Flow -" one of the Best Electronic Records of the year" -Rewind 2006 -WIRE Magazine

"Joaquim is a key figure in Portuguese electronic music, as well as being heavily involved in a number of cross-media activities (film, visual arts, dance, etc). Flow takes as its basis the human voice (provided by fellow Crónica artist Filipa Hora) and synthesizes a bleak but beautiful electronic meditation on the nature of identity. "Slow Moments" is strongly reminiscent of AGF's fractured confessionals, with Hora's conspirational whisper negotiating a path through a sonic landscape littered with other samples of her voice. "Thinking Moments" captures the tiny sounds of moistened lips and snatched breath, adding heavily processed guitar to the mix, creating an engagingly intimate tone poem. Joaquim has a great gift for drawing out rhythmic and melodic patterns from the shards of sound produced by his software, giving Flow a pop heart that could see it finding favour with fans of the more "consumer-friendly" glitchery of Fennesz, Microstoria, et al."  -Keith Moline / The Wire (08.2006)

Vitor Joaquim, laptop experimentalist, sound and visual artist, studied sound and direction for film. He started performing improvised music in 1982 and get involved in composing for dance in 1989 with Mark Haim at the CDLisbon and Coogan Dancers in Munich.
Since then, he has been composing for dance, theater, cinema, video, installations and multimedia, having worked with such collectives and creators as: Andreas Stocklein, Mónica Calle, Mark Haim, Vera Mantero, Paulo Ribeiro, Maria João Pires, Álvaro Correia, Luis Fonseca, Vitor Garcia, Guillermo Weickert, Errequeerre, Sónia Rocha, Sandro Aguilar, Stephanie Tiersch -Mouvoir, Teresa Ranieri, Marija Stamancovich, Annabelle Bonnéry and Rui Horta among others. With Rui Horta he created the music for “Pixel”, “LP” and integrated: “Rugas”, “Blind spot” and several other works from Rui.
In 1997, his release Tales From Chaos, as Free Field was considered one of the 10 fundamental records of portuguese electronic music, and Flow, his latest cd, was acclaimed as one of the best electronic records of the year 2006 by the WIRE Magazine. In 2006,with Guillermo Weickert, he co-directed Go With The Flow, a dance stage adaptation of Flow.

Until now, he has four solo releases, and several collaborations and participations in compilations all over the world.
Live or recorded he collaborated with: Harald Sack Ziegler, Eric Linder, Pedro Carneiro, Carlos Zíngaro, Nuno Rebelo, Ivan Franco, Paolo Angeli, Gregg Moore, Rodrigo Amado, Martin Archer, Joe Giardullo, Fried Dhän, Ulrich Mitzlaff, Carlos Santos, André Gonçalves, Nuno Moita, Rui Costa, Emídio Buchinho, Ernesto Rodrigues, Marco Franco, Sergi Jordà, Paulo Raposo, Pedro Almeida, Pedro Tudela, @c, Marc Behrens, Miguel Carvalhais, Scanner, Pedro Rebelo, Franziska Schroeder, Pure, Keiko Uenishi (o.blaat), Stephan Mathieu, Gunther Heinz, Mahmoud Refat, Simon Fisher Turner, Noid, Incite, Phil Niblock, Gerriet K Sharma, Colleen, Ran Slavin.
Work with the visual artists: Pure, Lia, Return, Paulo Raposo, Stolen Images Inc, (Pedro Maia), Edgar Pêra, André Sier, Carsten Goertz, Nina Juric, Michael Armingeon, Phillip Rahlenbeck - KE4, Gabriel Shalom, Laetitia Morais and Mud.

Performances at festivals and tours: Atlantic Waves 2003 / 2005 / 2007 (London), Ultrasound (Huddersfield), Lem (Barcelona), La Revolution des Oerilles (Instants Chavirés -Paris), IFI (Pontevedra), Screen Saver (Porto), Festival X (Lisboa), Lovevídeo (Porto), Re.actor (Genk), X Bienal de Arte (Vilanova de Cerveira), EME (Setúbal, Palmela), Camp05 (Montemor-o-Novo), Camp05 (Sttutgart), SonicScope (Lisboa), Metasonic Lx (Lisboa), Imagens Projectadas (Lisboa) Pass World: Portugal (Sevilha), Electrónica en Abril (Casa Encendida, Madrid), Differing Paths, KHM (Cologne), Sences (Coimbra), EXIT 07, European Capital of Culture (Luxembourg City).
Plus ocasional concerts in Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Leipzig, Freiburg, Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne (Flow tour), Galeria ZDB, no CAM-Fundação C. Gulbenkian, Frágil, Restart, Maus Hábitos, Contagiarte, Sidecar (Barcelona), Sociedade Guilherme Cossoul, Instituto Alemão, etc.

Director and producer of EME Festival in Portugal since 2000. Performances, workshops and installations concerning non standard music, and visual arts.
Sound and visual artists at EME and entrEMES: André Gonçalves, Carlos Santos, Carlos Zíngaro, Nuno Rebelo, Peter Kowald, Gianni Gebbia, Manuel Mota, Paolo Angeli, Rodrigo Amado, Emidio Buchinho, Gregg Moore, Ulrich Mitzlaff, Kaffe Matthews, @c, Lia, Jeremy Bernstein, Major Eléctrico, Soundtrap, Vitriol, Keiko Uenishi (o.blaat), Joe Giardullo, Sebastian Meissner, Pedro Carneiro, Pure, Phoebus, Draftank, PL, Boca Raton, Freiband, Micro Audio Waves, Humus, One Might Add, Stephan Mathieu, Colleen, Harald Sack Ziegler, Murcof, Oval, Hugo Olim, Paulo T Silva & Marta Traquino, Marsen Jules, Miguel Cabral, Rui Costa, Nook, Zavoloka, Pygar, Tim Hecker, Mosaique, Biosphere, among others.
 
 He is teaching and coordinating audiovisuals at Restart -School of Creativity and New Technology in Lisbon.

releases:

solo:
"Flow", CRÓNICA, 025~2006
"A Rose is a Rose" , dOc, 2004
"La Strada is on Fire (And We Are All Naked)", CRONICA, 004~2003
"Tales From Chaos", Ananana, 1997

"Blue Trilogy": Cobalt Blue CD-Rom, Expo'98, 1998
"Blue Trilogy": Prussian Blue CD-Rom, Expo'98, 1998
"Blue Trilogy": Ultramarine Blue CD-Rom, Expo'98, 1998


collaborations:
with @c:
"de - tour" >feld005  8  2007 > www.feld-records.com
"V3",  from @C, CRONICA, 2004
"Hard Disk", from @C, CRONICA, 2003

compilations:
"Atlantic Waves 2007 Festival Sampler", V/A, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation 2007
"Gonzo Circus", V/A, 2006/7
"con-vpilation", V/A, 2006, CNV33 2006 - Conv net.lab
"Essays on Radio": Can I have 2 minutes of your time?, CRONICA 020, 2005
"Gonzo Circus", V/A, 2005
"Overshadow", V/A, antmanuvMICRO,  2005
"Fuga Experimental", V/A, FUGA DISCOS 2004
"Exploratory Music From Portugal 03", V/A, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 2003
"On Paper", V/A  CRONICA, 2003






links:
www.joaquim.emf.org
www.myspace.com/vitorjoaquim
www.last.fm/music/vitor+joaquim

www.cronicaelectronica.org
http://doc.test.at
www.feld-records.com
www.granular.pt
 

images:
http://joaquim.emf.org/presskit/vjoaquim_02.jpg  (photo: Rui Minderico)
http://joaquim.emf.org/presskit/vitorjoaquim_04.jpg  (photo: Pedro Tudela)
http://joaquim.emf.org/presskit/vitorjoaquim_05.jpg  (photo: Pedro Tudela)

contact: vitorjoaquim.at.mail.telepac.pt