SOLO – Porto Helsinki Sound Promenade Project

indoorsTwo cities overlap. Two geographies breathe into one another. Porto meets Helsinki, on the map, in sound.

ABOUT

A coastline dissolves into a tram line. A seagull’s cry folds into the hum of an underground tunnel. Layers of place pile up, drift, and blur until they become music.

SOLO – Porto Helsinki Sound Promenade Project is a concert-installation where sound, cartography, and memory converge. Projected maps of Porto and Helsinki overlap into a shifting visual score, while a live performance with percussion, prepared bass drum, and electronics reconstructs soundscapes gathered in both cities. Out of these textures, composed songs emerge, creating an experience that oscillates between a concert, a soundwalk, and an imaginary geography.

The work invites audiences to listen across distance and time — to inhabit two cities at once, carried not by footsteps, but by resonance.

“Every sound is a trace. Every city is a score.”

PRACTICALITIES

When: 29.8.25 at 19:00 Where: Vapaan Taiten Tila Duration: 40 min (approx) Admission: Free entrance Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible, seating available indoor.

CREDITS

Concept, composition & performance: João Luís Matos Lopes

SOLO – Porto Helsinki Sound Promenade Project is part of the ongoing Sound Promenade Project, initiated in 2021, which explores the musicalization of soundscapes, the poetics of urban listening, and the transformation of place into performance. The public showing is taking place in collaboration with Soundscapes. 

SOLO – Porto Helsinki Sound Promenade Project is part of Each day hides a grain of Sunday vol.2, Circus Maximus’ 2025 artist laboratory curated by Candama (Daniela Pascual Esparza). The laboratory is a collaboration with Artists with Evidence and the Architecture and Design Museum, and is supported by The City of Helsinki.