Over a period spanning from 1985-1990, he sang, played keyboards and bass guitar and programmed drum machines in Brazilian post punk bands such R. Mutt, Divergencia Socialista, Ida & e Os Voltas, O Grito Mudo, and Albania Berg - electronic and experimental groups from his hometown.
From this period pieces such as I Dada Happening Interdisciplinar, Pressupostos A Uma Sintaxe Sensorial, and O UM were presented in art spaces, underground clubs, bookshops and small cinemas around São Paulo.
In 1991 he won the literary prize Projeto Nascente from Universidade de Sao Paulo, and later published a book of poetry called O UM on Atelier Editorial.
Eliete and Bruno soon found themselves creating a radical blend of atonalism, industrial goth, punk and noise improvising with a drum machine, an old piano, altered voices, a VCR and slide projectors.
Also in 1997, Verner, Eliete Mejorado and Ricardo Muniz Fernandes create a project called BABEL, curating the entire programme of the now legendary intervention festival that took place in an abandoned petrol station in Pinheiros, São Paulo owned by SESC SP.
Also in 1998 Verner and Mejorado were invited to curate the music segment of Mundao at Sesc Santo Amaro bringing to Brazil for the first time Diamanda Galas, Marianne Faithfull and John Cale for special performances in São Paulo.
The album was part of Sulphur Records collection Meld - a series of audio pieces produced in collaboration between two artists released on Robin Rimbauld (Scanner)’s label.
After hundreds of radio shows spanning different periods of the genre, including a series of live interviews with Djs, MCs and people involved in the scene, in 2004, Verner and Mejorado compiled the pioneering mixtape Slum Dunk Presents Funk Carioca mixed by Tetine, released on Mr Bongo Records.
Verner and Mejorado were also responsible for the London premiere of Eu Sou Feia Mas To Na Moda ("I'm Ugly But Trendy") - a film by Denise Garcia on the Funk Carioca scene, later also exhibited in Tetine’s show Tropical Punk.
In 2007 Verner and Mejorado conceived Tropical Punk - a Brazilian post-tropical intervention/ exhibition that took place at the Whitehapel Gallery with a programme of films, artist videos, fanzines, tee shirts and performances.
Tetine was invited to perform the original audio of Samba de Monalisa at Sophie Calle’s exhibition Take Care of Yourself as part of Videobrasil alongside talks on this project and the workshop "Mixing It - Conhecendo Linguagens".
Verner also took part in the videos for Tropical Punk and Shiva with Eliete Mejorado, Guilherme Altamyer, and Tiago Borges filmed at Aldeia do Meco, Portugal in 2009.