Dudu Prudente is rummer, composer, music producer, recording/mixing engineer and label manager. Born in Sergipe, Brazil, and currently based in Belgium, he builds his work from the intersection of different cultures and sonic languages. He started his career as a graphic designer in advertising agencies after graduating in communication, but soon turned to music. Over the past 20 years, Dudu has collaborated with a wide range of artists, exploring genres ranging from folk culture to pop, instrumental, electro and experimental. He is also a co-founder of the Belgian-Brazilian group Anavantou, which blends musical traditions from northeastern Brazil and Belgium; a member of the Brazilian experimental group Membrana and the Belgian instrumental group Munsch.

Currently, he divides his time between Estúdio Orí (Sergipe) and the sound atelier MAAR (Belgium), where he focuses on research and the composition of electroacoustic works, sound creations, and installations. Since 2022, he has been studying acousmatic and electroacoustic music at the Institute Musiques et Recherches, under the mentorship of Annette Vande Gorne, a world reference in the genre. His works have been presented at festivals such as BOEM (Ghent) and Electrobelge (Brussels). In 2024, his piece Calcaire was funded by the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, received an honorable mention at the Musica Nova Festival (Prague, 2023), and won the award for best composition at the Métamorphoses Competition, as part of the Festival L’Espace du Son (Brussels, 2024). His latest creation, Pirapitinga Vaz’A Baril, is a mixed acousmatic piece for 8 channels and orchestra inspired by the Vaza-Barris River. It will premiere in 2025 at the Paysage Composé Festival (Grenoble, France), followed by a performance at the Teatro Tobias Barreto (Aracaju, Brazil) with the Sergipe Symphony Orchestra.

Dividing his time between the two countries, Dudu works in his Orí studio in Sergipe, Brazil, and his MAAR sound atelier in Belgium. Currently, he is dedicated to research and composition of electroacoustic pieces, sound creations and installations. In 2022, he began training at the Institute Musiques et Recherches (Belgium) under the mentorship of Annette Vande Gorne, a world reference in the genre. Since then, his works have been presented at festivals such as BOEM (Ghent, Belgium) and Electrobelge (Brussels, Belgium). In 2024, his piece Calcaire was funded by the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, received an honorable mention at the Musica Nova Festival (Prague, Czech Republic, 2023), and won the award for best composition at the Métamorphoses Competition, as part of the Festival L’Espace du Son (Brussels, 2024). His latest creation, Pirapitinga Vaz’A Baril, is a mixed acousmatic piece for 8 channels and orchestra inspired by the Vaza-Barris River. It will premiere in 2025 at the Paysage Composé Festival (Grenoble, France), followed by a performance at the Teatro Tobias Barreto (Aracaju, Brazil) with the Sergipe Symphony Orchestra.

In his creations, he explores sound micro-ecosystems, using the organicity and the power of gesture to recreate universes, always making room for experimentation, Dudu likes to manipulate machines, objects, electronic circuits, field recordings and musical instruments, and has been learning through electroacoustic experience to value the relationship established with the sound source, considering sound as a malleable material capable of generating invisible sculptural forms in the collective imagination. Between the experimental and the visceral, his music investigates the encounter of nature, memory, and technology, crafting experiences that move through both the intimate and the collective.

His most recent project is Longe, an independent label dedicated to giving voice and promoting emerging and underrepresented artists. Based on creative freedom, experimentation, and diversity, Longe offers an inspiring and inclusive environment by connecting artists, the public, and innovative sociocultural initiatives.