In the beginning was the Light.

No início, era a Luz.

- Composição para orquestra, percussão étnica e eletrónica.
- Composed for symphonic orchestra, ethnic percussion and electronics.
2020 ©

The Beginning

Frost Bite

According to Carl Jung, archetypes are primordial ideas and conceptions that universally exist in the minds of all humans without regard to culture or education.

For example, Jung noted that all ancient cultures had a creation story. The stories themselves were vastly different but the existence of each of these stories hints at the fact that the idea of a creator was and is universal in every culture. In the case of this example the creator is the archetypal idea, and the creation story itself is a resulting manifestation of the archetype.

I found the notion of archetypes fascinating, and began to wonder whether music itself holds any archetypal ideas. The role of music is paramount in most, if not all, cultures and manifests in everything from the solemnity of worship to the most visceral celebration. As we know, the breadth of what music is can be vast, and this begs the question: which elements of music are archetypal and which are cultural? Can we find any primordial elements of music that are ubiquitous to all humans regardless of their musical or cultural background? 

I started writing this piece by writing its “archetype,” a musical idea from which all the materials of the piece will derive; in other words, I wrote a theme. Traditionally a piece starts by presenting a theme that later goes through various kinds of alterations and manipulations, but in the case of this piece, the theme (or archetype) is not presented in the beginning. The piece uses the archetype as the generator of the musical materials but at the same time the archetype (theme) is not introduced.

The piece is made up of six parts, five parts being different manifestations of the archetype, and the last part being the archetype itself. In each one of the five manifestations, only a certain aspect of the archetype seeps through to the notes and we only get a glimpse of the archetype; we only see its shadow. In the final and sixth part of the piece we finally get to listen to the archetype as it is. Would it sound familiar? Would it sound as if it was there throughout the entire piece?​
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Seltenreich - ARCHETYPE - Tokyo Philharmonic

World Premiere of Matthew Holmes' tuba concerto 'Eclipse' performed by Stuart Beard and the Oxfordshire Festival Orchestra, under the baton of Edward Leibrecht.

Eclipse - Matthew Holmes

Piece for string quintet, horn, piano and percussion.

Grund

Orquestra de sopros da Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa, Ana Telles (piano) e Alberto Roque (maestro).

Pianissimo (2017)

Três Haikus (2016)
João Caldas, Piano
Sofia David, Voice

Photo by Manuel Cosentino on Unsplash

Três Haikus ( Three Haiku )

Yliathim - acousmatic

MA.RIM.BA (2018)
for Marimba and Electronics

Composition: Pedro F. Finisterra
Marimba: Cristiano Rios

This is a home recording, recorded by Cristiano Rios & mixed Pedro F. Finisterra.

This piece was premiered at Casa da Música, Porto, Portugal, on the 28th of January 2020. The recording of the premiere is available here: https://soundcloud.com/cristiano-rios-642846313/marimba-pedro-finisterra-live-casa-da-musica

Website: https://www.pedroffinisterra.com

Where to find my scores:
Portfolios: https://portfolios.esml.ipl.pt/compositor/pedro-f-finisterra/
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MA.RIM.BA

Saudade

This track belongs to "En Tu Piel" 's Original Soundtrack:

Bratislava Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by: David Hernando Rico
Orchestra Recording Engineer: Martin Roller
Recorded at: Slovak Radio, Studio One - Bratislava, Slovakia

Acoustic Guitar by: João Venda
Piano by: Carolina Leote Godinho
Guitar and Piano recorded by: João Ganho
Recorded in: Lisbon (the region), Portugal
Music Production, Mixing, Mastering, ... : João Ganho for O Ganho do Som

Many thanks to:
my BSO Master tutors Arnau Bataller, Bernat Vivancos, Lluís Vergés;
to João Ganho (O Ganho do Som) for all the amazing work and for believing in this project;
to João Venda, for the wonderful guitar interpretation. You rock;
my family - thank you from the bottom of my heart.

CLG © 2018

Três Haikus ( Three Haiku )

João Viegas

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