“Adó, Master of Sounds” will be screened at the AntropoCena session, attended by the film’s director.

LISA-USP is pleased to invite you to the AntropoCena screening of Adó, Mestre dos Sons (Adó, Master of Sounds), directed by Jorge Lampa Vasconcelos. Vasconcelos will be present to discuss his work. Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji will moderate the discussion.

Vasconcelos is a musician, singer, cantador, singer-songwriter, and guitarist. He is also an adjunct professor of popular music at the Center for Culture, Languages, and Applied Technologies at the Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia (CECULT-UFRB). He has a solid academic background: he received a bachelor's degree in Popular Music in 1993, a master's degree in Arts in 2002, a doctorate in Music from the State University of Campinas (Unicamp) in 2010, and a postdoctorate in Social Anthropology from the University of São Paulo (USP) in 2020. Vasconcelos is the coordinator of the Clube da Canção extension project and is a member of the research groups Memory, Space, and Cultures at UFRB (MESCLAS), Research in Musical Anthropology at USP (PAM), and Diaspora at the State University of Feira de Santana (UEFS). His artistic career is marked by performances with Teatro a Bordo, Matulão do Lua, Forró do Viajante (SP), and Solo (BA), among others.

In 2025, he directed the film Adó: Mestre dos Sons (Adó: Master of Sounds), which delves into the rich life of Ediney de Sena, also known as Mestre Adó. He is an iconic figure of capoeira Angola in Santo Amaro, in the Recôncavo region of Bahia. His mastery of sounds and musicality is among his many skills and abilities. In his territory, which is steeped in the ancestry of Afro-diasporic cultures, he is the oldest active master and has traveled extensively. The result of years of research, experiences with the master and his Angola Cativeiro Cultural Group, and postdoctoral studies at the Department of Anthropology at USP under the supervision of Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji, this 33-minute film is a testament to Mestre Adó's legacy.

AntropoCena is an initiative of LISA and aims to bring to the public the audiovisual production carried out by researchers from USP, through screenings and debates.

• The event will take place at Rua do Anfiteatro, nº 181, favo/sala 10, Cidade Universitária, SP
• Free entry, subject to space limitations
• No registrations