Micro Audio Waves are a portuguese band. Micro Audio Waves, originally a duo formed by Flak (the guitar player from Rádio Macau) and C. Morgado (electronic instruments) formed in 2000, and began by developing compositions of a minimal and experimental orientation, the result of which can be heard in their first album Micro Audio Waves (2002).
With the addition of Claudia Efe (vocals), the project took on new outlines. The more purist electronica gave way to more structurally classical electro-acoustic compositions, without betraying the experimental component. Upon release of No Waves in 2004, Micro Audio Waves were featured as a Peel Session by the late John Peel at BBC Radio One, and they won the Qwartz Electronic Music Awards in Paris (best album & best videoclip). Its main hit was the song Fully Connected, in which the assembling instructions from some electronic apparatus are sung in a very sexy way by Claudia Efe.
Their latest album "Odd Size Baggage" was released in April 2007., One of its songs, "Long Tongue" won the Qwartz Electronic Music Awards in 2008 for best song.
Rui Horta is among Europe's best known choreographers. Portugese by origin, he has worked extensively abroad, especially in Germany, where his companies S.O.A.P. and Rui Horta Stageworks were based for most of the nineties. In addition, he has produced and toured with his own companies to festivals and venues such as the Tokyo International Festival, Hamburg Summer Theatre Festival, Theatre de la Ville in Paris, the Joyce Theatre in New York, and Harbourfront Centre in Toronto. Horta has created pieces for NDT, Gulbenkian, Cullberg, Ballet du Grand-Theatre de Geneve, Opera Dortmund, Opera Nürnberg, Opera Linz and Irish Dance Theatre among others. In 2000, he returned to Portugal where he has established a choreographic centre in a 15th century convent in Montemor-o-Novo.
Horta first worked for ID in 1999 when he set his pieces Diving and Flat Space Moving.
Pocket Ocean, which premiered in March 2001, is an original creation for ID and was revived at ID's Fall performance 2005. Happy New Year is his latest creation for ID, premiered in February 2006.
