MUSICA ETERNA, by André Gonçalves

MUSICA ETERNA

by André Gonçalves

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1.	Part I 32:42	info
2.	Part II 37:45	info
3.	Part III 54:20	info
4.	Part IV 49:48	info
5.	Part V 46:02	info
6.	Part VI 32:29	info

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Musica Eterna
Pocket Music for the Space-Time Traveler

This is a preview of the IOs App:

The music about to be experienced in this App is being released in the tradition of a musical album, my first solo record since 2005. Over these last 10 years i went through several iterations in my approach to music this release comes to close the circle on the way i came to think about composing music.

In this technological age and for my musical work in particular i find it castrating to perpetuate the tradition of fixing music to a timeline, releasing it in a fixed medium, in the form of fixed compositions of a fixed length. There was a time where the technologies were not available to make it in any way different. And, in this sense, even contemporary music made in non-fixed terms or incorporating chance in their scores would always be delivered to the public in the form of a record. Therefore not allowing the intrinsic properties of the score to naturally change at different listenings as if they would if they were to be performed live. This, i always thought, was a major issue as it betrays the initial composers idea.

Today the tools are here to allow composers to present and deliver music without these constrains. It’s now common that wireless equipped portable devices, as following the Walkman tradition, allow us to carry "all” the world’s music everywhere we go. The computational potential of such devices is what allows me to deliver this music to you in such a new form. This music will not repeat itself, ever.
It’s my pleasure to welcome you to Musica Eterna.

André Gonçalves, March 2015

The Composition:
The full Musica Eterna piece is about 4h.
The App is the indefatigable piece interpreter, playing it repeatedly related to the current date and time.
The composition features a total of about 250 “patterns” and contains rules to play these through about 25 “ambients”. These rules incorporate chance operations which allow it to be different every time the piece is played, as it would if performed live.

More Info:
www.andregoncalves.info/musicaeterna/musicaEterna.htm

IOs App:
apps.apple.com/us/app/musica-eterna/id978745994?ls=1

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released March 1, 2015

Music & Programming: André Gonçalves

Special Guests:
Alex Zhang Hungtai: Keyboards & Saxophone
Casper Clausen :Voice

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André Gonçalves Lisbon, Portugal

Opening up all my discography, collaborations, sountracks for theater, dance and exhibitions. Also releasing many other unreleased bits and pieces from as early as 2002.

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