In the framework of the "Electronik Musik Hören" sessions of the TU Berlin, Miguel Azguime, guest of the DAAD Künstlerprogramm, will be presenting an overview of his music with electronics.
Among the works that will be presented, Miguel Azguime, together with Paula Azguime, will also perform live a short version of his sound poetry / music theatre work "O Ar do Texto Opera a Forma do Som Interior" (The Air of the Text Operates the Form of the Inner Sound) with texts spoken in Portuguese and English.
1) O Ar do Texto Opera a Forma do Som Interior
for voice, percussion and live electronics
Miguel Azguime: voice and percussion
Paula Azguime: electronics
2) De l'Étant Qui Le Nie
for piano and live-electronics
3) Liquidus Sonorus Luminaris
(two part inventions for two oscilators)
electroacoustic music
4) Derrière Son Double
for 6 instruments and live-electronics.
5) Le Dicible Enfin Fini
electroacoustic music
1960, Lisbon, Portugal (www.misoensemble.com)
Composer, poet, and percussionist, he founded the Miso Ensemble in 1985, a flute and percussion duo recognised by the public and by the critics as one of the most important Portuguese contemporary music groups. Besides giving numerous concerts in Portugal, the “Miso Ensemble” has been presented regularly abroad.
Miguel Azguime has obtained various awards for composition and performance, has composed for diverse formations, instrumental and/or vocal with and without electronics, electroacoustic music, sound poetry, including music for exhibitions, sound installations, theatre, dance and cinema. He has received commissions from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Portuguese Ministry of Culture, Ars Musica Festival, Heidelberg Festival,… amoung many others national and foreign cultural institutions.
Azguime’s music has been performed by renowned soloists, ensembles and conductors (Alain Neveux, Jean-Marie Cottet, Alain Damiens, Robert Glassburner, Paula Azguime, Yoshiko Shibuya, Tsung Yeh, Johannes Kalitzke, Stefan Asbury, Gregory Rose, Pascal Galois, Roberto Bollea, Ensemble Recherche, Ensemble Aventure, Remix Ensemble, Miso Ensemble, Gulbenkian Choir, Antifonia Choir, Singcircle, Hua Xia Ensemble, L’Autre Trio,…), being regularly presented at majors festivals of contemporary and electroacoustic music (ISCM-World Music Days - Japan, festival Ars Musica - Belgium, festival Spring in Havana – Cuba, Florida Electroaoustic Music Festival – USA, ISCM-World Music Days – Luxembourg, Xornadas de Musica Contemporanea of Santiago de Compostela – Spain, Festival Synthèse Bourges - France, Festival Audio Art Warsaw – Poland, Encontros Gulbenkian de Música Contemporanea - Lisbon, Festival Musica Viva - Lisbon,…), from Portugal to Japan, through Germany, Austria, Belgium. Chile, China, Cuba, Slovenia, Spain, USA, Finland, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, UK, Czech Republic, Russia, Switzerland.
Besides his activity as a composer, poet and percussionist, he remains actively dedicated to the promotion and diffusion of contemporary music, as artistic director of the independent label “Miso Records” and of the “MÚSICA VIVA” International Festival.
Also for 10 years Miguel Azguime has been the producer of the radio broadcast “Música Hoje” devoted to contemporary music at the Portuguese National Radio - RDP- Antena2.
He has developed since 1995 the first Portuguese Loudspeaker Orchestra and as a researcher he has been working in the development of real time computer music, giving lectures and courses on this field.
In 2003 he started, together with Paula Azguime the Portuguese New Music Information Center. This same year Miguel Azguime got the 2003 EMS composition prize. In 2006 Miguel Azguime is guest of the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprorgramm.
To unveil the mystery of the author’s absence
To shed some light over the question
A question lies asleep without an answer
The author does not sleep but he is absent
His presence is absent
Therefore the question remains
Whilst his absence lasts
The presence questions itself
In the silence of the presence of the absent author
The solution enquires itself regarding this question
The question is without words
The question silences sound
The sound licenses the question
It is a question of silence minus the author
The author is in the midst of silence
Such a profound silence that impels him to look within himself
Looking for the being that makes him be
Certain that this being is, after all
Searching for a gaze within a strange immensity of selves
That, surrounding or facing him, ask him to make an effort
And tell them in his own words, his own, unmeasured, something that can make them believe
But the author maintains his silent posture
Staring directly at the eyes of immensity (which little by little fulfils itself)
The absence lasts…
The author is absent…
Without restrain a belief in his mind lasts
Neither mind nor west manifest themselves here
Maybe a comb elevated to PI
Or the eyes gazing at the golden horizon
Right there in front of him where the dream
Has lost its PI_U!
In the epicentre of the orb of silence
In the midst of such profound gaze
The author (must be) is… completely insane
Hollow with his mind all the way through the west
Remaining with a transparent substance
Of a self in the bed of his hand
The cream!
The chosen ones!
The fifth essence!
Leaned against the words that have no sound
The sound of silence of the absent author’s presence
The presence of sound in the author’s absence
The author’s presence in the absence of sound
Or the present absence of the sound’s silence?
The essence present senses the author’s absence
Senses sans sound a thousand sounds ceaselessly
The will of the author
Licensees and silences the sound
Quietness here is everything
All is yet to be done
All is yet to re-start
Thy wish will be done (the author’s) in the absence of his presence
The air in silence allows one to write, scribe… describe... the sound
sound has an
an air of an
air of a sound
has sound air
tone sans an air
An air has an air
where in good will
beyond an inspiration
tends to conform
a form of conducting
a propagation of an undulation
of the text
text of the text of the text of the text
undulation of the undulation of the undulation of the
propaganda ion the propaganda ion the propaganda ion the
conducting of conducting of conducting of
form conform form conform form conform
inspiration of an inspiration of an inspiration of an
beyond well beyond well beyond well
for it is where for it is where for it is where
air an air an air an air an air an air an
has air the has air the has air the has air the
sound
the sound has an air
the text has a sound
the air of the text operates
the form of the inner sound
to conduct operations over the text
to condition the body of the text
the course of form
parts of the body
to prolongue the line
over… the position of the gaze
to delay the distance
in prospect of the point
the field extends itself
completes itself
aggregates itself
alienates itself
conformes itself
juxtaposed gaze
has the air of the
appears recent
in line with a return to feel
it has to be the air
be it
positioned
formed
by the angle
once again straight
perpendicular perspective of the distance over the line of the body
positioned between the options of the operation the text induces.
inner inclination to conduct the form to good body.
without recourse
I follow the cursor
without return
In turn
I return to be
Against
Against-being
(to be contrary)
(the straight line) (contrary)
(to the continuity of the position of the air)
the sound has an air
the text has a sound
the air of the text operates
the form of the inner sound