concert | Athlone, TUShannon Midlands, Ireland | 05.11.2022 | 19:00
Concert at the 6th I
Concert at the 6th International Csound Conference.
Nuno Aroso, percussion.
More info: ICSC2022
Premiere of the new and extended version. THE SMALL BOOK OF MISREADINGS for flute, saxophone, piano, percussion, electronics and eleven small loudspeakers (2022)
In all kind of communications, human, machine or animal there is an amount of unwanted, unpredictable and possibly also disturbing information being transmitted. THE SMALL BOOK OF MISREADINGS is about all the noisy content of information, about their distortions and transformations.
the small book of misreadings
concert | basel, Druckereihalle | 08.10.2022 | 19:30
Ensemble Inverspace.
Ensemble Inverspace.
Premiere of the new and extended version. THE SMALL BOOK OF MISREADINGS for flute, saxophone, piano, percussion, electronics and eleven small loudspeakers (2022)
In all kind of communications, human, machine or animal there is an amount of unwanted, unpredictable and possibly also disturbing information being transmitted. THE SMALL BOOK OF MISREADINGS is about all the noisy content of information, about their distortions and transformations.
konvolut @ Academy 2022
concert | vila real, Fundação da Casa de Mateus | 08.09.2022 | 19:00
Academy 2022 - Sond'
Academy 2022 - Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble
Conductor: Pedro Carneiro
Programe:
António de Sousa Dias “Variação sobre Glosa"
Carlos Caires "Propagation"
Gonçalo Gato "Equilíbrio"
Luís Antunes Pena "Konvolut"
Ricardo Ribeiro "In Limine"
Rui Penha "Pendulum"
In all kind of communications, human, machine or animal there is an amount of unwanted, unpredictable and possibly also disturbing information being transmitted. THE SMALL BOOK OF MISREADINGS is about all the noisy content of information, about their distortions and transformations.
creating uncertainty: composing and performing with noise
lecture | tallinn, EES MTU (Estonian Electronic Music Society) | 02.07.2022 | 19:00
Invited by the EES M
Invited by the EES MTU (Estonian Electronic Music Society) I'll be speaking about my own music, noise, uncertainty and will perform a short piece using my usual setup with the serge modular synthesizer and csound processing.
monopass
monopass | cologne, st. maria lyskirchen | 22.06.2022 | 22:00
romanischer sommer k
romanischer sommer koeln
OXANA OMELCHUK, Synthesizer, Theremin
MARK POLSCHER, Synthesizer
FLORIAN ZWIßLER. Synthesizer
LUÍS ANTUNES PENA, Serge Modular, Digital Processing
concert | aveiro, teatro aveirense | 28.05.2022 | 20:00
Tombeau de Morton fo
Tombeau de Morton for accordion, viola, electronics (2022) Premiere
Francisco Martins: accordion
Ana Margarida Lamelas: viola
Luís Antunes Pena: electronics
Programme: Stefan Prins João Pedro Paiva Oliveira Cândido Lima
Das Gedächtnis Gebrauchsanweisung
for Violoncello, Percussion Baschet, Electronics and Ensemble (2021)
Commissioned by ACHT BRÜCKEN | Musik für Köln and Casa da Música Porto
The title of the work establishes a connection to the 1978 novel by the French writer George Perec, whose book La vie mode dʼemploi constructs a novel in which the various stories relate to each other like the pieces of a puzzle.
Das Gedächtnis Gebrauchsanweisung follows the formal idea of Perec's novel. It consists of 12 small sections, each containing a musical discourse that is both self-contained and open to possible continuation. What connects all the sections, however different, contrasting, and even contradictory in style they may seem, are the various degrees of proximity or distance to a listening experience, to a pre-existing musical work.
In Das Gedächtnis Gebrauchsanweisung there are various ways of establishing relationships between sections. One commonly used way is the use of audio recordings and their instrumental imitation: the sample recreates an acoustic experience, which in turn is reinterpreted by the acoustic instruments. Or the opposite, the sample or electronics imitate what the instruments played. By the nature of the process itself, and by the use of different means, any imitation in this case is a transformation. It is a transformation that illustrates the impossibility of imitation. Imitation and transformation are thus two essential elements in the creation of form and in the relational strategies between the different domains.
Improvisation, which appeals to memory in a very particular way, is perhaps the most human and personal kind of transformation. Ultimately, any attempt to reproduce a reality through memory is at the same time a form of ultra-personal transformation, since imitation involves not only the intrinsic transformation of the entire attempt, but also the state of mind, emotions and feelings.
Das Gedächtnis Gebrauchsanweisung is an appeal to the use of memory as a means of grasping the whole. Since it was written entirely during the pandemic, it could not fail to be a work that embodies the fears, hesitations and hopes that accompanied us all. Perhaps for this very reason it is one of the most personal works I have ever made.
monopass
monopass | munich, museum ägyptischer kunst | 11.03.2022 | 19:00
OXANA OMELCHUK, Synt
OXANA OMELCHUK, Synthesizer, Theremin
MARK POLSCHER, Synthesizer
FLORIAN ZWIßLER. Synthesizer
LUÍS ANTUNES PENA, Serge Modular, Digital Processing
In all kind of communications, human, machine or animal there is an amount of unwanted, unpredictable and possibly also disturbing information being transmitted. THE SMALL BOOK OF MISREADINGS is about all the noisy content of information, about their distortions and transformations.