Rita Pacheco (she/they) is a Glasgow-based free improviser musician and interdisciplinary artist working across collage, drawing, visual poetry, and sound.
Rita is currently developing Listening Fields, an emerging practice offering embodied, relational encounters with self, others, and the more-than-human world, drawing on walking, listening, and creative process. She holds Collage Space, a studio at the Outerspaces network built from found materials, where she also shares a sound space and hosts free improvisation gatherings.
She’s interested in collaborations exploring connection through play, curiosity and an open heart, and finds ongoing inspiration in the patterns and intelligence of the living, animate world.
Born in Lisbon, she has lived in Scotland since 2014. In 2025 she began a journey to free improvise life, and now works as a creative and space holder, drawn to non-hierarchical ways of connecting that value process over outcome.
She is part of the Glasgow free improvisation scene, playing with Ubu Warp Cheer, RAR, and The Playgroup across voice, keyboards, concertina, harmonica, and found objects, and released an album with Ubu Warp Cheer on Gruff Wit Records. Her visual work spans collage, painting, and graphic poetry.
