Works

to Paula, and to my mother and my father

New instrumentation

Instrumentation (detailed)

Winds and Brass	Flute, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn
Strings (plucked / bowed)	2 Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass
Electronic / Electroacoustic	Live Electronics

Performer(s)

With the same worries as in most of my work, Alentour Allant Même presents us a “sound strategy”, respectful of the nature of sound material, used as a model (acoustic and synthetic) for composition itself. The piece is built on a succession of harmony-timbres adrift between sound and noise, through an erosion process of the inside of chords, leaving the extreme regions (high and low) in evidence. The work’s first version was written in 2003 and was premiered by the Antipodes Ensemble from Basel. In 2006 I revised it thoroughly, changed the instrumentation and rewrote the electronic part. This final version was premiered in Casa da Música in November 2006 by OrchestrUtopica directed by Olivier Cuendet. Miguel Azguime “The questions regarding sound and timbre are for Miguel Azguime in evidence in his work Alentour Allant Même. These have always been present in his work and musical thought. His music is the expression of his own vision of the World, in which the composer is a unique and irreplaceable creator, whose human condition is inevitably a part of the destiny of the World. The creation of sound/musical objects is an act of poetry that seeks to unveil the “miracles” of sound. His music is therefore the result of a sound strategy, which implies the respect of the nature of the sound material as an object. Miguel Azguime applies an “electronic” thought, in the sense that his understanding of sound manipulation is already a sort of feedback from the electronic process. The idea of sound synthesis is applied as a sort of universal mathesis, both in his electronic and acoustic music.” copyright 2006, OrchestrUtopica

Work	Type	Date	Organization/Event	Venue	Town	Country	Performers	Notes	Inv Row
Alentour Allant Même	Performance	2008/Jul/13	Belém Art Centre / Música Portuguesa Hoje	Belém Art Centre - Tent	Lisbon	Portugal	OrchestrUtopica Pedro Amaral (conductor)	Notes
Alentour Allant Même	Premiere	2003/Sep/14	Miso Music Portugal - Música Viva Festival 2003	Transports Museum	Coimbra	Portugal	Ensemble Antipodes: Markus Niederhauser (clarinet), Marc Kilchenmann (bassoon), Olivier Darbellay (horn), Egidius Streiff (violin), Hyunjong Kang (violin), Mariana Doughty (viola), Alfredo Persichilli (cello), Daniela Giacobbo (double bass)	Notes
Alentour Allant Même	Performance	2007/Dec/16		Casa da Música - Suggia Concert Hall	Porto	Portugal	Remix Ensemble Titus Engel (conductor)	Notes
Alentour Allant Même	Premiere of revised version	2006/Nov/23	OrchestrUtopica	Casa da Música	Oporto	Portugal	Orchestrutopica Olivier Cuendet (conductor)	Notes	+ Radicais + Livres
+ Radicais + Livres
Alentour Allant Même	Performance	2006/Nov/25	OrchestrUtopica	Centro Cultural de Belém	Lisbon	Portugal	Orchestrutopica Olivier Cuendet (conductor)	Notes	+ Radicais + Livres
+ Radicais + Livres

Documents
	Type (+ sub-type)	Cover/edition title Document title	Authors	Referring to	Publisher	Date
	Scores	Miguel Azguime / Alentour Allant Même  Alentour Allant Même		alentour allant meme Miguel Azguime	Centro de Investigação & Informação da Música Portuguesa	2011 2008