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).
ando a ler umas coisas sobre subharmonicos no site da mari kimura e no livro do john zorn arcana musicians on music.. por acaso nao conhece ninguem que use este tipo de técnicas num cordofone friccionado e que me possa ajudar (sei que o principio e um pouco o mesmo dos harp hamonics na guitarra)
caro vitor.. a sua presença ancestral através da sua música é sempre uma influência para qualquer projecto que faça na área da música improvisada e não só.. espero que esteja a correr tudo bem com a preparação da uma vaca flatterzungue..
obrigado por fazer parte da minha realidade existencial..
Yeah! Sim, já somos amigos, além de "coleguinhas de escola"... hihihi Gostei muito das tuas paginas, dos teus projectos e do tue cd! Obrigada. =) Bjunfias KEEP ON ROCKIN!!!!!!!!
Viva! Album dos Archétypo 120 ao vivo "First Whispers: Live at Plano B, Porto, 20/03/08" editado pela Enough Records. Para download gratuito, ir a http://enoughrecords. scene. org/ Um grande abraço
