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— Imaginary River. The cycle Imaginary River emerged following a joint artistic residency with my colleague Nuno Morão at the "OSSO" association, held between September and October 2024. All the sound materials used in this cycle come from field recordings made along the Arnóia River (a river that rises in the Serra de Todo-o-Mundo and flows into the Óbidos Lagoon) during the residency. These field recordings include phonographic documentation of the "soundscapes" found along the river’s course, captured with an XY stereo microphone, as well as recordings of specific sound sources captured using a hydrophone and a contact microphone. For the composition of the pieces that form the cycle, I primarily used the sound materials captured by the hydrophone and the contact microphone — equipment that allowed the unveiling of a sonic world previously hidden and inaccessible to the human ear. The title Imaginary River refers to the fact that, at the time the recordings were made, the Arnóia River was practically dry upstream of the Óbidos dam (excluding, of course, the reservoir formed by the dam) and had only a small flow downstream. It was, therefore, a river in potential, one that found a possibility of existence (sonic, imaginary) within the pieces I composed.

Filipe Esteves

Work	Type	Date	Organization/Event	Venue	Town	Country	Performers	Notes	Inv Row
Rio Imaginário III	Premiere	2025/Jun/04	WNMD 2025	O’culto da Ajuda	Lisbon	Portugal	Filipe Esteves (sound diffusion)	Notes