Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble

This new ensemble, founded by Miso Music Portugal with the artistic direction of Miguel Azguime and Pedro Amaral as a conductor, is devoted to a repertoire that joins acoustic instruments and the most recent electronic technologies.

Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble’soriginal characteristic is the significance given to the interpretation of instrumental repertoire with electronic means. It is therefore an innovative project, both nationally and internationally.

The reasons and need for this singularity are justified by the most recent tendencies in the history of contemporary music. The same way the development of the great orchestra was connected, as a paradigm, to the European repertoire of the XIXth century, so the XXth century post-war repertoire was connected to the contemporary paradigm: the ensemble.

This new paradigm, though more restrict, is not less characteristic. Thus, the generalization of the musical technologies during the eighties and the nineties has brought a democratization of electroacoustic means. All notions of music writing became larger, bringing an ever-growing mixed repertoire, which imposes a perceptive change on the instrumental and organizational paradigm. Worldwide ensembles have sought to adapt to this new context, namely by forging partnerships for each project with studios, music laboratories or technology centres. The ensemble as an institution became versatile, trying to embrace both the repertoires that were in its origin and the mixed repertoires, which have attained an essential and determining position in contemporary musical creation.

Within this particular context, Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble is, from its very origin, specifically dedicated to the performance of this new repertoire.

The ensemble has a permanent structure of seven musicians plus conductor – flute, clarinet, piano, violin, cello 1 for the live-electronics and 1 for sound projection – who are sporadically joined by other performers, according to the programs.

Its premiere is due on the 11th September 2007 in Lisbon, at the Phillippe Friedman Concert Hall in the Franco-Portuguese Institut on the opening concert of the 2007 edition of the Música Viva Festival; and on the 18th September at Casa da Música in Porto, also within the Música Viva Festival.

Miguel Azguime: artistic director
Pedro Amaral: conductor

Monika Duarte Streitova: flute
Nuno Pinto: clarinet
Suzanna Lidegran: violin
Marco Pereira: cello
Ana Telles: piano
Miso Studio: electronicS
+ Invited musicians for special repertoire

Critic
“With the confidence of their performance, their commitment and the musicians’ outstanding technical level, Sond’Ar-te has conquered. Pedro Amaral’s direction was distinct, clear and effective.
…We wish that Sond’Ar-te becomes an European reference in the domain of contemporary music.”
Diana Ferreira in Público (20-09-2007)

REPERTOIRE

Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble’s Portuguese and Spanish Repertoire

João Pedro Oliveira – Timshel 15’00’’ - 2007
flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, electronics - commissioned by Miso Music Portugal

Pedro Rocha - To a world free from beliefs 21’00’’ - 2007
flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, electronics - commissioned by Miso Music Portugal

Miguel Azguime – Derrière Son Double 19’00’’ - 2001
flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano, live-electronics - commissioned by Casa da Música

Filipe Pires – Prólogos 11’00’’ - 2004
flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, electronics

João Madureira – Ausgrabben und Erinnern 12’00’’ - 2006
flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano - commissioned by Miso Music Portugal

Patrícia Sucena Almeida – Aranea 9’00’ - 2006
flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano - commissioned by Miso Music Portugal

Enrique X. Macías – Itinerário de Luz 20’00’’ - 1995
flute, clarinet, horn, violin, cello, electronics

Enrique X. Macías – Adhuc 17’00’’ - 1993
clarinet, horn, violin, cello, vibraphone, synthesizer

Cândido Lima – Gestos-Circus-.Círculos 14''
flauta, clarinete, violino, violoncelo, piano, percussão e electrónica

Other Works by Portuguese Composers, for solo instruments, duets or other instruments:

Carlos Caires - Duetto 1

Isabel Soveral - Anamorfoses III

Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble’s Other Repertoire

Prize Winner of Sond’Ar-te Composition Competition 2008 Chamber Music with Electronics

Masataka Matsuo – Resonant Solitude

Philippe Leroux – Voi(rex)

Gérad Grisey - Talea

All works for flute, clarinet, piano, violin, cello and electronics are very welcomed as well as other works that can fit in the instrumentation of the ensemble.

Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble is an ensemble resident of the Cascais Municipality

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