Jonathan Uliel Saldanha – HHY & The Kampala Unit

An international trio consisting of Jonathan Saldanha on electronics, Florence Lugemwa, the trumpeter and militant, and Sekelembele (Fulu Muziki) on the hybrid drums, both from Uganda. 

Biography 

Jonathan Uliel Saldanha is a musician, a visual artist, and a builder of sounds and sets. He is the associated artist with the Teatro Municipal do Porto for the 2020/2021 and 2021/2022 seasons. He studies the zones of interception between pre-language, alterity, science fiction, sound as a vector of contagion, and the tension between the synthetic and the landscape. In 2019 he created the piece for voice and sculpture Scotoma Cintilante / Dismorphy, a piece for electronic percussion Broken Field Atlantis and other exhibition projects. Between 2016 and 2018, he presented the Vocoder & Camouflage installation, the O Poço piece, the Oxidation Machine installation, the Afasia Tática exhibition and the piece-film Søma in the Teatro Municipal do Porto and at the DDD - Festival Dias da Dança. In 2012, he co-curated the programme Sonores - sound/space/sign as part of the European Capital of Culture events in Guimarães. Since 2009, he has co-created the scenic pieces Nyarlathotep and Máquina da Selva.