Jonathan Saldanha
Jonathan Uliel Saldanha is a researcher and composer and a founding member of the art and music platform SOOPA, a visual and sound laboratory as well as cultural producer based in Porto, curating sound and music cycles since 1999. Uliel operates sonically in the projects HHY & The Macumbas, U.S.S., Fujako, and Mécanosphère, among others and develops theatre sound projects under the name Beast Box having. In 2012 he co-curated the program SONORES – sound/space/signal for Guimarães European Capital of Culture. Under his own name or with other formations Uliel shares projects and has performed with: Raz Mesinai (Badawi), Steve Mackay (The Stooges), Mike Watt, Adrian Sherwood, Rafael Toral, DJ Scotch Egg and countless others.