Composition — Alex Buck

Bernardo Ramos (guitar)
Bruno Aguilar (acoustic bass)
Josué Lopez (tenor sax)
Vitor Gonçalves (piano)

05 Bambuzal (Parte 1)

Alex Buck (1980) is a composer, performer, and improviser from São Paulo, Brazil. His music is largely influenced by experimental trends of many distinct genres such as acousmatic music, contemporary jazz, Brazilian music,  free improvisation, and contemporary classical music. As a performer-composer, he works mainly within the constraints of acousmatic music and experimental electroacoustic jazz realms.
He received his B.Mus and MFA in electroacoustic composition from UNESP where he studied with his mentor Flo Menezes. In 2019 he received the first prize in Musica Nova international festival (Czech Republic) with his acousmatic composition named Screaming Trees. In 2018, his work Fantasia Essata was among the finalists in Metamorphoses competition (Belgium).
He has an extensive career as a drummer in Brazil, where he collaborated with some of the most relevant artists in the Brazilian-jazz scene: Arismar do Espírito Santo, Hamilton de Holanda, Mestrinho, Michael Pipoquinha, Wilson das Neves, Filó Machado, Sandro Haick, and many others. Buck is a member of acclaimed experimental Brazilian jazz trio Trio Ciclos with Bruno Migotto (bass) and edison Sant’anna (piano), and was a member of Bamboo quinteto with Bernardo Ramos (guitar), Bruno Aguilar (bass), Josué Lopez (sax), and Vitor Gonçalves (piano). 
Buck was the artistic director of  EMEXP, the Experimental Music Ensemble of EMESP (São Paulo’ State School of Music) where he also used to teach composition, écriture, contemporary improvisation, and music analysis. 
He is currently living in California where he develops his Doctoral degree in the Performer-Composer DMA program at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts).