S(W)ynthesis 2007 - para quarteto de saxofones e electrónica em tempo-real
Dedicada ao quarteto Saxofínia
Estreada por este quarteto a 14 de Setembro de 2007 no Festival Música VIVA.
Esta versão é retirada do disco PORTFOLIO que comemora os 25 anos de carreira deste quarteto.

S(W)ynthesis 2007 - for Sax quartet and Real-time electronics
dedicated to "Saxofínia" quartet
Premiered by "Saxofínia" September 14th 2007 at Festival Música VIVA.
This version is from Saxofínia's 25th year career album PORTFOLIO

S(W)ynthesis

Why do I even bother to name this… É ainda um projecto de obra. Será um duo para saxofone e electrónica. 
Projecto Emisha: Saxofones: Ana Raquel Martins; Electrónica: José Luís Ferreira.

Why do I even bother to name this… It's still a work in progress. It will be a  Saxophone & Electronics duo. 
Emisha Project: Saxophones:Ana Raquel Martins; Live electronics: José Luís Ferreira.

Emisha Project -  Why do I even bother to name this...

Ficção sonora erótica acusmática. 
A partir dos textos de Henry Miller (Trópico de Câncer e Trópico de Capricórnio) 
Encomenda da MisoMusic, Portugal - estreada no dia 19 de Setembro de 2009 no pequeno auditório do CCB. - agradecimentos ao João Ricardo Pedro que emprestou a voz; à Sara Gomes e Silvia Gomes.

Trópicos

The short story of an impulse, it's acoustical possibilities and musical application.
Created entirely with Csound, June 2000. dedicated to António de Sousa Dias
won a prize at the Musica VIVA 2001 competition (JCRisset was part of the Jury!!!)

Le bruit d'une tète qui frappe contre les murs d'une très petite celule

The "longer" story of a slamming door. A mix of "musique concrete" and Electronic music
The harmonic textures where achieved with Csound, the convolution with a Max/MSP, 2004
It was performed in several places around the world and it is part of the last "colectanea edition" made by the now (saddly) extinct Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Academy.


Lebruit d'une porte qui..

Koto: Naoko Kikuchi
 Contrabass Paetzold recorder flute: Teresa Matias 
Real-time Electronics: José Luís Ferreira

Deeply thankfull for the love and care that Teresa Matias and Naoko Kikuchi put on this performance.

L'Histoire d'Amour entre...

I think this is my best "story" yet (at least the way is written and designed... it's not fantastically performed and the conditions of the recording were poor)
its for large Ensemble, it was firstly written on 2002, reviewed and performed on 2005.
the "chopter" sounds are made by a amplified basson.


From a certain point of view

It's a fairly "good" story, altough a little to complicated to follow (yet, quite possible), so they've told me...
It was written for large Ensemble in 2001 and premiered that same year.



(un)Broken

for guitar and real time electronics
not a great recording and mixing
thanks Pedro Rodrigues for this work on the guitar!

I stole a bar from Leo

Metha (live recording) for Basson and deferred-time electronics (commonly known as "tape") performed by Virgílio Oliveira at ESML.

The word Metha can both express an idea of succession or an ideia of transformation. It could also mean a reflection that focuses on itself.
All the sound material from the "tape" part originates from the recording of the instrumental part. 
Therefore, all the sounds that gave rise to the electronics came from the bassoon. These sounds were successively modified and processed electronically to ensure that we never lose it's familiarity with the timbre of the bassoon. So, I wanted to create the illusion of an instrument with enhanced features, a "meta-Bassoon".
As for the music .... listen! It is always better than talking about it.

Metha - José Luís Ferreira

This is the Guitar & Flute(s) version of the original made for Koto and Paetzold recorder Flute
the transcription was made for Machina Lirica Duo, when performing with electronics we become a Trio.
Guitar: Pedro Rodrigues
 Bass & concert flutes: Monika Streitova  
Real-time Electronics: José Luís Ferreira

This piece is dedicated to Naoko Kikuchi and Teresa Matias

L'Histoire d'Amour entre...  performed by Machina Lirica Ensemble

Small work for a cappela choir  - Intended to be the 1st mouvement of a "Missa Parodia"  - the ideia is to use motives and "figures" taken from themes from well known Masses troughout history. 
In this one, the Kyries motives, from Bach's B minor mass,  are used.
it is a live recording by Ricercare choir.

Kyrie(s) (2004)

Composer José Luís Ferreira (b. 1973, Lisbon) made his First Degree in composition at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa, in 2001, where he studied with Christopher Bochmann, António de Sousa Dias and António Pinho Vargas. He attended several composition courses, workshops and seminars in Portugal with Emmanuel Nunes, Salvatore Sciarrino, Jean-Claude Risset, John Chowning, Per Anders Nilsson, Trevor Wishart and André Bartetski.
Presently, he's a PhD Music researcher on the subject Computer Music/Mixed Music at Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP) in Oporto/ CITAR (Research Center For Science and Technology in Art).
His music, for different kinds of instrumentation with or without electronics, has been performed by several portuguese musical ensembles (Remix Ensemble / Orchestrutópica / Sinfonietta de Lisboa / Ricercare / Saxofínia/ Machina Mundi/ Son D'arte Electric Ensemble/ Machina Lirica).
In 2001, he won the Festival Musica Viva's acusmatic composition competition with the piece “Le bruit d`une tête qui frappe contre les murs d`une très petite cellule”
He also works as a musical assistant (computer music) withseveral composers performers/ensembles, namely: Pedro Rodrigues, Francisco Monteiro, Luís Tinoco, Orchestrutópica, Orquestra Metropolitana, Machina Mundi Machina Lirica and Son D'arte Electric Ensemble.
Since 2002, José Luís Ferreira has lectured several courses at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa and Faculdade de Belas Artes.

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