Musical Category Electroacoustic Music ("tape music")
Instrumentation (general) Loudspeaker Orchestra
Premiere
Date 2024/May/12
Performer(s)
Filipe Esteves (sound spatialisation)
Organization/Event Festival Música Viva 2024
Venue O’culto da Ajuda
Town Lisbon
Country Portugal
Program Notes
This work can be considered the counterpart of my first monographic CD, published in 2021, entitled ‘Sul e Sueste’ (South and Southeast). While the motto for that CD was the city's ‘soundscape’, the idea for this one emerged from the domestic environment, based on the intentional listening to sound sources that tend to be obliterated or ignored in everyday life, either because they are almost inaudible or because of their permanence and vulgarity.
Thus, all the sound materials used in each of the pieces in this set derive from sources found at home; however, because they have been subjected to various types of processing, their causes are perceived in a reminiscent way, remaining vague and ambiguous.
Each composition is the result of an alchemy that seeks to transcend the ‘simple’ articulation/transmutation of its sound materials to form a singular, imaginary acoustic universe.