8 Anacreontic modules for Paulo Nenflidio's Prototypes

Eight Anacreontic modules for Paulo Nenflidio's Prototypes

Artistic-musical event presented at the Fortes Vilaça Gallery (São Paulo, Brazil) during the individual exhibition of plastic artist Paulo Nenflídio's works, "Protótipos" (Prototypes), from november to december 2006. The music was written by the maestro Luciano Garcez specially for that exhibition.

The musical play was freely inspired in the universe of Greek poet Anacreon. Bits of the Cherubini's (1760-1842) opera "Anacreon" and poems from Anacreon himself and the american beat poet Allen Ginsberg were used in the play.

For this exhibition, Nenflidio has created four new objects that make up a small orchestra. They are the "Realejo Heavy Metal" (Heavy Metal Hand Organ), an object with the looks of a hand organ with a handle which, when spinned, turns on Heavy Metal records. "Protótypo" (Prototype), which lends its name to the exhibition, is an object similar to a piano, but with two gloves attached. One of them, with small lamps on the fingers, controls the sound tonality based on light variation. The other one controls the sound intensity according to the distance between the hand and the object. to the distance between the hand and the object. "Telembau" is a couple of objects similar to "berimbaus" (Brazilian folkloric instrument) that work as walkie-talkies. They should be used by 2 people, which can be at a distance as big as 40 meters between them. When someone plays the string on one of them, the other one receives the radio-transmitted sound, creating a possibility for communication with rythms. The "Estudo para Gerador de Música n°2" (study for music generator #2) is a kind of music box, randomic and configurable, which can also be manipulated.

Paulo Nenflidio is a plastic artist, inventor and maker of sound gadgets. He has a degree in Multimedia and Intermedia by the Plastic Arts Department of São Paulo University and a technician degree by the technical state school Lauro Gomes of São Bernardo (SP). His electronics, arts and music knowledge are used in works that relate to the history of the invention music. In his works are present concepts like the autonomous, indeterminated and real-time music.


Music and orchestra direction: Luciano Garcez
Violin: Renan Vitoriano
Voice: Cecília Bernardes
Tape: Henrique Xavier
Prototype: Bruno Palazzo
Study for music generator #2: Tiago Santinho
Heavy Metal Hand Organ: Julia Vidili
Telembau: Paulo Nenflidio

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