The 2004 edition of the Música Viva Festival is under the sign of salt , an essential substance, which, in gastronomy as in music, is the origin, the revealer of flavour, the manifestation of knowledge, living foundation of Art. And what itineraries, paths and questions has it not given rise to? What interchanges and exchanges has it not initiated? How large is the space in which the ideas and aesthetics which it has brought about are circulated and exchanged!
In terms of programming, the Música Viva Festival 2004 follows on the strengths of previous editions, notably by with the inclusion of a substantial amount of Portuguese music, and by paying particular attention to the relationship of music and technology, while at the same time aiming to be more diverse and pluridisciplinary.
Featuring renowned names side-by-side with young composers and performers, the the 2004 edition of the Música Viva Festival is the largest ever, with 17 performances, 4 lectures, courses and masterclasses, workshops for children and also the new "Interactive Lounge". In all, 80 works will be performed, 70 of them Portuguese premières, 18 world premières, 15 of them by Portuguese composers.
Pierre Henry, the great pioneer of electronic music, returns to Portugal 40 years after his first and only visit; the Smith Quartet will be in Portugal for the first time for the closing concert of the Festival, which includes some of the most renowned contemporary composers in a predominantly "electric" programme; the Gulbenkian Orchestra appears for the first time in the Festival, with a programme of important works from the end of the 20th century as well as new works under the direction of a young and telented conductor; the Ensemble Pythagore comes from France with a programme in which the relationship of acoustic instruments and musica information technology take current technological possibilities to the limit. The virtuoso clarinetist Harry Sparnaay is another important presence. The British pioneer Trevor Wishart will also be in Portugal for the first time, as well as the French pioneer Christian Clozier, for concerts of electronic music with the Orchestra of Loudspeakers. The Orchestra of Loudspeakers will also give many other concerts which will include Dutch electronic music, several works for electronic sounds and video, two concerts which showcasing the music of member countries of the International Confederation of Electoacoustic Music/UNESCO, the Portuguese première of the original version of Edgard Varèse's Poème Electronique and Concret PH by Iannis Xenakis, as conceived by their composers in 1958, in an extraordinary reconstruction by Kees Tazelaar, and also several works by Portuguese composers. The Ensemble 20/21 and Jorge Salgado Correia, with the Flute Ensemble of the University of Aveiro, constitute two further representatives of the intense and dedicated activity of some of the (few) Portuguese performers active in the performance of 21st century music. In addion to this extensive panorama, there are also the pluridisciplinary shows of Sten Hanson, Swedish pioneer of sound poetry, Américo Rodrigues, Portuguese pioneer in the same area and the audiovisual performance-tribute to Dziga Vertov.
Miguel Azguime
Programme
everyday 6 th until 12 th of September, 14:30 until 24:00
INTERACTIVE LOUNGE - works by André Sier, Jasch, Antoine Schmitt, Bret Battey, Rodolfo Caesar
Sunday 5 th of September
Course "Max/Jitter: Introduction to interactive Image and Sound Systems" by André Sier
Monday 6 th of September
Course "Max/Jitter: Introduction to interactive Image and Sound Systems" by André Sier
Workshop "Spatialization and Interpretation of Electronic Music with the Loudspeaker Orchestra" by Miguel Azguime
Workshop for children (Primary schools) by Simão Costa
" Travel into the Magic World of Sounds "
Opening of the Festival and meeting with Pierre Henry
- Sala Vermelha / 18:30
Ensemble 20/21 - Conductor: Pedro Pinto Figueiredo
José Carlos Almeida de Sousa - Contemplação III
Patricia Almeida - Monstrum Horrendum
Pedro Rocha - Quinteto
Gérard Grisey - Talea
Tristan Murail - 13 Couleurs du Soleil Couchant
Sala Azul / 22:00
Loudspeaker Orchestra I - A Scope on Dutch Electronic Music
Sound projection - Kees Tazelaar
Dick Raaijmakers - Pianoforte
Wouter Snoei - Consequence
René Uijlenhoet - Filamenti
Gottfried Michael Koenig - Funktion Indigo
Kees Tazelaar - Lasciar Vibrare
Peter Schat - De Aleph
Jan Boerman - Kompositie 1972
Tuesday 7 th of September
Course "Max/Jitter: Introduction to interactive Image and Sound Systems" by André Sier
Workshop "Spatialization and Interpretation of Electronic Music with the Loudspeaker Orchestra" by Miguel Azguime
Workshop for children (Primary schools) by Simão Costa
" Travel into the Magic World of Sounds "
Sala Vermelha / 15:00
Loudspeaker Orchestra II - CIME / ICEM
Lars Höjerdahl - One Day, the night (Sweden)
Conny Skoog - Catch (Sweden)
Barbara Zawadzka - Greya (Poland)
Tomasz Lida - Spiewna (Poland)
Beatrice Lasio - Vento di Ostro (Italy)
Roberto Musanti - Attittu (Italy)
Jorge Eduardo Rapp - Alrededores (Argentina)
Sala Vermelha / 18:30
Sound poetry performance - Américo Rodrigues
Inverso
Sala Azul / 22:00
Loudspeaker Orchestra III - Pierre Henry
Pierres Réfléchies
Le Livre des Morts Égyptien (new version)
Wednesday 8 th of September
Course "Max/Jitter: Introduction to interactive Image and Sound Systems" by André Sier
Workshop for children (Primary schools) by Simão Costa
" Travel into the Magic World of Sounds"
Sala Vermelha / 15:00
Loudspeaker Orchestra IV - CIME / ICEM
Oriol Graus - New work (Spain)
Diana Perez Custodio - Poliptico (Spain)
Catalina Peralta C.
De Igitur o La Locura de Elbehnon/Estudio Antiguo (Colombia)
Eduardo A. Montilla R - Paisaje ondular (Colombia)
Federico Giraldo - Andrómeda (Colombia)
Roeland Luyten - Decyclage (Belgium)
Ingrid Drese - Tout autant (Belgium)
Adolfo Kaplan (music)
Franck et Vincent Dudoue (video) - Hors Chant (Chile)
Rodrigo Cadiz (music)
Luz Maria Cury (video) - ID-Fusiones (Chile)
Éric Mulard - Le Miroir à Salades (France)
Sala Vermelha / 18:30
Sound poetry performance - Sten Hanson
Last meal.
A strengseten verboten
The New York Lament
La destruction de votre code génétique par drogues, toxines et irradiation
Pronto,pronto
My galopping heart
Lettre d'un étranger
Citizen sit down.
Cuica.
The health fascists
Skärp dig
O Altitudo
Finale
Sala Azul / 22:00
Loudspeaker Orchestra V - Concert with the prize-winning works of the Electroacoustic Composition Competition Musica Viva 2004
Jorge Salgado Correia / Flute Ensemble of the University of Aveiro
Yoshiisa Taïra - Fu Mon
Isabel Soveral - Mémoires d'Automne
Virgílio Melo - New work for 9 flutes and electronics
Philippe Hurel - Loops
Emmanuel Nunes - Grund
Thursday 9 th of September
Composition masterclass "Sound Metamorphosis" by Trevor Wishart
HOMEM-CÂMARA - audiovisual performance in homage to Dziga Vertov
[0.0f, André Sier , Nuno Morão]
[André Gonçalves, 0.0f, Nuno Moita]
[Diogo Valério, João Castro. Pinto, 0.0f]
Sala Azul / 18:30
Loudspeaker Orchestra VI - Christian Clozier
Symphonie pour un enfant seul
l'Opéra A Vie
Quasars
A la prochaine la Taupe
Par Pangloss Gymnopède
Sala Azul / 22:00
Loudspeaker Orchestra VII - Trevor Wishart
Tongues of Fire
Two Women
Imago
Friday 10 th of September
Composition masterclass "Sound Metamorphosis" by Trevor Wishart
Conference by Kees Tazelaar
"Philips, Le Corbusier, Varèse and Xenakis at the Brussels 1958 World Exhibition"
Foyer 17h00 - Launch of the CD " Música Electrónica Vol.I & II" (Portuguese Electronic Music and prize winners of the Musica Viva composition competition 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003)
Sala Azul / 18:30
Loudspeaker Orchestra VIII
Tomás Henriques - Rapture
António Ferreira - Evidence of Things Unseen
Eduardo Polónio - Trois moments précédant la genèse des cordes
José Luís Marques Ferreira - new work
Federico Schumacher Ratti - Mingasola I
Cândido Lima - Autómatos de Areia
Edgard Varèse/Iannis Xenakis - Poème Electronique / Concret PH
Sala Vermelha / 22:00
Ensemble Pythagore
Michel Brun - flute
François-Michel Rignol - piano
Juliane Trémoulet - cello
Christophe Ruetsch - Ligne Furieuse
Kaija Saariaho - Cendres
Pascal Gaigne - Shen
Bertrand Dubedout - Fractions du Silence (Fifth book)
Pierre Jodlowsky - Dialog / No dialog
António Chagas Rosa - Altro
Saturday 11 th of September
Foyer
Conference by Trevor Wishart
"Sound Metamorphosis"
Sala Vermelha / 18:30
Video Music
Isabel Pires / Pedro Oliveira - nova obra
Pedro M. Rocha / André Sier - To a World Free from Religions
Pedro Rebelo - laut[omata].3
Mario Mary - Signes Émergents
Diego Garro - Pointes Précaires
Stephan Dunkenman Kajsa - Trois femmes et un promeneur
Miguel Azguime / Perseu Mandillo - Matrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Sala Azul / 22:00
Gulbenkian Orchestra - conductor: Guillaume Bourgogne
Gyorgy Ligeti - Melodien
Enrique X. Macías - Calmores y Alegorias
João Rafael - Ode
Tristan Murail - Désintégrations
Sunday 12 th of September
Foyer
Conference by Sten Hanson
"Technology, Electroacoustic Music and Sound poetry"
Sala Vermelha / 18:30
Harry Sparnaay (bass clarinet)
João Rafael - Transition
Joji Yuasa - Solitude
Roderik de Man - Écoute , écoute
Claudio Ambrosini - Capriccio, detto l'ermaphrodite
Cândido Lima - Canto de Rotu ndão
Larry Moss - Harried
Sala Azul / 22:00
Smith Quartet
Simon Emmerson - Fields of Attraction
António Pinho Vargas - Monodia-quasi un requiem
George Crumb - Black Angels
Kevin Volans - Hunting and Gathering
Steve Reich - Different Trains
COURSES
Composition Master Class
"Sound Metamorphosis" by Trevor Wishart
Professor : Trevor Wishart
Duration : 7 hours
Schedule : 9th of September - 9:00 until 12:30
10th of September - 9:00 until 12:30
Master class description:
An introduction to sound metamorphosis using the Sound Loom and the CDP software. The course will give an overview of the system, and practical examples of how to use it, with discussion of real musical events and compositions made using this software (including Tongues of Fire, Imago and Globalalia).
Other information:
· the master class will be taught in English.
· maximum of 20 participants. Priority will be given to the first applicants.
· the fees are 25¤, to be paid with the application.
· a course certificate will be provided.
· to send your application you have to fill an on-line form or just send your money order together with your data and contacts (name, address, phone, email, age, profession and the selected course..
Trevor Wishart
Born in 1946, he is an independent composer living and working in the North of England. He has held residencies in Australia, Canada, Germany, Holland, Sweden, and the USA and at various UK Universities. His work has been commissioned by IRCAM, the Paris Biennale, the Massachusetts Council for the Arts and Humanities, the DAAD in Berlin, the French Ministry of Culture, and the BBC Proms, where the VOX cycle was premiered in 1989.
awarded a Euphonie d'Or at Bourges (Red Bird) and the Golden Nica for Computer Music at Linz Ars Electronica (Tongues of Fire) his more recent works include Fabulous Paris, The Division of Labour and Imago. This year Globalalia commissioned by Folkmar Hein was premiered at the Inventionen Festival in Berlin, where he was Edgard Varese Visiting Professor at the Technical University.
In addition to composing, Trevor Wishart was the sound designer for the Jorvik Viking Centre, the first multimedia museum in the UK, a founder member and major software developer of the "Composer's Desktop Project" and "Sound Loom", and author of On Sonic Art and Audible Design. Also a pioneer in taking experimental music to schools and community venues, his books of educational musical games, Sounds Fun, have been republished in Japanese.
WORKSHOP
Electronic Music Spatialization and Interpretation
with the Loudspeaker Orchestra
Professor: Miguel Azguime
Duration: 6 hours
Schedule : 6th of September - 9:30 until 12:30
7th of September - 9:30 until 12:30
The Orchestra of Loudspeakers:
The spatialization and performance of an electroacoustic work demands as much care and preparation as the performance of an acoustic instrumental work.
The "Orchestra of Loudspeakers" of the Música Viva Festival is a multichannel system, in constant development, whose object is to furnish a genuine dimension of performance, in which the analysis, intention and the sensitivity of the performer may manifest themselves through the configurations of sound diffusion which the Orchestra of Loudspeakers offers, in that it allows the sonic construction of spaces, timbres and times which clarify the auditive "reading" of the work and its communication with the audience.
It is not question of creating or adding effects to an electroacoustic work, or of putting it in motion, but simply of performing it, displaying it in its profound richness... revealing it.
The Orchestra of Loudspeakers thus becomes an instrument of spatialization and performance which the composer plays in concert, an instrument for the expression of the musical work.
Description of the workshop:
This workshop offers two sessions of practical work with the Orchestra of Loudspeakers, which will permit participants to arrive at a detailed knowledge of, and to work with, this "instrument of transmission", and to use it for the spatialization and performance of works they themselves bring. The spatialization and performance of certain standard works of the electroacoustic repertoire will also be analyzed, experimented with and discussed.
Other information:
· this course will be taught in English and/or Portuguese.
· maximum of 8 participants. Priority will be given to the first applicants.
· the fees are 25¤, to be paid with the application.
· a course certificate will be provided.
· to send your application you have to fill an on-line form or just send your money order together with your data and contacts (name, address, phone, email, age, profession and the selected course).
Miguel Azguime
Composer, poet, and percussionist, he founded the Miso Ensemble in 1985, a flute and percussion duo recognised by the public and by the critics as one of the most important Portuguese contemporary music groups. Besides giving numerous concerts in Portugal, the Miso Ensemble has been presented regularly abroad.
Miguel Azguime has obtained various awards for composition and performance, has composed for diverse formations, instrumental and/or vocal with and without electronics, electroacoustic music, sound poetry, including music for exhibitions, sound installations, theatre, dance and cinema. He has received commissions from several national and international prestigious institutions *.
Azguime's music has been performed by renowned soloists, ensembles and conductors **, being regularly presented at majors festivals of contemporary and electroacoustic music ***.
Besides his activity as a composer, poet and percussionist, he remains actively dedicated to the promotion and diffusion of contemporary music, as artistic director of the independent label Miso Records and of the Música Viva International Festival .
Also for 10 years Miguel Azguime has been the producer of the radio broadcast "Música Hoje" devoted to contemporary music at the Portuguese National Radio - RDP- Antena2.
He has developed since 1995 the first Portuguese Loudspeaker Orchestra and as a researcher he has been working in the development of real time computer music, giving lectures and courses on this field.
In 2003 he started, together with Paula Azguime the Portuguese New Music Information Center . This same year Miguel Azguime got the 2003 EMS composition prize.
Course
Max/Jitter : Introduction to Interactive Image and Sound Systems
Professor : André Sier
Duration : 18 hours
Schedule: 5th of September - 9:00 until 12:30 / 14:30 until 18:30
6th of September - 9:00 until 12:30
7th of September - 9:00 until 12:30
8th of September - 9:00 until 12:30
Description of the course:
Introduction to the conception of interactive image systems, using the MAX/MSP/JITTER visual programming environment, with special emphasis on the creation of audio-visual algorhythms for the performing arts (music, theatre, dance...), interactive installations, autonomous generation guided by algorhythms and also for technological performance in real time.
During the worskhop there will be presented techniques for the recording and treatment of basic imagetic material, bi-dimensional and tri-dimensional techniques of image synthesis, various processes for the manipulation of video (2D) and 3D images, as well as a special concentration on sinesthetic interactions between sound and image.
The course will operate on a practical level, all participants being invited to build layers of complex programming, which will begin with simple situations such as the recording and playback of sounds, images, using processes of non-linear temporal reading, as well as through Digital Signal Processing, situations which will become more complex in controlling autonomous interactive meta-processes, and in network, with each other, generating clouds of algorhythmic audiovisual events during the course of time.
Description of the programming environment:
Max (www.cycling74.com) is a simple and intuitive visual programming language, in which programming is done connecting objects/functions to each other, by means of a graphic interface. It is an ideal programming language for artistic purposes, with the ability virtually to control any electronic medium.
The groups of MSP and JITTER objects which operate within Max allow the synthesis and manipulation, through software and in real time, of sounds and images.
This visual programming environment is used all over the world, principally for the composition of electronic sounds and images, the creation of interactive environments and audio-visual dynamics, electronic performances, local or within the network, and also as a support for interactive technologies in performing arts and installations.
Other information:
· this course will be taught in English and Portuguese.
· maximum of 20 participants. Priority will be given to the first applicants.
· the fees are 80¤. 25€ are to be paid with the application.
· a course certificate will be provided.
· to send your application you have to fill an on-line form or just send your money order together with your data and contacts (name, address, phone, email, age, profession and the selected course).
André Sier
André Sier is an artist-programmer, with a pluri-disciplinary training in painting/sculpture, music, philosophy and performing arts.
He develops kinetic audiovisual works in installations, using interactive and generative processes, and also participates in interdisciplinary projects, based on the audiovisual programming of computers. He programmes A-Objects , some 60 objects for max/msp/jitter.
He has regularly presented his work in exhibitions and publications. Since 2002 he has taught an annual course on Zona Max at the Aula do Risco http://sier.risco.pt
Lectures
Sexta-feira 10 de Setembro, 15:00 horas no Foyer do Teatro Aberto
Conferência / Lecture por/by Kees Tazelaar
Philips, Le Corbusier, Xenakis and Varèse at the World Expo 1958 Brussels.
The Philips pavilion by Le Corbusier, at the World Expo 1958 in Brussels, turned out to be one of the most spectacular exhibits at Brussels Expo, acclaimed for its innovative exterior and interior designs, and no less for the Poeme Electronique by Edgard Varèse together with the "interlude" Concret PH by Iannis Xenakis . Over the course of the expo, the ten-minute work was viewed and heard by over one million visitors. The sound system included 425 loudspeakers, a three-track audio recording, 15 tracks of control signals, film projectors, floodlights, blacklights, and multi-colored neon lights.
When the expo ended, the pavilion was demolished, thus making it impossible to re-experience this "Gesamtkunstwerk" as it was originally intended.
In 2001 Kees Tazelaar rediscovered the original production tapes of the Poème, including Concret P-H. The tapes were stil in excellent condition, making it possible to digitalize all the material and re-synchronize and spatialize it on the computer. (this reconstructed multi track version will be presented in another concert of Musica Viva 2004).
This reconstruction also triggered an intensive investigation on the applied techniques, both on the level of the production of the music as on it's advanced reproduction during performances.
The lecture gives a very detailed explanation on this subject, supported by my animated images and sound examples. It closes with a 3D animation of the pavilion by Piet Lelieur, including it's interior during a performance.
Saturday 11th September 15:00 Foyer of the Teatro Aberto
Lecture by Trevor Wishart
Sound Metamorphosis
The compositional and theoretical work of Trevor Wishart has featured close relationships between music and technology, and proposed new paradigms for musical compositon. His innovative trajectory has led him to develop new computer tools for composition, in particular Sound Loom and Composer's Desktop Project, which facilitate the ceaseless exploration of the concept of sound metamorphosis. In this lecture, Trevor Wishart will introduce the paths of his compositional work and the implications that the concept of sound metamorphosis has had on it.
Sunday 12th September 15:00 Foyer of the Teatro Aberto
Lecture by Sten Hanson
Technology, Electronic Music and Sound Poetry
A pioneer in the electroacoustic musical revolution in his own country (Sweden), Sten Hanson has been a driving force behind the movement which gave rise to "Sound Poetry", and to the musical practice today called "Text-Sound composition". Putting in perspective the influence which technology has had over music and poetry, giving rise to new hybrid forms of artistic expression, and reflecting on the deslocation of the function of art by means of technological development are some of the things that will be covered by Sten Hanson in this lecture, based on his own work.
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Pierre Henry
Harry Sparnaay
Enrique X.Macias
João Rafael
Smith Quartet
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