About

JOÃO BENTO was born in 1980 in Fundão-Portugal, lives in Montemor-o-Novo.
Since 2004 compose and perform sound for performances, experimental films, theater pieces and video live acts.The work articulates analogical instruments and amplified sound objects, used in multimedia/multidisciplinary artistic context. Graduated in Visual Arts at ESAD, Caldas da Rainha /Portugal.Trained improvised music with the musician Greeg Moore and Theremin with Pamela Kurstin. Between 2004 and 2006 coordinated the Project VS (international experimental video platform ). Co-creator, sound composer and performer in”Canal Zero” (04-11),”Untitled Until Today” and “Aletheia” with Ana Trincão(07-11) ,“Le Coq is Dead”(05) with Luiz Antunes, Francisco Pedro and Allan Falieri, “Future Perfect”(11) with Kerem Gelebek. Member of Interferencias colective criated in Iternacional encounter about performance practicies- México 2010 were has been developing a research and workshop that questions the relationships between body and sound . Associated artist in permanent researche at the transdisciplinary center O Espaço do Tempo. Recently working as performer, composer, and musician for Ben J. Riepe Company- Düsseldorf/Germany and “As If” by Thiago Granato , Brazil.
His work has been presented in Portugal, Spain, France, Mexico and Germany.