Caeso
Caeso (Carlos Eduardo Soares - Brazil) is a musician and sound artist. He has a diverse creative output, exploring mediums such as acousmatic music, live electronics, free improvisation and also traditional written composition, besides building sound sculptures, videos and other multimedia artworks. Holds both a bachelor's and a master's degree in Music Composition, and is currently a docARTES PhD candidate (Leiden University/Orpheus Institute) on artistic research in Music.
His research approaches the poetics of negativity and creative uses of DIY practices with a focus on their political potential to reframe alterity. With collaborations with other artists that range from soundtracks, sound design and soundscapes to more technical development in digital and analog media, he has also been granted a Stichting de Zaaier grant for artistic research in Music (2023/25), a CAPES Master’s scholarship for research about failure as creative feedstock in art (2015/2017), a CNPq scholarship for research in Glitch Art (2012/13), a CAPES MUSIC ALIVE! scholarship (2010) and the prizes Funarte for Classical Composition 2016 and Best Music by the 72H Rio 2014 Film Festival.
