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Electronic / Electroacoustic

Electroacoustics

Aphâr is a Hebrew word that means "dust". This piece is inspired on the dream of Jacob, described in the Old Testament (Genesis Chapter 28): Jacob had a dream: He saw a stairway erected on the earth with its top reaching to the heavens. The angels of God were going up and coming down it and the Lord stood at its top. He said, I am the Lord, the God of your grandfather Abraham and the God of your father Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the ground you are lying on. Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth. To climb Jacob's ladder is a very difficult process. Each step you take is harder than the previous one and takes more time and effort to accomplish. These steps are heavy, and the dust in your feet is spread around, and finally disappears. If you reach the top of the stair, everything else is gone, and a door closes to the rest of the world, you have reached infinity.

Work	Type	Date	Organization/Event	Venue	Town	Country	Performers	Notes	Inv Row
'Âphâr	Performance	2009/Dec/05		University of Cuiabá	Cuiaba	Brazil		Notes
'Âphâr	Performance	2009/Nov/30	Seoul Internacional Festival		Seoul	South Korea		Notes
'Âphâr	Performance	2016/Nov/24	festival Difrazzioni			Italy		Notes
'Âphâr	Performance	2007/Dec/18		French-Portuguese Institute	Lisbon	Portugal		Notes
'Âphâr	Performance	2008/Aug/28	ICMC 2008	Sonic Lab	Belfast	United Kingdom		Notes

Documents
	Type (+ sub-type)	Cover/edition title Document title	Authors	Referring to	Publisher	Date
	Audio	EAW 2015 First International Congress of Electroacoustic Music Aveiro . Portugal  João Pedro Oliveira . 'Aphâr		aphar João Pedro Oliveira	capella	2015 2015