I would happily lose one song on my profile in exchange for some more quality.
Will someone tell Tom that 96 kbps sucks?
Should we start a campaign or something?
Thanks for stopping by.
About the pieces above:
WASTE IT, for 7 percussionists, was commissioned by John Boudler for the PIAP ensemble (the percussion group of the São Paulo State University). It was written between December 2007 and March 2008, and is dedicated to the memory of Frank Zappa (1940-1993). This recording is from the premiere on November 7, 2008. Performers: Leonardo Gorosito, Catarina Percinio, Leonardo Bertolini Labrada, Herivelto Brandino, Sérgio Coutinho, Marcos Matos and Bruno Cabrera; Conductor: Rafael Alberto.
A Eterna Reciclagem do Si (or The Eternal Recycling of the Self) and Migraine Impromptu are a couple of acousmatic miniatures from 2005. The former is the result of 65 minutes worth of music compressed in less than one minute, and spawned a video by Alessandro Santana about 3 years later (see below to the left). The latter (which was revised in 2007) sums up how I feel about headaches, in a nutshell.
misantrópicos I was written for the Sonâncias ensemble's debut CD, Ressonâncias , co-produced by me and soon to be released. Performers: Giuliano Rosas , bass clarinet and clarinet; Eliane Tokeshi, violin; Tecris Rodrigues , cello; Lidia Bazarian, piano. Conductor: Arthur Rinaldi .
natureza morta ("still life") is an acousmatic piece which deviated from a collaborative project with composer Munha (leader of the excellent instrumental quintet Satanique Samba Trio ), to whom it is dedicated, and received video accompaniment afterwards by Mari Rizzo (check the videos to the left). The piece was later released on a compilation by Ibrasotope , which can be downloaded in high quality here (please do so, because it sounds awful at 96 kbps!).
Title is a solo percussion piece for vibraphone, glockenspiel, 5 temple blocks and chinese cymbal, written in 2007. Performer: Rafael Alberto, percussion (who also premiered the piece). If you're wondering how the hell he can play all that stuff with only two hands, check the video below.
"Matriz N° 4, em 9/8" and "Matriz N° 10, em 5/4" are two recent pieces (2008) from the old series of 12 Matrixes for Virtual Percussion, originally conceived in 2003. VERY mathematical music. This is a stereo reduction of the 4-channel originals, in which the 12 "virtual percussionists" form a regular dodecagon around the audience.
"Todo Papa Morre" ("every pope dies") is a sort of demented tango which I wrote by the occasion of the pope's death in 2005, with a long intro and a theme (two, actually) in 17/16. In June 2008 I spent a day at the Logos Foundation in Ghent (Belgium) working with their robot orchestra and came up with this makeshift adaptation. Many thanks to Kristof Lauwers , who assisted me in this work and even had the patience to do some revisions before sending me this recording, and to Mr. Godfried-Willem Raes , head of the Logos Foundation and creator of all the musical robots heard in this performance. Tango is not dead, it just smells funny. Yeah.
Twins Are Born in Sagittarius is an acousmatic piece from 2003, composed for the Stockhausen/AcidPlanet electronic international composition competition. It was one of the seven finalists which were listened to by Stockhausen himself (who, however, did not comment on the pieces).
Title, for solo percussion (2007)
The great percussionist Rafael Alberto in his 2nd public performance of my piece "Title", for solo percussion (vibraphone, glockenspiel, 5 temple blocks and chinese cymbal). Close to perfection.
