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Editorial
Due to a high number of cancellations/ postponements of performances and other events (meetings, conferences...) caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the MIC.PT temporarily suspends their dissemination through the Concert/ Performance Agenda, in the social networks as well as in the next Newsletter(s), in the section Activity – Composers published by the MIC.PT.
Consequently, in order to continue the dissemination of the music by the Composers Published by the MIC.PT, we will resort to the materials available on our website (on-line and/ or in our archives), as well as to other materials provided by the Composers.
We are fully aware of the very significant negative impact, which this crisis has and will have in various areas of Arts and Culture. However, it's also in these situations that the need to promote Art as one of the fundamental vehicles constituting our human condition, becomes even more urgent.
Our mission of promoting the music by Composers residing in Portugal remains unchanged, being that the dissemination of artistic creation through the internet is presently one of our priorities.
Our April Newsletter will feature the premiere of a new series of videos with Interviews to Portuguese Composers (in Portuguese), available on the >> MIC.PT YouTube Channel and on the >> Miso Music Portugal YouTube Channel. We also invite you to (re)visit the 38 programmes of the Na 1.ª Pessoa (In the 1st Person) Cycle within the Música Hoje (Music Today) radio broadcast (in Portuguese). Additionally, we introduce a new temporary section created for the time of social distancing, Composers On-line, where we disseminate virtual initiatives of the Composers Published by the MIC.PT.
The MIC.PT Team
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New MIC.PT Interviews to Portuguese Composers
In April the MIC.PT releases a new series of videos with conversations by Pedro Boléo with Composers residing in Portugal. The videos are available on the >> MIC.PT YouTube Channel and on the >> Miso Music Portugal YouTube Channel.
These new interviews (in Portuguese) have emerged in the context of the Na 1.ª Pessoa (In the 1st Person) cycle of the Música Hoje (Music Today) radio broadcast produced by the MIC.PT and the Miso Music Portugal for the >> Antena 2, having been filmed at the O’culto da Ajuda in Lisbon. They constitute a revisit to the creative universe of the various Composers Published by the MIC.PT, following the already historical interviews realised by the MIC.PT more than 15 years ago.
In this sense this month we present six brand new videos with: Amílcar Vasques-Dias, Daniel Schvetz, Isabel Soveral, Jaime Reis, Patrícia Sucena de Almeida and Rui Penha. The release of five more interviews will take place in May.
In order to access the videos follow the links below and/ or visit the >> MIC.PT YouTube Channel and the >> Miso Music Portugal YouTube Channel. The musical excerpts for each of the interviews are available on the >> MIC.PT SoundCloud; the links for each of the excerpts can also be found in the descriptions below the videos.
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In the 1st Person Cycle · Música Hoje (Music Today) – Radio Broadcast
Composers on-line
In this temporary MIC.PT Newsletter section created for the time of social isolation, we promote virtual initiatives by the Composers Published by the MIC.PT – on-line concerts/ performances/ conferences, new creations, on-line premieres of new recordings, calls, ...
In this sense, we invite the Composers Published by the MIC.PT to share with us their on-line creations and/ or activities. |
Covid-19 Data Sonification #65 is the title of the new sonic creation by Pedro Rebelo, which is available on the >> Vimeo Channel of this composer published by the MIC.PT. "Data sonification maps statistical figures to sound and is used to explore data patterns through time. This project uses data from the World Health Organization Situation Reports in which global figures are presented for population infected with Covid-19 and new deaths related to the virus by day, between the 21st January 2020 and the 25th March 2020" – explains Pedro Rebelo. For more details concerning Pedro Rebelo's new project, follow the link:
>> Covid-19 Data Sonification #65.
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MÚSICA HOJE ON ANTENA 2
3 / 04, at 1h00 a.m.
In the 1st Person: Sara Carvalho
The In the 1st Person Cycle, with interviews to contemporary composers residing in Portugal, continues with a conversation with Sara Carvalho. Apart form being a composer Sara Carvalho is professor and researcher at the University of Aveiro in the areas of Composition and Music Education. As composer Sara Carvalho has been particularly interested in the interaction between performative arts, as well as in all the aspects associated with the narrative, music gesture and collaboration between composition and performance. She has composed chamber and orchestral music works, regularly performed both in Portugal and abroad. In 2012 the Numérica label released her first monographic CD, 7 Pomegranate Seeds. Many of her scores are published by the Portuguese Music Research and Information Centre – MIC.PT.
17 / 04, at 1h00 a.m.
New CD releases with Portuguese Music
Música Hoje (Music Today) continues to disseminate contemporary music, giving space to some programmes dedicated to new CDs with music by Portuguese composers. Thus, we interrupt temporarily our cycle Na 1.ª Pessoa (In the 1st Person) with interviews to contemporary composers. It will be resumed as soon as it becomes possible.
In this programme we will listen to some of the more recent recordings made by the pianist Joana Gama: the CD Arcueil released last year (Miasoave & BOCA), including works by Marco Franco and Vítor Rua, along with pieces by John Cage, Morton Feldman, Erik Satie and Federico Mompou; and her CD dedicated to Fernando Lopes-Graça and Amílcar Vasques-Dias, Travels in my homeland/ Viagens na minha terra (Grand Piano Records).
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New scores on the MIC.PT
 The score edition by the MIC.PT aims at distributing scores of works by Portuguese composers, making them available on-line and thus pro-moting the choice of Portuguese mu-sic among musicians & researchers.
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Jaime Reis (JReis0004)
Voces Excipere (2017) · twelve voices
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Manuel Brásio (MBra0001)
Grubemanco (2015) · six clarinets and percussion
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Sara Carvalho (SC0019)
Begin at the beginning... (2010) · flute and guitar
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NEW CDs on the MIC.PT
Joana Gama ·
Arcueil
· Works by: Marco Franco · Erik Satie · Federico Mompou · John Cage · Morton Feldman · Vítor Rua
· Joana Gama · piano
Edition: Miasoave and BOCA
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Archipelago · Luís Tinoco
Drumming – Percussion Group
· Works by Luís Tinoco: Short Cuts (F) (2004) · Mind the Gap (2000) · Genetically Modified Fados (2018) · Zoom In – Zoom Out (2010) · Ends Meet (2002) · Archipelago (2019) · Steel Factory (2006)
Edition: Odradek Records
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RECENT PREMIERES
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Nel mezzo del cammin
3 / 03, National Museum of Ancient Art, Lisbon
Lisbon Ensemble 20/21
Pedro Pinto Figueiredo · musical direction
Marina Camponês (flute) · Filipe Dias (clarinet) · José Pereira (violin) · Ângela Carneiro (cello) · Paulo Pacheco (piano)
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Tríptico
5-7 / 03, Sobralinho Palace, Vila Franca de Xira
Sofia Silva (choreography) · Margarida Belo Costa, Teresa Alves da Silva (dancers) · Margarida Marecos (voice) · Instrumentistas (recordings): Daniel Bolito, Sara Llano (violin) · Leonor Fleming (viola) · Nuno Cardoso (cello) · Bruno Belthoise, João Costra Ferreira (piano) · Alexandre Lyra Leite (light design) · Rita Leite (graphic design) · Fernando Tavares (technical direction) · Alexandre Lyra Leite, Fátima Encarnado (photography) · Production – Inestética 2020
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Beyond the Void
10 / 03, Casa da Música, Porto
Pulsat Percussion Group · André Dias, Eduardo Cardinho, Nuno Simões and Pedro Góis
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MIC.PT Highlights
In March Manuel Brásio has joined the group of Composers Published by the MIC.PT, having presently one work in the Catalogue of Scores Published by the MIC.PT – Grubemanco (2015) for six clarinets and percussion. Additionally, six more scores of his authorship are being prepared to be published by the MIC.PT, during the months to come. Manuel Brásio, composer, sound designer and percussionist, graduated form Composition at the ESMAE in Porto, having worked with Filipe Vieira, Carlos Azevedo, Carlos Guedes, Fernando C. Lapa, Daniel Moreira, Pedro Santos, Dimitris Andrikopoulos, Eugénio Amorim, Rui Penha and Fredrick Gifford. Manuel Brásio was scholarship holder of the Gulbenkian Foundation in the framework of the Contemporary Music Experiences project. In July 2016 he made his Master's in Multimedia – Interactive Music and Sound Design at the FEUP. Presently, he directs associative projects dedicated to artistic invention, such as the AISCA (Viana do Castelo) and Interferência (Porto).
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World New Music Days 2020 in New Zealand · Festival Postponed
"With much sadness, I must announce that the double festival of >> ISCM World New Music Days and Asian Composers League Festival cannot take place in 2020. This difficult decision has been necessitated by recent global developments, as governments attempt to slow the spread of COVID-19" – announced the WNMD 2020 director Glenda Keam; and she continued: "The Composers Association of New Zealand (CANZ) has been asked by the ISCM to postpone the World New Music Days in New Zealand by two years, which would mean hosting the festival and General Assembly meetings in the year of the ISCM’s Centenary. CANZ is very hopeful that this will be possible, and that insofar as it is possible, the musical works that were carefully submitted and selected for performance this year will instead be presented in 2022." The WNMD 2020 programme has included three works by Portuguese composers, selected in the framework of the WMND 2020 oficial submission by the Miso Music Portugal/ MIC.PT, as Portuguese Section of the ISCM. The works are: over the sands time stands still (2016), for violin, cello and piano, by Sara Carvalho; Íris-abandono… (2016), for vibraphone, by Paulo Bastos; and Colours (here in) (2018), for mixed choir, by Daniel Davis.
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