Any artist who survives a Tremor residency receives a kind of seal of guarantee that they are fit for anything. Time is short, resources are scarce (and limited by the Atlantic surrounding the island), artists generally meet each other on the spot and there is always the risk of the weather forcing you to relocate your concert to somewhere inside a cave. Sofia Caetano (Azorean filmmaker and visual artist, and the first person we personally know who has ever had a film in Ann Arbor) tells us what it's like to add this basal feeling of uncertainty to a pandemic:

«Supposedly, the Tremor Todo-o-Terreno in which we participated was going to happen in 2020, but due to the pandemic it moved to 2021, which means that we had, no more, no less than two years to work on the idea of what would happen. It was set on the Quatro Fábricas da Luz trail where, at the end of the trail, there is a place with a reflecting pool. We had decided that the live concert would happen there. We even had decided to build a raft for Luís Senra (a saxophonist from Rabo de Peixe) to float on. It was a week or two before the event and we decided to go and test the raft. We got there, on a Sunday morning, and what had happened? They had drained the water mirror. Only mud remained. How is it possible? For two years we'd gone there about seven times, and the week before the festival it turns out to be empty?!?»