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Eduardo Luís Patriarca In Focus on the MIC.PT in May
In May the MIC.PT In Focus section is dedicated to the work of Eduardo Luís Patriarca, composer (published by the MIC.PT), who in 2020 celebrates his 50th anniversary.
Eduardo Luís Patriarca is connected with the spectral school. In his artistic production he's inspired by Buddhist reflection, as well as Zen and Taoist philosophy. In the process of his education he had the opportunity to work with Álvaro Salazar, António Pinho Vargas, Cândido Lima, Emmanuel Nunes and Jorge Peixinho (among various other Portuguese and foreign composers). Presently, his music is being regularly performed in Portugal and abroad.
Thus writes Virgílio Melo in the New Music Review Lounge: "It's quite common to associate the term serial to «sawtooth» melodies and lack of repetition, the post-modern to referential juxtaposition of various pastiches, and so on. In the case of Eduardo Patriarca such generalisations seem slippery and counterproductive. All the more, since the composer has always admitted being influenced by the spectral aesthetics, which is usually connoted with a discourse of slow evolution and interleaving, occasionally stimulated by shocks as if they were transcriptions of a sonic spectrum. Now, there's nothing more inadequate than to apply such images to describe the work of Patriarca..."
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New MIC.PT Interviews to Portuguese Composers
In May the MIC.PT releases five more 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. The interviews were filmed and recorded at the O’culto da Ajuda in Lisbon and 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 five brand new videos with: António de Sousa Dias, Carlos Marecos, David Miguel, João Quinteiro and Sara Carvalho.
To access the videos follow the links below and/ or visit the >> MIC.PT YouTube Channel and the >> Miso Music Portugal YouTube Channel. The music excerpts for each of the interviews are available on the >> MIC.PT SoundCloud or on the composers' YouTube channles and/ or SoundCloud pages; the links for each of the excerpts can be found in the descriptions below the videos.
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MIC.PT Highlights
1st on-line Meeting · Portuguese Music Perspectives – Network Cooperation
The 1st on-line Meeting · Portuguese Music Perspectives – Network Cooperation, organised by the MIC.PT, will take place on May 29. The Meeting's objective is to get together formal and informal Portuguese entities (organisations, associations, education and research centres, orchestras, instrumental and vocal ensembles, ...), dedicated to the dissemination of Invention and Research Music in Portugal. The aim of organising this Meeting is to unanimously communicate to the public agents responsible for creating the programming and support distribution rules, the priceless value which Invention and Research Music and its composers constitute within the cultural identity of Portugal. This event is focused on establishing a platform of exchange of knowledge on the various participating entities (their activities and strategies) and on analysing and debating their problems, in order to create a mutual strategy. This plan will indicate solutions allowing for a mid-term improvement of the situation of Invention and Research Music and its composers in Portugal. The Meeting was initially planned to integrate the Música Viva 2020 Festival. However, taking into consideration the rules of social distancing resulting from the coronavirus pandemic, the organisers have decided to carry out this Meeting on-line. It will be followed with a "face-to-face" event when the global situation improves.
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Música Viva 2020 Festival · New Dates in November
Due to the circumstances caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the Miso Music Portugal has announced new dates of the Música Viva 2020 Festival, which was initially planned for the final of May/ begin of June. In this sense, this year the Festival will take place between November 6 and 15 in Lisbon (O'culto da Ajuda, São Luiz Municipal Theatre,...). The detailed programme of the Festival, which due to the postponement will also suffer from changes, will be announced soon. Aditionally, the EASTN-DC [European Art-Science-Technology Network for Digital Creativity] Festival, which was to take place during the MV 2020, will also have new dates – November 20 and 21. Every year the Música Viva Festival is a celebration of Research and Invention Music, with focus on the music by composers residing in Portugal (many of them published by the MIC.PT). In this context, during the MV 2020 opening concert – Portuguese Music Sceneries –, on November 6 at the São Luís Municipal Theatre, the three ensembles – Ensemble MPMP, Lisbon Contemporary Music Group and Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble –, will perform the music by: Bruno Gabirro, Carlos Brito Dias, Carlos Caires, Clotilde Rosa, Constança Capdeville, Diogo Novo Carvalho, João Godinho, Jorge Peixinho, Miguel Azguime and Paulo Ferreira-Lopes, among others.
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New Audio Editions with Music by Portuguese Composers
This month the Miso Records, in partnership with the MIC.PT, releases two new audio editions dedicated to the music by the composers residing in Portugal and published by the MIC.PT. The first one constitutes the fourth volume of the visit to the universe of new chamber music performed by the Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble – Portuguese Chamber Music of the XXI. This new edition is composed of six works: Purity 1 (2014) by Paulo Ferreira-Lopes, Equilíbrio (2017) by Gonçalo Gato, Konvolut (2014-15) by Luís Antunes Pena, Le Navigateur du Soleil Incandescent/ Quatrième Lettre (2010) by Isabel Soveral, Instabile Tempus (2016) by Patrícia Sucena de Almeida and
Asper (2016) by Ricardo Ribeiro. The second audio release is dedicated to the Music Theatre project for the youth, in the framework of which the Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble performs five works: Toc, Toc, Toc (2009) by João Madureira to the tale by Hélia Correia, Quando eu nasci (2011) by Pedro Rebelo to the tale by Isabel Minhós Martins, Ao Desconcerto do Mundo (2014) by Ângela da Ponte to the poem by Luís Vaz de Camões, Sonho (2015) by Daniel Martinho to the poetry by Fernando Pessoa and Fala do velho do Restelo ao astronauta (2015) by Sofia Sousa Rocha to the poem by José Saramago. The digital booklets included in these two releases contain direct links to the MIC.PT pages with detailed information – instrumentation, programme notes, circulation, ..., – concerning all the works.
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MÚSICA HOJE ON ANTENA 2
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New CD releases with Portuguese Music ·
João Castro Pinto
A broadcast dedicated to the dissemination of recent releases with electroacoustic music by the composer João Castro Pinto. This time the Música Hoje (Music Today) presents Hiante, a CD-book of electroacoustic poetry with illustrations, poems and voice of Sofia A. Carvalho, combined with the music and illustrations by João Castro Pinto. It was released by the Grimaces Éditions (Switzerland). During this programme we'll also listen to João Castro Pinto's other new compositions, which have been recently released on his new monographic soundscape composition project The No Land Soundscape. This new edition by the Australian label Hemisphäre の空虚 has a double format – cassette and digital download.
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New CD releases with Portuguese Music · João Pedro Oliveira
The Música Hoje (Music Today) continues to disseminate contemporary music, dedicating some programmes to recent CD editions with music by Portuguese composers. This broadcast is dedicated to the 2019 CD by the Sigma Duo, with pieces by João Pedro Oliveira. The Sigma Duo – formed by the cellist Miguel Rocha and the pianist Ana Cláudia Assis – released a CD entirely dedicated to the music by João Pedro Oliveira, in the year when this composer celebrated his 60th anniversary. In some cases the Duo is joined by other musicians to perform the composer's works.
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New CD releases with Portuguese Music · Filipe Pires
The Música Hoje (Music Today) presents the CD Filipe Pires – Chamber Music by the Lisbon Contemporary Music Group. This CD is entirely dedicated to the chamber music by Filipe Pires, with his works composed between 1966 and 2004. It was released in 2019 by La mà de Guido, a Catalan label dedicated to Iberian music, which since 1990s has released a great quantity of CDs with contemporary music. Filipe Pires passed away in 2015, having been author of a vast vocal, instrumental and electroacoustic work, including music theatre and dance pieces. It's an opportunity to get to know better his chamber works performed by the Lisbon Contemporary Music Group, an ensemble whose impact has been crucial when it comes to disseminating new music in Portugal. |
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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Ângela da Ponte (APon0005)
Ao Desconcerto do Mundo (2014) · narrator, ensemble and electronics
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Jaime Reis (JReis0005 · partitura didáctica)
Fluxus, Transitional Flow (2013) · viola and electronics
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Manuel Brásio (MBra0002)
Digitrip (2017) · violin, viola and cello
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Featured News
#MúsicaEmCasa (#MusicAtHome) · Portuguese musicians on-line · Antena 2 Initiative
In April the >> Antena 2 (Portuguese national broadcaster) has released an initiative, #MúsicaEmCasa (#MusicAtHome), directed to Portuguese musicians (composers, soloists, ensembles, conductors) and to their audiences, during the time of social distancing. It's a platform for sharing on-line sites (links to YouTube, SoundCloud channels, ...), where the artists upload concerts and diverse music contents. "The days of confinement, resulting from the state of emergency, have changed music and culture consumption by the Portuguese" – says João Almeida, >> Antena 2 director. And he continues: "Not being able to go to performance venues, the citizens have started looking for digital alternatives. The culture institutions have multiplied the on-line offers, trying to bridge this gap and facilitating the access to culture. On its part, the community of Portuguese musicians has suffered from numerous cancellations of live performances, for being incompatible with the social distancing strategy necessary to fight against the Covid-19. Thus, using social networks and YouTube/ SoundCloud channels, ..., the musicians upload audio/ video recordings or organise live on-line concerts as a manner to go against the social distancing and to promote their art. Joining this strategy of disseminating the music made in Portugal, the >> Antena 2 invites composers, soloists, ensembles and conductors from the area of classical music, and who reside in Portugal, to share there on-line channels by simply sending links to the following e-mail: >rdp.antena2[at]rtp.pt<". The >> on-line Platform created by the >> Antena 2 already contains numerous links to the on-line channels of Portuguese musicians, including various composers published by the MIC.PT: Daniel Davis, Hugo Vasco Reis, Miguel Azguime and Paulo Bastos.
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In the 1st Person Cycle · Música Hoje (Music Today) – Radio Broadcast
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