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Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta is a composer of contemporary music. He is also architect and urban planner, photographer and writer. He won the Destaque Prize in 1977 by the Brazilian ABM Institution; the APCA Prize in 1986 by the Art Critics Association of Sao Paulo; and the Lac Maggiore Prize in 1994 by the Regional Government of Lombardia, the International Association of Art Critics, the Unesco and the Council of Europe, in Locarno, Switzerland. In 1993 the Unesco, in Paris, selected his works as one of the most representative intermedia researchers of the world. He is member of the SACD - Societè des Autheurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques in Paris. He is an active member of the New York Academy of Sciences and of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences in Washington DC. He is also member and advisor for the AIVAC - Association Internationale pour la Video dans les Arts et la Culture, in Locarno and Lausanne; and founding member of the International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry - ISIS Symmetry, with main offices in Budapest. On music, he studied with Hans Joachim Koellreutter (pupil of Paul Hindemith, Marcel Moyse), Conrado Silva (Karlheinz Stockhausen), Demetrio Lima and Holger Czukai (Karlheinz Stockhausen) among others. As Architect he studied with Eduardo Kneese de Mello (Alvar Aalto, Walter Gropius) and Eduardo Corona, among others. He took part in various workshops and master classes with Kenzo Tange, Oscar Niemeyer, Yona Friedman, Peter Cook (Archigram) and Charles Moore among others. He collaborated with John Cage, for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, from 1986 until his disappearance in 1992. He remains commissioned composer for Merce Cunningham, in New York, since then. His musical compositions have been played by important musicians like David Tudor, Takehisa Kosugi, Maurizio Barbetti, John Tilbury, Martha Mooke, John DS Adams, Christian Wolff, Michael Pugliese and the Manhattan Quartet among others. His compositions had been performed in several theatres all over the world, like the City Center Theatre and The Kitchen in New York, the La Villette Theatre in Paris, the Shinjuku Bunka Center in Tokyo or the Sao Paulo Museum of Modern Art among many others. He is Editorial Director of the art and culture magazine RISK Arte Oggi, in Milan, Italy, since 1992. He is member of the jury of the BES Fellowship - Experimental Intermedia Foundation of New York, Luso American Foundation and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation - since 1995. In the early 80s Emanuel Pimenta coined the concept "virtual architecture", later largely used. In the end of the 70s, he had begun the development of a new graphical musical notation inside virtual environments, using computer graphics. Mr. Pimenta has been invited, as professor and lecturer, by several institutions, like the Universities of New York, Lisbon, Lausanne, Tsukuba, Sao Paulo, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Monte Verita Foundation in Switzerland and the Technion Institute in Haifa, Israel among others. His works are included in the Universalis Encyclopaedia (Britannica), in the Sloninsky Baker's Music Dictionary (Berkeley), in the Chronology of the Classical Western Music by Charles Hall as well as in the All Music Guide - The Expert's Guide to the Best Cds. He has his works, cd-roms, audio cds, various books and papers published in England, the United States, Japan, the Netherlands, Portugal, Brazil, Germany, Switzerland, Hungary, Italy and Spain. Articles on his works have been constantly published in different newspapers and magazines, like the New York Times, Le Monde, Le Parisien, O Estado de Sao Paulo and O Globo among others. He develops his compositions of contemporary music using Virtual Reality and Cyberspace technologies. His works have been exhibited and integrate the collections of several institutions of the world, like the Whitney Museum of New York, the Computer Art Museum of Seattle, the ARS AEVI Contemporary Art Museum, the MART - Contemporary Art Museum of Rovereto and Trento, the Durini Art Collection, the Bibliotèque Nationale de Paris and the Biennial of Sao Paulo among others. Acting as Director of the Holotopia Contemporary Music Festical, in Naples, he also has been curator for several institutions like the Biennial Foundation of Sao Paulo, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Experimenta Design Foundation and the Belem Cultural Centre in Lisbon among others.
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Title of work | Date | Commissioning body | URL | Town | Country | Notes | Invisible Column 0 | Invisible Column |
Kirkos - A Dialogue Between Marcel Duchamp and Josquin des Prés | 2004 | Alberto del Genio | Italy | Notes | ||||
HLMRPHSS | 2000 | Emmanuele Leone and Paloma Aguirre de Cárcer | Spain | Notes | ||||
Diary of Seychelles | 2004 | Lucrezia De Domizio Durini | Italy | Notes | ||||
Olivestone | 2004 | Lucrezia De Domizio Durini | Italy | Notes | ||||
Difesa della Natura | 1998 | Lucrezia De Domizio Durini | Italy | Notes | ||||
Title of work | Name of Award | Prize | Date | Awarding body | URL | Town | Country | Notes | Invisible Column | Invisible Column 2 |
Lac Maggiore Award | 1994 | Lombardia Government / Unesco / European Council | URL | Italy | Notes | http://www.regione.lombardia.it/ | ||||
APCA Award | 1986 | São Paulo Art Critics Association | URL | São Paulo | Brazil | Notes | http://www.apca.org.br/ | |||
Marketing Mention | 1977 | Brazilian Marketing Association | Brazil | Notes | ||||||
Work | Type | Date | Organization/Event | Local | Town | Country | Performer(s) | Notes | Invisible Column |
Short Waves 1985 | Pre-premiere | Notes | |||||||
METANOIA | Premiere | 2018/Nov/17 | Batalha Monastery | Batalha | Portugal | Audrey Riley . cello Laetitia Grimaldi . soprano |
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Terra | Premiere | 2017/Jun/14 | Terra | Trinity Chapel, De Montfort University | Leicester | United Kingdom | Audrey Riley, cello | Notes | |
Voyager 66 | Premiere | 2014/Dec/14 | Experimental Intermedia Foundation | New York | United States of America | Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta, electronics | Notes | ||
Atrahasis | Premiere | 2012/Aug/04 | Salina Galia | Trapani | Italy | Notes | |||
M | Premiere | 2012/Mar/29 | Experimental Intermedia Foundation | New York | United States of America | Notes | |||
Beethoven's Cage | Premiere | 2012/Mar/29 | Experimental Intermedia Foundation | New York | United States of America | Notes | |||
Ocean2 | Premiere | 2012/Mar/29 | Experimental Intermedia Foundation | New York | United States of America | Notes | |||
Stliz | Premiere | 2012/Jan/21 | Teatro della Fortuna | Puglia | Italy | Maurizio Barbetti, viola Francesco Cuoghi, guitar and live electronics Giuliano Mammoli, video art and installation | Notes | ||
SBbr | Performance | 2011/Apr/28 | Opéra National de Lorraine | Nancy | France | Emanuel Pimenta (radio, flute and electronics), Etienne Caillet (radio, trumpet and electronics) | Notes | 3rd Version choreography: Merce Cunningham design: Dove Bradshaw | |
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. X | Pre-premiere | 2009/Aug/28 | Babylon Cinema | Berlin | Germany | Notes | |||
18/6 | Performance | 2009/Aug/28 | Babylon Cinema | Berlin | Germany | Notes | |||
Yarnam | Performance | 2009/Aug/28 | Babylon Cinema | Berlin | Germany | Notes | |||
Kirkos - A Dialogue Between Marcel Duchamp and Josquin des Prés | Performance | 2009/Aug/28 | Babylone Cinema | Berlin | Germany | Notes | |||
Concerto MAT | Premiere | 2009/Jul/05 | Zentre Kultursommer | Oldenburg | Germany | Maurizio Barbetti (viola), Francesco Cuoghi (guitar and electronics) | Notes | ||
Lepton | Premiere | 2009/Jun/14 | Archetime | The Tank space for performing and visual arts | New York | United States of America | Notes | ||
Vestígios de Kepler | Premiere | 2007/Jun/23 | Art and Science International Meeting . The Spirit of Discovery 2 | Santa Luzia Romanesque Church | Trancoso | Portugal | Audrey Riley (cello) | Notes | |
Ghed | Premiere | 2007/Apr/28 | Trancoso | Portugal | Maurizio Barbetti (viola) | Notes | |||
WAR/RAW | Premiere | 2005/Sep/18 | Música Viva 2005 Festival | Oeiras Centre for Social Support | Oeiras | Portugal | Notes | ||
Ocean | Pre-premiere | 2005/Apr/29 | EPFL | Lausanne | Switzerland | Notes | |||
Fifteen Stones | Premiere | 2004/Nov/23 | Monte Verita | Ascona | Italy | Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta (piano and computer) | Notes | ||
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. X | Premiere | 2004/Jul/24 | Holotopia - Contemporary Experimental Music Festival | Punta Campanella | Italy | Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta (computer) | Notes | Premièred alongside the film by Rouben Mamoulian | |
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Kirkos - A Dialogue Between Marcel Duchamp and Josquin des Prés | Premiere | 2004/Jun/17 | Saint Marcelino Church | Naples | Italy | Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta (computer) | Notes | ||
SBbr | Performance | 2002 | Lincoln Center | New York | United States of America | Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta (computer, flute), Takehisa Kosugi (violin), Christian Wolff (piano) | Notes | 2nd Version | |
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18/6 | Premiere | 2002 | "The Silence of the Music" Exhibition | MART - Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Rovereto e Trento | Italy | Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta (computer) | Notes | This exhibition took place on the occasion of the commemorations of the 10th anniversary of John Cage's death | |
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Mesostic | Premiere | 2002 | Commemorations of the 10th Anniversary of John Cage's death | San Marino | Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta (computer) | Notes | |||
Cage | Premiere | 2002 | Commemorations of the 10th Anniversary of John Cage's death | San Marino | Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta (computer) | Notes | |||
Concert for Frogs and Crickets | Premiere | 2002 | Commemorations of the 10th Anniversary of John Cage's death | San Marino | Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta (computer) | Notes | |||
Sun | Premiere | 2002 | Commemorations of the 10th Anniversary of John Cage's death | San Marino | Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta (computer) | Notes | |||
Short Waves 1985 | Premiere | 2002 | Lincoln Center | New York | United States of America | Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta (computer, flute), Takehisa Kosugi (violin), Christian Wolff (piano) | Notes | ||
X | Premiere | ~ 2000/Sep | "Turning Point" Exhibition, by Omar Galliani | Foz Palace | Lisbon | Portugal | Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta (computer) | Notes | |
HLMRPHSS | Premiere | 2000/May/24 | Projecto "Punto 1.9" | MEIAC - Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporaneo | Badajoz | Spain | Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta (computer) | Notes | Project led by the Spanish group 4 X L Olga Mesa (choreography) |
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Dark Central Park | Premiere | 2000 | Ars Electronica | Linz | Austria | Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta (computer) | Notes | ||
Book One | Premiere | ~ 1997 | Lisbon | Portugal | Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta (computer) | Notes | |||
Microcosmos | Premiere | 1995 | Montpellier | France | Notes | Première of the choreography Windows, by Merce Cunningham | |||
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Gravitational Sounds | Premiere | 1991 | United States of America | Notes | Première of the choregraphy Trackers, by Merce Cunningham | ||||
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SBbr | Premiere | 1987 | United States of America | Notes | 1st Version Premiere performance of Merce Cunningham's choreography, "Fabrications" | ||||
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Short Waves 1985 | Premiere | 1987 | United States of America | Notes | Première of the choreography Fabrications, by Merce Cunningham | ||||
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Description of Activity | Designation | Period | Organization | URL | Venue | Town | Country | Notes | Invisible Column | |
Affiliation with Institutions | Founder Member of the European Environmental Tribunal | 1995 | http://www.eeft.org/eeft.html | Brussels | Belgium | Notes | ||||
Affiliation with Institutions | Curator of the Foundation São Paulo Bienal | Foundation São Paulo Bienal | URL | São Paulo | Brazil | Notes | http://bienalsaopaulo.globo.com/ | |||
Affiliation with Institutions | Member of the New York Academy of Sciences | New York Academy of Sciences | URL | New York | United States of America | Notes | http://www.nyas.org/ | |||
Affiliation with Institutions | Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science | American Association for the Advancement of Science | URL | Washington DC | United States of America | Notes | http://www.aaas.org/ | |||
Affiliation with Institutions | Member of the Societè des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques | SACD - Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques | URL | Paris | France | Notes | http://www.sacd.fr/ | |||
Affiliation with Institutions | Founder Member | International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry - ISIS Symmetry | URL | Budapest | Hungary | Notes | http://www.asa-art.com/isis/isis2.htm | |||
Affiliation with Institutions | Curator of the Trienal of Milan | Trienal of Milan | Milan | Italy | Notes | |||||
Affiliation with Institutions | Curator | Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation | URL | Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation | Lisbon | Portugal | Notes | http://www.gulbenkian.pt | ||
Affiliation with Institutions | Curator of ExperimentaDesign | ExperimentaDesign - Lisbon Bienal | URL | Lisbon | Portugal | Notes | http://www.experimentadesign.pt/ | |||
Affiliation with Institutions | Consultant Member of the Association Internationale pour la Vidéo dans les Arts et la Culture | - 2002/Sep/16 | Association Internationale pour la Vidéo dans les Arts et la Culture | URL | Locarno and Lausanne | Switzerland | Notes | http://www.tinet.ch/videoart/aivac.html | This association ended in 2002, after Rinaldo Bianda's death | |
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Competition Jury | Ernesto de Sousa Grant Jury Member | 1995 | FLAD - Luso-American Foundation for Development / Experimental Intermedia Foundation (New York) | URL | Portugal | Notes | http://www.asa-art.com/bes/1.htm | |||
Lectures | Speaker | Technion Technology Institute | Haifa | Israel | Notes | |||||
Lectures | Speaker | Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation | URL | Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation | Lisbon | Portugal | Notes | http://www.gulbenkian.pt | ||
Lectures | Speaker | Monte Verita Foundation | Switzerland | Notes | ||||||
Lectures | Conferencista | 2010/Oct/22 - 2010/Oct/23 | URL | Monte Verita Foundation | Locarno | Italy | Notes | http://www.emanuelpimenta.net/lectures/limit2010/1.html | ||
Lectures | WAR - World and Revolution / RAW - Random Accelerating World | - 2005/Sep/18 | Música Viva 2005 Festival | URL | Oeiras Centre for Social Support | Oeiras | Portugal | Notes | http://www.misomusic.com/ | |
Other | Drawer | - 1998 | Italy | Notes | Drawings of virtual music for the book Aldo Roda - The Thought Takes Shape, by Lucrezia De Domizio Durini (Il Clavicembalo, Milano, 1998) | |||||
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Other | Graphic Designer | - 1985 | Brazil | Notes | Graphic designer for the poem/visual book Vocogramas, by Décio Pignatari, conceived for the Mexican magazine "Plural" (Octavio Paz). Published in 1985 by the Federal University of Salvador da Bahia (Brazil). | |||||
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Publishing | Editorial Director of the Arts and Culture Magazine RISK - Arte Oggi | RISK - Arte Oggi | URL | Milan | Italy | Notes | http://www.asa-art.com/risk/1.html | |||
Publishing | Consultant of the Forma Magazine | Forma | Tokyo | Japan | Notes | |||||
Publishing | Consultant of the ArtEtics magazine | ArtEtics | Bristol | United Kingdom | Notes | |||||
Teaching | Guest Teacher | University of São Paulo | URL | University of São Paulo | São Paulo | Brazil | Notes | http://www.usp.br/ | ||
Teaching | Guest Teacher | New York University | URL | New York University | New York | United States of America | Notes | http://www.nyu.edu/ | ||
Teaching | Guest Teacher | University of Tsukuba | URL | University of Tsukuba | Tsukuba | Japan | Notes | http://www.tsukuba.ac.jp/eng/ | ||
Teaching | Invited Teacher | University of Lausanne | URL | University of Lausanne | Lausanne | Switzerland | Notes | http://www.unil.ch/central/page2192_fr.html | ||