Works

Final work of the International Competition of Electroacoustic Music of Bourges (2003), France.

Instrumentation (detailed)

Electronic / Electroacoustic

Electroacoustics

Gist (2002) is the last of three pieces of mine that I consider somewhat connected to Baroque architecture. Although the metaphor of music as sound architecture dates from the 19th century, space metaphors are very much used when one describes musical form - a limit from our verbal and writing discourse about music. In the case of this composition, the multitude of sound objects and their virtual movement in space is related, in my own memory, to the multitude of escape points that one experiences upon entering in Baroque buildings, specially the churches that exist in Southern Europe and in some Latin America countries. Looking around, everything seems to move, suspending the past-present-future flow and somehow putting us in the "now" moment. Our memory of these "presents", however, contains less and less actual detail as it recedes further into the past. And as I was progressing in the composition, the metaphor became less connected to architecture and more akin to chemistry (or alchemy to be less precise...). Gist is the remain of all these experiences. Hopefully, the architectural metaphor will go beyond the mere intellectual organization of sounds and into a poetic listening state. This state emerges from the presence of pitched masses, disembodied human sounds and fleeting movements of micro sounds. Gist was made in the author's studio during the fall of 2002. It uses several commercial and non-commercial software implemented on a Mac computer. Gist was premiered in the Bourges Synthese Festival in 11th of June 2003 and was pre-selected in the 2003 Bourges Electroacoustic Music Competition. António Ferreira

Work	Type	Date	Organization/Event	Venue	Town	Country	Performers	Notes	Inv Row
Gist	Performance	2003/Sep/13	Música Viva Festival 2003	Transports Museum	Coimbra	Portugal		Notes
Gist	Performance	2003/Jan/01	SICMF 2003 - Seoul Electroacoustic Festival			South Korea		Notes
Gist	Performance	2003/Sep/01	International Computer Music Conference 2003		Singapore	Singapore		Notes
Gist	Performance	2003/Nov/01	Cycles de Musique Par Ordinateur	Paris VIII University	Paris	France		Notes	Mario Mary (organisation)
Mario Mary (organisation)
Gist	Performance	2003/Jan/01	SAE 03 - Electroacoustic Festival		Scarbourough	United Kingdom		Notes
Gist	Premiere	2003/Jun/11	Festival Synthèse		Bourges	France		Notes
Gist	Performance	2004/Jul/10	Festival Elektrophonie Nuit Bleue		Besançon	France		Notes
Gist	Performance	2007/Apr/03	Electroaoustic Music Days	Arts House	Seia	Portugal		Notes
Gist	Performance	2010/Sep/09	III FIMC - Contemporary Music International Festival	Teatro do Movimento	Sao Salvador	Brazil		Notes

Documents
	Type (+ sub-type)	Cover/edition title Document title	Authors	Referring to	Publisher	Date
	Audio	Electronic Music - Vol. I & II Portuguese Composers Música Viva Competition  Gist		gist António Ferreira	Miso Records	2004