Very honoured and happy to take part in the London Symphony Orchestra’s Panufnik Composers Scheme 2016. After having been shortlisted I’ll be allowed to experiment over time and work towards creating a new short orchestral piece to be publicly rehearsed on the 20 April 2017.
The piece A Walk in the Countryside, for solo flute, has been selected by the International Society for Contemporary Music for performance at the ISCM World New Music Days in Vancouver, Canada. The festival will take place from 2-8 November. The flute piece — commissioned by Ensemble Recherche, Germany, and developed with its flutist Martin Fahlenbock — will…
A new work will be premiered by the Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble (Lisbon, Portugal) in 2017 (exact date and venue will be updated). The Sond’Ar-te is an amazing ensemble, setup by Miguel and Paula Azguime, and I’m thrilled to be able to work with them. It performs regularly at O’culto da Ajuda, a recent and rather unique venue…
Algorithm and Decision in Musical Composition (2016) PDF file (click to download) Attached Algorithms CD-ROM (click to download the ZIP file) City University London digital publication: City Research Online Abstract Through a series of creative projects this doctorate set out to research how computer-assisted composition (CAC) of music affects decision-making in my compositional practice. By reporting on…
It’s finally here and it features the chapter “Folk material transformations and elaborations in A Vida é Nossa“, written by me. It is published by IRCAM/Centre Pompidou and Editions Delatour. You can buy it here.