Hi there! I'm a musician and composer born in the Azores, drawing influences from New Age, Electronic, film score, jazz, and classical music. I love blending traditional sensibilities with contemporary language, especially in documentary work. Over the years I have collaborated with IRIS - Audio Visuais as co-director to create music for documentaries, TV and radio commercials, including the soundtrack for the short TV movie A DISTANT CHRISTMAS. I was recently hired to compose music for a British independent animation project in a gothic setting, creating several hybrid score pieces. I’ve also participated in recordings with Azorean musicians such as Luis Bettencourt and Aníbal Raposo and I am spending time publishing original albums that explore New Age and Electronic sounds.…

Mario Raposo

Hi there! I'm a musician and composer born in the Azores, drawing influences from New Age, Electronic, film score, jazz, and classical music. I love blending traditional sensibilities with contemporary language, especially in documentary work. Over the years I have collaborated with IRIS - Audio Visuais as co-director to create music for documentaries, TV and radio commercials, including the soundtrack for the short TV movie A DISTANT CHRISTMAS. I was recently hired to compose music for a British independent animation project in a gothic setting, creating several hybrid score pieces. I’ve also participated in recordings with Azorean musicians such as Luis Bettencourt and Aníbal Raposo and I am spending time publishing original albums that explore New Age and Electronic sounds.…

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Hi there! I’m a musician and composer born in the Azores, drawing influences from New Age, Electronic, film score, jazz, and classical music. I love blending traditional sensibilities with contemporary language, especially in documentary work.

Over the years I have collaborated with IRIS - Audio Visuais as co-director to create music for documentaries, TV and radio commercials, including the soundtrack for the short TV movie A DISTANT CHRISTMAS. I was recently hired to compose music for a British independent animation project in a gothic setting, creating several hybrid score pieces. I’ve also participated in recordings with Azorean musicians such as Luis Bettencourt and Aníbal Raposo and I am spending time publishing original albums that explore New Age and Electronic sounds.

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Portuguese
Fluent
English
Advanced

Work Experience

Composer at Iris Audio Visuais
January 5, 1996 - October 7, 2006
Composer for documentaries and short TV movie

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Media & Entertainment
    paper Animation movie The Hairy Claw of Grafton Moor

    Music made for a gothic animated movie. The project did not continue due to lack of financial support.

    • The Dark Castle
    paper Short TV movie Um Natal Distante

    “Um Natal Distante” (trad. A Distant Christmas) – A television adaptation of the original short story by Dias de Melo, entitled “The Flesh and Bone Baby Jesus,” produced and directed by IRIS Áudio Visuais Ltda.
    After its public premiere on December 15, 1998, it aired that same year on RTP-Açores, RTP-2, and RTP-Internacional.
    Two friends, meeting on Christmas Eve in a restaurant far from their hometown, reminisce and interpret the “mystery” of their childhood Christmas.

    paper Arrangements and prodution of Carmen Raposo's album

    Carmen Raposo is an emmerging azorean singer/songwriter with original music.
    I produced and arranged the entire album. Here’s a song featured in the album entitled ".