I’m a São Paulo-based creative producer and mixing engineer working with artists who build music from atmosphere, contrast, texture, and emotional detail.
Most of my work lives around hybrid electronic and other genre-blurring records. I’m usually brought in when a project needs a mix engineer with a broader creative perspective.
Alongside commissioned work, I keep a broader practice across physical media, image, and events. That expanded archive is part of what I bring to the records I work on.
If you'd like to talk about a project, my contact’s below.
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
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. One of the performances can be listened in the EP Dermiscapes Live at Kōenji.