Carla Santana

With focus on contemplative forms of living and sculpting sound, Carla Santana creates soundscapes with field recordings, electro-acoustic instruments, analog and digital synthesis and the processing of the most diverse sound sources.
With years studying music and arts and with a university degree in Interior Design, she lives sound through its musical potential, but also as an artistic object.

Her solo creations (concerts, audio-visual compositions, sound acts, manifestos) appear under the name Quatroconnection.
Composes for dance and theatre.

In the improv music scene, plays regularly in live concerts with musicians of the most diverse sonic spectrums. Participates on the ensembles Variable Geometry Orchestra, IKB, Isotope Ensemble. Is member of Quarto Com Luz (with Samuel Gapp, Michael Schiefel, Helena Espvall, João Valinho), Rodrigo Brandão (with Rodrigo Amado, Hernâni Faustino, João Valinho), Defiant Illusion (with Gonçalo Almeida, Maria do Mar, José Lencastre) and the experimental improvisation collective Lantana (with Joana Guerra, Maria do Mar, Maria Radich, Helena Espvall, Anna Piosik).