Chamber music (2-8 instruments)
With live-electronics
Instrumentation (general)
2004
11' 00"
Ensemble and Live Electronics
Ensemble and Live Electronics
Document title Anatomia de um Poema Sonoro
Date of Composition· 2004
Instrumentation
Musical Category Chamber music (2-8 instruments)
With live-electronics
Instrumentation (general) Ensemble and Live Electronics
Premiere
Date 2004/Apr/28
Performer(s)
Fabien Sattler (speaker), Mafalda de Lemos (mezzo-soprano), Alexander Berezny (saxophone), Michael Pattmann (percussion), Martin von der Heydt (piano)
Valerio Sannicandro, Luís A. Pena e João Miguel Pais (sound projection)
Organization/Event Folkkwang Hochschule Essen
Town Essen
Country Germany
Text / Lyrics
Author of the Text Jorge de Sena
Title of Poem or Text Amor
Author of the Text Kurt Schwitters
Title of Poem or Text An Anna Blume
Program Notes
Anatomia de um Poema Sonoro was conceived as a phonetical deconstruction of the language. The succession of the musical events flows in a way more or less direct to the text that cross the whole score. In Anatomia there is a concrete transfiguration of the language in music. The text provides the sonorous and rhythmical material of the piece and, simultaneously it becomes itself loud poetry. The music is sometimes an instrumentation of the text and, other times the text is music.
With the exception of the poem from Kurt Schwitters “An Ana Blume” the text used in the piece is based on the poem by Jorge de Sena entitled “Amor”. This poem emerges transformed in a sequence of spoken and whispered words where the original text is intercalated with sentences coming from itself although forming a parallel text without its’ original sense. This is the way that a nonsense verse is brought into existence from Senas’ poem and transforms itself in what it remains: sounds and rhythms; a text released from its’ semantical sense and for this reason loaded with a new and different meaning of sonorous and rhythmical dimensions. The quotation of three sentences from “An Ana Blume” by Kurt Schwitters (“Blue is the colour of your blond hair. Red is the colour of your green bird. You yours you to you me to you you to me – Us?”) is the symbolic culmination of the text as rhythm and as sound.
The composing processes I have used in this piece are, so to say, shaped by the text and by its’ particular relation to the instruments. This aspect conducted to the creation of a new musical vocabulary that allowed a smooth path between music and text: often a direct connection between noises and consonants, between tones and vowels. The sonorous synthesis of the text leads to the music and the resynthesis of music leads to a new text.
Luís Antunes Pena
Prizes
Name of Award ECMC Composition Competition
Prize 2nd Prize
Date 2006
Awarding Body EMCN - Eastman Computer Music Center
Ensemble Mosaik
Mafalda de Lemos (soprano), Fabian Sattler (speaker), Digital Masters (sound), Enno Poppe (conductor)
Notes
Anatomia de um Poema Sonoro
Premiere
2004/Apr/28
Folkkwang Hochschule Essen
Essen
Germany
Fabien Sattler (speaker), Mafalda de Lemos (mezzo-soprano), Alexander Berezny (saxophone), Michael Pattmann (percussion), Martin von der Heydt (piano)
Valerio Sannicandro, Luís A. Pena e João Miguel Pais (sound projection)
Notes
Anatomia de um Poema Sonoro
Performance
2008/Mar/07
ECMC 25th Anniversary International Electroacoustic Music Competition
Eastman School of Music
Rochester, New York
United States of America
Matt Barber (conductor)
Notes
Anatomia de um Poema Sonoro
Performance
2008/Nov/28
Festival Internazionale di Musica Elettroacustica del Conservatorio Santa Cecilia di Roma
Conservatorio Santa Cecilia di Roma - Sala Accademica
