Axiomas Tristes

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(born in 1983) I am a Brazilian self-taught musician, sound designer, multi instrumentalist and minimalist electronic music composer. I began my music activities at 11 years old as a drummer and percussionist. By the age of 16 I got involved with synthesizers and sequencers. Currently I am dedicated to theremin and modular synthesizers.

In 2004 I started collaborating with artists from the field of live arts: Theater, Performance and Dance. That led me to create several music and sound design for dance pieces by choreographers such as: Cristian Duarte, Tarina Quelho, Eduardo Fukushima, Sheila Ribeiro, Alejandro Ahmed, Vera Sala, Trajal Harrell, Marcelo Evelin e Latifa Laâbissi among others. During that experience I perceived my composition approaches embracing a choreographic mode of thinking, making movement a more decisive agent in my technical choices, allowing music to be crossed by emotional, cognitive and technical accidents.

My music is a dense atmosphere of voices delicately carved through intuitive counterpoints, often crossed by textures and noises in events created by a technique I call - unforeseen and enigmas - an in real time composition practice of organizing music formed by collapsing memory, unpredictability, emptiness and accidentality. Through the state of presence, it looks at music and sound fabrication that fuses and blurs boundaries between narrative and spatiality, texture and melodic discourse, counterpoint and silence, rhythm and landscape, repetition and difference. A “quasi-music”. Also based on John Cage's music philosophy of seeking for impermanent structures, I've been researching how to expand this notion through music concerts for electronic instruments that focus on thinking non-linear narratives together with other spheres of art forms such as text, light, movement.
https://tommonteiro.bandcamp.com/
https://mariaz.bandcamp.com

4 - Axiomas Tristes - As Línguas E As Ínguas

Tom Monteiro