Conversations at A Narina #02. A space for everyone to discover, share, and question the work of different artists.
Sharing and reflections on her work, with an emphasis on a common territory — the city of Lisbon.
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Lisbon becomes a point of return. This public talk traces the making of the album "Lisboa". It opens it toward my ongoing Mnemosonic Topography research, where listening is contextualised as a sensory epistemology and a vibrational entanglement between body, memory, and place. The talk offers a brief orientation to my approaches to listening, recording, and composing, then moves into an informal conversation with the audience.
During several days of roaming through Lisbon’s botanical gardens, riverbanks, cultural institutions, and political gatherings, I sensed how the city’s sonic identity is shaped by its mnemopolitics. Its history vibrates through the acoustic fabric of daily life, surfacing in the hum of infrastructure, the quiet persistence of neighbourhoods resisting erasure, the pulse of collective action, and the fragile micro-ecologies threaded through its interstices.
In the talk, I will refer to how the album Lisboa emerged from this encounter between movement and place, tracing trajectories from quiet habitats to bursts of human presence, from curated cultural spaces to the delicate and abrasive soundscapes of infrastructure. Lisbon’s soundscape, dynamic and layered with history, opened for me as a vibrational field of extraordinary temporal fluidity where memory remains vibrant and continually renegotiated.
I treat each site as a constellation of micro-environments with distinct acoustic fingerprints. Lisbon exemplifies how these fingerprints can be politically charged, historically layered, and ecologically complex. The talk invites the audience to consider how listening can become a method of engaging with these layers, recognising the agencies of place and cultivating a practice of care. It suggests that sound can reveal what is otherwise concealed: the energetic residues of history, the fragile ecologies of urban life, the tensions between preservation and erasure, and the vibrational traces of collective memory. Through this lens, for me, Lisbon is a city that listens to itself, continually reshaping its own acoustic identity.