Telectu is a fundamental duo of new improvisation formed by Jorge Lima Barreto and Vítor Rua. Since 1982 this group has developed and introduced in Portugal different musical typologies: art rock, minimalism, live electronics, multimedia, acousmatic, concrete, and have linked their art to performance, video, and installation. They have worked and recorded with various exponents of contemporary improvisation, including Elliott Sharp, Chris Cutler, Jac Berrocal, Louis Sclavis, Jean Sarbib, Paul Lytton, Evan Parker, Carlos Zíngaro, Tim Hodgkinson, Eddie Prévost, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Sunny Murray, etc. Telectu has performed and recorded at the forefront of Portuguese music and at important international gatherings in: Beijing (CCTV), Paris (Pompidou Centre, Radio France), Moscow (Lenine Auditorium, Mali Theatre), New York (Knitting Factory, Tonic), Spain , Hong Kong (Jazz Club), Macao (Casa Garden), Havana (Teatro Nacionale), Romania (National Auditorium), Vienna (WUK Theatre). Their creations are a landmark as a different multimedia musical conception and their instrumental and aesthetic heterodoxy (prepared piano and guitar, piano string action, scratch and noise, instrumental pluridisciplinarity, percussion, digital controllers, sampler, timbre connections, digital apparatus, etc.) are co-ordinated by a spontaneous energy, ad-lib, real-time, fractal; their records are documents that assert the duo as one of the most important groups of new improvised music.