Francisca Rocha Gonçalves
DIFFUSION ARTIST |
MOTHER CLOUD SPATIAL SOUND FESTIVAL
Photo Credit: Romain Guede
Francisca Rocha Gonçalves is a researcher from Porto with a degree in Veterinary Medicine from ICBAS (University of Porto), a Multimedia Master in Interactive Music and Sound Design from FEUP (University of Porto), and a Digital Media PhD at FEUP (University of Porto) under the program UT Austin | Portugal CoLab.
Recently Franciasca was a guest researcher at the IGB - Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecologies and Inland Fisheries supported by FCT Portugal (Science and Technology Foundation), collaborating with the Aquatag Project. She was artist in residence at MONOM supported by Shuttle Program - Plaka Porto. She is co-founder of the artistic collective Openfield Creative Lab and the Ocean Soundscape Awareness project – ØSAW.
She focuses on acoustic ecology and ecoacoustics in artistic creation concerning the ocean soundscape and vibroscape. By developing artistic artefacts that reveal the problem of noise pollution in underwater environments, she aims at fostering environmental awareness through creative practice, performance, and sound art.
As SINØ, she performs live exploring water and underwater soundscapes as a medium. SINØ recently received an award from the Coastal Futures International Competition of Ecoacoustic Music, a partnership between Coastal Futures Conservatory at the University of Virginia and Ecosono.