Emanuel Pimenta - contemporary music
Here you find some compositions by Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta since 1980. They are not all. The compositions here represent around less than 20% of his music. Many times, his concerts last around sixty minutes and it would not be possible to have all them in their integral version in this podcast. But, we have here more than one hundred musical pieces, composed and recorded in the last thirty years. Some of them are rare recordings. You can find much more information at his site: www.emanuelpimenta.net
SIRIUS
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SIRIUS is not one composition, but two. One made by Emanuel Pimenta, in Ticino, Switzerland, and another one created by Jon Rappoport, in California, United States. The composers did not knew what the other was working on, following the principle of independence established by Antonin Artaud in the beginning of the 20th century. SIRIUS is a double star, with mysterious and unpredictable movements. SIRIUS was composed by Jon Rappoport and Emanuel Pimenta in the first semester of 2010.
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Sunday, Jul 25, 2010XUACSAL
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XUACSAL was composed in 2010. The world première happened at Second Life in May 23, with Francesco Cuoghi on guitar and electronic live streaming and Emanuel Pimenta on digital systems and electronic live streaming. Production by David Lucas Desidério and Pablo Valença. See http://www.emanuelpimenta.net/xuacsal.html; also http://www.francescocuoghi.it; and see Xtream Hotspot at Second Life, with Pablo Valença
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Sunday, Jul 25, 2010Games 3
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Games 3 was composed in 2010 and dedicated to the Portuguese musician and composer Miguel Azguime. The world première happened at the French Portuguese Institute, in Lisbon, Portugal, in March of 2010.
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Sunday, Jul 25, 201015 Stones
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15 Stones was composed in 2004 and dedicated to the Swiss philosopher René Berger. The world première happened at the Monte Verita Foundation, in Ascona, Locarno, in that same year. This recording was made in the concert at the Museum of Electricity, in Lisbon, Portugal, in June 9, 2010. This concert was dedicated to the city of Carrara and to the Italian poet Filippo Rolla. It was also in memory of the legendary Brazilian diplomat Dario de Castro Alves.
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Sunday, Jul 25, 20107.14
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7.14 is a composition created by Emanuel Pimenta in New York City in 2003. It lasts seven minutes and fourteen seconds.
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20092009 Reed - second version
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Reed was composed by Emanuel Pimenta in 2009 for the 90th birthday of Merce Cunningham. The piece, recorded in New York City, is based on body movements captured by Eadweard Muybridge's photos. This version is also live performed by Emanuel Pimenta on flute, and Paul Goldberg on sax - both improvisations
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20092009 Reed
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Reed was composed by Emanuel Pimenta in 2009 for the 90th birthday of Merce Cunningham. The piece, recorded in New York City, is based on body movements captured by Eadweard Muybridge's photos.
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20092009 MAT
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MAT is a piece for viola and guitar composed in 2009 and dedicated to Maurizio Barbetti. Its world première happened in Oldenburg, Germany, at the Zentre Kultursommer in 2009. Maurizio Barbetti: viola; Francesco Cuoghi: guitar and live electronics.
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20092009 Masses for Three
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Masses for Three was composed and recorded in New York City, in 2009
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20092009 Lepton
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Lepton was composed and recorded in New York City in 2009. Its world première had place at the ARCHETIME Project, in New York City, also in 2009, curated by the philosopher and poet Doru Paul. For more information, see http://www.emanuelpimenta.net/lepton2009/1.html
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20092009 HODOS
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HODOS was composed and recorded in New York City, in 2009
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20092009 Canto 6409
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CANTO 6409 is a concert by Emanuel Pimenta and a film by Dino Viani, created as two independent works, to happen together, in 2009. The project was made in memory of the victims of the terrible earthquake happened in Abruzzo, Italy, in 2009. The world première of both concert and movie happened at the International Film Festival of Cannes, in France, also in 2009
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20092008 On Civil Disobedience
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On Civil Disobedience was composed and recorded in New York City, in 2008
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20092008 Island
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Island was composed by Emanuel Pimenta in 2008 and dedicated to the Italian writer and philosopher Ferruccio Maria Fata, great friend of the composer. Island was composed and recorded in New York City, in 2008
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 2009DANTE - PARADISE
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Based on Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, DANTE is an electronic opera by Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta. It is the first opera on the Alighieri's Divine Comedy in the history of music. The first electronic opera made by Pimenta knew its world première in 1984, at MASP Assis Chateaubriand Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, with libretto by Décio Pignatari and stage design by Fernando Zarif. Entirely composed by Emanuel Pimenta, DANTE is a sixty minutes play. The opera has different outputs: the opera itself, a movie, a book and visual artworks. DANTE required intense research which took more than five years to acomplish, between 2003 and 2008. Strongly based on Dante Alighieri's masterwork, the opera is structured on three movements - hell, purgatory and paradise - and the integral piece is composed by sixty sectors of one minute each. Each minute is a circle of Dante's travel in the afterlife. The last set of Cantos of Dante Alighieri's magnificent work was intentionally condensed. Thus, hell has twenty sections, or twenty minutes; purgatory, nine sections; and paradise thirty-one sections. In this opera there are no judgments of value. All structural elements of hell, purgatory and paradise are constructed after the two fundamental laws of thermodynamics: aggregation and desegregation. Singers and actors in this opera are real personages, but already died, virtual ones. Except for some moments with the appearance of Caruso or Maria Callas, for example, the singing part is made up of voices of historical personages creating a new kind of sprechgesang. DANTE is a continuous exercise of discovery. Its musical structure is based on several micro compositions that form a complex network of multiple and unexpected relations.
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20092008 DANTE - PURGATORY
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Based on Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, DANTE is an electronic opera by Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta. It is the first opera on the Alighieri's Divine Comedy in the history of music. The first electronic opera made by Pimenta knew its world première in 1984, at MASP Assis Chateaubriand Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, with libretto by Décio Pignatari and stage design by Fernando Zarif. Entirely composed by Emanuel Pimenta, DANTE is a sixty minutes play. The opera has different outputs: the opera itself, a movie, a book and visual artworks. DANTE required intense research which took more than five years to acomplish, between 2003 and 2008. Strongly based on Dante Alighieri's masterwork, the opera is structured on three movements - hell, purgatory and paradise - and the integral piece is composed by sixty sectors of one minute each. Each minute is a circle of Dante's travel in the afterlife. The last set of Cantos of Dante Alighieri's magnificent work was intentionally condensed. Thus, hell has twenty sections, or twenty minutes; purgatory, nine sections; and paradise thirty-one sections. In this opera there are no judgments of value. All structural elements of hell, purgatory and paradise are constructed after the two fundamental laws of thermodynamics: aggregation and desegregation. Singers and actors in this opera are real personages, but already died, virtual ones. Except for some moments with the appearance of Caruso or Maria Callas, for example, the singing part is made up of voices of historical personages creating a new kind of sprechgesang. DANTE is a continuous exercise of discovery. Its musical structure is based on several micro compositions that form a complex network of multiple and unexpected relations.
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20092008 DANTE - HELL
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Based on Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, DANTE is an electronic opera by Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta. It is the first opera on the Alighieri's Divine Comedy in the history of music. The first electronic opera made by Pimenta knew its world première in 1984, at MASP Assis Chateaubriand Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, with libretto by Décio Pignatari and stage design by Fernando Zarif. Entirely composed by Emanuel Pimenta, DANTE is a sixty minutes play. The opera has different outputs: the opera itself, a movie, a book and visual artworks. DANTE required intense research which took more than five years to acomplish, between 2003 and 2008. Strongly based on Dante Alighieri's masterwork, the opera is structured on three movements - hell, purgatory and paradise - and the integral piece is composed by sixty sectors of one minute each. Each minute is a circle of Dante's travel in the afterlife. The last set of Cantos of Dante Alighieri's magnificent work was intentionally condensed. Thus, hell has twenty sections, or twenty minutes; purgatory, nine sections; and paradise thirty-one sections. In this opera there are no judgments of value. All structural elements of hell, purgatory and paradise are constructed after the two fundamental laws of thermodynamics: aggregation and desegregation. Singers and actors in this opera are real personages, but already died, virtual ones. Except for some moments with the appearance of Caruso or Maria Callas, for example, the singing part is made up of voices of historical personages creating a new kind of sprechgesang. DANTE is a continuous exercise of discovery. Its musical structure is based on several micro compositions that form a complex network of multiple and unexpected relations.
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20092007 Messier 33
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Messier 33 was composed and recorded in New York City, in 2007
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20092007 Light
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Light is a Requiem composed by Emanuel Pimenta in memory of Antonio Carlos Manso Pinheiro, his publisher in Portugal and great friend. It was composed and recorded in 2007
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20092007 Leaf Mosaic 07 01
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Leaf Mosaic 07 01 was composed and recorded in São Paulo, Brazil, in 2007
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20092007 Kitsch Music 1957
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Kitsch Music 1957 was composed and recorded in New York City, in 2007
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20092007 Kepler's Vestiges
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The concert Kepler's Vestiges was composed in 2007 and it is dedicated to the cellist Audrey Riley, friend of the composer. The structure of the piece was based on visual information from NASA's Chandra X-ray Obervatory on the youngest supernova remnants in our galaxy. Johannes Kepler, who lived between 1571 and 1630, before the telescope, was surprised by the strange presence of that supernova. The musical piece is devoted to interpreter's creativity and freedom. Divided in ten sections of one minute, the piece covers all tessitura of the instrument. Each sector of one minute is a complete piece. Kepler's Vestiges ask for a total intgration between the musician and the instrument, as if they were in a different world
This recording is of Audrey Riley's performance of Kepler's Vestiges at the medieval church of S. Maria, in Trancoso, Portugal, in 2007
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20092007 Ghed
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Ghed is dedicated to the Italian musician Maurizio Barbetti, also great friend of the composer. It is a piece oriented to his refinement, to his sensitivity, in Emanuel Pimenta's words. The Indo European root *ghed meant "to catch", and it is related to the inner sense of this piece. It is a challenge to the performer to catch all potentiality of it, through the expansion of his own potentiality. The music score was based on a graphical analysis of the centre of the Milk Way.
In this recording, Maurizio Barbetti performs Ghed, as its world première, at the medieval church of S. Maria, in Trancoso, Portugal, in 2007
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20092006 Leaf Mosaic 06 02
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Leaf Mosaic 06 02 was composed in 2006 and recorded in São Paulo, Brazil
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20092006 Leaf Mosaic 06 01
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Leaf Mosaic 06 01 was composed in 2006 and recorded in São Paulo, Brazil
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20092006 Erdos X
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Paul Erdös (March 26, 1913 – September 20, 1996) was a great Hungarian mathematician. His friends created the erdos number as a humorous tribute. Erdos alone was assigned the erdos number 0, while his immediate collaborators could claim an erdos number 1, their collaborators have erdos number at most 2, and so on… I took the names of many erdös numbers and used them as the base for the composition. Those letters designed the music transformed and prepared for new transformations. A music not coined by intention, by literary logic. Erdos X is a celebration of the principle of collaboration and friendship. The composer Sandor Fekete-Kiss performed its world première at the Symmetry Festival in Budapest, Hungary
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20092006 Element 432
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Element 432 was composed and recorded in New York City, in 2006
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20092005 KYKLUS
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Zyklus was composed in 2005, in memory of the art curator Rinaldo Bianda, friend of the composer and responsible, together with René Berger for the legendary Locarno Video and Electronic Art Festival. The composition works on the music structures of vernacular music from the Siberian estepes, some Amazonian tribes, people from Tibet and groups in South Pacific islands. It works with Artificial Intelligence principles and is a concert for fifteen days. It was performed together with the International Film Festival of Locarno, in 2005, and some estimatives point to an audience of three hundred thousand people
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20092005 MED
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MED was composed in 2005 as a requiem to the art critic and curator Harald Szeemann, friend of the composer. It works with the big-bang and the expansion of the Universe sounds
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20092005 Deep Ocean
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Deep Ocean was first performed at the EPFL University of Lausanne, in 2005. It is dedicated to the philosopher René Berger, great friend of the composer and partner in several projects. This music uses exclusively sounds recorded at deep underwater regions in the oceans by NOAA
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20092004 Abell2218
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Abell2218 was composed in 2004. Its world première had place at the EIF Experimental Intermedia Foundation, in New York City, in that year. It works with memory neuronal structures and strategies. It is dedicated to Phill Niblock, great friend of the composer. It was released in 2006 by ASA Art and Technolgy, in London
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20092004 Music for Kosugi - Part 3
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This composition, dated of 2004, was dedicated to Takehisa Kosugi, friend of the composer, with whom he had performed along more than fifteen years around the world. The world première was at the Holotopia Festival, Punta Campanella, Amalfi Coast, in Italy, where it was recorded in 2004. The concert is divided in three movements
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20092004 Music for Kosugi - Part 2
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This composition, dated of 2004, was dedicated to Takehisa Kosugi, friend of the composer, with whom he had performed along more than fifteen years around the world. The world première was at the Holotopia Festival, Punta Campanella, Amalfi Coast, in Italy, where it was recorded in 2004. The concert is divided in three movements
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20092004 Music for Kosugi - Part 1
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This composition, dated of 2004, was dedicated to Takehisa Kosugi, friend of the composer, with whom he had performed along more than fifteen years around the world. The world première was at the Holotopia Festival, Punta Campanella, Amalfi Coast, in Italy, where it was recorded in 2004. The concert is divided in three movements
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20092003 YARNAM
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Yarnam was composed in 2003 and it is dedicated to Ornette Coleman, great friend of the composer. Its world première had place in Budapest, Hungary, in that same year. The concert also includes a visual part, based on Man Ray's works - Yarnam is an invertion of Man Ray. Man Ray loved jazz, and this piece is based on one of Ornette Coleman's compositions
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20092003 Serpent
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Serpent is a piece dedicated to the Portuguese mezzo soprano Dulce Cabrita. It was composed in 2003
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20092003 Lapis - second movement
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Lapis is a piece composed in 2003. The world première had place in Bolognano, Italy. It is dedicated to Dove Bradshaw and William Anastasi, great friends of the composer. This is the second movement of the composition
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20092003 Lapis
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Lapis was composed and recorded in 2003. Its world première had place in Bolognano, Italy. It is dedicated to Dove Bradshaw and William Anastasi, great friends of the composer
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20092003 KIRKOS - A Dialogue Between Josqin des Près and Marcel Duchamp
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Kirkos - A Dialogue Between Josqin des Près and Marcel Duchamp was composed in 2003. Its world première happened in Naples, Italy, at the San Marcelino Church. It works on Artificial Intelligence, the structure of the famous Missa Pange Lingua - last work by Josqin des Près, fragments of Marcel Duchamp's voice, from the beginning of the 20th century, reassembled in a new and non predictable text, radio emissions and vocal chords
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20092003 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. X
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. X was composed in 2003. Its world première happened at the Amalfi Coast for the first HOLOTOPIA Festival, part of the HOLOTOPIA Academy, at Punta Campanella, near Positano. It is dedicated to Alberto del Genio, great friend of the composer. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. X is both a concert with digital graphics and soundtrack for the film Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde directed by Rouben Mamoulian in 1932
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20092003 Edhem
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Edhem was composed in São Paulo, Brazil, in 2003. It works exclusively with sounds recorded in a magical garden placed inside the megacity of São Paulo, then with around twenty-five million people. The garden is a magistral forty-years work by Marly Freire
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20092003 Diary of Seychelles in Bolognano
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Diary of Seychelles was composed as soundtrack with the same title of a film on Joseph Beuys. Beuys lived for a few weeks in the Seychelles Islands, Indian Ocean, in the end of his live. There he created a work about Nature, which is not widely known. This is the third concert by Emanuel Pimenta on Joseph Beuys. This recording was made in Bolognano, Italy, in 2003
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20092003 Diary of Seychelles
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Diary of Seychelles was composed as soundtrack with the same title of a film on Joseph Beuys. Beuys lived for a few weeks in the Seychelles Islands, Indian Ocean, in the end of his live. There he created a work about Nature, which is not widely known. This is the third concert by Emanuel Pimenta on Joseph Beuys
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20092003 18/6
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18/6 was composed for the exhibition of Emanuel Pimenta visual works and the opening of the international section of the Modern and Contemporary Art Museum of Rovereto and Trento, in Italy, in 2003.
When asked by a journalist why he did not have a piano at his home, to use for his compositions, John Cage replied saying that his window was enough for that. 18/6 was part of the celebrations of the 10th anniversary of John Cage's disappearance, and it was composed with the sounds of his window, in the corner of the 6th Avenue and the 18th Street, in New York City
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20092002 SETI
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SETI is a composition dated of 2002 that works exclusively with extraterrestrial sounds. All sounds in this piece were captured by astronomical labs and observatories. Its world première happened at the International Underground Film Festival of Lausanne, Switzerland, in 2002
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20092002 Meet
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This composition was dedicated to the choreographer Jonathon Appels, in New York City, in 2002
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20092002 AK2
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AK2 was composed and recorded in 2002
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20092001 X
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X was composed and recorded in 2001. Its world première was at the Turning Point exhibition by Omar Galliani, in Lisbon, Portugal
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20092001 Sub One
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Sub One was composed and recorded in New York City in 2001
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20092001 Improvisation in Lisbon
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This solo flute improvisation by Emanuel Pimenta had place at the Zedosbois Contemporary Art Gallery, in Lisbon, Portugal, in 2001, as part of the celebrations of Phill Niblock's birthday. The improvisation is the opening of a concert that also had the participation of Phill Niblock, Joao Pinto, Margarida Garcia, David Maranha and Adriana Sa. You can find the film of this concert at Emanuel Pimenta's site - www.emanuelpimenta.net
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20092001 Five
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Five was composed and recorded in 2001. The world première happened in Bolognano, Italy, in that same year
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20091999 Olivestone Part 8
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Olivestone was composed in 1999 for the soundtrack of the film with the same title about Joseph Beuys. Emanuel Pimenta had already composed Difesa della Natura, also for another project on Joseph Beuys. The concert has several parts, several of them for soprano and alto flute solo. Along the years, like several of his other concerts, Olivestone has been performed all over the world. Olivestone is a concert for peace
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20091999 Olivestone Part 7
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Olivestone was composed in 1999 for the soundtrack of the film with the same title about Joseph Beuys. Emanuel Pimenta had already composed Difesa della Natura, also for another project on Joseph Beuys. The concert has several parts, several of them for soprano and alto flute solo. Along the years, like several of his other concerts, Olivestone has been performed all over the world. Olivestone is a concert for peace
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20091999 Olivestone Part 6
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Olivestone was composed in 1999 for the soundtrack of the film with the same title about Joseph Beuys. Emanuel Pimenta had already composed Difesa della Natura, also for another project on Joseph Beuys. The concert has several parts, several of them for soprano and alto flute solo. Along the years, like several of his other concerts, Olivestone has been performed all over the world. Olivestone is a concert for peace
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20091999 Olivestone Part 5
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Olivestone was composed in 1999 for the soundtrack of the film with the same title about Joseph Beuys. Emanuel Pimenta had already composed Difesa della Natura, also for another project on Joseph Beuys. The concert has several parts, several of them for soprano and alto flute solo. Along the years, like several of his other concerts, Olivestone has been performed all over the world. Olivestone is a concert for peace
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20091999 Olivestone Part 4
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Olivestone was composed in 1999 for the soundtrack of the film with the same title about Joseph Beuys. Emanuel Pimenta had already composed Difesa della Natura, also for another project on Joseph Beuys. The concert has several parts, several of them for soprano and alto flute solo. Along the years, like several of his other concerts, Olivestone has been performed all over the world. Olivestone is a concert for peace
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20091999 Olivestone Part 3 - version 2
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Olivestone was composed in 1999 for the soundtrack of the film with the same title about Joseph Beuys. Emanuel Pimenta had already composed Difesa della Natura, also for another project on Joseph Beuys. The concert has several parts, several of them for soprano and alto flute solo. Along the years, like several of his other concerts, Olivestone has been performed all over the world. Olivestone is a concert for peace
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20091999 Olivestone Part 3
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Olivestone was composed in 1999 for the soundtrack of the film with the same title about Joseph Beuys. Emanuel Pimenta had already composed Difesa della Natura, also for another project on Joseph Beuys. The concert has several parts, several of them for soprano and alto flute solo. Along the years, like several of his other concerts, Olivestone has been performed all over the world. Olivestone is a concert for peace
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20091999 Olivestone Part 2 - version 2
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Olivestone was composed in 1999 for the soundtrack of the film with the same title about Joseph Beuys. Emanuel Pimenta had already composed Difesa della Natura, also for another project on Joseph Beuys. The concert has several parts, several of them for soprano and alto flute solo. Along the years, like several of his other concerts, Olivestone has been performed all over the world. Olivestone is a concert for peace
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20091999 Olivestone Part 2
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Olivestone was composed in 1999 for the soundtrack of the film with the same title about Joseph Beuys. Emanuel Pimenta had already composed Difesa della Natura, also for another project on Joseph Beuys. The concert has several parts, several of them for soprano and alto flute solo. Along the years, like several of his other concerts, Olivestone has been performed all over the world. Olivestone is a concert for peace
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20091999 Olivestone Part 1
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Olivestone was composed in 1999 for the soundtrack of the film with the same title about Joseph Beuys. Emanuel Pimenta had already composed Difesa della Natura, also for another project on Joseph Beuys. The concert has several parts, several of them for soprano and alto flute solo. Along the years, like several of his other concerts, Olivestone has been performed all over the world. Olivestone is a concert for peace
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20091998 Fact 1
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Fact 1 was composed and recorded in 1998
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20091988 Act One
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Act One was composed and recorded in 1998
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20091997 BOOK ONE Part 3
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Book One was a concert in Lisbon, in 1997. It works with fragments of the First Book of the Bible, especially from the Exodus, spoken in Hebrew by artificial voices. As several other compositions by Emanuel Pimenta, it also works with Artificial Intelligence principles. The concert is divided in three movements
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20091997 BOOK ONE Part 2
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Book One was a concert in Lisbon, in 1997. It works with fragments of the First Book of the Bible, especially from the Exodus, spoken in Hebrew by artificial voices. As several other compositions by Emanuel Pimenta, it also works with Artificial Intelligence principles. The concert is divided in three movements
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20091997 BOOK ONE Part 1
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Book One was a concert in Lisbon, in 1997. It works with fragments of the First Book of the Bible, especially from the Exodus, spoken in Hebrew by artificial voices. As several other compositions by Emanuel Pimenta, it also works with Artificial Intelligence principles. The concert is divided in three movements
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20091997 Andromeda
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Andromeda was composed in 1997 and its world première happened at the Triennial of Milan, in Italy. It is based on short pieces by Prokofiev
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20091996 Pessoa (piano version)
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Pessoa is a concert composed in 1996. Its structure was ellaborated after statistical data on common paths created by the poet Fernando Pessoa in the streets of Lisbon, Portugal. This version was written for piano
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20091996 Pessoa
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Pessoa is a concert composed in 1996. Its structure was ellaborated after statistical data on common paths created by the poet Fernando Pessoa in the streets of Lisbon, Portugal. It was published by ASA Art and Technology in London.
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20091996 ARES Part 3
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Ares is a concert composed by Emanuel Pimenta in 1996. It was created for a joint project with the art and nanotechnology group Muon, formed by Shoko Tejima and Ryoko Adachi, in Tokyo, Japan. The concert was based on structural elements of molecular patterns, and the Zen aesthetics. It is divided in three movements
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20091996 ARES Part 2
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Ares is a concert composed by Emanuel Pimenta in 1996. It was created for a joint project with the art and nanotechnology group Muon, formed by Shoko Tejima and Ryoko Adachi, in Tokyo, Japan. The concert was based on structural elements of molecular patterns, and the Zen aesthetics. It is divided in three movements
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20091996 ARES Part 1
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Ares is a concert composed by Emanuel Pimenta in 1996. It was created for a joint project with the art and nanotechnology group Muon, formed by Shoko Tejima and Ryoko Adachi, in Tokyo, Japan. The concert was based on structural elements of molecular patterns, and the Zen aesthetics. It is divided in three movements
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20091995 Ware
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Ware was composed and recorded in 1995. It was published in Lisbon by Ananana in that same year. Ware works on a mathematical fractal system
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20091992 Ear
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Ear is a piece by Emanuel Pimenta dated of 1992. It was published by V2 Organisation, in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, in that year
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20091991 Spectrum
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Spectrum was composed and recorded in 1991
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20091991 Microcosmos
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Microcosmos was composed by Emanuel Pimenta in 1991, and choreographed by Merce Cunningham in his work Windows. The piece, totally based on the structure of nano fragments of a mineral, was dedicated to the great philosopher of music Daniel Charles, who was also him a great friend of the composer
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20091991 Mesostic
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Mesostic was composed by Emanuel Pimenta in 1991 using the sounds of John Cage's breath
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20091991 Flag
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Flag is a digital piece composed and recorded in 1991
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20091991 Bloodstream
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Bloodstream is a composition dated of 1991. It was ellaborated with the sound of blood fluxus inside the body of the composer.
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20091990 Gravitational Sounds
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Gravitational Sounds was composed by Emanuel Pimenta in 1990, and choreographed by Merce Cunningham in his work Trackers. Gravitational Sounds is composed after a strange mathematical attractor ellaborated by the composer - which was based on the famous attractor by Michel Hénon.
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20091989 Rozart
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Rozart was composed and recorded in 1989 as a collaboration for John Cage's Rozart-Mix. The world première happened in New York City, in 1989, under direction of Alvin Lucier, production of Brian Eno, together with Lou Reed, David Bowie, Peter Gabriel, Laurie Anderson, Meredith Monk, David Tudor and Allan Ginsberg among others. Rozart, by Pimenta, digitally works Enrico Caruso's voice, as special guest.
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20091989 Rings
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Rings is a piece composed and recorded in 1989. It works on the conflict of overtones and micro particles, generating different kinds of sound and different patterns depending on the person. It was published by MODE Records in New York City, in that year
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Wednesday, Oct 07, 20091988 Structures II
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Structures II was composed and recorded in 1988. It was published by MODE Records in New York City, in that year
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Tuesday, Oct 06, 20091988 Stones
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Stones is an electroacoustic piece that works with chance operation with thousands of small stones. It was composed and recorded in 1988
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Tuesday, Oct 06, 20091988 Short Circuit
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Short Circuit is a digital composition created and recorded in 1988
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Tuesday, Oct 06, 20091988 Musak
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This is one of Emanuel Pimenta's kitsch music compositions. It was ellaborated and recorded in 1988
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Tuesday, Oct 06, 20091988 Fire II
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This composition worked with the sound structure of burning elements. It was created and recorded in 1988
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Tuesday, Oct 06, 20091988 Construction II
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Construction II was composed and recorded in 1988
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Tuesday, Oct 06, 20091988 Constellation
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Constellation had its world première at The Kitchen, in New York City, in 1988, with Michael Pugliese and the Manhattan Quartet.
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Tuesday, Oct 06, 20091988 Chaos
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Music based on mathematical complexes, composed and recorded in 1988
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Tuesday, Oct 06, 20091986 SUN Second Movement
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Sun is a composition created by Emanuel Pimenta in 1986 and dedicated to John Cage. It was ellaborated after scientific data on sound waves from the Sun. The first movement is worked on the movement and distortions produced in that travel from the Sun to Earth. The second movement is a cut in that trip, as if we could isolate a fragment of space time
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Tuesday, Oct 06, 20091986 SUN First Movement
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Sun is a composition created by Emanuel Pimenta in 1986 and dedicated to John Cage. It was ellaborated after scientific data on sound waves from the Sun. The first movement is worked on the movement and distortions produced in that travel from the Sun to Earth. The second movement is a cut in that trip, as if we could isolate a fragment of space time
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Tuesday, Oct 06, 20091986 Lisbon Revisited
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Lisbon Revisited was composed by Emanuel Pimenta in 1986, using the sounds of a poem with the same title by the great Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa, and to celebrate him.
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Tuesday, Oct 06, 20091986 Factory
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Factory is an electroacoustic composition, created and recorded in 1986
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Tuesday, Oct 06, 20091986 Cage
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Cage was composed by Emanuel in 1986 and dedicated to John Cage. It is the twenty-four hours metabolic sounds of the city of Lisbon, Portugal, compressed into five minutes. The sounds were worked inside a virtual cage of filters, envelopes and many other tools. The music score, like the other compositions, was created inside virtual environments.
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Tuesday, Oct 06, 20092002 ShortWaves 1985 and SBbr
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This concert, composed in 1985 and 1984, was recorded in New York City in 2002 at the Lincoln Center. ShortWaves 1985 and SBbr are the concerts choreographed by Merce Cunningham in his classic Fabrications.
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Tuesday, Oct 06, 2009ShortWaves 1985
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ShortWaves 1985 was composed and recorded by Emanuel Pimenta in the Brazilian rain forests using shortwave radio sounds from all over the world. It was used by Merce Cunningham as the first movement of his classical work Fabrications, which was performed along twenty-three years, up to the disappearance of the choreographer.
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Tuesday, Oct 06, 20091984 SBbr
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SBbr is the title of this piece and also the name of a galaxy. It was composed by Emanuel Pimenta in 1984 and used by Merce Cunningham as the second movement of his work Fabrications, in 1986. This version was recorded in 1984.
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Tuesday, Oct 06, 20091984 On Ravel
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On Ravel was composed and recorded in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1984
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Tuesday, Oct 06, 20091986 Object 6
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Object 6 was composed and recorded in 1984
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Tuesday, Oct 06, 20091984 La Mer
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La Mer was composed in 1984 and performed at the 18th International Bienale of São Paulo, Brazil, in 1985. This is an electronic version, recorded in 1984. The piece won the APCA Prize - AICA. It works with only one note and the plastic formation of overtone networks.
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Tuesday, Oct 06, 20091984 Concert for Frogs and Crickets
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Concert of Frogs and Crickets was composed and recorded in 1984. It was the first piece by Emanuel Pimenta dedicated to John Cage. It was also performed in 2003 for the opening of the international section of the MART Modern and Contemporary Art Museum of Rovereto and Trento, in Italy. The piece was based on a motet by Guillaume de Mauchault, who lived between 1300 and 1377. The sounds were recorded in Brazilian rain forests. The music was published in 2003 by ASA Art and Technology, in London.
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Tuesday, Oct 06, 20091981 Fluxus Part 2
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Fluxus was composed and recorded in 1981.
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Tuesday, Oct 06, 20091981 Fluxus Part 1
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Fluxus was composed and recorded in 1981.
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Tuesday, Oct 06, 20091980 Small Electroacoustic Piece #6
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Small Electroacoustic Piece #6 is one of the fisrt compositions by Emanuel Pimenta, created and recorded in 1980.
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