“Cascais’ Days”
In June, it will be Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble’s turn to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Miso Music Portugal as well as the 50th birthday anniversary of composer Miguel Azguime; the highlights will be the concert by the ensemble’s soloists entirely devoted to his work and the concert presenting the premiere of a collective work (the 3rd “cadavre exquis” of this season).
These events will take place at the Centro Cultural de Cascais in Cascais.
June 11, 2010
In the first of these 2 days of intense celebration, the Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble presents an Open Reading Session aiming to encourage the writing of repertoire for its formation as well as to provide an experimental laboratory for composers; later Sond'Ar-te’s soloists perform a monographic concert with works from Portuguese composer Miguel Azguime for it’s 50th anniversary.
3:00 p.m. – Open Reading Sessions
names of the 4 featured composers to be announced soon
9:30 p.m. – Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble‘s Soloists
Miguel Azguime’s 50th Anniversary
Ana Telles: piano
Nuno Pinto: clarinet
Suzanna Lidegran: violin
Marco Pereira: cello
Miguel Azguime: electronics
Miguel Azguime – De l’Étant Qui Le Nie
piano and electronics
(commission by the Culture Ministery)
Miguel Azguime – Soit Seul Sûr de Son
Violin
(commission by Casa da Música)
Miguel Azguime – Le Dicible Enfin Fini
electronics
Miguel Azguime – moment à l'extrêmement...
cello and electronics
(commission by Collectif éOle)
Miguel Azguime – No Oculto Profuso
clarinet and electronics
June 12, 2010
The Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble presents us with a set of pieces that account for the diversity and vibrancy of contemporary musical creation made by women, with a special highlight on the world premiere of Isabel Soveral’s piece. As for Cathy van Eck’s piece it results of an exchange partnership with the Flemish Section of the International Society for Contemporary Music.
Still as part of the celebration of Miso Music Portugal’s 25th anniversary, the Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble will be performing the premiere of a collective work, just like a surrealist "Cadavre Exquis", with the involvement of 20 composers from all four corners of the world.
9:30 p.m. – Concert by Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble
Pedro Neves: conductor
Monika Duarte Streitová: flute
Nuno Pinto: clarinet
Ana Telles: piano
Suzanna Lidegran: violin
Jorge Alves: viola
Filipe Quaresma: cello
Miguel Azguime: electronics
Paula Azguime: sound projection
Programme:
Patrícia Alessandrini – Arrangement in Gray and Black
(Award winning prize at the “Sond’Ar-te Composition Competition 2009 – Chamber Music with Electronics”)
Cathy van Eck – Zwischen Schlaf und Schlaf
Isabel Soveral – Le Navigateur du Soleil Incandescent /quatrième lettre
(world premiere)
25 Years / 25 Composers / 25 Minutes
Instrumental “Cadavre Exquis" (world premiere) with birthday gifts by:
António Chagas Rosa, Bertrand Dubedout, Carlos Azevedo, Clarence Barlow, Claude Ledoux, Daniel Schvetz, Emanuel Frazão, Isabel Pires, Ivo Nilson, Jesus Villa-Rojo, John McLachlan, Jonathan Harvey, José Eduardo Rocha, Leilei Tian, Masataka Matsuo, Michael Blake, Paula Azguime, Peter Swinnen, Philippe Leroux, Ricardo Ribeiro, Sara Carvalho, Takayuki Rai, Zuriñe Gerenabarrena
MÚSICA VIVA FESTIVAL 2010
Celebrating Miso Music Portugal’s 25 Years
While Miso Music Portugal celebrates a quarter of a century’s existence, Musica Viva Festival could not fail to be another great moment to demonstrate its strength and stamina.
As a key event for innovation, circulation and exchange of ideas and aesthetics, especially devoted to Portuguese composers and to the connections between music and technology, the Musica Viva Festival 2010 will bring us some of the most experienced and respected performers today, who will present pieces by renowned composers alongside those of young composers.
The Festival line-up will boast about 20 concerts and more than one hundred musical pieces as well as activities such as installations and audience awareness events. It will take place at the Belém Arts Centre, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Jerónimos Monastery and the Institut Franco-Portugais from September 10th to 25th, 2010.
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“A week in April”
In April 2010 Miso Music Portugal is throwing a week-long “party”: presenting concerts, children-oriented performances and the launching of new CDs. Furthermore, Miso Music Portugal is happy to highlight two world premieres: two collective works composed in a surrealist “cadavre exquis” way by more than 75 Portuguese and foreign composers, all of whom we had the great privilege and pleasure of working with over these last 25 years.
These events will take place at the Institut Franco-Portugais in Lisbon.
All performances at “A week in April” will be recorded and aired through RTP Antena 2 (National Music Radio).
April 13, 2010
“Contos Contados com Som”/ Sound Stories – Electroacoustic Theatre
Listening to a story, listening to the sense of the word with the help of the sound, letting imagination take flight with music. The narrator tells the story and the composer reveals it through sounds. The music travels in space embracing the children, taking them to an imaginary world, a kind of fairy tale with an altered reality, where everything is transformed and unveiled by the use of a small “loudspeaker orchestra” placed around the audience.
This project first started in 2006 and is thought for children of 4 to 12 years old. It is set out to show them the influence of technology in today’s music by providing them with a contact with new music technologies, stimulating children’s curiosity for sound and music events and promoting musical development through aural perception and creativity. 9 commissions already turned into sound stories and in 2010, 2 more are expected.
For children
Performances at 10:00 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 2:30 p.m. and 4:00 p.m
(pre booking required: phone number +351 214575068; email marta_catana@misomusic.com)
Paula Azguime: concept
Simão Costa: electronics and sound projection
Ágata Mandillo: selection, text adaptation and performer
Ana Mandillo: performer
Rosinda Costa: performer
Miso Studio: technics
Programme
"A Velha e o Ladrão"
music by Sérgio Pelágio/ story by António Torrado
(commission by Miso Music Portugal)
"Uma Mesa é uma Mesa. Será?"
music by José Luís Ferreira/ story by Isabel Martins
(commission by Miso Music Portugal)
"Quando eu Nasci"
music by Simão Costa/ story by Isabel Martins
(commission by Ecomuseu Municipal do Seixal)
"Nuno e os Monstros"
music by Isabel Soveral / story by Ágata Mandillo
(commission by Miso Music Portugal)
April 14, 2010
In this second day of celebration, we will have the first musical “cadavre exquis”, a collective work of portuguese composers, some well renowned and some young promising ones, in a concert by the Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble, conducted for the first time by Pedro Neves.
This concert also includes the premieres of Tiago Cutileiro’s piece co-comissioned by Miso Music Portugal and the Municipality of Lagos and of the award winning piece from the Sond’Ar-te Composition Competition 2009 – Chamber Music with Electronics.
Prior to the concert, the launching of the CD "Nuno Pinto - Clarinete Solo", with works by Portuguese composers only.
9:00 p.m. – Release of the CD "Nuno Pinto – Clarinete Solo"
presented by Ricardo Ribeiro; Nuno Pinto will perform On the Edge for solo clarinet by Sérgio Azevedo.
9:30 p.m. – Concert by Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble
Pedro Neves: conductor
Monika Duarte Streitová: flute
Nuno Pinto: clarinet
Ana Telles: piano
Suzanna Lidegran: violin
Nelson Ferreira: cello
Miguel Azguime, Patricia Alessandrini, Tiago Cutileiro: electronics
Paula Azguime: sound projection
Programme
Patrícia Alessandrini – Arrangement in Gray and Black
(Award winning prize at the “Sond’Ar-te Composition Competition 2009 – Chamber Music with Electronics”)
Miguel Azguime – No Oculto Profuso
Tiago Cutileiro – Um Silêncio A Somar-se ao Silêncio
(world premiere, co-commission by the Municipality of Lagos and Miso Music Portugal)
25 Years/ 25 Composers/ 25 Minutes
Instrumental "Cadavre Exquis" (world premiere) with birthday gifts from:
Alexandre Delgado, Ângela Lopes, António Chagas Rosa, António de Sousa Dias, António Pinho Vargas, Bruno Gabirro, Cândido Lima, Carlos Caires, Christopher Bochmann, Clotilde Rosa, Isabel Soveral, Ivan Moody, João Madureira, João Pedro Oliveira, José Luís Ferreira, Luís Tinoco, Miguel Azguime, Patrícia Sucena de Almeida, Paula Azguime, Paulo Brandão, Paulo Ferreira-Lopes, Pedro Amaral, Pedro M. Rocha, Tiago Cutileiro, Vasco Mendonça.
April 15, 2010
Recapturing the idea of a collective work, today along with the 50 portuguese and foreign featured composers, we present the premiere of a great electroacoustic piece honoring the innovating labor and the commitment to new music technologies achieved by Miso Music Portugal specifically through the making of the Loudspeaker Orchestra.
On the same day, another Miso Records CD launch: a CD gathering the award winning pieces from the Música Viva Electroacoustic Composition Competition in 2007, 2008 and 2009.
9:00 p.m. – Release of the CD "Electronic Music Vol.IV”
Música Viva Competition Prize Winners 2007, 2008 & 2009"
Released by Miso Records; presented by António Ferreira.
9:30 p.m. – Concert "Electronic Music with the Loudspeaker Orchestra”
Programme:
25 Years/ 50 Composers/ 100 Minutes
Electroacoustic "Cadavre Exquis" (world premiere) with birthday gifts from:
Adrian Moore, Ake Parmerud, Álvaro Garcia de Zuñiga, Andre Bartetzki, André Castro, António Ferreira, Barry Truax, Beatriz Ferreyra, Carlos Alberto Augusto, Carlos Guedes, Carlos Marecos, Christophe Ruetsch, Claude Cadoz, Cort Lippe, Daniel Teige, Duarte Dinis Silva, Eduardo Polonio, Eduardo Reck Miranda, Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta, Erik Mikael Karlsson, Filipe Lopes, Francis Dhomont, François Bayle, Gilles Gobeil, Hiromi Ishii, James Dashow, Jean-Claude Risset, Kees Taazelar, Manuella Blackburn, Marek Choloniewsky, Micah Silver, Morton Subotnick, Paulo Chagas, Pedro Patrício, Pedro Rebelo, Ricardo Climent, Ricardo Guerreiro, Robert Normandeau, Roberto Doati, Rui Penha, Sabine Schaeffer and Joachim Krebs, Simão Costa, Simon Emmerson, Todor Todoroff, Tomás Henriques, Trevor Wishart, Wilfried Jentzsch, Horacio Vaggione.
April 16, 2010
A new project by Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble revisits the tradition if the musical repertoire created specifically for younger audiences (O Pedro e o Lobo/ Peter and the Wolf by Prokofiev or Carnaval dos Animais / Carnival of Animals) including commissioned pieces to portuguese composers by the Centro Cultural de Belém Foundation and Miso Music Portugal. In this project assembling traditional and unpublished texts, the stories join the instruments and the technological means.
7:00 p.m. – Concert by Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble
Jean-Sébastien Béreau: conductor
Ágata Mandillo, Ana Mandillo, Miguel Azguime, Rosinda Costa: narrators
Monika Duarte Streitová: flute
Nuno Pinto: clarinet
Ana Telles: piano
Suzanna Lidegran: violin
Nelson Ferreira: cello
José Grossinho: electronics
Paula Azguime: sound projection
Programme:
Simão Costa – Quando eu Nasci
story by Isabel Martins
(commission by Ecomuseu Municipal do Seixal)
João Madureira – Toc, Toc, Toc
story by Hélia Correia (on-demand)
José Luís Ferreira: musical assistance and sound design
(commission by Miso Music Portugal)
José Luís Ferreira – Uma Mesa é uma Mesa. Será?
story by Isabel Martins
(commission by Miso Music Portugal)
Miguel Azguime – Mestre Gato ou o Gato de Botas
Story by Charles Perrault
(commission by Centro Cultural de Belém Foundation)
April 17, 2010
On the last day of this great week, the spoken/musical word takes the lead role with Miso Ensemble & Erotic Musical Fictions presenting a double concert, in a celebration of the beginnings of the musical/creative idea that gave rise to Miso Music Portugal.
In the first part of this concert Paula Azguime and Miguel Azguime present the Portuguese premier of No Sitio do Tempo (Invenção sobre Lisboa), including 20 poems by Portuguese writers, in a commission by the Collectif Éole.
Erotic Musical Fictions features a set of pieces that result from the challenge made to some portuguese and foreign composers in order to have them reflecting on their sound visions on eroticism. Miguel Azguime and Paula Azguime will also participate with the premiere of a piece in joint authorship.
9:00 p.m. – Miso Ensemble & Erotic Musical Fictions
Miso Ensemble
Paula Azguime: electronics and video
Miguel Azguime: electronics and reciting
Perseu Mandillo: real time video
&
José Luís Marques Ferreira, António de Sousa Dias, Miguel Azguime: sound projection
Programme:
Paula Azguime and Miguel Azguime – No Sítio do Tempo (Invenção sobre Lisboa)
voice, vídeo and electronics
poems by Luís de Camões, Antero de Quental, Miguel Torga, Álvaro de Campos and Alberto Caeiro, Mário Dionísio, Alexandre O'Neill, Manuel Alegre, Natália Correia, Carlos de Oliveira, Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão, Ana Hatherly, Miguel Azguime.
(commission by Collectif éOle)
José Luís Ferreira - Trópicos
Text by Henry Miller
electroacoustic piece
(commission by Miso Music Portugal)
António de Sousa Dias - A Dama e o Unicórnio
text by Maria Teresa Horta
voice and electroacoustics
narrators: Ana Mandillo, Rosinda Costa
(commission by Miso Music Portugal)
Paula Azguime & Miguel Azguime – L……….
(world premiere)
electroacoustic piece
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