Fauxclore

Musician, multimedia artist, researcher

Jorge Graça is a saxophonist, composer, instrument maker, and researcher in the fields of music, technology, and community artistic practices. He holds a PhD in Community Music from NOVA FCSH and is a researcher at CESEM, where he develops work around participatory artistic creation, inclusion through music, and the development of accessible musical instruments and interfaces. He holds a master's degree in Music Teaching (Saxophone) from the University of Aveiro and taught saxophone, ensemble class, and Music and Information Technologies at the David de Sousa Conservatory of Music between 2014 and 2020. His artistic practice is built at the intersection of electroacoustic music, handcrafted sound objects, performance, and community creation. As a performer and composer, he performs under the stage name Fauxclore, through which he explores the tension between folklore and contemporaneity, between rural landscape and urban culture. His debut album Canta Ceifeira (2022) proposes a sound archaeology of the Portuguese interior, summoning references that move between ambient, experimental, and tape loops, in a reflection on memory, territory, and cultural transformation. In addition to musical creation, she develops multidisciplinary practices focused on Music in the Community, designing experimental instruments and inclusive digital interfaces adapted to different abilities. In this context, she created the participatory workshop “Pássaros Imaginários” (Imaginary Birds). He regularly collaborates with the Companhia de Musica Teatral on artistic and educational projects such as Pianoscópio, Cartografia Sonora Imaginária, O Céu por Cima de Cá, Canção da Terra, Com Palavras Amo, participating as a performer, musician, production assistant, and creator of objects and soundscapes for installations. In the field of contemporary dance, he is also responsible for the sound design of shows by Ordem do O, for whom he created the music for Kurpu di Mundu, Orquestra Coreográfica do Selvagem, Medeia, and INNOMINĀTU.