[ca294] Bernardo Barros, Henrique Iwao & Mario Del Nunzio - Musica Eletronica 2004
Label: Clinical Archives
Catalog: ca294
Format: 11 File, MP3, 320 kbps
Released: 04.08.2009
Styles: ElectronicExperimentalGlitchNoiseAcoustic
Size: 165.6 MB
Tracklist:
01 - Improviso em Branco e Preto (Carta as Videntes) [Mario Del Nunzio] 02 - Libidinagens Neuro-sentimentais [Mario Del Nunzio] 03 - O Cha [Mario Del Nunzio] 04 - Nec Spe Nec Metu [Mario Del Nunzio] 05 - Waari [Bernardo Barros] 06 - Frankfurt, Frankfurt [Bernardo Barros] 07 - Metabolismo Mental Bizarro [Bernardo Barros] 08 - Escrito Com o Corpo [Bernardo Barros] 09 - Mas Tenho Consciencia? Nao, Nao Tenho Consciencia, Nao Estou Consciente! [Henrique Iwao] 10 - Estudo Para Um Instante Vazio [Henrique Iwao] 11 - Contrabandistas de Jeans Furiosos Ate as Narinas [Henrique Iwao]
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That all the pieces in this compilation were composed in 2004 (exceptions being Frankfurt, Frankfurt & Nec Spe Nec Metu, both composed in 2003), is far from being a curiosity. In such period of time, Bernardo Barros, Mario Del Nunzio & Henrique Iwao were living in the same city, Campinas, and studying at the Music Department of the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), where they had the rare opportunity of being in a creative environment, full of exchanges between the participants and of occasions to show and discuss new works. From the last months of 2002 till the end of 2004, the university was open to new propositions and behaving as an open and living space. This fact resulted, in the works of these composers, in the pieces here presented (and others premiered during the same period), in which there are clear mutual influences (denoted by the use of similar sound materials and by sharing technical procedures), but also preoccupations and predispositions of a highly individual character (the improvisational gesturality of Del Nunzio, the automated procedures of Barros, the structural rigidity of Iwao).
Nec Spe Nec Metu, by Del Nunzio, ìwithout hope nor fearî, begins the exploration of digital noises and ìextended electronic techniquesî, also with a dynamic and tense gestural quality, and a will to give a notion of corporeality to the music. The piece uses many non-conventional compositional procedures, such as the creation of digital flaws by the consecutive application of a great quantity of sound processes with opposite functions. In a very different way, this intention of a physicality is also present in some other pieces here presented, such as in Escrito com o Corpo (Written with the Body), by Barros, in which the ultra-low sounds, perceived or not, may proportionate the opportunity to ìlet the stomach vibrateî.
Back from Europe, after being in contact with the german breakbeat, Barros composed Frankfurt, Frankfurt, taking rhythmical and timbrical elements from the pop culture. The piece has a homogeneous material and intends to develop a significant musical structure, through tempo variations and density control. Meanwhile, Del Nunzio, in his Improviso em Branco & Preto (Carta as Videntes), uses samples from many different sources (mainly from percussion excerpts of works by contemporary composers, and drum solos by rock drummers), with its intrinsic gersturality, having the specificities of the samples conducting in an almost improvisatory way the development of the piece. Anyway, there is a perceptible thematic proximity of both pieces.
The pieces by Iwao here presented have some of the characteristics which define his actuation as a composer (at least during this period), such as: an attention to the pre-compositional formal plans, rigorously; the way he deals with layers, sculpted during the realization of the piece; a certain obsessiveness. In the laborious Estudo para um Instante Vazio, the imperfections of an extensive and problematic technically manual work constitute the main body of the piece, being such characteristics on one hand determined by the chosen technique for the sound generation (synthesis by graphical representation) and, on the other hand, by one practical result of this technique (appearance of clicks - and the compositional option of accepting these clicks). The sections and materials used in the piece are pre-defined abstractly and treated with maximum rigidity ñ avoiding, thus, any didatism (meaning a direct induced correspondence between the compositional plans and an intended comprehension of the music).
(Henrique Iwao and Mario Del Nunzio. Translation: Mario Del Nunzio)
All musics composed in 2004, except "Frankfurt, Frankfurt", composed in 2003.
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