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Vitor Joaquim, laptop experimentalist, sound and visual artist, graduated in Sound and Film Studies. Started performing improvised music and working with contemporary dance by the late 80's. Since then, he has created extensively for dance, theatre, video, installations and cross media platforms, having worked with such collectives and creators as Vera Mantero, Paulo Ribeiro and Rui Horta, amongst many others. With Rui Horta he created the music for “LP” and the widely acclaimed and prized “Pixel”, among other works. Recently he has been collaborating with the Spanish choreographer Guillermo Weickert, with whom he co-directed the also acclaimed and prized “Go With The Flow”, a dance stage adaptation of "Flow". In 1997, his cd “Tales From Chaos” (under the alias "Free Field") was considered one of the 10 best records of Portuguese electronic music of all time. “Flow”, his latest solo cd, was considered by the Wire magazine as one of the best electronic records of 2006. Until now, he has four solo releases and several other collaborations in different labels, all over the world. He collaborated with many international artists, such as @c, Scanner, Stephan Mathieu, Simon Fisher Turner, Phil Niblock, Colleen, Pure, o.blaat, Ran Slavin and Greg Haines. Over the years, on most of his solo acts, Joaquim has opted to play in total darkness (as a way to increase the sense of sound) or with visual artists such as the long time collaborators Lia and Hugo Olim. Even though he loves to