Most People Have Been Trained to be Bored

Drummer and composer Gustavo Costa is a longstanding figure in Portugal's music scene; since the early 90s he has wandered the fields of death/thrash metal with Genocide, punk rock with Motornoise, and contemporary improvisation with Red Albinos, while performing with or under the direction of artists like Damo Suzuki (Can), John Zorn, Christian Marclay and Steve Mackay (The Stooges). 

Currently, he runs the Let's Go To War label, while taking part in numerous projects within and around the scope of Soopa's activity, namely F.R.I.C.S., Mental Liberation Ensemble, Mécanosphère and Lost Gorbachevs, among others.  
As Most People Have Been Trained To Be Bored, Gustavo Costa explores his interests in the area of contemporary music practice, employing sources such as percussive objects, prepared piano and electronic synthesis in a body of work influenced by Iannis Xenakis and Giacinto Scelsi, but also by the political commentary of Crass and Dead Kennedys.