Member Since: 12/8/2006
Band Website: homepage.mac.com/vitor.rua/iblog/index.html
Band Members: Telectu is a fundamental duo of new improvisation formed by Jorge Lima Barreto and VÃtor Rua.
Since 1982 this group has developed and introduced in Portugal different musical typologies: art rock, minimalism, live electronics, multimedia, acousmatic, concret, and have linked their art to performance, video, and installation.
They have worked and recorded with various exponents of contemporary improvisation, including Elliott Sharp, Chris Cutler, Jac Berrocal, Louis Sclavis, Jean Sarbib, Paul Lytton, Evan Parker, Carlos ZÃngaro, Tim Hodgkinson, Eddie Prévost, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Sunny Murray, etc.
Telectu has performed and recorded at the forefront of Portuguese music and at important international gatherings in: Beijing (CCTV), Paris (Pompidou Centre, Radio France), Moscow (Lenine Auditorium, Mali Theatre), New York (Knitting Factory), Spain (Granada, Madrid, Vigo, Barcelona), Hong Kong (Jazz Club), Macao (Casa Garden), Havana (Teatro Nacionale), Romania (National Auditorium), Vienna (WUK Theatre).
Their creations are a landmark as a different multimedia musical conception and their instrumental and aesthetic heterodoxy (prepared piano and guitar, piano string action, scratch and noise, instrumental pluridisciplinarity, percussion, digital controllers, sampler, instrumental connections, digital apparatus, etc.) are co-ordinated by a spontaneous energy, ad-lib, real-time, fractal; their records are documents that assert the duo as one of the most important groups of new improvised music.
Jorge Lima Barreto ( b. 1949 ) began his career in the late sixties with experimental music and free jazz.
He wrote books about different musical typologies, like minimalism, jazz, rock, dance, experimental and multimedia.
He formed in the seventies the group AnarBand and make a record with the jazz musician Saheb Sarbib. In the 75 he created with Carlos ZÃngaro a movement called "Conceptual Jazz".
With P.H.D. in Art History (73) he gave conferences all around the world (Paris, Cuzco, S.Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Beijing).
VÃtor Rua ( b. 1961 ) began his career in the late seventies with a series of interventions that changed the face of Portuguese pop/rock. In 1987, in an act of autodidactic determination, he devoted himself to the study of contemporary musical notation.
His work is characterized by a variegated, embryonic post-modernism and an empiricist rejection of cultural confines, and reflects a transition from structured improvisation to strict composition.
As a composer his music has been played in Romania/ Bucharest (Musique Céréale, 97 soprano saxophone by Daniel Kientzy), in Spain/ Granada (Truffle Sax, 98 bass saxophone and tape by Daniel Kientzy), France/ Perpignan and Italy/ Venice (Cyberpunk, 98 bass saxophone by Daniel Kientzy), Portugal/ Lisbon (Gula, 98 soprano and baritone saxophone and tape by Daniel Kientzy), England/ York, London (Royal Albert Hall) (Duplicator, 99 2 alto recorders and tape by Ensemble QTR: Peter Bowman and Katerina Bennetts).
Record Label: Baucau Records
Type of Label: Indie