Festival Música Viva 2018 • The Unsustainable of Being!

19 May - 26 May |
O'culto da Ajuda | Lisbon

The Música Viva 2018 Festival, about the 70th anniversary of the invention of "Musique Concrète" and the 90th anniversary of the birth of Karlheinz Stockhausen, proposes a vast panorama of electroacoustic music of the last 70 years, To celebrate one of the greatest musical revolutions of all time.

The history of this music and what it has been giving place, from works of reference to brand new pieces.

The Música Viva 2018 are eight days of intense activity, raging from conferences and concerts. It is an affirmation of the musical creation of our time - a time when art needs to insist on being free and resist the hegemonic logics of numbers and quantifications, giving value to the quality of human intelligence and sensibility… the Unsustainable of Being!

For an immersion and more than listening enjoyment of the concerts with the Loudspeaker’s Orchestra, this year we propose to the audience the possibility of being seated or lying down on the stages without the use of chairs; so, we suggest bringing a cushion or another to settle comfortably on the stages.
There will be some chairs for those who prefer.

19-May	21h00	I Meeting - Drumming GP - Patricia Martins, Pedro ‘Peixe’ Cardoso, Miquel Bernat Karlheinz Stockhausen: Vibra-Elufa, (2003) Karlheinz Stockhausen:Leo (1974) do ciclo Tierkreis Karlheinz Stockhausen: Natürliche Dauern nº6 Karlheinz Stockhausen: Scorpion do ciclo Tierkreis Karlheinz Stockhausen: Fur Kommende Zeiten, 17 Texte fur Intuitive Musik (1968)
20-May	21h00	II Meeting - Improvisation class of Escola de Música do Orfeão de Leiria and Composition class III of Academia de Amadores de Música Conception and direction - Pedro M. Rocha O vento sopra de onde quer Humanidade ergue-te Meditação sobre a etereidade do espírito Lembremo-nos de quem somos A morte da Nova Ordem Mundial e o nascimento da era da espiritualidade
20-May	22h30	III Meeting - Loudspeaker Orchestra Pierre Schaeffer: Cinq Études de Bruit (1948) Jaime Reis: Fluxus, pas trop haut dans le ciel Pedro M. Rocha: To a world free from religions / vídeo de André Sier Jonathan Harvey: Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco
21-May	21h00	IV Meeting - Composition Class / ESMAE (Oporto) Coordination - Dimitrios Andrikopolous Francisca Martins: Self Matrix Catarina Vieira: Curiosity often leads to trouble Solange Azevedo: Estúdo de Oficina II Lucas Rei Ramos: Compostela Antiga Ruben Borges: Composition I Eduardo Serra: Inauguração do Túmulo das Virtudes Pedro Fonte: Pulsar Carlos Lopes: O Tempo ressoa no vazio Olivia Silva: Ruttmann
21-May	22h30	V Meeting - Loudspeaker Orchestra Iannis Xenakis: Concret PH Edgard Varèse: Poème Electronique João Pedro Oliveira: Hydatos Morton Subotnick: Silver Apples of the Moon
22-May	21h00	VI Meeting - Mixed Music Laboratory "José Luís Ferreira" / ESML (Lisbon) Coordination - Carlos Caires program to be defined
22-May	22h30	VII Meeting - Loudspeaker Orchestra Carlos Marecos: to be defined António Ferreira: Les Barricades Mystérieuses Rui Penha: No man is an island Jean-Claude Risset: Mutations John Chowning: Phoné
23-May	21h00	VIII Meeting - ESART's Electronic Music Ensemble EME - “Matéria-Prima” Artistic direction/production: Rui Dias Musical direction: Diogo Alvim / Rui Dias; Technical direction: Luís Marques; Composers/performers: António Branco, Francisco Matos, Gonçalo Carneiro, Gonçalo Ferreira, Henrique Couto, Hugo Santos, João Soares, Luís Cardoso, Rita Moreira, Paulo Oliveira, Bruno Maceda; Carlos Monte; João Costa; José Assunção; Louis Wilkinson; Miguel Carvalho, Júlia Miranda, Vasco Fazendeiro. Created in 2007, the EME - Ensemble of Electronic Music of ESART - is formed by students and professors of the course of Electronic Music and Music Production of the Superior School of Applied Arts of the Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco. It aims at the exploration of new languages of musical creation with electronic and electroacoustic means, resorting to several types of resources, largely constructed or programmed by the students themselves.
23-May	22h30	IX Meeting - Loudspeaker Orchestra Rui Dias: A-S-R (aka Daedalus XXI) Diogo Alvim: Apartamento em Lisboa (narrador presente) Carlos Santos: Feedback Barry Truax: Riverrun
24-May	17h30	Lecture - Horacio Vaggione: Composing With Networks of Digital Objects
24-May	21h00	X Meeting - Loudspeaker Orchestra Chris Bevan: Ceramos (2016) Chris Bevan: Under Fluid Skies (2018) Chris Bevan: Circum (2014)
24-May	22h30	XI Meeting - Loudspeaker Orchestra José Luís Ferreira: Le bruit d'une porte qui André Hencleeday: According to him they stay in their cars while, 50 meters further along, people are being gunned down Cândido Lima: Oceanos
25-May	17h30	Lecture/Reading - António de Sousa Dias about "Lexikon der Elektronischen Musik" (Electronic Music Dictionary) by Herbert Eimert
25-May	21h00	XII Meeting - Loudspeaker Orchestra & Announcement of the winners of the Música Viva Composition Competition 2018 Miguel Azguime: Le Dicible Enfin Fini Filipe Esteves: to be defined João Castro Pinto: Effluvium António de Sousa Dias: A Dama e o Unicórnio (versão 2009) Paulo Ferreira-Lopes: Pulses
25-May	22h30	XIII Meeting - Loudspeaker Orchestra Horacio Vaggione Préludes suspendus III (2010) Horacio Vaggione PianoHertz (2012) Horacio Vaggione Mécanique des fluides (2015)
26-May	21h00	XIV Meeting - Monographic concert on Igor C Silva by Trash Panda Colective João Miguel Braga Simões: percussion Menne Smallenbroek: baritone saxophone André Lourenço: electric bass Tatiana Rosa: flute and electronics Igor C. Silva: composition and electronics Igor C. Silva: Static on my fingers (2017) Igor C. Silva: Your Trash (2016) Igor C. Silva: Plastic Air (2017) Igor C. Silva: Smart-alienation (2016)
26-May	22h30	XV Meeting- Loudspeaker Orchestra Bernard Parmegiani: De Natura Sonorum I Karlheinz Stockhausen: Gesang der Junglinge