HAPAX
Hapax means the instant’s instantaneousness. From a more academic edge, or as defined
by the old Aurelio dictionary, “the single vocable of an extinct language used in Greek
under an abbreviated form, hapax lego menon, something that has only been said once.”
The group started over in 2001 in Rio’s swinging Lapa quarter, setting intriguing sound
system-like performances plugging into public lights electricity outlets, literally
electrifying the public with a brash innovating sound that was to conquer new audiences
on the same corner, becoming a Friday night must see and hear live-act for several
months. People passing in the streets were spell-bound, eyes (and ears) wide a gap by the
jump –around feeling, the it’s now or never atmosphere, down-right (or left)
counterculture on the mainline. The work at this time was done drumming on junkyard
metal, industrial scrap, spare car parts, as the off-the-bat electronic programming,
samples taken live, ready-mades, and loops fill the background, a factory of constructing
and reconstructing sound takes place.
Today Hapax is composed by artists Daniel Castanheira, Ericson Pires and Ricardo Cutz.
With training and careers in several areas – poetry, Music, theatre, film and visual arts -
the group is defined as a Collective of art. Use as a tool in their work a broad mosaic
Technological, tensionando hitech and lowtech: samplers, sensors, Sintetisadores,
electronic batteries, radios uhf, and virtually all nny electro-electronic device capable of
producing sound, is part of repertoire triggered by the group.
During those five years, the collective participated in multiple events and actions of
which we can highlight:
-Performance at “Arte.Mov Mobile art international Festival”, curated by Lucas
Bambozzi, Marcos Boffa and Rodrigo Minelli, (BH/2007);
-Sound Sculputre at the exhibition “Abre-Alas 2006″ of the gallery Gentil Carioca,
curated by Ernesto Neto (RJ/2006);
-Performance at the opening of the cultural center of the Bank Caixa Economica Federal
(RJ/2006);
-Instalation/performance Exhibition “Virtual Bodies: art and technology” At the Cultural
Center OiFuturo curated by Ivana Bentes (RJ/2005);
-First interactive satellite Performance in Brazil in partnership with the video artist Eder
Santos, in the event Nokia Trends curated by Lucas Bambozzi (SP/RJ/2005);
-Performances at Festival Rio Contemporary Scene (RJ/2003/2005);
Live Soundtrack at the The Fenícias theatrical spectacle in the theatre workshop
(SP/2002);
-Performance at the Panorama Contemporary Art of MAM (RJ/SP/BA/2001/2002).
Moreover, the group performed at various houses of concerts, parties and festivias of
music as Brasilia Music Festival (DF/2004), Motomix (RJ/2004), Forum World Social
(RS/2003), RecBeat (PE/2002), CEP20000 (RJ / 2001 to 2005), House of Boilers
(SP/2004), Studio SP (SP/2005), Circo Voador (RJ/2004/2005) and theatre Rival
(RJ/2005), and the disc Released “What
is happening” (2005by the label Mundo Perfeito)
