Screaming Tower is a sound project by

Carlos Santos: electronics, field recordings

Nuno Torres: alto saxophone.

Screaming Tower is a site-specific audio performance based on the flux of water delivery public system, and uses electronics, alto saxophone and field recordings diffused by a set of mobile loudspeakers. 

The performance took place in the last level of a resonant water tower, about 40 meters high, located in Barreiro city, Portugal, in June 2017, as part of a performance event commemorating 80 years of public water delivery.

The architectural space is the “motor” for the development of the piece. Each of the generating sound elements: electronics, field recordings, saxophone, contribute as all for the displacement of sound in the resonant circular dome of the water tower. The usage of low and high pitch sound material, small percussive elements found in field recordings or played by the saxophone, were distributed by realtime mixing process of carefully placed speakers, 

so that space could vibrate revealing its hidden “music”, as the last character in this broader sound spectrum process.

Music for vertical structures.

Mixed and mastered by Carlos Santos

Photos by Vera Marmelo