Hit Maker (Porto)
(2011)
Ten participants are sought throughout the city and are each asked to hit a surface with a microphone one hundred times. One thousand hits around Porto. The sound of each person’s actions is amplified through an amplifier. Each person can choose their own rhythm and intensity. Hit Maker is obviously related to Hit Parade (see links below) but where the latter is a kind of happening or event, the former is more of a surprise, a little moment of noise, a strange little gesture.
The performance was part of the Trama Festival, Porto, Portugal. Performance took place on October 15.
Related performances: Hit Parade (Seoul), Hit Parade (Montreal), Hit Parade (Quebec), Hit Parade (Dundee), Hit Parade (Winnipeg)
Documentation team: Marta Maria Ferreira, Patrícia Nogueira, Fabio Oliveira.
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Maria da Graça Teixeira, 52 years old, cashier at Casa Pereira (gun's store)
José Alves, 50 years old, waiter, at D. João I Square
Gina Ferreirinha, 75 years old, fishmonger at Bolhão (market)
Name: Daniel Ruessler, 21 years old, student, Rua de Santa Catarina
Helena Rosa, 50 years old, baker at Bolhão (market)
Maria da Conceição Rodrigues, 48 years old, secretary, Rua de Santa Catarina
Carolina Silva, 9 years old, student, Rua de Santa Catarina
Daniel Palacios, 32 years old, civil servant, Rua de Santa Catarina
Sravani, 21 years old, student, Rua de Santa Catarina
Bernardino Pereira, 82 years old, retired, Batalha Square (bus stop)
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