Date 2011/Jun/11
Performer(s)
Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble, Ágata Mandillo (narrator)
Organization/Event Sond'Ar-te Residence in Cascais - Musical Theatre for Children
Venue Cascais Cultural Centre
Town Cascais
Country Portugal
Author of the Text Isabel Martins
Title of Poem or Text When I Was Born
Quando Eu Nasci · music by Pedro Rebelo and words by Isabel Minhós Martins
Commission by the
Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble
The piece is part of a project that aims to tell traditional tales and original stories as viewed by Portuguese composers today for both a younger and adult audience… The work is a large scale graphic score for narrator, flute, clarinet, violin, piano, cello and optional live electronics. The piece takes on a playful approach to gesture and narrative by using expressive graphic elements as a way of distributing musical material throughout the ensemble. The graphic notation strategy is derived from the work
Cipher Series (2010) and is conceived to be displayed to both musicians and audiences.
The premiere took place on the 11
th of June 2011 in Cascais (Portugal).
Pedro Rebelo
