WNMD 2025 · CONCERT 1
Timeless Music / Música sem tempo
30-05-2025 · 19h00
Centro Cultural de Belém – Foyer do Grande Auditório
Lisbon
Bilheteira · Box Office (CCB)
Rui Silva · adufe
Bruno Gabirro · adufe & electronics
Miguel Amaral · Portuguese guitar
Joana Negrão, Ana Paula Rodrigues · cantadeiras
BRUNO GABIRRO (Portugal, 1973)
RUI SILVA (Portugal, 1984)
Harmoniemusik (2021-2022), 11’
BRUNO GABIRRO (Portugal, 1973)
RUI SILVA (Portugal, 1984)
Delay (2021-2022), 9’
CARLOS PAREDES (Portugal, 1925–2004)
Fantasia n.º 2, 2’
CARLOS PAREDES (Portugal, 1925–2004)
Canção, 3’
JIANING HE (China, 1996) YCA
Fluttering with the wind (2024), 7’ WP
ISCM Shanghai Section submission
MIGUEL AMARAL (Portugal, 1982)
Variações sobre um tema de Carlos Paredes (2023), 7’
TRADITIONAL (Portugal)
Cantigas de Adufe
Lá cima ao castelo
Divina Santa Cruz
Ausência
Eras tão bonita
WP · world premiere
YCA · ISCM Young Composers Award candidate
PROGRAMME NOTES
BRUNO GABIRRO (Portugal, 1973)
RUI SILVA (Portugal, 1984)
Harmoniemusik (2021-2022), 11’
Delay (2021-2022), 9’
— This project aims to bring the adufe into a musical tradition, the classical music one, from which it has been detached. Although it is part of the collective imagination of the Portuguese people, even outside the regions where it is native, it has always been confined, except in one exceptional situation or another, to the music of the popular tradition from which it originated. While this condition has attributed it a mythical aura, it has also taken away real possibilities for development and expansion as an instrument in itself, both in terms of instrumental technique and construction. The inclusion of electronics, particularly real-time electronics, comes naturally in the exploration and discovery of the possibilities of the adufe and its treatment within a musical tradition where electronics have been developing for a century, having expanded greatly in the last 50 years and today being an active and integral part of classical musical practice and thought. It also makes it possible to create a link with the history and tradition of the adufe through existing phonographic recordings, and as a link between two musical worlds, for despite being both musical, they are different in many respects. We are therefore proposing a project that, with the ultimate goal of presenting new pieces for adufe and electronics in concert, encompasses not only the writing and public performance of these pieces but also all the work of experimentation and research, whether in the studio, in the relationship between composer and instrumentalist, or in direct contact with the adufeiras and groups of adufeiras who have kept the adufe and its tradition alive. Given the unprecedented, investigative and work-in-progress nature of the project, the work has been developed since 2019 in various artistic residencies, studio moments and concerts.
JIANING HE (China, 1996) YCA
Fluttering with the wind (2024), for Portuguese guitar and electronics
ISCM Shanghai Section submission
— White clouds rose from the distant mountains, swaying and drifting into the air. I am willing to go away with the wind like white clouds and end freely. The clouds are slowly dissipating under the sunlight but have been shattered by the wind. They are weak and don't know where they are flying. The sky is so high, and the colours have faded. If only we could follow the dragon and take off, it would also nourish all things and help the vicissitudes of life. The work is written for Portuguese guitar and electronic music, with four-channel prerecorded voices and a lot of use of reverse bedding as the background layer, creating a romantic and swaying atmosphere.
MIGUEL AMARAL (Portugal, 1982)
Variações sobre um tema de Carlos Paredes (2023), 7’
— Variações sobre um tema de Carlos Paredes is an unfinished work. Following the centuries-old tradition of variations, whose reference work is the famous Goldberg Variations by J.S. Bach, I decided, in the centenary year of Carlos Paredes’ birth, to write ten variations on his Verdes Anos. This piece is a tribute to Carlos Paredes that looks to the future, departing from tradition to a universe of contemporary sound. Until now, seven variations have been written and here I will add the piece Canção de Carlos Paredes as the last variation.