Carlos Eduardo Soares (Caeso)

Caeso is a Brazilian musician and sound artist with a diverse creative output, exploring mediums such as acousmatic music, live electronics, free improvisation and also traditional written composition, besides building sound sculptures, videos and other multimedia artworks. Holds both a bachelor's and a master's degree in Music Composition, and is currently a docARTES PhD candidate (Leiden University/Orpheus Institute) on artistic research in Music. His research approaches the poiesis of negativity and creative uses of DIY practices with a focus on their political potential to reframe alterity. With collaborations with other artists that range from soundtracks, sound design and soundscapes to more technical development in digital and analog media, he has also been granted a Stichting de Zaaier grant for artistic research in Music (2023/25), a CAPES Master’s scholarship for research about failure as creative feedstock in art (2015/2017), a CNPq scholarship for research in Glitch Art (2012/13), a CAPES MUSIC ALIVE! scholarship (2010) and the prizes Funarte for Classical Composition 2016 and Best Music by the 72H Rio 2014 Film Festival.

By means of exploring its connotations as a disruptive force, the negative – as the opposite, as the opposition, as the denial and as the depreciative, among others – is a poetic/poietic resource for artworks to subsist beyond any possible ‘tracing back’ to conventional approaches. If every criticism legitimates even more that which is being criticised, artists have sought different ways to distance themselves from values and norms with which they do not wish to condone. This PhD research – The poetics [or maybe poiesis] of negativity in sound based artistic practices – aims to understand, in and through practice, how might an artwork create new affordances to reframe alterity while at the same time opposing its alienation and instrumentalization by a given hegemonic system.

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Antenna
Phonetic Karaoke – YstrandiLovi