Telectu is a fundamental duo of new improvisation formed by Jorge Lima Barreto and Vítor Rua.
Since 1982 this group has developed and introduced in Portugal different musical typologies: art rock, minimalism, live electronics, multimedia, acousmatic, concret, and have linked their art to performance, video, and installation.
They have worked and recorded with various exponents of contemporary improvisation, including Elliott Sharp, Chris Cutler, Jac Berrocal, Louis Sclavis, Jean Sarbib, Paul Lytton, Evan Parker, Carlos Zíngaro, Tim Hodgkinson, Eddie Prévost, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Sunny Murray, etc.
Telectu has performed and recorded at the forefront of Portuguese music and at important international gatherings in: Beijing (CCTV), Paris (Pompidou Centre, Radio France), Moscow (Lenine Auditorium, Mali Theatre), New York (Knitting Factory), Spain (Granada, Madrid, Vigo, Barcelona), Hong Kong (Jazz Club), Macao (Casa Garden), Havana (Teatro Nacionale), Romania (National Auditorium), Vienna (WUK Theatre).
Their creations are a landmark as a different multimedia musical conception and their instrumental and aesthetic heterodoxy (prepared piano and guitar, piano string action, scratch and noise, instrumental pluridisciplinarity, percussion, digital controllers, sampler, instrumental connections, digital apparatus, etc.) are co-ordinated by a spontaneous energy, ad-lib, real-time, fractal; their records are documents that assert the duo as one of the most important groups of new improvised music.
Jorge Lima Barreto ( b. 1949 ) began his career in the late sixties with experimental music and free jazz.
He wrote books about different musical typologies, like minimalism, jazz, rock, dance, experimental and multimedia.
He formed in the seventies the group AnarBand and make a record with the jazz musician Saheb Sarbib. In the 75 he created with Carlos Zíngaro a movement called "Conceptual Jazz".
With P.H.D. in Art History (73) he gave conferences all around the world (Paris, Cuzco, S.Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Beijing).
Vítor Rua ( b. 1961 ) began his career in the late seventies with a series of interventions that changed the face of Portuguese pop/rock. In 1987, in an act of autodidactic determination, he devoted himself to the study of contemporary musical notation.
His work is characterized by a variegated, embryonic post-modernism and an empiricist rejection of cultural confines, and reflects a transition from structured improvisation to strict composition.
As a composer his music has been played in Romania/ Bucharest (Musique Céréale, 97 soprano saxophone by Daniel Kientzy), in Spain/ Granada (Truffle Sax, 98 bass saxophone and tape by Daniel Kientzy), France/ Perpignan and Italy/ Venice (Cyberpunk, 98 bass saxophone by Daniel Kientzy), Portugal/ Lisbon (Gula, 98 soprano and baritone saxophone and tape by Daniel Kientzy), England/ York, London (Royal Albert Hall) (Duplicator, 99 2 alto recorders and tape by Ensemble QTR: Peter Bowman and Katerina Bennetts).
Vítor Rua ( b. 1961 ) began his career in the late seventies with a series of interventions that changed the face of Portuguese pop/rock.
In 1987, in an act of autodidactic determination, he devoted himself to the study of contemporary musical notation.
His work is characterised by a variegated, embryonic post-modernism and an empiricist rejection of cultural confines, and reflects a transition from structured improvisation to strict composition.
The multiple intention of his work is therefore an aesthetic and kaleidoscopic propaedeutic about the situationism of post-modern music - a proposition for a new musical subjectivism.
In the course of his work as an improviser, he has played with leading figures in the world of improvisation (Chris Cutler, Elliott Sharp, Jac Berrocal, Carlos Zíngaro, Jean Sarbib, Evan Parker, Paul Lytton, Eddie Prévost, Louis Sclavis, Sunny Murray, Ikue Mori, Paul Rutherford and Daniel Kientzy).
His music has been played by around the world by virtuosos interpreters like Daniel Kientzy, John Tilbury, Ensemble QTR (Peter Bowman and Kathryn Bennetts), Ana Ester Neves, Frank Abbinanti, OrchestrUtópica, Bernini Quartet, Grupo de Música Contempoânea de Lisboa, Simon Cowen, Michael Straus).
NEW ALBUM RELEASED The Meifumado is celebrating 5 years of existence with the release of the compilation "5 Anos 13 Merdas". Here we present new artists that thicken the Meifumado batch particularly Selfish Cunt, Sam Amant, Paco Hunter and MC Jihad, and show you tunes that have never been published by other bands who already know what the house spends such as The Zany Dislexic Band, PZ, Pplectro , Preto, Type, and Abztraqt Sir Q. To download or buy the record, visit www.meifumado.org.
hey vitor! Como va tudo! bien bien aqui en madrid, but i miss so much lisbon, i ll be back soon over there, my portuguese has flown!! jeje recieve a big hugh for you and the uni crew!! J*
Aniversário Crew Hassan! 1 de Maio 16h na Crew Hassan 23h no Lisbon Underground 5 Hassans Bilhete único válido para os 2 sítios. Abraços e obrigado pelo apoio! ......
A OportoSound tem o prazer de apresentar pela primeira vez em Portugal os germanicos Novalis Deux para um concerto único no Pin Up Bar - Porto, que terá lugar no dia 26 de Abril de 2009 pelas 22h, com a primeira parte a cargo da banda de Setubal, La Chanson Noire.
FESTAS @ LX FACTORY Apesar dos próximos eventos terem sido planeados para o Underground Lisbon, as festas Stripp.ed #5 e Bass Culture mudaram de local. A Crew Hassan vai estar no próximo fim de semana em peso no Lx Factory, dia 3 com Patrick Zigon da Alemanha seguidos pelos djs Nelson Flip, 2old4school e Dog Geralddi e dj Al (The Deal) ainda live de Straightflash. Dia 4 de Abril a festa segue com reggae, dub step e drum&Bass com os melhores djs nacionais de Drum&bass Nuno Forte, Dinis, Riot, Alx, Johnny mais os soundystems Fakambareggae, No Joke, Big Badda Boom e Concrete Jungle!!! A decoração promete ser arrasadora com os Dancing Foot e o vj X em ambos os dias!!.. Night Bus da Carris grátis do Marquês e do Bairro Alto para Alcântara de 30 em 30 minutos das 22h até às 5h.
A organização do Lisbon Underground comprometeu-se em indemenizar-nos pelo cancelamento dos eventos e apresentaram as devidas desculpas.
A crewHassan em conjunto com as produtoras Stripp e Ritmos Urbanos e com o colectivo cooltrain crew não têm qualquer responsabilidade pela mudança do local das festas mas estamos empenhados em dar a volta por cima e fazer 2 noites inesqueciveis de boa música no LX Factory que gentilmente nos acolhe nestes eventos!! Abraços da CrewHassan ....
Novo tema a rodar, Marrakech by night!!!
Calor...a rodar!!!
