7:00 pm “Music in Ebullition: Singing and Dribbling Censorship”

Dominique Dreyfus

Outdoor exhibition with audio QR codes in Portuguese, French, and English.

After “The Language of Sound” in 2021, “Dialogues” in 2022, and “Music of Protest” in 2023, we continue our research work on communication. And as music is a valuable medium for studying speech, understanding language, decrypting meaning, decoding the intentions of discourse, we turn again to music this year with the exhibition “Music in Ebullition: Dribbling Censorship“. During the 2023 edition of the festival, the theme focused on songs that became symbols of protest, even if they weren’t composed for that purpose.

This year, we’re interested in songs intentionally composed to contest censorship. But how do you contest what forbids contestation? How do you denounce what prevents denunciation? In short, how do you oppose censorship?

By dribbling. Like in football. By dodging the opponent, circumventing obstacles… And in this art, music certainly deserves to wear the number 10 jersey!

In 2024, through its exhibition, the festival looks at songs that say much more than what we think they say. Songs that rely on the language of detour, metaphor, double meaning, to express what is forbidden, to dribble past various forms of censorship.

As with previous exhibitions, the 2024 edition will be structured around 9 panels: the first to present the exhibition. The following eight address four themes of censorship that have caught our attention: politics, morality, sociology, and economics.
Each panel offers an explanatory text with lyrics chosen from an international repertoire, from different eras and genres. An iconography composed of photos, drawings, paintings will illustrate the text and, thanks to QR codes, videos and recordings of the songs will be accessible, as well as the translation of the texts in English and French.

Date: from Thursday, November 14 to Sunday, November 17
Location: Largo do Pelourinho of Vila da Ponta do Sol
Open to the public.