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Musical Category Chamber music (2-8 instruments)
With electroacoustics ("tape")

Instrumentation (general) instrumental ensemble and electronics

Instrumentation (detailed)

Winds and Brass	Flute, Oboe, Trumpet
Percussion	Percussion
Strings (plucked / bowed)	Violin, Cello
Electronic / Electroacoustic	Electroacoustics

Date 2000/Nov/24

Performer(s)

Organization/Event Music in november

Venue Camões Theatre

Town Lisbon

Country Portugal

This work explores timbrical and rhytmical relations between instruments and tape. On one side we have the real live part, visible, represented by the instruments on stage. On the “other side of the mirror”, we find the virtual sounds, ethereal, invisible, represented by the tape part. The dialog between both tries to create an illusion in the interaction between the real and the imagination, where each one of them can be ambiguous, or they can oppose or interact with each other. ...there are those who say that life is an illusion and reality is only a figment of the imagination...

Date 2000

Commissioning Body São Carlos National Theatre

Web Page http://www.saocarlos.pt/

Town Lisbon

Country Portugal

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Notes

...there are those who say that life is an illusion...

Premiere

2000/Nov/24

Music in november

Camões Theatre

Lisbon

Portugal

Proyecto Gerhard Jose Luis Temes (conductor)

Notes

Documents
	Type (+ sub-type)	Cover/edition title Document title	Authors	Referring to	Publisher	Date
	Audio	...there are those who say that life is an illusion...,		...there are those who say that life is an illusion... João Pedro Oliveira
	Scores	João Pedro Oliveira / ...there are those who say that life is an illusion... ...there are those who say that life is an illusion...		...there are those who say that life is an illusion... João Pedro Oliveira	Centro de Informação da Música Portuguesa	2008 1999

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