Works

Instrumentation (detailed)

Strings (plucked / bowed)

~ Strings

Performer(s)

Clepsidra, for string orchestra, was written in September 1998. At its first performance witch took place in Lisbon on November 1998, it was played by the Sinfonietta de Lisboa, conducted by Vasco Azevedo. This piece establishes several sets of relationships between two aspects of the same basic material trough process of gradual transformation. Thus, developing from homophonic rhythmic regularity to irregular asynchronous polyphony, from irregular asynchronous polyphony to parallel movement, from slow stable textures to fast energetic melodic shapes and so on. The static beat of a clockwork mechanism and the wildness of a troubled water stream, suggested the name Clepsidra (the ancient Greek water clock)

Work	Type	Date	Organization/Event	Venue	Town	Country	Performers	Notes	Inv Row
Clepsidra	Performance	2006/Sep/23	Música Viva 2006 Festival	Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation - Great Hall	Lisbon	Portugal	Gulbenkian Orchestra Pedro Pinto Figueiredo (conductor)	Notes
Clepsidra	Premiere	1998/Nov/01			Lisbon	Portugal	Lisbon Sinfonietta Vasco Pearce de Azevedo (conductor)	Notes

Documents
	Type (+ sub-type)	Cover/edition title Document title	Authors	Referring to	Publisher	Date
	Audio	[sem título]		clepsidra Carlos Caires
	Scores	Carlos Caires | Clepsidra  Clepsidra		clepsidra Carlos Caires	Centro de Investigação & Informação da Música Portuguesa	2011 1998