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Flute

A Walk in the Countryside, for flute, was commissioned by ensemble recherche for their flautist at the time, Martin Fahlenbock. The piece started as I imagined experiencing a surrounding countryside landscape. This kind of landscape is, in many ways, the opposite of a narrative: it is typically action-free. But because experience (being) involves time, even landscapes feature events that follow each other. The sounds of these virtual events can therefore exist independently or in relation to one another, thus creating an interplay between event and memory. That is to say that a soundscape can, in effect, turn into a composition. As the piece progresses, evocative sounds gradually turn into musical gestures.

Gonçalo Gato

Work	Type	Date	Organization/Event	Venue	Town	Country	Performers	Notes	Inv Row
A Walk in the Countryside	Performance	2017/Nov/06	World New Music Days 2017	ANNEX	Vancouver	Canada	Mark Takeshi McGregor · flute	Notes

Documents
	Type (+ sub-type)	Cover/edition title Document title	Authors	Referring to	Publisher	Date
	Audio	Gonçalo Gato · NowState  A Walk in the Countryside		a walk in the countryside Gonçalo Gato	KAIROS	2020 2020