Leo Alves Vieira (Acousmatic Works)

Music:

Member Since: 3/6/2006
Band Website: menthedechat.net/artists/leoalvesvieira.htm
Band Members:
Leo Alves Vieira (Acoustic Guitar, Programming, Clarinet in Bb, Flutes, Drums, Percussion, Voice etc.) and, ocasionaly Júlia Mendes Selles (Voice, Violins).

Download for FREE 2 Leo Alves Vieira's brand new releases, at Menthe de Chat (Brasil) and TLHOTRA (Sweden) net-labels. Just click each cover below for them. Hope you all have a good time!
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Download GRÁTIS 2 novos lançamentos de Leo Alves Vieira, pela net-label carioca Menthe de Chat (Brasil) e pela sueca TLHOTRA (Suécia) apenas clique nas capas abaixo. Espero que gostem!

"Produções influenciadas pela escola eletroacústica européia"

(Fiberonline.uol.com.br) - 2008

"This work takes control in a subtle manner. Things emerge and take hold, usually in a musical manner and just as comfort sets in there's been an unexpected shift of focus, style or mode. What's interesting is how subtle the changes of mood and manner settle in. The range of musical expression and the gentle experimental touches are neither too conventional nor excessively unapproachable. I'm glad I spent time letting this work take over my world."

Zan Hoffman (ZH27 Records), about "Post-Sleep Paths", on Internet Archive January 3, 2008

"We end this year with a work by Leo Alves Vieira and Pangea, two prolific composers known in different constellations and coherence. Post-sleep paths demonstrate these two composers best sides. This is how experimental music sounds like, and should sounds like, as we step into 2008."

Markus Ã…berg (TLHOTRA Records)

"Some thoughts about Rest of forest. I have listened with expectations and also agree with your thoughts about Aphex Twin. Listening back now, it is even more obvious. Squarepusher and Mu-Ziq sound dated in comparison. Unfortunaly, there is also a lot of really technical Aphex Twin imitations these last years. Now, it sounds like Aphex Twin melodies are the element that is the hardest to imitate, his sense for beautiful dissonance integrated in elegant melodies.

About Rest of forest :

Well, I didn't write the previous text in purpose, but there is some of this beautiful dissonance isn't it ? William S. Burroughs...and once again I hear some Autechre sense of mathematical progression (grande_reacao), but it is a superficial comparison. This band is way too repetitive for its own good (and also only cares for electro). Your stuff flows with a sense of wonder, a childish energy, never stuck in a mode, something I wanted more from you while listening to your previous album.Mil Pulsos, quiet a wonder..Listened to Miles Davis - Get Up with it this week. I hear a good jazz fusion sensitivity in your music, almost like you were doing it from another planet perspective, only with electronic sounds and without the urge to make people dance. Not sure how you make it work. The stretched sounds usually don't get me (over used in the drum'n'bass era), but in this piece you make them sound like an orchestra with several strings instruments. Maybe, everything is in the layering..I try to do that too.Circuito das Águas sounds like some of my electronic improvisations put together. Some are not bad and could make pieces alone. I try to avoid all presets.Well, good work, specially Mil Pulsos, a really sensitive piece."

Vincent Bergeron (http://freakywaves.com/critiquesdisques/) January 5, 2008
Influences:
Those are influences and musicians that i admire: Gyorgy Ligeti, Pixinguinha, Chico Buarque de Holanda, Penderecki, Zbigniew Preisner, Villa-Lobos, Edgard Varèse, Tom Jobim, Stockhausen, Steve Reich, John Cage, Phillip Glass, Cartola, Nelson Cavaquinho, Vivaldi, Aphex Twin, Rodolfo Caesar, Marisa Rezende, Alexandre Shubert, Yahn Wagner, Paulo Dantas, Marcos Campello, Olavo Vianna and Victor Neves (Paralax), Marco Vinício Nogueira, Genesis, Mario Travassos, Led Zeppelin, Cynic, Ismael Silva, Noel Rosa, Friendly Bears, Elma, Mr. Bungle, Brahms and Beethoven, Henry Threadgill, Nicky Skopelitis, Eric Satie

Electroacoustic Works

My academic formation: student of the following people, Paulo Targino and Leo Soares (classical guitar), Maria Ísis de Oliveira, Samuel Araújo, Rodrigo Cicchelli Velloso and Joao Guilherme Ripper (Composition and Harmony/Forms), Sara Cohen and Carlos Almada, Sônia Maria Vieira, Ernani Aguiar (Orchestration), Roberto Macedo Ribeiro (Counterpoint), Rodrigo Cicchelli Velloso, Pauxy Gentil Nunes, Marco Vinício Nogueira (Composition), Marco Pereira, Nadge Breide and Cristina Behring (Piano) Hermano Viana and Sérgio Pires. Rodolfo Caesar and Rodrigo Cicchelli Velloso (Electroacoustic Music / Musical Technology)

Brazilian Composer, Born in February 13th, 1978.Composer of many soundtrack pieces, for theatrical and movie plays since 1994, Leo Alves Vieira have been writing for many other instrument formations in the 'academic' scene since 2001. He's debut as a composer was at the XV Biennial of Brazilian Contemporary Music, 2003, with the piece "Estilhaços-Constante Volta ao Indeterminado" (2002) for acoustic and electronic instruments, played by OFELEX.

His debut album "Sounds of the Orange Coloured Forest" was released september 2006 by Pralaya Records, from Brooklyn/NY.
Purchase my CD here

Arrangements

Compõe e interpreta (Violão) profissionalmente desde os 16 anos trilhas para curta-metragem ("O Fantasma do Teatro Municipal" de Luis Carlos Lacerda, "De Graça" de Mário Rocha, etc.) e teatro, onde compõe, interpreta e dirige musicalmente os espetáculos do premiado diretor Carlos Augusto Nazareth, como "O Menino Detrás das Nuvens" e "As incríveis aventuras de Zé Grande e seu fiel companheiro Manduca" e outras peças como "Absurdos" de Francisco Salgado e "Cintilante" de Milton Quadros. Desde 2000 vêm apresentando-se na Academia, atuando no coro que estreou mundialmente peça inédita de Edino Krieger no Teatro Municipal do Rio, em comemoração de aniversário da UFRJ. Em 2003 estréia obra sua em concertos junto ao grupo "OFELEX", estreando como intérprete e compositor na XV Bienal de Música Brasileira Contemporânea do mesmo ano (FUNARTE).

Seu primeiro disco "Sounds of the Orange Coloured Forest", de música eletroacústica na sua maioria, foi lançado em setembro de 2006 pela Pralaya Records, do Brooklyn, Nova York.
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Chamber Works

Details from some other tracks from Leo Alves Vieira (click here to listen to them all)

"Overrun: Suite-Remix in 3 connected moves" Music by Nude (Germany). String Quartet ("Quarteto de cordas da Grota") arranged and conducted by Leo Alves Vieira. Recorded at Tomba Records. Remix by Leo Alves Vieira & Pedro Pagnuzzi.

"Primeira - Remix" Music by Elma (São Paulo, Brasil). Remix by Leo Alves Vieira & Pedro Pagnuzzi. Clarinet in Bb played by Leo Alves Vieira, and it was recorded by Olavo Vianna.

"Ascertain Reliable Disclaimers" (Bruzgynai, Italy /Leo Alves Vieira, Brasil / Al Margolis, New York / Mr. Ebu, Germany / Miopec, Chile / Sergi Saldaña, Norway / Solomonoff & Von Hoffmanstahl, New Jersey / Tiziano Milani, Italy / Tortured by Turtles, Italy) released by ZH27 records. Org: Zan Hoffman (Kentucky, USA). In that 30 minute mix-compilation, Leo plays the Clarinet in Bb, Flute and electroacoustics.

"Please Get Up On - 6" (Leo Alves Vieira, Brasil / Music Mikey, Norway / Throu Roof, Italy / Uncle Jim, United Kindom / Yan Jun, China) released by ZH27 records. Org: Zan Hoffman (Kentucky, USA). 30 minute mix-compilation. Leo plays now the Piano, Clarinet in Bb, Flute and electroacoustics.

"Your Life Has Been Sectored For You" (Tom Furgas, OH-USA / Bret Hart, NC-USA / Al Margolis, NY-USA / Minuit, Spain / Alain Neffe, Belgium / Ocosi, Spain / Leo Alves Vieira, Brasil) is my lastest collaboration, released by ZH27 Records (Kentucky) - march 2007. Org: Zan Hoffman. 30 minute mix-compilation. Here, Leo participates only with electroacoustic creations.

Rio de Janeiro LIVE 2008 (A INCRÍVEL MÀQUINA DE EI, VOCÊ NÃO PODE FAZER ISSO - de Henrique Iwao), the track called "A INCRÍVEL MÀQUINA DE EI"

Sounds Like: Only you can tell me
Record Label: Menthe de Chat (Rio) TLHOTRA (Sweden) ZH27 (USA)
Type of Label: Indie