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).
não é steve reich e bang on a can.. é esteves reis e estrondo numa lata.. para imitar os espanhois.. o facebook vai bom? (eu gosto do facebook, não é nenhum truque, yeah!!!)
Il collettivo Improvvisatore Involontario
sbarca per la prima volta a Roma con il suo progetto più ingombrante e
rumoroso. Naked Musicians si propone al pubblico romano in occasione del lancio
del suo terzo capitolo discografico: l’album Emiliano Culastrisce.
Questo disco costituisce l'opera inaugurale per il nuovo corso
grafico dell'etichetta catanese (ma ormai sempre più cosmopolita, con oltre 30
membri tra Roma, Bologna, Venezia, Udine, Parigi e New York), ma non è sola:
Improvvisatore Involontario esce contemporaneamente con 3 nuovi prodotti.
Anche gli altri 2, ossia La commissione D'Ascolto
- l'infuocato duello piano/drums che costituisce l'esordio
di War Duo (Marcello Di Lorenzo e Francesco Cusa), e Origins
of Body Hammer - altra opera battesimale per un mix di elettronica
e improvvisazione con Carlo Natoli, Francesco Cusa ed Emiliano Cinquerrui
- saranno presentati all'INIT in anteprima in questa serata
d'eccezione.
Ingresso € 5
Ingresso + T-shirt di Improvvisatore Involontario
€ 10.
The second part of the trilogy "The
Empty
Circle" by The Joy of Nature, entitled «Rastos de Sangue e fragmentos da
Tradição», has been now released by Ahnstern and it is available at The Joy of Nature's store.
In this second part a lot more instruments were used and more
musicians collaborated, like R. Coutinho, B. Ardo (Sangre Cavallum), Rui
Almeida (Massa Última), Triarca, Mara Neves and M.J.
Not only a reaction against the modern world, but
an alternative to this post-modern world.
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