ALG-A LAB - VIGO

photo: Ernesto Rodrigues with Maria Radich

Ernesto Rodrigues é un dos grandes nomes da improvisación electroacústica (http://rateyourmusic.com/genre/EAI/). A súa práctica privilexia o imprevisible a partir do encontro creativo con outros músicos nos máis diversos contextos. O seu extenso traballo está sobre todo documentado en Creative Sources, editora que inicou en 2001 e que é hoxe unha das máis relevantes do panorama internacional. Ricardo Guerreiro (ordenador) colaborou regularmente con ER ao longo dos últimos anos sexa en grupos como IKB ou en formacións máis reducidas ao lado de nomes como Axel Dörner ou Radu Malfatti. O saxofonista Bertrand Gauguet, un dos músicos máis interesantes e activos da actualidade, visita a península ibérica para unha pequena serie de concertos con este trío, que ten inicio en Galicia e pasa polo Porto antes do concerto final no Panteón Nacional en Lisboa. (Alg-a Lab) 

CREATIVE SOURCES APRESENTA O SEU FESTIVAL

photo: Ernesto Rodrigues

A editora lusa Creative Sources, que celebrou o seu 100º lançamento com a edição do disco "Stills" da Variable Geometry Orchestra, apresenta o seu festival. No sábado, dia 10, a partir das 21h00, a Bomba Suicida (na Rua Luz Soriano, ao Bairro Alto) acolhe o festival Creative 01. Nesta noite será apresentada uma sequência de espectáculos de 13 duos, que actuarão cerca de dez minutos cada um. Participarão neste evento nomes ligados à improvisação como Adriana Sá, Davia Maranha, Rodrigo Amado, Sei Miguel, Hernâni Faustino, Peter Bastiaan, António Chaparreiro, Luís Lopes, Eduardo Chagas e até mesmo o responsável da editora (e da iniciativa), Ernesto Rodrigues. Nuno Catarino (Bodyspace)

CREATIVE SOURCES RECORDS

photo: Ernesto Rodrigues with Nuno Torres

Creative Sources Records, based in Portugal, was conceived in 1999 by violist/composer Ernesto Rodrigues as an outlet not only for his own work but for the kind of challenging, non-commercial music that appealed to him. The label originally released work by new music improvisers from Portugal and Spain, many but by no means all of them featuring Rodrigues. The label now issues work by musicians from both hemispheres and has put out fine performances not only by Rodrigues and his cellist son Guilherme, but also by Radu Malfatti, Mike Bullock, Axel Dörner, Ricardo Guerreiro, Gino Robair, Udo Schindler, Raed Yassin and many others.

Rodrigues came to adventurous improvisational music in the 1970s, a time when he listened to free jazz, the post-war avant-garde art music of Ligeti and Stockhausen, and the experimental work of Morton Feldman and John Cage. And one can hear in his music the influence of these latter two composers, particularly in the generally quiet dynamics and the ascendency of timbre over pitch that characterize much of his playing.

Although Creative Sources releases a diverse range of approaches to electro-acoustic improvisation, it does have an identifiable aesthetic. There are exceptions, of course, but an archetypal Creative Sources release will more likely than not contain sound art of refinement and restraint—qualities that summarize Rodrigues’ own playing quite well. In general the music texturally focused, developing gradually through nuanced shifts in shading, density and dynamics.

Several of Creative Sources’ recent releases serve as a good sampling of the label’s approaches to defining and exploring its particular aesthetic of improvisational sound art. Daniel Barbiero (Percorsi Musicali)