bass-flute: Cássia Carrascoza / live-electronics: José Henrique Padovani

Live-recording of première. 
Opening concert of the 16th Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music (SBCM).
Concert Hall of the Music Department of the School of Communication and Arts / São Paulo University (USP)
September 3rd, 2017

φάτις, in Greek, refers to "speech" and to "language". The term is also associated to "word" and "rumor" and refers also to the "word that comes from heaven" in the oracle. Both in the compositional writing for the acoustical instrument and in the mechanisms of the electronics, the piece draws on vocal materials, on images and connotations evoked by the term φάτις, and on references to my previous works, impedance (2010) and fragmentos sobre o sol (2012), as models, materials, processes and space of gestural and sonic investigation to explore the transductive process of sound production and transformation that happens along the phonetic/respiratory system of the instrumentalist, the flute, the live-electronics processes and the sound projection in the acoustic space. 
The piece is dedicated to flutist Cássia Carrascoza.

φάτις (2017) for bass-flute (Cássia Carrascoza) and live-electronics [binaural mix, use headphones]

josé henrique padovani