Phantom Power is an event that aims to present the results of the work of the students of the Post-Graduation in Sound Art: Experimental Processes at FBAUL, as part of an artistic residency at Rua das Gaivotas 6 in partnership with Electronic Warfare.

Phantom Power refers to an idea of electrical nutrition, in which, for things to work, they need energy, energy that doesn’t appear in direct form, it’s camouflaged, it needs an impulse to activate a circuit, an action that provides it: pressing a button, using a battery or connecting a power supply. In its traditional use, think of a condenser microphone, for example. In order to work, there must be energy to polarize the membrane so that it is sensitive to the vibrations in the air generated by sound.

In a world in which the use of gestures is increasingly suppressed in articulation with contemporaneity, forms of energy are increasingly miniaturized and transparent, revealing a transversal invisibility, which is guided by the tiny cables that surround us or all the frequencies that surround us on a daily basis. In the field of sound in dialogue with the visual arts, Phantom Power seeks to express, through a series of sound performances and exhibition pieces, an audible gaze that seeks to give shape to an expanding world which, without energy, cannot be consolidated.