As 2024 develops, we’ve prepared some goods to deliver
alongside the year. After a short hiatus and some restructuring we’re
looking for a busy year, for both Conveyor Audio and Skalator Music
labels.
Gonçalo Incendiário is an active part of both label’s structure for
a long time, with particular focus on Conveyor Audio’s path and ethos,
as well as it’s visual outcome. He doesn’t consider himself a musician
or even a producer, as he comes from a background on Visual Arts,
but in it’s own words, he likes to explore and research through
ambiences, atmospheres and sound design, playing, somehow
naively, with musical elements.
Incendiário has already a couple of music released out there,
such as our VA “Rizoma Vol.1”, on Skalator Music, Eyesome and
Yanked Beats, and this release opens the door for further approaches
he might bring to the scene.

As for Patrícia Ricardo, she’s a multidisciplinary Visual Artist as
well, who works mostly with photography, but not only, and who also
plays with words, poetry and challenges basic concepts & perceptions,
using her own existentialism as a tool to find herself, her place, her
sense and her meaning is this world.
Elementos, (portuguese word for “elements”) is a work that
comes from the early pandemic days, where Gonçalo and Patrícia
joined their creative minds to find a way to face their challenge of
staying sane through a very rough period in their lives, sharing their
understanding but also their inner demons, and using it as tools to
“create”, and through that, overcome their personal struggles on an
already dystopian reality.
Knowing each other for a long time, it was easy to share and
develop intimacy through their approach on the project, finding a
special meaning and sense through the words of each poem to
subvert our ideas of what the elements [Earth, Fire, Air and Water]
might mean after all. Bringing Patrícia’s intimate voice to incorporate
some powerful words of portuguese poets Eugénio de Andrade, Rui
Caeiro, Filipa Leal, Albano Martins or Cláudia R. Sampaio, they
challenge our common understanding of each element, and make us
give them a new sense, by making connections between the concept
of each element itself, it’s basic meaning, the interpretation of the
poem, and the music production, that wanders between the sound
design and the atmospheric territories.
Besides the main elements of these works, they bring a feeling
that suits as a “soundtrack” to emotions, but distancing themselves
from the common and basic “song” or “music” approach, as well as
the somehow classical “poem with a background music”.
This is something else!