Orquestra de Câmara de Cascais e Oeiras, Auditório Municipal Ruy de Carvalho, 04-06-2022.

The starting point of this piece lies within the homonymous literary work IDEIAS PARA ADIAR O FIM DO MUNDO(IDEAS TO POSTPONE THE END OF THE WORLD) by the Brazilian philosopher and environmentalist Ailton Krenak (1953), a book compiled from interviews and lectures. These texts call for a reconnection with nature and a fondness for the creative impulse as humanity means of escape from self-destruction. Apart from an application of the chapter titles as cryptographic macro and microstructures for the various sections of the piece, the nearly rhythmic heartbeat aims to simulate some indigenous musical rituals and practices. Krenak argues that our lack of purpose is brought forth by our abstraction from the world, the loss of the pleasure of dancing, singing, living, as he justifies his story telling tendency as one more story told to postpone the end of the world; this piece is just one more such story.

Ideias para adiar o fim do mundo (part I) - String Orchestra

João Ricardo