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Tiago Sousa * Galeria Zé Dos Bois * Organic Music Tapes vol 4
Event by: Tiago Sousa
Location: Zé dos Bois gallery, Rua da Barroca 59, Lisboa
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(photo Vera Marmelo)
Tiago Sousa
Piano + Electric Organ + Taped Loops
The fourth volume of the Organic Music Tapes series ends this cycle that has transformed Tiago Sousa's music is significant. Compositions in a fluid state, which form nebulae of sounds with imprecise contours for piano, organ and taped loops, based on techniques pioneered by American minimalism, namely by composers such as Steve Reich, Terry Riley or Charlemagne Palestine.
If throughout this series we have seen a more prominent role attributed to the electric organ in counterpoint with pre-recorded loops, this is the moment in which this technique extends to piano compositions. New opportunities thus develop for the repetition and variation of small motifs to induce subtle perceptions and psychoacoustic effects. This final edition corresponds to the maturing of the Portuguese composer's intentions around the idea of organic music. Also in music, the organic world is quite different from the one built from rules of syntax and grammar. It refers rather to the type of interdependent relationships and patient and repetitive processes, at the same time, spontaneous and unpredictable, that give shape to rivers and mountains, the grains of wood, the fiber in muscles or the marks on a Jade stone.
Tiago Sousa
Piano + Electric Organ + Taped Loops
The fourth volume of the Organic Music Tapes series ends this cycle that has transformed Tiago Sousa's music is significant. Compositions in a fluid state, which form nebulae of sounds with imprecise contours for piano, organ and taped loops, based on techniques pioneered by American minimalism, namely by composers such as Steve Reich, Terry Riley or Charlemagne Palestine.
If throughout this series we have seen a more prominent role attributed to the electric organ in counterpoint with pre-recorded loops, this is the moment in which this technique extends to piano compositions. New opportunities thus develop for the repetition and variation of small motifs to induce subtle perceptions and psychoacoustic effects. This final edition corresponds to the maturing of the Portuguese composer's intentions around the idea of organic music. Also in music, the organic world is quite different from the one built from rules of syntax and grammar. It refers rather to the type of interdependent relationships and patient and repetitive processes, at the same time, spontaneous and unpredictable, that give shape to rivers and mountains, the grains of wood, the fiber in muscles or the marks on a Jade stone.