Joga, Isso! (2010)
Joga, Isso! is a documentary sound composition, capturing the training sessions of amateur football club Grupo Desportivo de Parada, in the regional football leagues of rural Portugal.
The composition was produced from a series of dual-stereo sound recordings, focused on the spatial choreographies of training drills and exercises at the team’s ground, Campo da Nossa Senhora de Fátima. Beyond the themes of space and movement, the piece forms an intimate portrait of this club as a social as well as a sporting unit, embodying a unique set of identities, reflection and product of the geographies of the rural village of Parada de Ester.
The piece was originally produced as a stereo sketch towards a four-channel sound work, G. D. Parada, which was exhibited at Serralves Museum (Porto) as part of Documenta-Se! (2010), and later as an audiovisual work at Glass Tank Gallery (Oxford Brookes University) as part of Get Some Chalk on Your Boots (2018).
The project was produced through two artist residencies (2008/ 2009) hosted by Binaural/Nodar, a rural based media arts organisation based in the region of Viseu Dão Lafões.
Credits:
All sound recordings produced through residencies at Nodar Artist Residency Centre (Nodar, S. Pedro do Sul) in 2008 and 2009. Originally released in ‘Three Years in Nodar: Context-Specific Art Practices in Rural Portugal’, published Edições Nodar 2012.
Conception & sound recording: Duncan Whitley
Assistant sound recordist: Luis Costa
Technical details:
Stereo sound composition
Duration: 9 mins 40 secs