Commemorative Book dedicated to Miso Music Portugal
To mark the 40th anniversary of the Miso Ensemble and Miso Music Portugal (1985-2025), the book Sentem Sem Som Cem Sons Sempre was released last December...
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Musical Category Electroacoustic Music ("tape music")
Instrumentation (general) acousmatic music
Premiere
Date 2016/Dec/17
Organization/Event Matera Intermedia Festival 2016
Venue Casa Cava Auditorium
Town Matera
Country Italy
Program Notes
A Cor do Pensamento (The Color of Thought) is a work of acousmatic music whose idea originated from the experience provided "in loco" by a street musician in New Delhi (India), who sang Indian folk music and was accompanied by a stringed instrument called kamancheh. The timbre and expressive richness of that moment helped me to establish the work’s concept. As for the material, I used sounds recorded with seven portuguese guitars, played in an unconventional way, using various resources such as the ordinary violin bow, arco battuto, arco col legno, sounds percussed and sliding the fingertips and the palm of the hand over the top harmonic. Throughout the discourse I established a formal relationship between instrumental music and concrete music, the organization of layers, dynamics and the curve of the work, a reference to orchestral thought.