Press

Varm & Correia – Hiiumaa (2025)

Press by Sirp newspaper (19/12/2025) on our album release concert (13/12/2025)

The festival reached its culmination at 11:00 p.m. in the White Hall with the presentation of “Hiiumaa” by Varm & Correia, accompanied by visuals by Tencu. The work is performed with electronics, and all sound fragments were recorded on Hiiumaa. The sections of “Hiiumaa” continue the thematic line of the final piece of the previous block, doing so strongly, with a sound that is longing and slightly melancholic. When I close my eyes, it feels as though I have truly been teleported to Hiiumaa by the soundscape and am held there, in the middle of a forest, from the height of summer all the way to the icy end of winter. Returning to the White Hall, a sense of calm has taken hold of me. The serene “Hiiumaa” beautifully concludes a marathon event in which the audience has traveled, like on a roller coaster, from one end of the sonic world to the other and back again.

Varm & Correia – Live at Purekkari Cape (2023)

SIRP review of Varm & Correia performance at Biotoopia 2022, by Valdek Laur

Why should artificially generated sounds, created with the help of human technology, be in conflict with nature? According to Varm and Correia, they shouldn’t – they can coexist in harmony. Not synthesis, but symbiosis.

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Müürileht review of Live at Purekkari Cape, by Talis Paide

A multi-layered, introspective, stereophonic, and enjoyable ambient album

Moving Digits (2018)

8/May/2019 – Diário de Notícias, Funchal, Portugal
Article on Moving Digits Sound System performance

24/July/2018 – Diário de Notícias, Funchal, Portugal
Article on Creative Europe funding award to M-ITI

SIIDS – Sound, Image and Interaction Doctoral Symposium (2018)

3/October/2018 – Diário de Notícias, Funchal, Portugal
Article on Sound, Image and Interaction Doctoral Symposium performances at Barrerinha Bar Café, Funchal

DJing with Florian Hecker (2018)

2/March/2018 – Diário de Notícias, Funchal, Portugal
Article on DJing performance with Florian Hecker at Barrerinha Bar Café, Funchal

Interactive Audiovisual Objects (2013)

Review by Leonardo Reviews:
http://leonardo.info/reviews/jan2014/correia-barber.php

Interview by Ana Carvalho for Digicult:
http://www.digicult.it/news/the-interactive-audiovisual-objects-by-nuno-correia/

AV Clash (2010)

More info on AV Clash: https://videojackstudios.com/portfolio/avclash/

Master and Margarita (2009)

YLE (Finnish national TV) showcased Video Jack in their Pixel show, regarding our Master and Margarita AV performance at PixelAche Festival, Helsinki, 5/April/2009. Video shown is from Heat Seeker.

More info on Master and Margarita: https://videojackstudios.com/portfolio/masterandmargarita/

AVOL (2008)

Interview on AVOL by André Carrilho to the Portuguese national TV (although video shown is from Heat Seeker):

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Press clippings from AVOL (2008)

More info on AVOL: https://videojackstudios.com/portfolio/avol/

Heat Seeker (2006)

Press clippings from the Heat Seeker tour (2007-2008)

Press clippings and reviews from the “Heat Seeker” CD/DVD launch (2006)

In English:

“In the case of Coden, the project of Nuno Correia, the audio CD edition gets truly enriched by the DVD that accompanies it, since it is a VJ version of the Coden tracks, directed by André Carrilho in real time. Don’t miss seeing and hearing it.”
Dance Club, 07/2006

“A brilliant animation work.”
“In the DVD (…) the two arts come side by side, finely dressed for a avant-garde creation, sometimes difficult to decipher, but never unintelligible.”
DN, 28/7/2006

“It’s a contemporary project to pay attention to. Let’s hope they don’t leave the country.”
Elle, 10/2006

“Without noticing it, I was listening to Spider Tree and enjoying it a lot!”
Le Cool, 19/7/2006

“The CD shifts between the warm waters of dub and the couch electronic music from the north of Europe, passing through jazz by the hand of trumpet player Johannes Krieger (from Tora Tora Big Band).”
“‘Crack Pack’ is the most exciting theme and also the most rythmical – the percussion and bass appeal to stomp your feet, while Johannes Krieger’s trumpet emerges, discreetly sexy (it is present in the best moments of the CD, such as ‘Heat Seeker’, where the dub intersects with the jazz and percussion of Semente).”
“Mépris’ is slow motion dub without overdoing the echo.”
“‘O Som dos Instrumentos’ has a clear guitar riff and words that seem stolen from the soundcheck of the concert where the theme was recorded (‘Could you please lower a bit the sound of the instruments?’).”
Público, 18/8/2006

“It’s worth it to travel through this musical and visual universe.”
Umbigo, 9/2006

“Coden is a musical project that also extends to image. Or maybe the order is reversed, things are mingled”
“Image and sound complement each other and ‘Heat Seeker’, Coden’s first album, is released in double edition of CD and DVD so that the experience is more complete and also more adequate to the idea of its creator.”
“The intention of Nuno Correia was to cross electronica with jazz and dub, and all these elements with image. The idea is ambitious, but is successful. ‘Heat Seeker’ is somewhere between the nordic jazz of Nils Petter Molvaet, due essecialy to Johannes Krieger of Tora Tora Big Band, and the minimal dub electronica giving depth to the experience.”
“‘Heat Seeker’ is a good example of the music that exists without almost no one noticing. A sample of creativity and perseverance that enriches the so-called national scene with unusual elements.”
Rádio Oxigénio, 26/7/2006

In Portuguese (original language):

“No caso de Coden, o projecto de Nuno Correia, a edição do CD áudio fica verdadeiramente enriquecida com o DVD que o acompanha já que este é uma versão VJ dos temas de Coden, realizado por André Carrilho em tempo real. Não deixem de ver e ouvir.”
Dance Club, 07/2006

“Um brilhante trabalho a nível de animação.”
“No DVD (…) as duas artes surgem lado a lado, vestidas a rigor para uma criação vanguardista, por vezes difícil de decifrar, mas nunca ininteligível.”
DN, 28/7/2006

“É um projecto contemporâneo a ter em atenção. Esperamos que não fujam do país.”
Elle, 10/2006

“Sem dar por isso estava a ouvir o ‘Spider Tree’ e a gostar muito!”
Le Cool, 19/7/2006

“O disco alterna entre as águas quentes do dub e a electrónica de sofá vinda do norte da Europa, com passagens pelo jazz pela mão do trompetista Johannes Krieger (da Tora Tora Big Band).”
“‘Crack Pack’ é o tema mais excitante e também o mais rítmico – a percussão e o baixo apelam ao bater do pé, enquanto o trompete de Johannes Krieger vai surgindo, discretamente sexy (está presente nos melhores momentos do disco, como ‘Heat Seeker’, em que o dub se intersecta com o jazz e a percussão dos Semente).”
“‘Mépris’ é dub no retardador sem abusar do eco.”
“‘O Som dos Instrumentos’ tem um riff de guitarra límpido e palavras que parecem roubadas ao soundcheck do concerto em que o tema foi gravado (‘Podia baixar um bocadinho o som dos instrumentos?’).”
Público, 18/8/2006

“Vale a pena fazer uma viagem por este universo musical e visual.”
Umbigo, 9/2006

“Coden é um projecto musical que também se estende à imagem. Ou talvez a ordem dos factores esteja inversa, as coisas confundem-se.”
“A imagem e o som completam-se e ‘Heat Seeker’, o álbum de estreia de Coden, sai em edição dupla em CD e DVD para que a experiência seja mais completa e também mais realista ou fiel à ideia do seu criador.”
“A intenção de Nuno Correia era cruzar a electrónica com o jazz, o dub e todos estes elementos com a imagem. A ideia é ambiciosa, mas concretiza-se. ‘Heat Seek’ está algures entre o jazz nórdico de Nils Petter Molvaer, por culpa sobretudo do trompetista Johannes Krieger, da Tora Tora Big Band, e a electrónica minimal de contornos de dub a darem profundidade à experiência.”
“‘Heat Seeker’ é um bom exemplo da música que existe por aí sem que quase ninguém saiba. Uma amostra de criatividade e preserverança que enriquece a dita cena nacional com elementos pouco usuais.”
Rádio Oxigénio, 26/7/2006

More info on Heat Seeker: https://videojackstudios.com/portfolio/heat-seeker/

Per:Form (2000)

In English:

“100% self-assumed digital manipulation, sometimes with surprising results.”
Fernando Magalhães
Público, 3/11/2000

In Portuguese:

“A manipulação digital assumida a cem por cento, com resultados por vezes surpreendentes.”
Fernando Magalhães
Público, 3/11/2000