INTERFERÊNCIAS #1

Amador + Kompas (trio)

November 1, 2025, 6:00 PM

Admission 3.5€ [monthly member's fee]

The INTERFERÊNCIAS concert series, curated by Boris Nunes and João Madeira, premieres. An unprecedented duo, they come from distinct universes to create a space for dialogue between aesthetics, genres, and generations. At each session, the choices of both curators intersect on the same stage, bringing together musicians with established careers and younger artists whose artistic maturity is already evident. Alongside this age diversity, the series covers a broad sound spectrum, presenting proposals ranging from jazz and free jazz to electronic, performative, and avant-garde experimentation. With formats varying from solo to quartet, and including national and international musicians, INTERFERENCES is an attempt to map contemporary sound from its margins, creating meeting points between audiences, languages, and sensibilities.

About the artists:

AMADOR | There is much debate as to whether current music, as an activist weapon, is or is not filled with the pioneering politicized content of yesteryear against the system, by Caucasians without even a parking ticket. This is not at all the case for Amador, whose anti-fascism, capitalist precarity, or fighting hatred merge into his own battle of awareness, by someone who grew up in the hardcore circuit from Caldas. Created using modular synthesizers and samplers, his music has industrial hip-hop as its guiding principle but deviates into rhythms from both Dub and Breakbeat. In a cauldron that can hold the post-punk of Basquiat's Gray, the politicization of Run the Jewels, or the fury of a Death Grips, perhaps none of these names inspired Amador, but those who love what they do unconsciously find themselves in common sonorities.

KOMPAS | The Kompas Trio brings together three distinct voices from the international experimental music scene. The lineup features Philadelphia-based percussionist Tracy Lisk (drums), whose previous experience as a painter influences her fluid approach to rhythmic structures. She is joined by Ilia Belorukov (saxophone), a Russian musician based in Serbia, who explores improvisation, noise, and electroacoustics with an experimental approach to his instrument. The trio is completed by Boris Janje (double bass), a Croatian artist living in Slovenia, focused on expanding the sonic possibilities of the double bass through non-idiomatic improvisation, blurring the borders between genres. Together, the Kompas Trio fuses a structural foundation with precarious and, at times, unsettling soundscapes. Their music contains momentary fissures and scenarios that sometimes invert, but always maintain a clear direction.

SUPPORT | Zaratan is a structure supported by República Portuguesa – Cultura, Juventude e Desporto / Direção-Geral das Artes