitais.
curated by bruno ministro
listen here

 

PO.EX
a portuguese experimental poetry archive
curated by rui torres

 

intima mente
matlit
an online magazine
curated by tiago schwäbl & nuno miguel neves

 

noema
listen here
a limited edition printed by oeil de lynx, paris, 2018

 

nuée & microaforismos
tapin²
a relevant french sound poetry website
curated by julien d’abrigeon

 

déferlante
a sound poem for the online magazine
CeQuiSecret
curated by heddy boubaker
november, 2013

 

 

extracts of poems


 

 eco oco live at liceo mutante, 2020

 


écotone

from aspis, released by geraeuschmanufaktur, 2014

 

 


un lloc enlloc

live at acciones sonhoras , barcelona, 2018

 

 


anima

extract (page7)

 

 

extract, released by lenka lente, 2013

 

 


lancinance

extract, unreleased, 2013

 

 


nuit     
(voice by M2)

unreleased, 2006

 

 


pli

extract of a live performance in noise is the message
with Leos Ator at the CIPM (Marseille), 2006

 

 

 reviews


 

a very nice review by stéphane nowak at
cahier critique de poésie

of anima and aspis

 

various reviews
of performances and editions

 


reading at parlament 52,  photo by daniel farré