Alfredo Costa Monteiro was born in Portugal and has lived and worked in Barcelona since 1992. He finished his studies in sculpture / multimedia at the School of Fine Arts in Paris in 1992, the year he moved to Barcelona. Since then, he has developed a multi-activity covering sound art, sound/visual poetry and visual art. His installations and sound pieces, most of them of a low-fi character, have in common unstable processes, raw materials and gestures, conceptual constrictions, where the manipulation of objects as instruments or instruments as objects has a strong phenomenological aspect. Since 2000, he’s been working in many different projects dealing with experimental and improvised music, collaborating with numerous musicians, choreographers, video-artists, filmmakers and poets from all over the world. He has a vast discography in solo and other formations in european, north-american and japanese labels. In sound poetry, he works on the musicality of language: language pushed to the limit of its phonetic entrenchments, evicting meaning for the benefit of sound, in a combinatory framework that generates its own architecture. He writes in spanish, portuguese and french and very often mixing these languages. He plays accordion, electro-acoustic devices, turntable, electric guitar and resonant objects.