Music

From its beginning, Söll was always my music test tube for what I considered interesting but couldn’t really categorize. Was the perfect marriage for my handmade instruments, and was born out of error and conflict.

“This album is Söll's debut in electronic music, a field which he ingeniously explores. In doing so he produces a sound that is rich, detailed, fine-grained, hypnotizing and well, timeless. [...]
All in all this album is an immersive experience, reinforced by the artwork with fascinating photography by Jorge's father.” - Harco Rutgers, from esc rec.

Söll – “Zar Aga Ta” was composed exclusively for the theatre play “Consummatum Est”, a reinterpretation from Joe Orton’s “Loot”.

“The absence of a shared particular experience as death, almost implies that there is nothing to say about its course. Still, this work attempts to devise a hypothesis of an aware and lucid death experience as if it was a voyage, a trip of the mind, and the various stages that would maybe be implied, from confusion, incoherence, dementia, to the acceptance of life’s very end.
Imagine dying and this might be what you hear.
Ever wondered?”

Manuel Brasio is a talented fellow composer and percussionist based in Porto, Portugal. Back in 2018, Manuel invited me to perform in his most recent work.
He gave me the task of playing the electronic part

SUPRAHUMAN is a deeply narrative show. A futuristic monologue in musical language of an old machine at the end of its life contemplating Time.