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PUBLISHED WORKS | Winter Sinestesias Ana Seara Music needs its own vocabulary and becomes synesthetic in the two forms in which dictionaries define synesthesia. If, on one hand, we resort to the figure of speech to describe what we hear or what we feel when we hear it, when the conductor gives directions, when a teacher explains or suggests an interpretation; on the other hand, we, as listeners, do not perceive music in a purely abstract way, but in a more concrete form, associating it with other senses (colours, sceneries, scents, textures - either by the sense of taste or touch). This combination of sensations from one single stimulus is fascinating and places music as the most enigmatic of all the arts. The “combination of sensations” makes the musical experience something unique and inexplicable in itself. Our brain makes use of other senses to try to understand and describe what the musical stimulus triggers inside of us. And, for the composer, what is timbre texture, speech? They are synesthetic mechanisms used to create... For this piece, I began with this idea of stimulus vs. sensations and senses in order to create music from one single stimulus - one chord - and present several possible meanings of that stimulus.
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This piece is dedicated to my brother João, who is also a musician and perceives, feels and describes the musical phenomenon in a way that is completely different from mine. The same sound stimuli have, for him, different meanings and senses. And this confrontation and discussion over the sensory power of music encourages me to work with music and to turn it into different sensations through composition.
String Played by the Mob Gerson Batista for Stimmgold Vokalensemble - Kompositions Wettbewerb 2019 theme: Stadt und Gesellschaft
OUR COMPOSERS Born in Lisbon, November 1984. After completing a degree in economics at the Nova University of Lisbon (2006), he began in 2007 a degree in classical guitar at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa with Piñero Nagy, and he completed his graduation in 2010 in the Seville’s Conservatorio Superior under the guidance of Francisco Sanchez Bernier. He has also attended Flamenco Guitar classes with Oscar Herrero and Pedro Jóia. Throughout his career he has already played with several artists such as Teresa Salgueiro (formerly from Madredeus), Mariza, Mythos Orchestra from “7 Sóis 7 Luas” (Musical director), Mísia, and many other groups with whom he has performed in many different countries. read more...
WORKS
Valsa Matina|guitar (vibraphone)
Sounds of an annoyed person|2percussionists & electronics
La Latina|xylophone
Insiste, persiste e não desiste!|accordion
Fricções|flute & electronics
Eypida|violin & violoncello
Sonata da Desumanização|euphonium & piano
A Ponte dos Lamentos|guitar O motivo da menina Laite|flute
Jump on the bandwagon with the Devil|tuba & piano
Fantasias|guitar
Ponta de São Lourenço|guitar
Word study: Manipulation|clarinet & accordion
Sonata da Desumanização|violoncello & piano
A Skeleton in the Closet|piano, flute & oboe
Fricções (Album)|flute/flute & electronics
Lima|oboe, clarinet & piano
Camp Out|woodwind quintet
Lexim|piano
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Fledermaus Kabarett und Theater (1909).
Berthold Löffler (1874-1960), Austrian graphic designer. (Colour lithograph)
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