Works

Instrumentation (detailed)

Electronic / Electroacoustic

Electroacoustics

Time Warp (2002) is an electronic music piece that deals with the concept of musical time as a flexible dimension whose ethereal nature can play with one’s perception. The goal of this piece was the creation of a sonic ambience that could halt one’s psychological ties with time, suspending it and stretching it, thus allowing to experience a warped and different Time. Simplicity and sensuality were two major ideas that were present from the very beginning. Simplicity of formal processes and formal design with very few sound sources that reoccur unchanged in a simple cyclic way. Simplicity also by giving the work a constant harmonic identity which arises from an omnipresent perfect major chord. And sensuality in the inner color and sweetness of the sounds and in the transformations that they go through. In the first section of the piece I used a portion of a cantus firmus, a gradual ("Os iusti"), that weaves in and out of the texture. This found object appears virtually unprocessed, and melts into the soundscape with its timeless feeling, giving the whole atmosphere both a nostalgic and ecstatic sound. Tomás Henriques

Work	Type	Date	Organization/Event	Venue	Town	Country	Performers	Notes	Inv Row
Time Warp	Premiere	2002/Mar/31	Música Viva Festival 2002	Belém Cultural Centre	Lisbon	Portugal		Notes
Time Warp	Performance	2007/Apr/20	SARC / Sonorities / Circuits	Sonic Lab	Belfast	United Kingdom		Notes
Time Warp	Performance	2006/Apr/01	Circuits - L'Itinéraire II de Nuit	Maison Internationale (CIUP)	Paris	France		Notes
Time Warp	Performance	2008/Feb/12	IDKA / ICEM	IDKA	Gävle	Sweden		Notes
Time Warp	Performance	2008/Mar/26	Seia Conservatory of Music / Electroacoustic Music Days	Seia Conservatory of Music	Seia	Portugal		Notes
Time Warp	Performance	2008/Jun/04	IMEB - Synthèse 2008	Théâtre Jacques Coeur	Bourges	France		Notes

Documents
	Type (+ sub-type)	Cover/edition title Document title	Authors	Referring to	Publisher	Date
	Audio	Electronic Music - Vol. I & II Portuguese Composers Música Viva Competition  Time Warp		time warp Tomás Henriques	Miso Records	2004