DAVID MAGALHÃES ALVES
David Magalhães Alves is a Visual artist and musician from Lisbon, Portugal. His works as a violinist and painter have foccused 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.