João Polido Gomes is a composer and artist from Marinha Grande, lives in Lisbon, and studies at the Dutch Art Institute (2020-2022). Edits and acts music under the name of Polido. Recent music releases include Sabor A Terra & A Casa E Os Cães (Holuzam, 2020) and Música Livre/Free Music (author edition with Spirit Shop support, 2019). He collaborated as sound director and composer for the films of Louis Henderson, Madalena Fragoso e Margarida Meneses, Romana Schmalisch & Robert Schlicht, Filipa César and Marte Eknæs & Michael Amstad. Throughout edit and dissection of digital techniques of sound processing, his work focus on the sound as material and tool to approach and articulate questions of language, archive, and history of music.