JOE LIRENTI
I’m a 27-year-old artist based in São Paulo, Brazil, working across music, tattoo, events and photography. My approach is shaped by context and collaboration — starting from atmosphere, process, and concept rather than fixed outcomes. My work moves between mediums and follows a set of recurring themes: texture, decay, and the tension between structure and intuition.
I’m drawn to dissonance and distortion, not as style, but as ways of expressing vulnerability. I often collaborate with artists in different countries, responding to shifting conditions — environmental, psychological, and formal.
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01 MIXED MEDIA PROJECTS
02 MUSIC PRODUCTION & MIX ENGINEERING
03 EXTENDED PRACTICE
04 MUSIC FOR FILM
05 CULTURAL EVENTSMIXED MEDIA PROJECTS
2025 ZINE TRILOGY
Production, Mixing, Mastering, Photography, Editing, Tattoo and Stencil: Joe Lirenti at Estúdio Sala Secreta, - Suzano/SP; Casa Pocotó - República - São Paulo/SP; Nada Importa Records - Consolação - São Paulo/SP; Moodiful Tattoo - Harajuku, Tokyo/JP.
Music released through the label Lärmbild
Bergen, Norway
Artworks: Sara Kaisen
(@kaisen_v)
Music equipment: Dreadbox Nymphes, Dreadbox Darkness, ASM Hydrasynth, SOMA Lyra-8, SOMA Cosmos, Sherman Filterbank 2, Modartt Pianoteq 6, Soundtoys, Nord Electro 6D, Boss RV-6, Taishogoto, Lap-Steel Guitar, BRAP SY-1, Moog DFAM.
Cameras: Pentax Spotmatic II with Super Takumar 55mm, Sony a7R II with 85mm lens, iPhone 14 Pro with Adobe Lightroom
Filmstock: Kodak Double-X 250 and Adox Scala 50
Conluio Etéreo 幽玄霊交
Foreword: Matheus Gouthier
Additional photography: Rafael Nelo
Models: Gus Nuages, Monique Cravisk (@cravisk.tatu), Lau Montealto, Diego Sanchez (@deigio), Gabriel Prestes, Pedro Ponce, Emma (@phelimees), Satiê, Kiddo (@fruitsbasquete), Guly Porto
Additional Arrangement and Vocals on tracks 10 and 11: Larissa Braga
Additional Production on track 5: 4D from 和平和浪peace&wave
Additional Production on track 6: AnguDiscoClub
Solace & Terror 安穏恐怖
Text: Joe Lirenti
Paintings: Danilo Chamas (@pensamentoabstrato)
Lyrics and Vocals on track 6: Joe Lirenti
Lyrics on track 4: Kenneth Rasmus Greve from Melt Motif
Vocals on track 4: Rakel from Melt Motif
Dermiscapes: Epiderme Urbana 表皮景観
Body photography: Rafael Nelo
Models: Henri Vasques and Gus Nuages
This trilogy of multimedia works marks a convergence between my musical practice and other tactile languages — photography, print, and tattoo. Developed between São Paulo and Tokyo, the project explores themes of spirituality, love, and urban surfaces. Each chapter includes an album, a printed booklet with original photographs, and in some cases, a catalog of tattoo designs.
Conluio Etéreo 幽玄霊交
On becoming human again:
CE was recorded in 2023. As a response to the rise of AI, I took the opposite path and delved into what it means to be human. The music is electronic, yet recorded in a fully organic way. Every instrument was played by my own hands and recorded onto cassette tape. Nothing was manipulated by a computer.
While finishing the album in 2024, I began exploring analog photography, revisiting the themes of human error and chance. I photographed fungi and decay, which were eventually transmuted into abstract forms tattooed onto my friends’ skin.
Solace & Terror 安穏恐怖
On transitory moments:
S&T was born from a journey in search of meaning. The journey is eternal, but the album marks the period of the second half of 2024 and the first of 2025, when I decided to find love within myself, in every form it could appear. It came as creative action, distant travels, and special people.
I tried to sum it all up in this work, which brings together textual fragments from my subconscious, photographs taken in Japan, and again, music. As the second part of the trilogy, I replace electronic bases with acoustic and traditional instruments, aiming to go beyond aesthetics and express myself through sounds that inhabit the collective unconscious and align with this emotional search.
Dermiscapes: Epiderme Urbana 表皮景観
On texture and the city:
São Paulo is a city of improvisation. The city’s identity builds itself by erasing its own past, and its people carry this permanent state of transition within them. Poorly planned buildings and roads crumble over time, covering up layers of nature and architecture with questionable historical value.
Created over the course of two months, this project presents a catalog of tattoo designs merging the decaying urban landscape of São Paulo with the bodies of my models, surroundings literally shaping the skin. Dermiscapes is also a sound collection, adding an extra layer to the images. It’s texture on the skin, in the ears, and on the walls.
During October 2025, Dermiscapes' was brought to Tokyo, in form of a 20 day residency on Moodiful Tattoo studio and 3 gigs at Oriental Force Koenji, Chitei Otsuka and Tangle Shibuya , closing the cycle of the trilogy.