Mosteiro dos Jerónimos 19 of September 2008
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian 20 of September 2008
Centro Cultural de Belém 19 to 27 of September 2008
Intersection of multiple musical expressions and aesthetics
In its 14th edition this year, the Música Viva Festival is both national and internationally recognised as a vast breathing space of renewal; as a meeting point of today’s music metamorphoses; as a place for some to share their experiences; as a source of inspiration for many. It is a privileged platform for exchanging and discussing ideas and aesthetics; a crossroad between music and technology; an occasion for dialogue with other realms of contemporary creation, in a field that extends from the instrumental and analogue to the virtual and electronic.
From improvisation to score music, Música Viva Festival offers once more the most prominent names alongside the youngest composers and performers.
The Festival reaffirms the Portuguese music creation’s full vitality and diversity by presenting performances with large orchestras, the Miso Music Portugal’s Loudspeaker Orchestra and its notorious electronic music concerts, chamber music, electroacoustic theatre, concerts for children, sound and video installations, and vocal performances.
For this Música Viva 2008 edition, happening between September 19th to 27th, Miso Music Portugal will partner with the Belém Arts Centre, Jerónimos Monastery and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation to present: 24 different performances; 124 pieces (15 of them were commissioned by Miso Music Portugal); 53 world premieres; works from 82 different composers of which 42 Portuguese composers. Finally there will be the new Sound Walk project and 6 sound installations at the festival’s Interactive Lounge.
All in all these numbers prove the extremely fertile creative activity one can witness today in Portugal and to which the Festival gives its voice.
Miso Music Portugal is funded by the Ministério da Cultura / Direcção Geral das Artes
Friday, September 19– Jerónimos Monastery
22h00 – Jerónimos Monastery Church – free entrance
Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa
conductor: Pedro Amaral
assistant conductor: Alberto Roque
technical implementation: CRFMW-Liège / Miso Studio
musical assistants: Jean-Marc Sullon, Andre Bartetzki
sine-wave generator players: Ângela Lopes, Gilson Beck, Jaime Reis, José Luís Ferreira
Karlheinz Stockhausen – Mixtur 2003 (vor) *
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Gesang Der Jünglinge
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Mixtur 2003 (rück) *
In this opening concert, which celebrates the first collaboration of the Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa with the Música Viva Festival, we will be able to listen to the Portuguese premiere of Mixtur 2003 in its two different versions (the original and the backward ones) and also to Gesang der Jünglinge, following the programme lineup suggested by the composer himself. These are representative pieces in the Music History of the XX century, leaving indelible marks; gathered here, these two have the symbolic intent to salute Karlheinz Stockhausen, certainly one of the XX century’s musical greatest genious, who has recently passed away.
On the world premiere of Mixtur 2003 at the Salzburg Festival 2006, Stockhausen wrote in its programme notes:
“MIXTUR is the history’s leap from the classical orchestra to the o Elektronisch Klangkörper (electronic sound body; the german word is used for big ensembles like orchestras and choirs).
(…) The important feature in MIXTUR is, on one hand, the transformation of the orchestra familiar sound into a new enchanted sound world.
It is an amazing experience watching and listening to the musicians playing a sustained note and perceiving at the same time that this sound is slowly withdrawing from itself in a glissando; the pulsation accelerates and a wonderful new sound spectrum emerges. (…) The musicians themselves get astonished listening to “their” sound moving as on its own (…)
MIXTUR was the beginning of the live-electronics music, which has been growing into several different forms for these last four decades (…)”.
Co-production: CCB, IGESPAR/Mosteiro dos Jerónimos, Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa, Centre de Recherches et de Formation Musicales de Wallonie – Liège
Support: Communauté Française de Belgique, Paróquia de Sta. Maria de Belém, Ministério da Cultura, DGArtes, Apple/VAD Portugal, Lourisom
Saturday, September 20 until Saturday, September 27 – Belém Arts Centre
ALL DAY LONG – Caminho Pedonal – free entrance
Sound Walk
As a result of an international call addressed to the electroacoustic music community, the Sound Walk is a collective groundbreaking outdoor stereo sound installation. Throughout the whole festival it will be playing along with the visitors that move through the walk way leading to the main entrances of the Belém Arts Centre, filling the place with the musical electronic creation from the XXI century.
Co-production: Miso Music Portugal / CCB
Support: Lourisom
ALL DAY LONG – Bengaleiro Norte – free entrance - Opening of the Interactive Lounge on the 20th at 15h
Interactive Lounge
The Musica Viva’s Interactive Lounge takes the festival outside the concert venues. The installations occupying this conviviality space set their ground basis on technological innovation, presenting us prototypes that capture everyone’s attention, from the youngest to the older. This artistic genre’s interactivity allows the audience to experiment and debate, taking up the object, being part of it. The Interactive Lounge will also work as a meeting point of the festival, with an information desk, promoting and selling records, books and scores’ most recent releases.
Co-production: Miso Music Portugal / CCB
Support: Yamaha, Apple/VAD Portugal, Casa Agrícola Roboredo Madeira
Lexikon-Sonata
Lexikon-Sonate is Karlheinz Essl’s work in progress, which he started in 1992. Instead of a composition whose structure is set by notation, it expresses itself through a computer program that writes the piece – or an excerpt of a virtually endless piano piece – live. Two of the most common features in a traditional piano piece disappear: there isn’t a pre-written text to be performed and it doesn’t need a piano player or performer. Lexikon-Sonate was specifically developed for the Yamaha Disklavier.
www.essl.at
iAVi – metro4#1
iAVi - metro4#1 (version#1) is an interactive audio/video installation by Simão Costa. Its sound and imagery starting point is the subway of Porto. It makes use of the mobile phone as an exclusive way of capturing video materials. A hanging pendulum sphere allows the public to play, interact, react and perceive themselves and reflect on the impact of their movements in the specific context of this piece. iAVi - metro4#1 was developed from October to December 2007 at the INESC Porto at the Multimedia and Telecommunications Centre in the context of the Residency Programme: Experimentation Arts/Science and Technology, co-funded by the Ciência Viva Programme and the Direcção-Geral das Artes.
www.maosimmao.com
Reciclagem e Desperdícios
Reciclagem e Desperdícios (Recycling and Waste) presents a group of several audio works done by students from the course in Produção e Tecnologias da Musica (Music Production and Technology) at ETIC and studying at prof. José Luís Ferreira’s class, in a free approach around the concepts of acoustic sound communication.
www.etic.pt
Pas de Deux + 1
Two pianos are playing together, dancing dreamily together an algorithmic waltz. Nothing can disturb their intimate togetherness - only you, the visitor, could bring them out of their steps ....
Composed and created by Andre Bartetzki for two pianos Modus/Disklavier Yamaha.
www.bartetzki.de
Songs from the Wood
Sound massage installation with wooden boards and bass shakers by Andre Bartetzki, providing the visitor a true sound massage. The wood is telling us something… listen to its stories… feel the vibrations… be part of the sound.
www.bartetzki.de
And more...!
Saturday, September 20 – Belém Arts Centre
16h00 – Reception hall
"π_ano [4x]"
piano and composition: Simão Costa
π_ano [4x] is a performance for pianos and live-electronics.
The project π_ano gives substance to the materialization of a hyper-piano in which the real sound and the unreal sound blend, going along the evolving continuity of an instrument with a great historical course. It’s the piano, yesterday’s mechanical technology model meeting contemporary digital tools.
Simão Costa has been developing computer tools (Max/Msp/Jitter) since 2006, changing them into instruments and these into contents.
π_ano[4x] is a commission by Miso Music Portugal for [4x], namely: 2 pianos x 2 piano players. 1 acoustic piano x 1 virtual piano x 1 virtual piano player x 1 piano player + sound projection in [4x] audio channels.
The 2 pianos are from Yamaha, groundbreaker in creating solutions combining new technologies: the disklavier (1987) and the brand new Modus F11, acknowledged by the “magical” ability to perform on their own. That is how 1 piano player faces 2 pianos and his double, the virtual piano player. The computer appears as a featured tool, displaying the synchronized choreography between the usual/natural piano player and the other self that performs on his own, run by something invisible.
Imitation, polyphony, transmutation, interactivity and reactivity are the features in this π_ano[4x] by Simão Costa.
Co-production: Miso Music Portugal / CCB
Support: Yamaha
17h00 – Sala Luís de Freitas Branco
Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble
conductor: Pedro Amaral
flute: Monika Duarte Štreitová
clarinet: Nuno Pinto
horn: Laurent Rossi
violin: Suzanna Lidegran
viola: Jorge Alves
cello: Marco Pereira
piano: Ana Telles
musical assistant: Jean-Marc Sullon
electronic setting: Miso Studio
João Pedro Oliveira - Timshel
(commissioned by Miso Music Portugal)
Enrique X. Macías - Itinerário de Luz
Patrícia Sucena de Almeida - Aranea, insidiis noctis serenae...
(commissioned by Miso Music Portugal)
Ryszard Osada - Mimesis II **
(commissioned by Warsaw Autumn Festival)
Duarte Dinis Silva - Paralelus II **
(mention at the “Sond’Ar-te – Chamber Music with electronics” Composition Competition)
In this concert, the Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble celebrates its first anniversary and nevertheless it is already a leading group in the Portuguese scene, not only for the acknowledged quality of the performances but also for its committed work in the music creation promotion, with a regular schedule of commissions to Portuguese composers. As a cutting edge project, the Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble is one if the few groups skilled in mixed music, devoted to a repertoire that joins instrumental and the most recent electronic technologies. This concert’s programme offers a set of pieces that accounts for the profusion of connections between acoustic instruments and electronic means.
A special mention to the performance of a piece by Enrique X. Macías in the fiftieth anniversary of his birthday; the world premiere of a piece by the young Portuguese composer Duarte Dinis Silva who was distinguished with a mention at the first “Sond’Ar-te 2008 - Chamber Music with electronics” International Composition Competition; and also the preview of the Polish composer Ryszard Osada’s piece – Mimesis II – in collaboration with the Warsaw Autumn Festival.
The Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble is a resident ensemble of Câmara Municipal de Cascais. www.sondarte.com
Co-production: Miso Music Portugal / CCB
Support: Ébano&Marfim, Warsaw Autumn Festival, Câmara Municipal de Cascais
Saturday, September 20 – Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
21h00 – Grande Auditório
Orquestra Gulbenkian
conductor: Lorraine Vaillancourt
flute: Marion Ralincourt
violin: Gareguin Aroutiounian
Luciano Berio - Requies *
Jonathan Harvey - Calling across time *
Philippe Hurel - Phonus *
Bruno Gabirro - vai faltar sempre um dia - Concerto para Violino e Orquestra **
(commissioned by Miso Music Portugal)
The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation associates itself to the Música Viva Festival once again, in a journey through some of the most representative composers of the last 50 years, with a long-awaited programme in Portugal. From Luciano Berio, one of the most relevant musical characters of the second-half of the XX century, an “enfant terrible” of the musical cutting-edge of the 50’s and the 60’s but whose lyricism and expression have always put him in a prominent position, we shall listen to the Portuguese premiere of his piece Requies. From Jonathan Harvey, certainly one of today’s greatest living composers in whose work we are able to find such a special and rich timbral quality as well as an unmatched sound clarity, we will get the chance to attend to the Portuguese premiere of Calling Across Time, where the electronic means come together with the orchestra, contributing to the rare harmonic gentleness of his music. From Philippe Hurel, distinguished composer of the French new music scene, descendant of the Spectral School, we will listen to the concert for flute and orchestra Phonus (in a sort of homage to Debussy and L’Après-Midi d’un Faune). Last we will have the world premiere of a piece for violin and orchestra, commissioned by Miso Music Portugal to the young Portuguese composer Bruno Gabirro, a promising and emerging name in our music scene.
In this concert, the Gulbenkian Orchestra will have two of the most featured soloists, flutist Marion Ralincourt and violinist Gareguin Aroutiounian, conducted by Lorraine Vaillancourt, founder and director of the Nouvel Ensemble Modern of Montréal, now coming to Portugal for the first time.
www.musica.gulbenkian.pt
Co-production: Miso Music Portugal / Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Support: CulturesFrance
Tuesday, September 23 – Belém Arts Centre
11h00 – Black Box
Contos Contados… Cantados com Som
concept: Paula Azguime
stories selection and text adaptation: Ágata Mandillo
speakers: Rosinda Costa, Ana Mandillo, Ágata Mandillo
live-electronics and sound projection: Simão Costa
electronic setting: Miso Studio
Uma Mesa é uma Mesa. Será? **
music by José Luís Ferreira / story by Isabel Martins
(commissioned by Miso Music Portugal)
A menina dos olhos de chuva **
music by Ângela Lopes / story by Anne Lauricella
(commissioned by Miso Music Portugal)
A Velha e o Ladrão **
music by Sérgio Pelágio / story by António Torrado
(commissioned by Miso Music Portugal)
Nuno e os Monstros **
music by Isabel Soveral / story by Ágata Mandillo
(commissioned by Miso Music Portugal)
The “Contos Contados... Cantados com Som” – Electroacoustic Theatre presents its second edition with new music and new stories for the youngsters’ delight. Electroacoustic music and the loudspeakers are like characters inhabiting these stories that wonder children and adults.
Stories about dreams, monsters, magic, places, questioning girls and boys. Stories of sounds inhabiting our homes and surrounding us.
Listening to words spoken and performed.
This is what the Contos Contados... Cantados com Som invite us to: challenging our imagination and our senses, in a performance built with stories by acclaimed writers and some completely new stories.
www.misomusic.com/port/difu/propconc/te.html
Further information: Belém Arts Centre’s CPA
Co-production: Miso Music Portugal / CCB
19h00 – Black Box
José Machado – violin and electronics
violin: José Machado
musical assistant: Andre Bartetzki
Paulo Ferreira-Lopes - De Profundis **
Nuno Miguel Henriques - Cadenza **
Jorge Peixinho - The Missing Miss
Pedro Rebelo – x\Hailes **
Clotilde Rosa - Densidades **
Violinist José Machado, acclaimed portuguese performer, has worked closely to Jorge Peixinho at the Grupo de Música Contemporânea de Lisboa (Lisbon’s Contemporary Music Ensemble), having continued his work as an exemplary promoter of the Portuguese music, either with the GMCL or as a soloist. Thus, it doesn’t come as a surprise that he is presenting us a concert with a completely Portuguese programme, with four world premieres from three different generations of composers. Taking a chronological starting point at the piece of Jorge Peixinho – The Missing Miss, which unveils an almost melancholic lyricism, being its title already suggestive – this programme lead us through different ambiences and languages in all the variety of expressions possible in writing for this instrument, including pieces for violin and electronics.
www.gmcl.pt/josemachado.htm
Co-production: Miso Music Portugal / CCB
21h00 – Pequeno Auditório
Loudspeaker Orchestra I – Electronic Music
Pieces composed at the Miso Music Portugal’s LEC (Lab for Electroacoustic Creation)
Ricardo Guerreiro - Tzimtzum **
(commissioned by Miso Music Portugal)
Manuella Blackburn - Cajón **
(commissioned by Miso Music Portugal)
Pieces composed at the Technische Universität Berlin, introduced by its director Folkmar Hein
Unsuk Chin - allegro ma non troppo *
Werner Cee - Berlin indoors (slow motion) *
Clemens Nachtmann - Tafelmusik *
Mario Verandi - Plastic water *
Vladimir Djambazov - The Secret Life of a Snare Drum *
Clara Maïda - ipso facto *
In the first concert of the distinguished Loudspeaker Orchestra in this year’ edition of the Musica Viva Festival, the pieces presented where composed within the context of the artistic residencies at the Miso Music Portugal’s LEC (Lab for Electroacoustic Creation) and at the Technische Universitãt Berlin’s studios. The Miso Music Portugal’s Loudspeaker Orchestra is a sound projection system that aims at introducing the interpretation side into the performance of electroacoustic music. In this concert, this element is brought out in its most recent shape, with acclaimed names alongside some new emerging ones, to be aware of.
www.kgw.tu-berlin.de/Studio/
www.misomusic.com/port/cria/lec.html
Co-production: Miso Music Portugal / CCB
Support: Technische Universitãt Berlin, Miso Studio, Lourisom
Wednesday, September 24 – Belém Arts Centre
11h00 – Black Box
Contos Contados… Cantados com Som
concept: Paula Azguime
stories selection and text adaptation: Ágata Mandillo
speakers: Rosinda Costa, Ana Mandillo, Ágata Mandillo
live-electronics and sound projection: Simão Costa
electronic setting: Miso Studio
Uma Mesa é uma Mesa. Será? **
music by José Luís Ferreira / story by Isabel Martins
(commissioned by Miso Music Portugal)
A menina dos olhos de chuva **
music by Ângela Lopes / story by Anne Lauricella
(commissioned by Miso Music Portugal)
A Velha e o Ladrão **
music by Sérgio Pelágio / story by António Torrado
(commissioned by Miso Music Portugal)
Nuno e os Monstros **
music by Isabel Soveral / story by Ágata Mandillo
(commissioned by Miso Music Portugal)
19h00 – Black Box
Vox Vocis 3.0
soprano: Rosário Cruz
video, live video and voice: Concha Jerez
computer programming and live-electronics: Pedro López
recorded sounds, live-electronics and voice: José Iges
José Iges, Concha Jerez and Pedro López - Vox Vocis 3.0 **
Vox Vocis is an intermedia performance with voice, video, live-electronics and recorded sounds, in which the voice takes the main and assembling role. Its first version was presented at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria and since then this piece has built an exceptional career all over Europe and the newest version Vox Vocis 3.0 will have in this concert in Lisbon its world premiere.
From languages’ remains to stutters coming from pre-recorded materials in a multiplication of phonetic cells, to popular songs’ fragments and recordings by singers Esperanza Abad e Belma Martín, deeply connected to the authors, Vox Vocis 3.0 grows as a pictures and sounds’ kaleidoscope in a whirl of senses and emotions.
www.joseiges.com
Co-production: Miso Music Portugal / CCB
Support: Instituto Cervantes Lisboa
21h00 – Pequeno Auditório
Quasars Ensemble
Loudspeaker Orchestra II
conductor and piano: Ivan Buffa
flute: Andrea Bošková
oboe: Júlia Gálová
clarinet: Martin Mosorjak
violin: Peter Mosorjak
violin: Marek Zwiebel
viola: Peter Zwiebel
cello: Andrej Gál
piano: Diana Cibul’ová
António Ferreira - Fading into white *
Miguel Azguime - Des Cercles en Cercle
Petra Oliveira Bachratá - Nunataq
Luigi Nono - Omaggio a Emilio Vedova *
Salvatore Sciarrino - Quintettino nº1 per clarinetto e archi *
Michael Jarrell - Assonance III *
Tristan Murail - Feuilles à travers les cloches *
Ivan Buffa - Quasars **
Viera Janárceková - Narratorium **
Petra Oliveira Bachratá - Bagatelle para piano
Roman Berger - Sonata 1960 *
Vladimir Bokes – Coll’Age
The Quasars Ensemble is a young Slovak ensemble of truly virtuosi musicians devoted to the contemporary repertoire. At the Musica Viva Festival they will be sharing a concert with the acclaimed Loudspeaker Orchestra in a proposition that aims at offering different perspectives over today’s European music creation. On one hand, the programme includes essential composers from the international contemporary repertoire such as Luigi Nono, Salvatore Sciarrino, Michael Jarrell or Tristan Murail; on the other hand, there are pieces from Portuguese and Slovak composers, sharing and opposing aesthetics that challenge music creation itself.
www.quasarsensemble.sk --- www.omega-bakery.com --- www.sitel.sk
Co-production: Miso Music Portugal / CCB
Support: Slovakia Music Fund, Hudobné Entrum (Music Centre Slovakia), Omega, Sitel, Lourisom
Thursday, September 25 – Belém Arts Centre
11h00 – Black Box
Contos Contados… Cantados com Som
concept: Paula Azguime
stories selection and text adaptation: Ágata Mandillo
speakers: Rosinda Costa, Ana Mandillo, Ágata Mandillo
live-electronics and sound projection: Simão Costa
electronic setting: Miso Studio
Uma Mesa é uma Mesa. Será? **
music by José Luís Ferreira / story by Isabel Martins
(commissioned by Miso Music Portugal)
A menina dos olhos de chuva **
music by Ângela Lopes / story by Anne Lauricella
(commissioned by Miso Music Portugal)
A Velha e o Ladrão **
music by Sérgio Pelágio / story by António Torrado
(commissioned by Miso Music Portugal)
Nuno e os Monstros **
music by Isabel Soveral / story by Ágata Mandillo
(commissioned by Miso Music Portugal)
19h00 – Black Box
Nuno Pinto – clarinet and electronics
clarinet: Nuno Pinto
musical assistant: Jean-Marc Sullon
Cândido Lima - Ncáãncôa
Virgílio Melo - Upon a Ground II **
Duo Con:fusion
winner of the live-electronics ECPNM 2007 Competition
electronics: Sascha Lino Lemke
voice and perfomance: Marcia Lemke-Kern
Sascha Lino Lemke, Marcia Lemke-Kern - #Un4Scene# *
Marcia Lemke-Kern - Museum *
This concert will be shared between Nuno Pinto, virtuoso young clarinet player; and the Duo Con:fusion winner of the first prize of the European Conference of Promoters of New Music “Live-Electronic Projects Competition which consists of the composers and performers Marcia Lemke-Kern and Sascha Lino Lemke”. Thus two distinctive suggestions whose common ground is the electroacoustic element in the pieces to be performed.
On one hand, Nuno Pinto performs Ncáãncôa by Cândido Lima, one of the most relevant composers in today’s Portuguese music and also Upon a Ground II by Virgílio Melo, recognised composer whose work builds on an endless return to itself. On the other hand, Museum and #Un4Scene# from the Duo Con:Fusion combine theatrical elements with music, by using live-electronics and live-video displaying fictional “real-life” situations de- and then re-constructed through usual electroacoustic or vídeo work techniques related to a new “laptopers” generation such as “scratching”, “looping” or granular synthesis.
www.nunopinto.pt --- www.duoconfusion.com
Co-production: Miso Music Portugal / CCB
Support: ECPNM, Fortbildungszentrum für Neue Musik Lüneburg
21h00 – Pequeno Auditório
Orquestra de Altifalantes III / Loudspeaker Orchestra III – Electronic Music
Prizewinners of the Electroacoustic Composition Competition Música Viva 2008
Pieces from Canadian composers introduced by Robert Normandeau
Robert Normandeau - Pluies noires **
(commissioned by Miso Music Portugal and Réseaux; with the support of the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec)
Robert Normandeau - Le renard et la rose *
Christian Bouchard - Parcelle 2 *
Christian Calon - Ouest (Atlas) *
In 2008 the Musica Viva Electroacoustic Composition Competition goes on to its 9th edition and it is already an internationally distinguished competition in the electroacoustic music domain, having a growing number of participants each year, going up to a hundred and half pieces competing. Last years’ prize winners are some of the most active and emergent young composers in the international music scene. This concert is particularly expected for new talents are to be revealed.
The jury, which this year gathers Robert Normandeau, Folkmar Hein and Miguel Azguime, will select the three winning pieces, which will be presented in the first-half of this concert.
In the second-half, the Festival invites the Canadian composer Robert Normandeau to present us with a selection of some of his favourite pieces, alongside with his own music, with special attention to the world premiere of a piece which was especially designed for the Miso Music Portugal’s exceptional sound system.
Co-production: Miso Music Portugal / CCB
Support: Canadian Embassy, Réseaux – Quebec, Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, Lourisom
Friday, September 26 – Belém Arts Centre
11h00 – Black Box
Contos Contados… Cantados com Som
concept: Paula Azguime
stories selection and text adaptation: Ágata Mandillo
speakers: Rosinda Costa, Ana Mandillo, Ágata Mandillo
live-electronics and sound projection: Simão Costa
electronic setting: Miso Studio
Uma Mesa é uma Mesa. Será? **
music by José Luís Ferreira / story by Isabel Martins
(commissioned by Miso Music Portugal)
A menina dos olhos de chuva **
music by Ângela Lopes / story by Anne Lauricella
(commissioned by Miso Music Portugal)
A Velha e o Ladrão **
music by Sérgio Pelágio / story by António Torrado
(commissioned by Miso Music Portugal)
Nuno e os Monstros **
music by Isabel Soveral / story by Ágata Mandillo
(commissioned by Miso Music Portugal)
19h00 – Black Box
Quinteto Diaphonia
flute: Natália Monteiro
oboe: David Costa
clarinet: Samuel Pascoal
horn: Thomas Gomes
bassoon: Tiago Paraíso
Frederico de Freitas - Pentafonia
João Madureira - Wanderung
Ivan Moody - Zefiro con Uccelli **
Gyorgy Ligeti - 10 pieces for wind quintet
Christopher Bochmann - 3 Bagatelas
Fernando Lopes-Graça - Sete Lembranças para Vieira da Silva
In this concert by the Quinteto Diaphonia, which consists on a new generation of musicians but having already an outstanding position in the Portuguese music scene, the Musica Viva Festival presents another programme emphasizing Portuguese music and young musicians. In this line-up, the Quinteto Diaphonia includes pieces from Frederico de Freitas, Fernando Lopes-Graça and João Madureira, all milestones in the XX century’s Portuguese repertoire for this instrumentation, signs of the path endured for several decades; pieces from Christopher Bochmann and Ivan Moody, composers who have chosen Portugal to live in and are now inseparable from today’s Portuguese music, with relevance to the world premiere of Zefiro con Uccelli; and finally the performance of Then Pieces for Wind Quartet by György Ligeti, one of the most influential names to a new generation of composers and whose music is inspirational for today’s music creation.
www.quintetodiaphonia.com
Co-production: Miso Music Portugal / CCB
21h00 – Pequeno Auditório
Crash Ensemble
director: Donnacha Dennehy
clarinet: Paul Roe
cello: Kate Ellis
percussion: Owen Gunnell
electric guitar/ synth: John Godfrey
bass/ double bass: Malachy Robinson
piano/ synth: Andrew Zolinsky
Donnacha Dennehy - Streetwalker *
John Godfrey - Aria 51 (with 5 secret audience volunteers) *
John McLachlan - Wonder **
(commissioned by Miso Music Portugal with the support by the Irish Arts Council)
Paulo Ferreira-Lopes - Schlaf der Schatten *
Evan Ziporyn - Kebyar Maya *
Philip Glass - Music in Similar Motion*
The Crash Ensemble was founded in 1997 by composer Donnacha Dennehy, conductor and pianist Andrew Synott and by clarinetist player Michael Seaver, Since its very beginning, the group has attracted enthusiastic audiences for its particular blend of music, video and electronics. The group is interdisciplinary in outlook, and considers its sound engineers, technicians and vídeo makers as much a part of the enterprise as the musicians. The Crash Ensemble has been considered by the New York Times “the Irish new-music band that plays with the energy and spirit of a rock group”. This concert’s programme selection follows the group’s guidelines, having interactive and multimedia pieces, which will even require the audience’s involvement. Irish music will be on the spotlight, but also the Works of Paulo Ferreira-Lopes and Philip Glass.
www.crashensemble.com
Co-production: Miso Music Portugal / CCB
Support: Culture Ireland, AIC, Arts Council
Saturday, September 27 – Belém Arts Centre
15h30 – Black Box
Contos Contados… Cantados com Som
concept: Paula Azguime
stories selection and text adaptation: Ágata Mandillo
speakers: Rosinda Costa, Ana Mandillo, Ágata Mandillo
live-electronics and sound projection: Simão Costa
electronic setting: Miso Studio
Uma Mesa é uma Mesa. Será? **
music by José Luís Ferreira / story by Isabel Martins
(commissioned by Miso Music Portugal)
A menina dos olhos de chuva **
music by Ângela Lopes / story by Anne Lauricella
(commissioned by Miso Music Portugal)
A Velha e o Ladrão **
music by Sérgio Pelágio / story by António Torrado
(commissioned by Miso Music Portugal)
Nuno e os Monstros **
music by Isabel Soveral / story by Ágata Mandillo
(commissioned by Miso Music Portugal)
16h00 – Reception hall
"π_ano [4x]"
piano and composition: Simão Costa
(please check notes from September 20th programme)
Co-production: Miso Music Portugal / CCB
Support: Yamaha
21h00 – Sala Luís de Freitas Branco
Smith Quartet
“Circuits project”
violin: Ian Humphries
violin: Darragh Morgan
viola: Nick Pendlebury
cello: Deirdre Cooper
musical assistant: Jean-Marc Sullon
electronic setting: Miso Studio
Pedro Rebelo - Shadow quartet *
(commissioned by Miso Music Portugal)
Carlos Caires - Horizon *
(commissioned by Miso Music Portugal)
João Pedro Oliveira - Labirinto
Pedro Amaral - Pagina Postica *
(commissioned by Miso Music Portugal)
Miguel Azguime - Paraître Parmi *
Steve Reich - Triple Quartet *
For decades, the Smith Quartet has been at the cutting edge of contemporary music, and is one of the most distinguished ensembles in the world. In this concert, it will present an almost entirely Portuguese programme, with pieces who have been touring through Europe within the context of the Circuits Project. Circuits was created by Miso Music Portugal closely with the British Council, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Camões Institute, aiming at promoting Portuguese music abroad.
This Project has been presented in Paris, Vilnius, Madrid, Belfast, Dublin, Oxford and Berlin and finally has its premiere in Portugal with six pieces that suggest distinctive paths to connections between the traditional string quartet and the electronic means.
The Musica Viva Festival 2008 ceases with one of the most representative composers in contemporary music, Steve Reich.
www.smithquartet.com
Co-production: Miso Music Portugal / CCB
Support: British Council
* portuguese premiere
** world premiere
N.B. Everyday, throughout the whole Festival and from its opening to its closing time, the Bengaleiro Norte of the Belém Arts Centre will be open and running as a permanent space of gathering and celebration of the Música Viva 2008, with an information desk, promoting and selling records, books and scores whilst several installations take place.
Funding, Co-Productions and Supports:
The Música Viva Festival is produced by Miso Music Portugal as the Portuguese Section of the International Society of Contemporay Music; as the Portuguese Section of the International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music; as a member of the
Funding:
Direcção Geral das Artes / Ministério da Cultura
Co-productions:
Centro Cultural de Belém
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
IGESPAR / Mosteiro dos Jerónimos
Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa
Centre de Recherches et de Formation Musicales de Wallonie CRFMW
Supports:
Águas do Luso
Apple/ VAD Portugal
Arts Council of Ireland
Association of Irish Composers
Bazar do Vídeo
British Council
Câmara Municipal de Lisboa
Câmara Municipal de Cascais
Casa Agrícola Roboredo Madeira
Communauté Française de Belgique
Ciência Viva
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
Culture Ireland
CulturesFrance
Ébano e Marfim
Embaixada do Canadá
Festival Warsaw Autumn
Fortbildungszentrum für Neue Musik Lüneburg
Gig Arts Magazine
Hudobné Entrum (Music Centre Slovakia)
INESC Porto
Instituto Cervantes Lisboa
IPERRENT
Lourisom
Mariposa Azual
Meyer Sound
Miosótis
Olissipo Hotels – Hotel Marquês de Sá
Ómega
Paróquia de Sta. Maria de Belém
Rádio Europa
Rádio Televisão Portuguesa / Antena 2
RealPelágio
Revista Índice
Sitel
Slovakia Music Fund
Tortoise Movies
TU Berlin
Turismo de Lisboa
Vila Galé – Hotel Vila Galé Opera
Yamaha
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