Chico Dub

Profile

Born in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) in 1979. Lives and works in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Graduated with a BA in Social Communication – Advertising and Publicity from PUC-Rio in 2006.
An artistic director, curator, and cultural manager specializing in experimental music and sound art. Chico dub directs Novas Frequências Festival and the Outra Música Platform, and curates the concert series at Casa Museu Eva Klabin.

Recent activities
2026 “Music Concert Series,” curation, Casa Museu Eva Klabin, Rio de Janeiro
2026 Launch of Outra Música Records, Brazil
2025 “15th Novas Frequências Festival,” direction and curation, Multiple venues in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo
2025 “Zona de Escuta” (Listening Series), curation, Sesc 24 de Maio, São Paulo
2025 “No Raiar da Noite: Ten Years Documenting the Independent Party Scenes of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo”, curation, Solar Grandjean de Montigny Museum, Rio de Janeiro

Grants and fellowships
2026 Selected for the American Music Mentorship Program (AMMP), The Recording Academy, Los Angeles, USA.
2024 British Council – Future Global Leader
2023 British Council – Future Global Leader

About curation

My curatorial practice revolves around sound as a catalyst for collective experience, critical thinking, and aesthetic experimentation. Across experimental music festivals, concerts, records and sound art exhibitions, I explore how sonic practices intersect with politics, technology, spatiality, and contemporary art. I’m particularly interested in sound as both a form of architecture and a tool for social transformation. Brazil is culturally vibrant yet often marked by conservative structures. I see curating not simply as a profession but as a long-term commitment to challenging the status quo by championing new artists, genres, spaces, and languages, while dissolving the boundaries between music and visual art, underground and institutional contexts, and between practices historically pushed to the margins and those accepted at the center.