Commemorative Book dedicated to Miso Music Portugal
To mark the 40th anniversary of the Miso Ensemble and Miso Music Portugal (1985-2025), the book Sentem Sem Som Cem Sons Sempre was released last December...
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In this work, Race, I used a circus, parodic environment, as a frame to express what I feel in the face of some human behaviours: like the mixture of tragedy and ridicule, or simple joy mixed with hysteria, or the calm that comes from depression. It is music of extremes, where I did not contain my irony. I also gave in to abstraction, and punctuated the work with lighter passages carried by the flavour of timbre, harmony or the play between contrasting textures. Although I had no programmatic intentions, there is some theatricality inspired by the painting The Fight Between Carnival and Lent by Bruegel the Elder.
Eli Camargo Júnior, Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal, Winter of 2005