HAARVÖLan experience on cinematic contemplation

The electronic music project Haarvöl (Fernando José Pereira, João Faria and Rui Manuel Vieira) as part of the launch of the 3rd album on its own name, 2nd at the Dutch label "Moving Furniture Records", presents an installation that proposes a kind of time suspension in the sense of thinking the meaning that comes from the analysis of the Portuguese word for halt: a word consisted by two opposing verbs, stop and act. What is hidden in this word is a contemplative possibility. A new approach to the idea of contemplation, without its romantic connotations and, now, with a meaning that places it in the territory of resistance to the compressive strength operated to time in our time.

On the opening day, besides this installation, will be shown the premiere of the movie that the director Jerónimo Rocha made for one of the songs from Haarvöl’s new album, "Angst (after future, the past)". 

Haarvöl is collective since the end of 2012. It has three discs edited in its own name and it has some collaborations in others. They regularly work with the dutch label Moving Furniture Records. They have made several presentations in various spaces as sound installations, audiovisual performances or as a kind of expanded cinema focused on the connection between sound and image. The group work is also presented in some original soundtracks of visual artists videos.