Throughout an artist residency at Espaço Agra, Elvin Brandhi and Pedro Alves Sousa will explore shared territories between voice, sound, improvisation, and performance through a process of collaborative creation and continuous transformation. The residency will culminate in a concert open to the public. :-D Pedro Alves Sousa (Lisbon, 1986) is a musician, composer, saxophonist, and multidisciplinary artist. Holding a degree in Sculpture from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Lisbon, his practice spans improvised music, composition, performance, sound installation, and visual arts.

Throughout his career, he has founded or co-founded projects such as Má Estrela, EITR, Rajada, Falaise, Canzana, OTO, Casa Futuro, Peter Gabriel Duo, and the Ferrandini-Sousa-Pinheiro Trio, while maintaining a strong presence within Portugal’s experimental music scene. He has collaborated with internationally acclaimed artists including Evan Parker, Phil Niblock, Thurston Moore, Alexander von Schlippenbach, Rafael Toral, Sei Miguel, Peter Evans, Mão Morta, and Black Bombaim.

In 2014, he was awarded the Ernesto de Sousa Grant, curated by Phil Niblock, and presented Performance for Plural Larynx: A Song for True at the Experimental Intermedia Festival in New York. Since then, he has developed a body of work centered on performance, sound installation, and interdisciplinary projects presented both in Portugal and internationally.

Among his most notable works are the creation of soundtracks for Tiago Rodrigues’ contemporary adaptations of Greek tragedies at the National Theatre D. Maria II, the projects RAHU and KETU with Gabriel Ferrandini, Júlia Reis, David Maranha, and Alex Zhang Hungtai, the performance Calor Caluda (2020), the sound installation Baba do Diabo (2021), and the opera A Vaia Viva (2023), premiered at the National Theatre of São Carlos.

In 2022, he released the album Má Estrela and founded Futuro Familiar, a record label dedicated to rare, experimental, and singular musical projects. His work is characterized by the convergence of improvisation, drone, electronics, rock, and experimental sound practices, reflecting an ongoing search for a distinctive artistic language.


Elvin Brandhi is an improvising lyricist, producer and sound artist from Bridgend, Wales making auto-tune blast beats from field recordings, tapes, instruments and voice. Live shows are unyielding bursts of erupting animation where her caustic stream of consciousness cavorts with restless, glitched out heaviness.

Her first E.P ‘Shelf life’ was released on ‘C.A.N.V.A.S’ in 2018. She one half of father / daughter noise-improv berserkers Yeah You who released on Alter, Slip, Opal, Psychik Dancehall and Good Food. She also performs in collaborations such as ‘Bad@Maths’ who also released on Slip, ‘INSIN’ who released their first E.P ‘Sadsun’ on Hizz, and unreleased projects such as ‘Gailvn Keiln’, ‘OCDC’ and ‘0n est Malade’.