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Musical Category Chamber music (2-8 instruments)
With live-electronics

Instrumentation (general) String quartet and live electronics

Instrumentation (detailed)

Strings (plucked / bowed)	2 Violin, Viola, Cello
Electronic / Electroacoustic	Live Electronics

Date 2008/Apr/26

Performer(s)

Organization/Event Miso Music Portugal / Circuits

Venue Jacqueline du Pré Music Building

Town Oxford

Country Portugal

The subject: for the first time in my work I accepted to have a general “subject” for a purely instrumental composition. The psychological impact of a geological eruption might be considered as the subject, as well as two psychological states that could precede it: serenity and presage. The compositional context: as on filming a movie – recording together every group of scenes taking place in a single context, luminosity or local. In the same way, each group of musical fragments linked to a certain psychological state were composed preliminarily, independently of the order they’ll assume in the final “montage” or formal configuration of the piece. The work: it will thus exist in two different forms – the original text (which constitutes my First String Quartet) and this pagina postica (here premiered by the Smith Quartet) – like in two totally different lectures or formal perceptions of the same (strictly the same) music.

Date 2007

Commissioning Body Miso Music Portugal - Faial Island

Web Page http://www.misomusic.com/

Town Parede

Country Portugal

Work

Type

Date

Organization/Event

Venue

Town

Country

Performers

Notes

Pagina Postica

Performance

2008/Sep/27

Miso Music Portugal / Música Viva Festival 2008

Belém Cultural Centre - Luís de Freitas Branco Room

Lisbon

Portugal

Smith Quartet: Ian Humphries (violin), Darragh Morgan (violin), Nick Pendlebury (viola), Deirdre Cooper (cello)

Notes

Pagina Postica

Premiere

2008/Apr/26

Miso Music Portugal / Circuits

Jacqueline du Pré Music Building

Oxford

Portugal

Smith Quartet: Ian Humphries (violin), Darragh Morgan (violin), Nick Pendlebury (viola), Deirdre Cooper (cello) Miso Studio (spatialization and live electronics)

Notes

Documents
	Type (+ sub-type)	Cover/edition title Document title	Authors	Referring to	Publisher	Date
	Audio	Smith Quartet music for string quartet & electronics Pedro Rebelo / Carlos Caires Miguel Azguime / Pedro Amaral Pagina Postica		pagina postica Pedro Amaral	Miso Records	2011
	Radio programmes	Arte Eletroacústica: Obras Portuguesas para Quarteto de Cordas e Electrónica	Miguel Azguime	pagina postica Pedro Amaral		2012

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