Phobos – Disfuntional Robotic Orchestra

Phobos is a set of small robots and music generating devices gathered in a Dysfunctional Robotic Orchestra. An orchestra of strange instruments displaying a series of defects, mutations and erratic behaviour. Phobos is a critic view on the technological superposition on human thinking, on the role of work and modern forms of slavery, looking retrospectively at the several attempts of human liberation through machinery, at technological utopias, at freedoms' advances and setbacks.

According to Greek mythology, Phobos is the incarnation of fear; it is also the name of Mars' biggest moon – condemned to disappear due to its orbit's proximity to the planet.

SONOSCOPIA_Associação Cultural is a creative platform aiming the creation, production and promotion of artistic and educational projects focused on exploring and investigating sound and its interdisciplinary intersection with different artistic, scientific and pedagogic areas. Created in 2011, Sonoscopia has created more than 500 events to date: their own creations, educational activities and publications in 20 European countries as well as in the US, Lebanon, Brazil, Japan, UAE and Tunisia. Sonoscopia is based at Rua da Prelada, in Porto, where several studios duly equipped to the creation and production on electroacoustic investigation are set. There are also premises for artistic residencies that have been welcoming artists from all over the world.