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On April 25th, we celebrate 14 years of diving deep into the world of creatives worldwide, of discovering how they think, see, move and drive us forward.


14 years of dedication to creativity and culture.


14 years of other stories.


This anniversary, we're revisiting 14 stories from the last year at 180:


1. Nick roney breaking a leg Mid Director ID

Nick Roney's dead-pan sense of humor gave us one of the wildest Director IDs yet.

"I want to take you for a hike and show you the wilderness I grew up in. It's probably the only way to really understand my perspective." 
 


While walking through a wood in Northern California, Nick starts telling us about a music video he did for the band Flasher, and telling us about how it was influenced by his online media consumption at the time, which included Youtube slop like Fail Army. This when things go awry as we hear Nick's leg snap, spending the rest of the episode trying to survive in the woods at night while telling us about several more of his music videos.


Check it out below:

2. Kara-Lis Coverdale playing a church organ in Braga


A few months ago, Luís Fernandes told us about a new project he was curating within Braga 25:

Over 2025, they would invite 3 composers to create a piece for a church organ in Braga, and asked if we wanted to be there to capture each of these moments.

So, in January, at Basílica dos Congregados, we watched experimental composer Kara-Lis Coverdale, the first of these 3 composers, as she rehearsed and breathed life into the church's huge pipe organ, listening to its awe-inspiring sound resonating in the empty church.

Kara-Lis has been a church organist in Canada since she was 13 years old, a practice which as informed her acclaimed, more experimental work.

We also to sat down with Kara and asked her about her artistic path, her relationship with the organ, spirituality and places of worship.

3. Finding the powers of sound at Vale Perdido

Last November, we went to Vale Perdido with a camera in hand and a plan to capture the festival through a slow, pondered, lens.


Letting ourselves go with the flow of this eclectic juncture of sounds, we filmed long stretches of concerts and captured the loose thoughts of various artists as they talked amongst each other, in an attempt to recreate the depth we felt through those days in Lisbon.


Featuring Dirar Kalash & ãssia ghendir, Purelink, Kotxi Pó and Banda Sousa, among others, we put these pieces together into a sort of documentary, though not really, called which we called Powers of Sound.

4. 180 Music Session with Panda Bear

A few hours ahead of Panda Bear’s show at Plano B here in Porto, the band was kind enough to play Defense and Ferry Lady for us, the first two singles of their upcoming album Sinister Grift.


We also had a chance to sit down with Noah for a quick interview.


Check out the 180 Music Session and 180 Meets bellow:

5. Dissecting BAAN with Leonor Teles

Last year we meet Leonor Teles in the basement of Café Aviz to talk about her acclaimed feature "BAAN" (2023) 


The film mirrors the cities of Lisbon and Bangkok as a young architecture intern finds herself in between a failed relationship and the exhilirating begining of a new one. 


Leonor told us about the weight that colour has in the film, how she tries to say as much as possible through images, rather than direct statements, and paying homage to the greats of Asian cinematography.

6. Sam Brewster’s entry into the 9:16 Open Call

In April last year we launched an open call for 9:16, to which Sam Brewster responded with a unique ability to come up with simple yet really strong concepts from which he then builds gorgeous visual narratives. His winning entry to our open call, “Domestication”, is a perfect example:


“I wanted to bring mundane private behavior into public spaces in order to examine conditioned domestic routines. By showing distinctive activities outside of their usual surroundings, we bring to light how absurd human behavior can be when taken out of context.”

7. Exploring absence and beautiful uncertainties in Jogo Cruzado

Jogo Cruzado is a collaboration with Gnration and Culturgest with each edition split into two episodes: first, a filmmaker puts forward a soundless video piece which is then scored by a sound artist/musician. Then, in a second moment, a sound piece is put forward and illustrated by a filmmaker.


In this first moment, Scott Barley captured the idea of absence in the visual piece he handed over to Hara Alonso, the sound artist/musician who then scored it through a Prophet-rev synth and processed field recordings.


On a second monent, based on a cathartic soundtrack by Jessica Moss, Jorge Rivas resorted to film, with all its uncertainty, textures, and unexpected surprises, to create a video piece which looks outward onto the city outside Jorge's studio window, and then inside into himself and the very space were he develops these films.

8. Soluna's road to primavera sound

In the lead up to Primavera Sound Porto 2024, we went to Alcântara to meet Soluna, a young artist who at the time was just a few months away from playing for the first time at Primavera. 


With roots in Spain, Angola, Argentina and Portugal, Soluna has become a dynamic player in the Portuguese music scene in the past few years, working alongside the likes of Dino D'Santiago before releasing her first solo records. 


We were interested in what the process of preparing for a major show like this looked like. Along the way, we got to know Soluna's story, traced the steps of her rich cultural background, took a peak into her recording process and met her collaborators Yeni & Yeri who backed up her show at PS24, and whose upcoming record Soluna has helped craft. 


Soluna told us about her relationship with music, her career so far, how she's integrated into Lisbon's pop music scene, as we followed the various steps until her ascent on stage.

9. Meeting the Azores’ hip hop community with Sam The Kid

Last year at Tremor festival, Sam the Kid got together a group of young rappers from across the Azoress and the orchestra of the Rabo de Peixe's music school.


Over two weeks, we watched as these two worlds came together with different sounds, genres, dialects, guided by one of the most iconic rappers in Portugal, to develop a concert for a audience of friends, family and other musicians.

10. Marisa Dabice on the role of punk music

Last year at Primavera Sound Porto, we sat down with Marisa Dabice, vocalist for punk band Mannequin Pussy for a 180 Meets.

Even after playing what looked like and exhausting show, Marisa enthusiastically told us about how punk music can be a point of release for our anger and also a magnifying glass on the human experience and society at large, among other considerations on the band's motivations, the role of women in rock music, etc.


Find it here

11. Reflecting on how we inhabit Porto in habitar

Habitar is a project by Joaquin Mora, which began as 10 interviews with people from different places and backgrounds in Chile, with the goal of understanding how people inhabit the country, their relationship with the place they inhabit, their conditions, their struggles. 


Together with Joaquin, we went to the houses of 9 inhabitants of different ages, backgrounds, and housing conditions in Porto with this exact goal. Including a inhabitant from Porto's ilhas, a house built during the revolutionary SAAL process, a university student, a resident in Siza Vieira's first building, a digital nomad, an architect, among others.

12. Sitting down with laraaji

Initially, we were going to sit down with Larraji for a regular interview, but when we asked him to briefly introduce himself, the multi-instrumentalist very deliberately craddled us with the powerful resonance of his voice. In slow, fully bodied words, Laraaji told us about the sheer power of sound and its resonance, his path in music, and how he sees his own practice.


Recorded at O Afeto da Escuta

13. Sean Pecknold takes us for a walk 

Ranging from complex multi-plane animations to beautifully choreographed scenes shot in carefully crafted sets, Sean Pecknold’s filmmaking work is a meticulous craft with a uniquely artisanal, material quality.


Sean is a long time collaborator of various indie-rock bands, including Fleet Foxes (led by his brother Robin Pecknold), as well as a prolific film director whose stop-motion short, “Tennis, Oranges” premiered worldwide at SXSW Film Festival, and whose first feature length film is in the works.

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