Walking in the rain, opening the umbrella, and listening.
Rua Edmundo Bastian, Bairro Cristo Redentor, Porto Alegre, Brasil.
18/07/2013, 10h24m.

#WLD2013

Em uma estação de comboios, chamada General Torres, a espera é um momento de imaginação e de presença. Os sons são múltiplos e as referências várias. A paisagem sonora transforma a espera em devaneio: som e memória se misturam. Assim construí esta obra, com base no material sonoro presente na estação, no contexto que esta impõe a quem aguarda, e na estrutura temporal da espera. Esta peça está inserida em uma série de pesquisas sobre paisagem sonora e a sua integração com a música acusmática, desenvolvida no âmbito do Mestrado em Música na Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal.

General Torres (2007)

A transit of Venus across the Sun takes place when the planet passes directly between the Sun and Earth, becoming visible against the solar disk. Transits are among the rarest of predictable astronomical phenomena.
In June 5th of 2012, the Transit of Venus occured and it was one of the most referenced event of the year, and it was also widely covered by the media and scientists. At the end of this day, NASA created a movie using some of this images and made it available to the public.
This short movie had this phenomena appearing in different speeds, at different zoom levels, with the sun appearing in different colors and with different solar surface activities.
With such imagery vivid in my mind, I wanted to create a musical composition that tried to translate some of that different textures, speeds, energy and sequence to music. Therefore, this piece is a homage to the Transit of Venus of 2012, but also to the amazement that space science brings to all of us.

Transit Of Venus [2013]

Apresentada dentro da instalação sonora “Sons da Universidade”, coordenada pelo Prof. Dr. Fernando Mattos, ocorrida de 11 de março a 9 de maio de 2003 no Museu Universitário da UFRGS, Brasil.

Sala de Espera (2003)

Postal (13.10.2013)

Uma brincadeira com sons captados por Rodrigo Avellar, no CME da UFRGS, que agora transformo numa homenagem aos meus amigos que se tornaram pais!

Variações Infantis (2004)

Obra para Trio de Madeiras, baseada na carta "À Clara", do livro "As correspondências de Fradique Mendes", de Eça de Queirós.

Estreada no Festival Música em Facetas, em 2011.
Auditório Tasso Corrêa, Instituto de Artes da UFRGS.

Músicos: André Mendes, flauta; Samuel Oliveira, clerinete; Adolfo Almeida Jr., fagote.

À Clara... (2011)

A phonolapse of me and my wife at breakfast...
I was talking all the time because I was explaining to her what the computer was doing.

Morning Ritual

In physics, mass–energy equivalence is the concept that the mass of a body is a measure of its energy content.
This concept states that mass is a property of all energy and energy is a property of all mass, and the two properties are connected by a constant: the speed of light. To Einstein, mass–energy equivalence is a consequence of the relativistic symmetries of space and time.
In "Mass & Energy", thus, this concept is explored musically.
The interactions between sound material and the musical structures are a consequence of the 'energy' of the musical gesture. And, as a consequence, the spatial localization of the sounds reflects the intensity of this interactions.
This work was created at CIME - Centro de Investigação em Música Electrónica (Center for Research in Electronic Music), at the University of Aveiro, Portugal.

This work received the Honorable Mention at the Concurso Latinoamericano de Composición Electroacústica Gustavo Becerra Schmidt, promoted by the Comunidad Electroacústica de Chile CECh, in the year 2012.

Mass & Energy (2012)

Brazilian composer, graduated in Music Composition at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. WIth special interests in electroacoustic music composition, instrumental music and soundscapes. From 2001 to 2006 he was a researcher at CME (Center for Electronic Music) at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. Since 2008, lives in Portugal where he is developing a PhD project at CIME (Center for the Investigation in Electronic Music), at the University of Aveiro, about the use of environmental sounds and its referential possibilities in works of electroacoustic music with live instruments.

Rafa Oliveira

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