Vitor Joaquim (PT)
Restart Support Team
Vitor Joaquim started performing improvised music in 1982. For some years he studied cinema and produced sound for cinema, and video, while also working as a video director. He first started composing for dance in 1989 at the Lisbon Dance Company (CDL) with Mark Haim and would later take his work to the Coogan Dancers from Munich. Since then, he has been composing for dance, theater, cinema, video, installations and multimedia, having worked with such collectives and creators as: Andreas Stocklein, Mónica Calle, Mark Haim and several others.
Vitor has released various solo works solo works such ‘Tales from Chaos’, La Strada is On Fire and We Are All Naked, ‘A Rose is a Rose’ and Flow. He has collaborated nationally and internationally with some of the most renowned contemporary sound and visuals artists and musicians and has performed live and toured at various festivals such as Atlantic Waves 2003, 2005 (London), Ultrasound (Huddersfield), Lem (Barcelona), La Revolution des Oreilles (Instants Chavirés), IFI (Pontevedra), Screen Saver (Porto), Festival X (Lisboa), Camp05 (Stuttgart), SonicScope (Lisboa) etc.
Vitor is considered as one of Portugal’s most prolific and pioneering contemporary musicians. He is teaching and coordinating audiovisuals at Restart, School of Creativity and New Technology in Lisbon.
Vitor will be joining the NIP participants for the Portuguese workshop.