Art's Birthday 2017 - Rui Dias EME
17 January 2017 | 21h00
O'culto da Ajuda | Lisboa
On the 17th January 2017, the Art’s Birthday 2017, Euroradio Ars Acustica Special Evening, will take place with 20 minutes live broadcasts from various European countries.In Portugal the Art's Birthday celebrations will take place at Miso Music Portugal (O'culto da Ajuda) with Antena 2 broadcasting to EBU (European Broadcasting Union), with the composer Rui Dias and his Concerto for improvisers and laptop orchestra.
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EME - Electroacoustic Music Ensemble
Rui Dias - Concerto for improvisers and laptop orchestra
Exploring the laptop orchestra as a means of musical expression, this piece introduces several aspects, both conceptual and technical, that were made possible by the use of computer mediation, using network connection between the conductor and the performers, to create a musical paradigm that can loosely be described as a crossing between serialism and indeterminism. Planned as a study of some of the many resources and potential of the laptop orchestra, the piece is divided in six sections, each one exploring different musical possibilities of the use of the computer as a mediator, that “listens” all the events played by the orchestra, and adapts algorithmically the possibilities of pitch and dynamics.
Improvisers:
Carlos Zíngaro violin
Gilberto Bernardes saxophone
Joana Sá piano
Filipe Lopes electronics
Luís Marques electronics
Laptop Orchestra:
António Branco
Francisco Matos
Gonçalo Carneiro
Gonçalo Ferreira
Henrique Couto
Hugo Santos
João Soares
Luís Cardoso
Paulo Oliveira
Rita Moreira
Conductor:
Rui Dias
Art’s Birthday is a celebration in memory of Robert Filliou, who declared, on January 17 1963, that Art had been born exactly 1,000,000 years ago when someone had dropped a dry sponge into a pail of water. Ten years later he celebrated Art’s 1,000,010th birthday at the Neue Galerie, Aachen.
