Works

I. Aporia
II. As we turn into machines
III. Digital (tribute to Steve Reich)

Instrumentation (detailed)

Soloists

Piano

Performer(s)

NowState is a series of three short pieces for solo piano, commissioned by the Park Lane Group.

I. Aporia
The piece's's title comes from the Greek word aporia, meaning "difficulty", "perplexity". From aporos, "impassable". From a- + poros, "passage".

II. As we turn into machines
This piece is an exercise over the idea of turning a human being into a machine; the idea of mechanization and fusion between man and machine. The musical world builds on slow harmonic transformation and there is a sense of constrained freedom. There is also a sense of inevitability, of gradually coming back to what defines something; an inescapable gravitation.

III. Digital (tribute to Steve Reich)
This title alludes to the very coordinated movement of the pianist's fingers (the word digital can refer to fingers) but also to the characteristics of the digital world. Musically, I tried to explore the idea of turning the piano into a synthesizer.

Gonçalo Gato

Work	Type	Date	Organization/Event	Venue	Town	Country	Performers	Notes	Inv Row
NowState	Premiere	2019/Jan/18	SoundState Sessions Volume 3	Southbank Centre – Purcell Room	London	United Kingdom	Phillip Leslie · piano	Notes

Documents
	Type (+ sub-type)	Cover/edition title Document title	Authors	Referring to	Publisher	Date
	Audio	Gonçalo Gato · NowState  NowState		nowstate Gonçalo Gato	KAIROS	2020 2020