Sound It: Cinediálogos, As Operações SAAL com João Dias

Cinediálogos by Luciana Fina, As Operações SAAL, by João Dias 2009, with João Dias

CINEMA ON THE RADIO, ARCHITECTURE ON THE SCREEN
CINEDIÁLOGOS

‘Un cinéma est un hangar noir judicieusement disposé où est donné un spectacle nouveau’ Robert Mallet-Stevens, 1924

Let the sounds suggest the images. The sound of films is revealed on the radio in all its richness and imagistic capacity.
In this cycle of Cinedialogues, we listen to cinematographic sound material and talk to the guest directors. The films tell us about the paths taken by architecture and urbanism at critical moments and major turning points in the country’s history.
Cinema and architecture have never stopped questioning each other, interrogating modernity, addressing and intervening in the complexity of reality, projecting space, experiencing time. And by questioning architecture, cinema also seeks to question its language.

Sound It brings Rádio Antecâmara’s residency to Garagem Sul at CCB. With a wide-ranging programme over six months, the studio welcomes numerous guests, and it is through dialogues between architects, artists, designers, and in conversations with poets or landscape designers, between interludes made of sounds and music, that Rádio Antecâmara takes a closer look at our contemporaneity.
The programme hosts interviews and conversations recorded on the opening day of the exhibition and future programmes, the result of integrating new elements into Radio through Open Call.
Sound It explores the ways in which sound constructs and shapes perception and spatial experience. Transcending the visual dimension and going beyond acoustics, Sound It delves into the perceptual, narrative, emotional and referential dimensions of space. It is a subjective journey to discover an invisible architecture, a space perceived sonically, an audible and emotional place.
The word is the virus of radio, sound is the matter of space.