#posttechno

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ep stream: Pessimist - DVLA (Ilian Tape, 2025)

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album stream: Hiro Kone - A Fossil Begins To Bray (Dais Records, 2019)

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my new vid for pessimist: Pessimist - New Age (Official Video)

Taken from the 'Austerity' EP, released by Osiris Music

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album stream: Stenny - Sharp Fragments (Ilian Tape, 2025)

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Hugo Paquete to Present Research on AI and Post-Techno at the "Urgencies" Sound and New Media Art Conference

I am pleased to announce that my research paper, "Maximum Sound, Meta-Opera: Human-Machine Co-Agency and Post-Techno Aesthetics in the Age of AI," has been accepted for presentation at the upcoming international Explorations on Sound and New Media Art Conference. The event, themed "Urgencies," is organized by the CITAR Research Center and will take place from November 5–7, 2025, at the Auditório Ilídio Pinho in Porto.

My presentation is scheduled for Panel Sessions 4 on November 6, chaired by André Baltazar. The paper delves into the intersection of algorithmic composition, artificial intelligence, and contemporary music aesthetics. It explores the concept of a "meta-opera" where human and machine agencies collaborate, using a post-techno sensibility to interrogate new forms of sonic creation and the politics embedded within automated systems.

This year's conference gathers leading artists and thinkers to address pressing global issues, from environmental crises to geopolitical conflicts, through the lens of sound and new media. I am honored to share the stage with confirmed keynote speakers Steve Goodman (Kode9), Aura Satz, and Abbas Zahedi, whose pioneering work in sonic warfare, preemptive listening, and ecological grief powerfully aligns with the conference's urgent themes.

The "Urgencies" edition positions listening as a critical form of attention and a means to engage with contemporary challenges. My presentation contributes to this dialogue by examining how human-machine collaboration in art can reflect and critique our technologically mediated reality.

Conference Details:

Title: Explorations on Sound and New Media Art Conference: Urgencies

Dates: November 5 – 7, 2025

Location: Auditório Ilídio Pinho, Porto

My Session: Panel Sessions 4 (November 6, 4:00 – 6:00 PM), chaired by André Baltazar

Presentation: "Maximum Sound, Meta-Opera: Human-Machine Co-Agency and Post-Techno Aesthetics in the Age of AI"

For the full schedule, list of speakers, and more information, please visit the official conference website:

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Hugo Paquete's "Rhythms of the Subatomic Landscapes" Selected for Prestigious Irradia Festival 2025

Hugo Paquete's acousmatic work, "Rhythms of the Subatomic Landscapes," has been selected for the international Irradia Festival 2025. This esteemed festival is dedicated to the cutting edge of contemporary sound and radio art, showcasing pioneering artists from around the globe.

Scheduled for October 16-19, 2025, the festival will broadcast this immersive piece over the airwaves on Universitária FM 107.9 (Fortaleza) and Universitária FM 104.7 (Vitória), as well as via online streaming, bringing its intricate sound world to a wide audience.

"Rhythms of the Subatomic Landscapes" invites listeners on an auditory journey into a realm where rhythm transforms from a regular pulse into a dynamic and unpredictable force of nature. Developed through advanced algorithmic processes and granular synthesis at Absonus Lab, the piece constructs vast, immersive environments where percussive elements flicker, swarm, and decay like sonic weather.

Drawing from a post-techno aesthetic, Paquete engages in a co-composition with these volatile systems. The result is a profoundly visceral and intellectual listening experience that challenges conventional perceptions of time and interrogates the very politics of how sound is organized.

This selection places Hugo Paquete among an inspiring cohort of international sound artists and reaffirms his commitment to research-creation that pushes the boundaries of sonic materiality and critical listening.

Tune In & Explore:

Discover the Festival: Learn more about the innovative programming at Irradia Festival 2025:

Irradia Festival | Rádio Arte e Artes Sonoras

O Festival Irradia traz ao público produções em arte sonora via rádio, por meio de uma programação diversa com trabalhos produzidos por arti

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Negentropy: The Last Man in the Wasteland. Hugo Paquete, 2024

Negentropy: The Last Man in the Wasteland – A electronic opera by Hugo Paquete, 2024 Premiered at the Porto Planetarium – Centro Ciência Viva (June 21, 2024), Negentropy fuses generative music, AI, and environmental data to create a multisensory, post-apocalyptic experience. Real-time CO₂ sensor data shapes the evolving soundscape, turning the performance into a living, reactive system. Blending meta-music, improvisation, and post-techno aesthetics, the opera challenges the boundaries between performer, machine, and audience. Themes of collapse, human agency, and techno-existentialism are explored through immersive sound, visuals, and space. Created through Research through Art and Research through Design, Negentropy pushes opera into the future—where AI co-creation, gesture interfaces, and audience feedback reshape the meaning of live performance. Produced by Absonus Lab and supported by DGARTES and leading cultural institutions. Production Conditions: The production of Negentropy: The Last Man in the Wasteland was made possible with funding from the Direção-Geral das Artes (DGARTES) and the Portuguese Republic’s Ministry of Culture. The project was further supported by a network of institutional partners, including the Porto Planetarium – Centro Ciência Viva, Lisboa Incomum, Escola Superior Artística do Porto (ESAP), the University of Algarve, the Research Center for Arts and Communication (CIAC), Artech International, ACE: Teatro do Bolhão, LTK4: Center Court Festival, and the Mechanical Music Museum. Their collective backing played a key role in realizing this ambitious, interdisciplinary opera. More information https://absonuslab.org/home

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The post-techno operatic experience Negentropia: O Último Homem na Terra Devastada, directed by Hugo Paquete, was specially adapted for the Dínamo Gallery. This performance transported the audience to a dystopian, post-apocalyptic universe where electronic music, noise, and interaction came together to explore the final moments of existence—"the end of a man in a harsh electronic desert, a post-apocalyptic cloud where existence collapses into madness and suffocation."

Inspired by the works of Jani Christou, Negentropia reimagined and expanded on Anaparastasis I: The Baritone (1968) and Anaparastasis III: The Pianist (1968), elevating them to new heights of intensity. The performance integrated sound, visuals, and staging into a meta-dramaturgy, using improvisation and CO2 sensor readings to evoke a cathartic reflection on human and technological collapse.

This documentation captures the essence of the October 18th performance, held at 6:30 PM at ESAP Porto (Dínamo Gallery).

Info: www.absonuslab.org Production: Absonus Lab Support: República Portuguesa - Cultura / Direção-Geral das Artes