Musical Category Music Theatre
With live-electronics
Instrumentation (general) ensemble, narrator and electronics
Premiere
Date 2015/Dec/15
Performer(s)
Miguel Azguime, narrator
Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble Pedro Neves, musical direction
Organization/Event Diz-Concerto
Venue O'culto da Ajuda
Town Lisbon
Country Portugal
Text / Lyrics
Author of the Text Luís de Camões
Title of Poem or Text Ao Desconcerto do Mundo
Program Notes
About Ao Desconcerto do Mundo
The piece was created as a response to a commission by the composer Miguel Azguime for the Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble to be part of their Music Theatre project, focused on children between the ages of 10 and 14 years old.
The piece is based on a poem written by the Portuguese poet Luís de Camões: Ao Desconcerto do Mundo and tries to explore several dimensions: from the use of the word as a sonic object for timbric exploration, enigmatic games achieved by incomplete sentences, to the use of noise as an aesthetical element. The structure and meaning of the poem has also become an object for personal interpretation leading to the conception of the musical material, suggesting gestures and spatialization.
