ECONOMIC IMPACT STUDY
SURMA
Heavily influenced by the minimalism of Ryuichi Sakamoto, the visceral nature of Fiona Apple, the innovation of Joana Gama, and the hypnotic structure of Philip Glass, Surma proposes a sensory spectacle where silence, sound, and emotion coexist in rare balance. This new concert is more than a reinterpretation; it is an emotional rewriting of her discography, an aesthetic proposition that invites the audience to listen and feel with a different depth.
Human beings are obsessed with emptiness: with filling it, making it their own, colonising it. Something similar happens with silence. Its infinity is an idea we cannot bear; we feel predestined to dominate it because of an impulse that completely ignores the fact that emptiness and silence are already organised forms, and do not need order to be imposed upon them. The Portuguese artist SURMA understands this law of nothingness and its fragility and, tiptoeing around that void, builds her melodies through sound loops, unexpected textures and the delicacy of a language all her own.
Carmen Salas
architect