DAVID MAGALHÃES ALVES
David Magalhães Alves is a Visual artist and musician from Lisbon, Portugal. His works as a violinist and painter have foccused individually and collectively on several ensembles and multidisciplinary
projects, featuring in collective exhibitions and live performances at some of the foremost national venues, such as CULTUGEST (Lisbon); GNRATION (Braga); Teatro S. Luíz (Lisboa); Museu Abade Baçal (Bragança); Casa das Artes (Arcos de Valdevez); Sonoscopia (Porto), and many others.
Throughout his career, he collaborated with projects of different media and typology, working with internationally recognized artists such as: Gonçalo M. Tavares; Pedro Carneiro; Vera Mantero; Pedro Calapez; António Jorge Gonçalves; Carlos
Zíngaro; Pavel Gomziakov; Natalia Tchitch; Iddo Bar-Shai; Tiago Bettencourt; Carla Caramujo; Daniel Garlitsky;
Sofia Neuparth; Phill Niblock; Reinhold Friedl, among many others.
Currently, he maintains activity as an
independent multidisciplinary artist, is part of the directing team at the EVERYSIGHT & EVERYSOUND project since
2019; is a founding member of GNU VAI NU multimedia collective; and is a founding member and musician at both of the acclaimed HEDERA 4TET
and ZARM Ensemble quartets.
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[Probing previously established borders between media, David has collaborated in a number of crossdisciplinary projects, often breaching preconceived notions of the deteministic roles usualy assigned for each artistic practice.]
Alongside HEDERA 4TET, ZARM Ensemble and GNU VAI NU, David as colaborated in a number of multimedia projects, where he has had the oportunity to aproach his practices from a crossdisciplinary aproach.
With HEDERA 4TET, the ensemble has established an inovative cross-discipline composition project for the 2025-2026 season, where guest artists were challenged to "compose" works specifically for the ensemble, which are co-created/performed by the quartet's musicians.
By addressing works of musical composition, visual art, choreography, and writing, HEDERA 4TET
together with a diverse set of internationally recognized artists (such as: Gonçalo M. Tavares; Pedro Carneiro; Vera Mantero; Pedro Calapez; António Jorge Gonçalves; Miguel Moreira; Nuno Rebelo, and many others...) has
broadened the understanding of composition, by allowing different expressions to communicate transversally, establishing and influencing other notions of interpretation and sound creation.