SMALL AUDITORIUM- EDUARDO PRADO COELHO ROOM
CÂNDIDO LIMA ELECTRONIC MUSIC AND IMAGES
This concert is preceded by a chat on Cândido Lima’s work by António de Sousa Dias
LOUDSPEAKER ORCHESTRA
José Luís Ferreira sound projection
MISO STUDIO research on live electronics
Cândido Lima: Toilles III
Cândido Lima: Lendas de Neptuno*
Cândido Lima: Autómatos da Areia**
Cândido Lima: Bleu-Rouge (Regards)
Cândido Lima: Oceanos (1980)
* Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation commission
** Matosinhos Town Hall commission
"Apart from Bleu-Rouge, this concert’s works mark a personal rediscovery of new sounds, new technologies, and new languages. It is the new meeting, in another universe, of the languages learned in the European tradition of harmony and counterpoint, in the systems and forms of Western classical music.
Notions and concepts from the realms of philosophy and science find their place in these scores and in these electronic and digital media, where time, duration, rhythm, beat, movement, speed, energy, mass, density, continuum are just extensions from what we are used to find in the “classics”, with their own angles and perspective, but also with other principles of organization. Extensions of a linear and two-dimensional thought, of a intuitive rational sound thought, either as an element of hierarchies of the space (height system) and time (principles of the time shape and structure), are generated here and controlled new sources of sound and new ways of organizing it, handling not only as a symbol, but also as a tactile substance, with physical properties of topological change. It is the sound as a model, it is the sound ”itself “from the philosophers (and from the listener), it is the sound generator of sonorous macro forms absorbing the individual sound in global sets of soundscapes, a large projection huge architectures in the space.
But, above all, the musician's criterion always prevailed, without this it would be but sterile speculation without consequences. Although another song…”.
Cândido Lima