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Derivação (Derivation) is a composition for piano where I explore derivation as the fundamental technique to create musical discourse. The initial musical material is somewhat void, neutral, a raw material to be subjected to subsequent derivative processes. Composing is frequently about the exploration of a given material’s potentialities, and, often, the right moment to inject new ideas is when the preceding ones have been sufficiently exploited. This creates the need for music renewal. Because this simple premise lies at the core of this composition, it can be considered as a kind of freedom manifesto: freedom to have no predefined sections, freedom to use no rigid compositional schemes (or systems), freedom to make use of intuition.

Gonçalo Gato

Work	Type	Date	Organization/Event	Venue	Town	Country	Performers	Notes	Inv Row
Derivação	Premiere	2008/Jul/26	Póvoa de Varzim Municipality / XXX Póvoa de Varzim International Music Festival	City Concert Hall	Póvoa de Varzim	Portugal	Camerata Senza Misura	Notes

Documents
	Type (+ sub-type)	Cover/edition title Document title	Authors	Referring to	Publisher	Date
	Audio	Gonçalo Gato · NowState  Derivação		derivacao Gonçalo Gato	KAIROS	2020 2020
	Audio	Festival Internacional de Música da Póvoa de Varzim Hugo Ribeiro Gonçalo Gato Fátima Fonte Ana Seara António Pinho Vargas  Derivação		derivacao Gonçalo Gato	Numérica	2009