Bartolo

Bartolo is guitarist, composer and producer. Throughout a twenty year career, has developed a varied work in terms of musical genres and styles, producing, playing and composing for several brazilian bands and artists.
In the experimental music segment, created sound installations and a wide authorial phonographic production with Duplexx project, in partnership with Leo Monteiro. With Duplexx, recorded one of Gal Costa’s track on Recanto (2011), worked as music producer and composer in Grito Surdo exhibition, by renowned Brazilian photographer Miguel Rio Branco (2014) just to name a few.
Recently has devoted himself almost exclusively to improvisation and composition using sound synthesis. His first solo album, (E)spécies, was released in 2017 by Sê-lo (Salvador). It is an album exclusively on sound synthesis, recorded in real time through the manipulation of pre-pro- grammed material in a 25 minutes-long performance. There are other releases already scheduled for 2017: Duplexx and Chelpa Ferro (QTV label/RJ) as composer and guitarist, produced in partnership with Kassin, and another solo album on modular synthesis and collective improvisation recorded both in Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro throughout 2016.
Relevant works by Bartolo can be accessed at this permanent work-in-progress archive: www.workarchive.net