Community

Arda Recorders is more than a world class recording studio. When designing this space, our goal was to create a music hub that could also house interesting projects and be the home of other talented people.

  • Fonoteca Municipal do Porto

    PORTO’S PUBLIC VINYL LIBRARY

    Fonoteca Municipal do Porto is a public space that holds the city’s vinyl collection.

    With more than 35.000 records that range from the 1950’s to the present day, everyone is invited to pop in and enjoy music in one of the listening stations.

  • Ian Dean MBE

    COMPOSER/PRODUCER/ENGINEER

    Passionate about acoustic music, creative music technology and innovation in audio production, composer and music producer Ian Dean has worked in music and sound since the 1970’s.

    He is a renown conductor and orchestrator, producer, composer of film scores and sound installations, and a recording engineer with a background in ambisonics and classical music.

  • JACK WALL

    COMPOSER

    Jack Wall is an ASCAP award-winning and BAFTA nominated composer best known for his rich, cinematic scores found within popular video game franchises such as Call of Duty: Black Ops - Cold War, Black Ops II, III, & IV, Mass Effect I & II, the Myst series, Jade Empire , winning multiple awards for his work.

    Most recently Wall scored the supernatural drama television series Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments on Disney’s Freeform TV.

  • Cindy Shapiro

    COMPOSER/LIBRETTIST/TECHNOLOGIST

    Cindy Shapiro is a multi-faceted artist with a rich musical, technical and artistic history. she sings on film, television and video game soundtracks. Cindy was a lyricist for songs on Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, 3, 4, & Cold War, and composed additional music for Black Ops 4. She is currently composing at Arda Recorders.

  • Andre Tentugal

    VIDEOGRAPHER/PRODUCER

    It’s hard to find a big artist in Portugal that hasn’t worked with Tentugal - from Ana Moura to Manel Cruz. Besides his career in music videos, he is also a musician, being the brains behind the band We Trust and collaborating with several renowned artists in the Portuguese scene.

  • Pedro Marques

    COMPOSER

    Since 2004, Pedro has worked on countless feature films, TV series and commercials as a music composer. In 2016 he won the Portuguese Academy award for best soundtrack for “Capitão Falcão”.