Como é o som do Guaíba

At 11am – Our friend from Dundee Radio Club, Scottish-Portuguese sound artist, musician and producer SHHE asks – ‘What does it mean to live on the margins of a powerful body of water?’

In November 2024, SHHE travelled to Porto Alegre in Brazil for a month-long residency with Kino Beat Festival. In May 2024, the river broke its banks, contributing to the worst flooding that Brazil has experienced in 80 years, impacting 2.3 million people and displacing 600,000 across Porto Alegre and the surrounding regions. What does it mean to live on the margins of such a powerful water body?

Combining field recordings, testimonials and experiences shared through a multitude of voices – human and nonhuman – the sound work resonates around the question, Como é o som do Guaíba?

SHHE’s work explores themes of identity and connection at the intersection of sound and space, environment and ecology, and research and performance.