The Portuguese Alfredo Costa Monteiro (Oporto, 1964), who has lived since 1992 in Barcelona, has developed a multiple activity based on plastic arts, sonorous/visual poetry and sound.
Since finishing his studies of Sculpture/Multimedia at the Fine Arts School (Paris), he has already presented several individual exhibitions (from "Sobre las Ruinas" in 1995 to "Linia de fuga" in 2005), participating as well in a wide number of collective exhibitions and being resident at Hangar (Barcelona, 2001-2003), Astérides (Marseille, 2000) and Batofar (Paris, 1999).
Since 1998, he is a member of 22a, an independent collective for contemporary art. Besides, since 2001 he belongs as well to IBA Col.lectiu D'improvisació.
In the sonorous poetry field, he usually collaborates with the French poet Léos Ator, writing and reading during live performances in Portuguese, French and Spanish. He also has several published works, for example, "Axiomáticas" (F30km/s, Barcelona, 2005).
Alfredo Costa Monteiro plays the accordion, the electric guitar and the turntables. Aside from having taken part in Superelvis next to Anki Toner (until he left), Raimon Aymerich and Meteo Giráldez, he has worked with many national and international improvisators (musicians or dancers). He is at the moment member of the following goups: Cremaster (with Ferran Fages), i treni inerti (with Ruth Barberán), Neumatica (with Pablo Rega) and Mut (with Pablo Rega, Ferran Fages, Avelino Saavedra and Artur Fernández).
He has published five solo albums: "Rubber Music" (Hazard Records, 1999), "Les silences de la BnF" (Labofar, 1999), "Paper Music" (Hazard Records, 2001), "Rumeur (for solo accordion)" (Creative Sources, 2004) and "Stylt" (Absurd, 2005). Besides this he has a large discography shared between all his different projects. With Cremaster he has edited five works that go from "Oomfsquawk" (2001) to "32,41 n/m2" (Absurd, 2003). And with i treni inerti two more CDs: "Ura" (Creative Sources, 2003, with Matt Davis) and "Aérea" (Creative Sources, 2005).
Another work which needs to be mentioned is "Small Damage Under Appearance" (Thin Ice, 2002), by the Margarida Garcia / Manuel Mota / Alfredo Costa Monteiro trio. Also his participation in "Atami" (Taku Unami, Masahiko Okura, Ruth Barberán, Ferran Fages, Masafumi Ezaki, Alfredo Costa Monteiro; Hibari Music, 2003), "Atolón" (Ruth Barberán, Ferran Fages, Alfredo Costa Monteiro; Rossbin, 2004), "Cesura" (Ernesto Rodrigues, Guilherme Rodrigues, Margarida Garcia, Alfredo Costa Monteiro; Creative Sources, 2004), "Octante" (Ruth Barberán, Ferran Fages, Margarida Garcia, Alfredo Costa Monteiro; L'inommable, 2004), "Istmo" (Ruth Barberán, Ferran Fages, Alfredo Costa Monteiro; Creative Sources, 2005) and "Diafon" (Ernesto Rodrigues, Barry Weisblat, Alfredo Costa Monteiro; Creative Sources, 2005).
He has also taken part in several compilations from the electropoetry French label L'Ovni Tendre, among which we can highlight "Doggy Style. Poèmes électroniques" (L'Ovni Tendre, 2004).
Currently at work is his next edition of "Z=78 (pt:195,09)" (turntables solo, Audiobot) and "Barcelona" (Cremaster + Mattin, Audiobot).

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• Rubber Music (Hazard Records, 1999)
• Les silences de la BnF (Labofar, 1999)
• Paper Music (Hazard Records, 2001)
• Rumeur (for solo accordion) (Creative Sources, 2004)
• Stylt (Absurd, 2005)

with i treni inerti:

• Ura (Creative Sources, 2003, con Matt Davis)
• Aérea (Creative Sources, 2005)

with Cremaster:

• Oomfsquawk (2001)
• Flysch (G3G Records, 2002)
• Infra (Antifrost, 2003)
• 23 November 2002 (Sound 323, 2003)
• Void (Antifrost, 2003)
• 32,41 n/m2 (Absurd, 2003)