As usual ;) I come up with new sound material that I'm happy with one! day before a performance.

Thanks for listening. I play several sizes and models of Blokflutes that I sample onstage with the help of a midi foot pedal and a computer software. No pre-recorded sounds are used.

F Great Bass loop #workinprogress

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Thanks for listening. I play several sizes and models of Blokflutes that I sample onstage with the help of a midi foot pedal and a computer software. No pre-recorded sounds are used.

The peach tree impro | LIVE at Centro Cultural da Malaposta

Austro (G. Tedde) | LIVE at Centro Cultural da Malaposta

This piece is a live improvisation on Cipriano da Rore's (1515-1565) most popular madrigal: "Anchor che c'ol partire".
By the end of sixteen century there were two ways of performing a madrigal, either as equally balanced polyphonic work where each singer or instrumentalist takes one voice, or as in il canto acompagnato, where a melodic instrument (voice) takes one line (usually the upper voice) while another, usually stringed instrument, takes the remaining voices.
Departing from the rules given by Diego Ortiz in his Tratado de Glosas , I improvise throughout the Cantus melody of da Rore's most famous madrigal "Anchor che col partire", with the most possible graceful and respect towards the counterpoint, this way trying not to spoil the underlying melody and the composer's design.
The original lyrics:
"Ancor che c'ol partire
Io mi senta morire,
Partir vorrei ogn' hor ogni momento.
Tant è il piancer ch'io sento.
De la vita ch'acquisto nel ritorno.
Et così mill' e mille volte il giorno,
Partir da voi vorrei
Tanto son dolci gli ritorni mei."
Translated lyrics:
"Whenever I part from you, I feel it as death.
And yet I would part from you every hour and every minute.
Such is the joy of life won back when I return. And so I would part from you a thousand times each day, so sweet are the returnings."

"Anchor che c'ol partire" Teresa Matias &  Federica Bianchi | LIVE at Bernard Haitinkzaal

Twilight Zone's song blockflute looped cover.

Like pixels? This piece also comes under the form of a videoclip at www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss-I-GH4-eQ



Come Wander With Me

The title "Se delle eterne idee" is merely a short sentence from a long poem by Giacomo Leopardi - it's a loose, symbolic suggestion, more an intimate reference for the composer.  It doesn't really inform the listener about the nature of  the piece unless in its energy and passionate character. 

Magnanensi defines himself as a composer whose work "aspires to be speechless, without the urgency of communicating anything.  If it expresses anything at all, that is pure character, essence more than intentionality. It manifests potential energy more than activity, relying on its own bare existence."

"Se delle eterne idee" (G. Magnanensi) Matias, Wu, Steinkogler | LIVE at Bernard Haitinkzaal

Live recorded on April 23rd, at Igreja da Colegiada, Guimarães, 2012.

Notes (portuguese only):
Maki Ishii quis retratar duas reacções distintas perante uma mesma coisa, a adversidade da vida quotidiana. A primeira parte de Black Intention representa a resposta da pessoa mediana, a segunda parte mostra a reacção Budista. Ishii é extremamente influenciado pela música tradicional Japonesa, não só no material melódico mas também na instrumentação, atmosfera e dimensão teatral da performance.

Black Intention (M. Ishii) | LIVE at Guimarães 2012

This piece was live recorded and world premiered at Igreja da Colegiada, Guimarães, April the 23rd, 2012.

Notes (portuguese only):

L’histoire d’amour entre… contrapõe a cadência gerada pelo ciclo morte-ressureição da mitológica Fénix com a da Ave do Paraíso. Sobre esta, gerou-se na Europa do século  XVI uma lenda de que não teria patas e por tal permaneceria toda a vida em vôo constante, zelando assim pelas almas humanas. José Luis Ferreira recebeu em 2001 o prémio Música Viva na categoria Composição Música Acusmática. É professor na Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa e doutorando em Informática Musical, pelo CITAR/Escola das Artes - Universidade Católica do Porto.

L'Histoire d'Amour entre... (J.L. Ferreira) Naoko Kikuchi & Teresa Matias | LIVE at Guimarães 2012

This piece was live recorded at Igreja da Colegiada, Guimarães, April the 23rd, 2012. 

Arranged for Recorder and Koto by Teresa Matias and Naoko Kikuchi after Madame d’amours (Anonymous), Henrique VIII Manuscript (XVI cent.).

Lyrics:
Madame d’amours, All tymes or ours, Frome dole dolours, Ower Lord you gy; In all socours, Unto my pours, To be as yours, Untyl I die.

Madame d'Amours (Henry VIII man.) Naoko Kikuchi & Teresa Matias | LIVE at Guimarães 2012

Live recorded June 29th 2012 @ Van Gogh Museum.
Bass flute, voice and effects.

Thanks for listening. I play several sizes and models of Blokflutes that I sample onstage with the help of a midi foot pedal and a computer software. No pre-recorded sounds are used.

The peach tree impro | LIVE at Van Gogh Museum Friday Night Series

Teresa Matias is an Amsterdam-based, Algarve, Portugal born flutist and composer.
In 2012 she began writing her own compositions and developing a one-woman-ensemble project where she combines bass blockflute models, live sampling and sound manipulation. Her music is grounded somewhere between classical and ambient genres, in an organic, multi-layered soundscape, delivered by both acoustic and electronic sources.

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