frustrationPlate 768 · Salvador, Brazil

Pelourinho

A pastel colonial hill of a city built on sugar and on people in chains.

16th–18th c. · Portuguese colonial builders · South America

The chamber score

Manhã de Carnaval

Luiz Bonfá · 1959

Desire as a guitar, not as a slogan.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

The UNESCO historic centre of Salvador, the heart of Afro-Brazilian urban culture.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct Pelourinho through frustration — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Pelourinho was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.