Composer and PhD researcher at the FCSH/ Kunstuniversität Graz/ Fondazionne Archivio Luigi Nono and member of the Concrète [Lab] Ensemble, João Quinteiro is In Focus on MIC.PT in March.
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This work contains excerpts of texts by Paul Gauguin translated to Portuguese
Instrumentation
Musical Category Electroacoustic Music ("tape music")
Instrumentation (general) Electroacoustic
Text / Lyrics
Author of the Text Paul Gaugin
Title of Poem or Text -
Program Notes
Noa–Noa, Tribute to Gauguin was composed in 1995 at the Centro de Criação de Informática Musical of the Portuguese Music Youth. The piece is a kind of electro acoustic sigh, after an inebriated journey into Gauguin's world of Tahiti. As a literary base, the piece has excerpts of a book by the painter himself, Noa-Noa, in which he tells us about life episodes with the natives, from fishing to love, and always with the existing perfume in the islands (Noa-Noa) present in every line. If this small piece, by any chance, has also lines and paragraphs and exclamations, then it was the composer’s wish to create a constant musical perfume, or by other words, a present musical “Noa-Noa”. The speaker heard in the piece is Pedro Sol.
Prizes
Name of Award Electroacoustic Music Competition Música Viva 2000