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João Castro Pinto
ARS ABSCONDITA

Album JP 2013 on OtO label
Electronic (Abstract, Experimental)

ARS ABSCONDITA is a collection of pieces based on the recreation of field recordings (from natural and urban proveniences) & sampled sounds (objects and utensils of our daily live), through d.s.p. techniques. The main purpose of these pieces aims not to depict, as pure phonography does, a mapping of actual spaces / events, but to create new aural narratives that allow distinct perceptions about the used sound source material. The goal is to forge sonic spaces, departing from the actual locations of the sampled sounds to the unknown space of the composition: a field of potentialities and forces, actualized by the composer, that displays imbricate semantic relations which can be questioned, confirmed or contradicted by the listener's aural contingencies. Listening & Perceiving are forms of creation and the ways of the Arts of Sound can be mysterious and intriguing- AUDIAT - Dedicated with Love and Humble Gratitude to my Zenith - Nadir : Sofia Carvalho ------------------------------------------------------ 1. Effluvium - 7:01'' A piece on aqueous environments and gestures. February 2013 2. Chasm - 7:18'' A longer version of the homonymous one minute piece composed for the planetary event "The End of The World" at the Streaming Museum, N.Y.C. _ U.S.A.. The piece was exhibited online on 21.12.2012, and is compiled in a collaborative audiovisual piece that counts with the sound and visual participations of 70 renowned artists. April 2013 3. Interspersed Memories on strings, murmurs and gongs - 8:23'' This piece was composed with string sounds (piano, santur), tibetan bowls / hindu chimes and was premiered at the 19th Seoul International Computer Music Festival 2012. The piece was selected within an international call for entries & exhibited on the program of the festival. January 2012 4. Simulacra _ version 0.1 (extended & stereo reduction) on discrete movements & dense textures - 10:13'' This piece is based on recordings made in Portugal, Austria, Slovakia and in the U.K. & it’s an extended & stereo reduction version of an 8 channel piece composed on the occasion of an invitation for a residency at the Electronic Music Studios of Leeds Metropolitan University (U.K.) January 2013. This piece also includes a few raw / unprocessed samples recorded for a collaboration performance with Bernhard Loibner at ÖRF’s Kunstradio-Radiokunst (Vienna _ Dec. 2012), entitled “Fooling The Foley”. March 2013 Field Recordings, d.s.p., Mixing, Mastering & Graphic Design by João Castro Pinto My Gratitude to Rogério A. Pinto, Maria J. M. S. C. Pinto, Nikos Stavropoulos, Takanobu Hoshino & Bernhard Loibner [ + info about the synopsis of the pieces at OtO’s site http://oto-jpn.narod.ru/index/http_oto_jpn_narod_ru_index_ars_abscondita_0_23/0-31] João Castro Pinto © 2013

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