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a river flows into a dawn 

At the bottom of a valley on the outskirts of OSSO runs the Arnóia river. Its source is at the Serra de Todo o Mundo and it flows about 30 km until it reaches the Óbidos Lagoon. We will follow, listen, and record this small watercourse in some sections, making a reading of the territory that it travels through, and building a corpus of diversified field recordings. In a first moment, we will work outside, and then in OSSO’s studios, when listening and assembling the collected materials. At the end of the residency, we shall participate in Reveil, a global broadcast that is assembled from live audio feeds sent in by streamers at daybreak, from all timezones around the globe. 

Nuno Morão (Lisbon, 1976) 

While a teenager, I wanted to be a geographer and train driver. I later chose music and sound instead. Since then, I have been playing quite an array of musical instruments (though focussing on drums and percussion) as if I were conducting a train through endless railways. 
In parallel to this voyage, my sound skills as a recording-mixing engineer and sound artist have been honed with the same mindset one should use when contemplating vast landscapes in the great outdoors, be it within sound-music, cinematographic or exhibition contexts. 

My current main musical projects are Som Alvo, The Selva, Space Sextet, Medusa unit, Cacto and Madalena Palmeirim. Other recent projects include  Hamar Trio, Wednesday, Love that Lava, PARQUE, Pinkdraft, Torres + Faustino + Morão, Variable Geometry Orchestra, IKB and Ensemble JER. 
 
I was senior partner and sound engineer at FISGAstudio/Scratchbuilt (Lisbon-based recording studio) and I am technical director at OSSO Cultural Association (since 2020). 
My musical collaborations have been published by Clean Feed Records, Shhpuma, Creative Sources Recordings, Universal, jerverlag, Boca and OSSO.