João Ricardo de Barros Oliveira born in Viana do Castelo, Portugal, works in Portugal and Germany, Berlin, where he centralises the development of his activity as a sound musical sculptor.

He dedicates himself predominantly to the creation of new sounds in instruments. His work ranges from sculptures to the conception of musical instruments and sonorous objects, constructed from materials and objects that have been recuperated from rubbish. The creation of sculptural objects capable of producing sounds with exclusive identity, which are never complete and always evolving into new unknown sounds, made from ´found objects´, has been his crusade for more than a decade and a half of aesthetic and sound experimentation. The experimentation of sound languages is a project that allies itself to sculpture and the transformation of rubbish into sounding art.

He has collaborated with various Portuguese and international artists. He has participated in numerous international music festivals; he has conducted workshops with children and seniors on the construction of instruments using rubbish. He has presented his music on radio and television in Norway, Portugal, Spain, and Germany and in the United States. He also composed music for movies where he also acted.