Associação Terapêutica Do Ruído

The Associação Terapêutica do Ruído – A.T.R. (“therapeutic association of noise”) is an informal and shapeless entity devoted to the promotion of the therapeutic effects of noise. This form of therapy allows the patients to get rid of the tensions and frustrations of daily life through the exposure to massive and concentrated doses of noise. Outcome of the same sick minds that created the collective of noise therapists dUASsEMIcOLCHEIASiNVERTIDAS – dSCI (“two inverted semi-quavers”) and working as its natural extension, the A.T.R. is like a kind of siamese and inseparable twin of this collective. They share not only the same origin and members, but also the intention of providing moments of therapeutic catharsis to the patients who subject themselves to this treatment, be it through the organization of therapeutic sessions of noise, in the case of A.T.R. or be it through the direct production of therapeutic noise, in the case of dSCI. Founded in 2007, somewhere in Lisbon, the A.T.R. has been hosting various sessions all around Portugal, giving the opportunity to different experts to present their noise.