Amplified Silence #4 - Tradition in the age of the scroll
Welcome to the fourth issue of Amplified Silence, a monthly exploration of sound and listening. I’m Óscar Rodrigues, a musician and educator from Porto, Port...
My name is Óscar Rodrigues, I'm a musician and educator from Porto, Portugal. I'm currently the Curator and Team Leader at Digitópia Casa da Música. This website includes a small portfolio of my work, a blog about all things related to music, and my newsletter Amplified Silence.
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Amplified Silence #3 - Generative silence
Welcome to the third issue of Amplified Silence, a monthly exploration of sound and listening. I’m Óscar Rodrigues, a musician and educator from Porto, Portu...
Amplified Silence #2 - Cutting through the noise
Welcome to the second issue of Amplified Silence, a monthly exploration of sound and listening. I’m Óscar Rodrigues, a musician and educator from Porto, Port...
Amplified Silence #1 - AI won’t silence us
Welcome to the first issue of Amplified Silence, a monthly exploration of sound and listening. I’m Óscar Rodrigues, a musician and educator from Porto, Portu...
Amplified Silence - Listening is Believing
There’s a sentence from Rick Rubin’s The Creative Act that has stayed with me ever since I heard it: “Listening is suspending disbelief.”
My Favorite Albums of 2024
Hi, everyone. Today is the final day of 2024, so I thought I’d write a bit about my favorite albums released this year.
Transistor
Transistor is a project I started with my good friend Jorge Prendas. We just released our first album, Shortwave, which is available to listen on all streami...
Quem Conta um Conto Acrescenta um Som
Earlier this year, in May 2024, I had the pleasure of directing Quem Conta um Conto Acrescenta um Som, a concert for a very young audience - children aged th...
Porque sou de esquerda.
Este é um texto sobre política, provavelmente longo e chato, que escrevo de uma assentada hoje, 6 de março de 2024, sem revisões nem emendas, e que serve sob...
Klara and the Sun - Book Review
Science fiction is one of my favourite genres, not because it usually takes us on a journey to different worlds, realities, or distant parts of the universe ...