Harry Coade

BIO | VISION

Harry Coade is a sound designer and music producer from London, UK specialising in recording world musicians and archiving soundscapes. He co-founded the organisation Sound Matters with climate change expert Dr Mike Edwards to see how sound can be used to promote a connection to place and planet and raise awareness around the panoply of crises we face as a species. Sound Matters primary objective is to promote the importance of the soundscape and show how it can be used create a more resilient and flourishing future for our planet.

A soundwalk or 'soundscape journey' to be taken, starting from the Cais Das Colunas to the Centre of Praca do Comercio. The listener will connect with the waters at the Cais Das Colunas and then as they slowly make their way towards the statue in the square will envision how the square’s soundscape has changed over the years. The piece will take you on a temporal voyage as well as creating an augmented-reality sonic experience using various sounds from the square and neighbouring parts of the city, lacing it with a dreamy granular soundscape synthesised from some well-known Portuguese music. Morphing from light to dark textures, the 'enlightened' drone takes the listener on an ascension to a modern vortex of sound which gets eventually extinguished by the same waters that we hear at Cais Das Colunas. After the experience, listeners are invited to deeply listen to the soundscape of the area; noticing not only the lapping waves and street buskers but also the creaks of the pier, the crunch of gravel, the seagulls call, the whirr of traffic, the distant trams…