Alexandre Klinke is a composer and visual artist from Sao Paulo, Brazil, based in Vancouver. With background as a jazz and classical guitarist, he became involved with electronic music composition in the year 2008. Since then he’s been creating, recording and performing music as a solo artist, while also working as a composer and sound designer for film and multimedia. His compositions merge conventional instrumentation with field recordings, sound-making objects and electronic devices.
His works in film and multimedia installation explore the perceptual and synesthetic effects of the relationship between sound and vision, using both analog (magnetic tape, super 8 film, VHS) and digital technologies. The juxtaposition of the warm and noisy characteristics of analog equipment with the hi-fi crispness and endless possibilities of the digital medium results in a variety of textures that are evocative of different times (present/past), spaces (internal/external) and places.
SELECTED WORKS
FILM/MULTIMEDIA
Short Film and Multimedia Installation: Playback Head, 2019
Multichannel A/V Installation presented at the Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre at SFU Woodward’s (Vancouver), Sep 8-14, 2019.
Short film premiered at the Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema at SFU Woodward’s, Sep 14, 2019.
COMPOSER (Selected Works)
Public Sound Art: Sixteen Sine Waves, 2019
Presented at the event Sonologues 2019, Vancouver Public Library, July 8-12, 2019.
Presented at the Music & Sound Festival at SFU Woodward’s, April 12, 2019.
Soundscape Composition: Vento, 2019
Media Arts Committee (MAC) Commissioned Artist. Presented at the Vancouver Co-operative Radio on Jan 23rd, 2019.
Documentary: The Museum of Forgotten Triumphs, 2018 (dir: Bojan Bodruzic) – Additional Music
Best Canadian Documentary at VIFF 2018
Short Film: Lira’s Forest, 2017 (dir: Connor Jessup)
Documentary: Brasília: Life After Design, 2017 (dir: Bart Simpson)
Premiered at DOXA
Documentary: Piracaia, 2016 (dir: Tomaz Cavalieri and Renato Falzoni)
Feature Film: In Her Place, 2014 (dir: Albert Shin)
Premiered at TIFF in 2014 and nominated for 7 Canadian Screen Awards in 2015.
SOUND DESIGNER/ SOUND EDITOR
Short Film: Donny the Drone, 2017 (dir: Mackenzie Sheppard)
Short Film: Man In Phone, 2016 (dir: Mackenzie Sheppard)
Official selection at the Short Shorts Film Festival in Tokyo 2016 and winner of the Gold Screen Award at the Young Director Award event in Cannes 2016.
Documentary: Return to Reinchenbach, 2012 (dir: Maureen Kelleher)
Short Film: Itaka, 2012 (dir: Bojan Bodruzic) – Composer/Sound Designer