“In writing the boy saw

that he could be a novice

monk or beggar at the same time

The boy learned how to use the words

He saw that he could make mistakes with words

And he started making mistakes

He could change the afternoon by putting rain on it

The boy performed wonders

Even he made a stone bloom”

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Free translation of the poem “O MENINO QUE CARREGAVA ÁGUA NA PENEIRA” (1999), by MANOEL DE BARROS

To me, composing means…

… creating spaces

… shortening distances between elements that have their own history

… exploring the sensoriality of sound and visual objects

… inviting the listener to navigate and interact with a network of meanings and senses

MovieScape

October 23-25, 2019

in collaboration with NICS-Unicamp artists

9th ARTECH, Braga, Portugal

The multi-modal installation MovieScape articulates sound, image and movement with the poetic frame of Silent Cinema. It is an immersive mixed-reality environment in which the boundaries between the real and the virtual are imprecise and ambiguous.

Canção do né

ÆON virtual gallery

April 5, 2021

in collaboration with Collective Caravelas

Canção do Né is a collaborative encounter between artists from different disciplines. In a poetic text created by Pedro Marques and translated by Kevin Kraus, speech, song, sound textures and images enter into a dynamic dialogue.

The noise inside

18th SBCM, Pernambuco, Brasil

October 24, 2021

in collaboration with Mariana Cabral

The noise inside aims to portray the suffocating environment that surrounded us during the COVID-19 pandemic. The use of fabric and noise, through the textural perception of video and audio, seeks to represent a kind of imprisonment and repetition that we experience in the routine of social isolation.

Na sala de Jantar

Música estranha 8.5,

São Paulo, Brasil

April 25, 2021

in collaboration with Collective Capim Novo

Na sala de Jantar represents what we understand as noise in public space, generated by the large amount of information that circulates, which ultimately stimulates a kind of inactivity in people and thus catalyses public debate.

CLUSTER!

Without cohesion

Nycemf 2018, New York, USA

July 18, 2018

Não adianta inventar sem coesão! - It does not make sense to invent without cohesion! This is a verse from Pedro Marques' book Cena Absurdo, which inspired a series of compositions using his poems in 2016. The piece CLUSTER! Without Cohesion works with the idea of overlapping and conflicting materials from different compositions of his book.

Traum

July 25-31, 2021

ICMC 2021, Santiago, Chile

Traum (which means dream) refers to the sound sensations we have when we sleep. These sensations have a physical stimulus that mixes with and influences our dreams. The music was composed of a concrete material (the sound of a door hinge) mixed with my imagination of the sensations of the sounds we hear when we sleep.

Gestos: a tribute to Jaques Morelenbaum

Gaudeamus Festival 2023, Utrecht, Netherlands

September 10, 2022

performed by Katharina Gross

Gestos is a tribute to the Brazilian cellist Jaques Morelembaum. It is inspired by the notion of syncretism in Brazilian music, represented by the different types of musical gestures and associations in the piece.

Descontinuum I

V MusMat , Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

December 11, 2020

performed by Ariane Petri

Descontinuum I explore the phenomenon of segregation in musical texture. The central idea of the composition is to find a tension between very different musical gestures, with the aim of observing in the sonic results the extent to which they merge or separate over time.

Rarefações

XXX ANPPOM, Campina Grande, Brasil

December 10, 2020

performed by Guilherme Misina

Rarefações is a textural composition that explores the boundaries between the perception of individual sounds and sound masses, based on the rhythmic diversity and attack modes of the snare drum, as well as the use of real-time sound processing.

Artistic publications

ANTUNES, M.; MISINA, G. ; MANZOLLI, J. . Criação e Performance na Elaboração Colaborativa a Distância de Rarefações (2020). In: I Encontro Internacional De Pesquisa Em Arte, Mídias E Tecnologia, 2021, Mato Grosso. Caderno De Resumos Do I Encontro Internacional De Pesquisa Em Arte, Mídias E Tecnologia, 2021. P. 147-156. Disponível em: https://www.even3.com.br/contemidi2021/

MANZOLLI, J. ; MORONI, A. ; PARTESOTTI, E. ; HEBLING, E. ; PAIVA, C. ; DEZOTTI, C. ; SPAGNOL, G. ; ANTUNES, M; ROSSETTI, D. ; FIGUEIREDO, A. ; CIELAVIN, S. ; PEREIRA, C. ; BOTECHIA, T. . Audio-visuals in shared space as a metaphor for mindscapes: generative creation in a network performance. Proceedings of the Generative Art, Futuring Past. Roma: Domus Argenia Publisher, 2019. p. 66-76. Available on: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343236520_Audio-visuals_in_shared_space_as_a_metaphor_for_mindscapes_generative_creation_in_a_network_performance

Artistic publications

HEBLING, E. ; PARTESOTTI, E. ; PAIVA, C. ; FIGUEIREDO, A. ; DEZOTTI, C. ; BOTECHIA, T. ; PEREIRA, C. ; ANTUNES, M.;MORONI, A. ; CIELAVIN, S. ; MANZOLLI, J. . MovieScape: Audiovisual Landscapes for Silent Movie: Enactive Experience in a Multimodal Installation. In: Artech 2019, 2019, Braga. ARTECH Media Ecosystems – Proceeding of the 9th International Conference on Digital and Interactive Arts, 2019, 2019. Available on: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3359852.3359883

BONIN, G. C.; OLIVEIRA, B. R. de; LAURENT, . C.; SOUZA, C. A. V. de; TOKESHI, E.; PONDIAN, J. D. F.; DOMINGOS, K. V.; RAIMUNDO, L.; ESTEVES, L. N.; MONTANHA, L. A. E. A.; ANTUNES, M. A. da; TAKEHARA, S. O.; MELLO FILHO, S. F.; BOLOGNA, R. de F. Corpo_camadas: um relato criativo do GruMa. A Luz em Cena: Revista de Pedagogias e Poéticas Cenográficas, v. 2, n. 4, p. 1–31, 30 dez. 2022. Available on: https://periodicos.udesc.br/index.php/aluzemcena/article/view/22799

Research publications (5 more relevant)

ANTUNES, M.; DO ESPÍRITO SANTO, G.; MANZOLLI, J.; QUEIROZ.; M. A Psychoacoustic-Based Methodology for Sound Mass Music Analysis (2023). Em: ARAMAKI, M. et al. (Eds.). Music in the AI Era. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. p. 267–281. Available in: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-35382-6_21

ANTUNES, M. ; BOTECHIA, T. ; ROSSETTI, D. ; MANZOLLI, J. . Musical analysis of acousmatic music with psychoacoustic descriptors. Música Hodie, 2021 v. 21, p. 1-36, 2021. Available on: https://www.revistas.ufg.br/musica/article/view/63565

ROSSETTI, D. ; ANTUNES, M. ; MANZOLLI, J. . Compositional Procedures in Electronic Music and the Emergence of Time Continuum. Organised Sound, v. 25, p. 156-167, 2020. Available in: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/organised-sound/article/abs/compositional-procedures-in-electronic-music-and-the-emergence-of-time-continuum/27D39B349EBB7F005BB1DB94949E2A88

Research publications (5 more relevant)

ROSSETTI, D.; ANTUNES, M.; MANZOLLI, J. Musical Analysis of Sound Feature Emergences Using Acoustic and Psychoacoustic Descriptors. Revista Música Hodie, v. 22, 2022. Available on: https://revistas.ufg.br/musica/article/view/73261

ANTUNES, M.; FARIA, R. R. A. On the sensory dissonance: an incursion in the evolution of concepts, parametric models and new perspectives. Percepta - Revista De Cognição Musical, vol. 5, nº 2, p. 17-38, 2018. Available on: https://www.abcogmus.org/journals/index.php/percepta/article/view/99

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