[CANCELED/STREAMING] Miguel Azguime: “New Op-Era” examples and their technological creation network
Date:
Thu, 03/05/2020 - 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage
Event Type:
Guest Lecture 
In the last 15 years I have created several stage works involving a network of technological means as well as a network of artistic disciplines. I call this type of work New Op-Era, indeed born from the current electronic culture and being the expression of hybrid intertextuality. I’ll take as examples my works “Salt Itinerary” (2006) and “A Laugh to Cry” (2013) where we’ll find within the creative process a network of multiple “inputs” and “outputs”, and where representation and operability are integrated in a new kind of creative transversality of textuality.
— Miguel Azguime
Miguel Azguime was born in 1960 in Lisbon. Distinguished for originality and diversity, his musical world reflects an approach that relies on his multifaceted capabilities as composer, performer and poet. This threefold activity closely reflects an almost mystical vision of music and art.
Miguel Azguime studied at the Academia de Amadores de Música (1966-76), while also attending the Lisbon Conservatory. From 1975 to 1982 he studied percussion with Catarina Latino and Júlio Campos and founded various groups performing jazz and improvised music. In 1984 he went to Darmstadt, where he studied percussion with James Wood and composition with Horatiu Radulescu, Brian Ferneyhough and Clarence Barlow. He also attended seminars with Emmanuel Nunes, Cristóbal Halffter and Tristan Murail. Between 1985 and 1986 he studied percussion with Gaston Sylvestre in Paris and Nice.
In 1985, together with Paula Azguime, he founded the Miso Ensemble, a duo recognized by the public and by critics alike, as one of the most important Portuguese contemporary music ensembles. Besides giving numerous concerts in Portugal, the Miso Ensemble has been regularly performing abroad, with several hundred of concerts given up until now.
Miguel Azguime has composed music for diverse formations – instrumental and/or vocal with or without electronics, tape music, sound poetry, and also music for exhibitions, sound installations, electroacoustic theatre, dance and cinema. His compositional style enrols in a language of structural rigor, on the one hand, and formal liberty, on the other. “Mosaic” and “radiant” expressivity obtained by timbric richness as well as clarity in the development of ideas are assumed, in his music, as constant and unifying factors.
Miguel Azguime’s works have been performed by renowned soloists, ensembles ( Ensemble Recherche, Norrbotten NEO, Ensemble Ensemble Musikfabrik, Remix Ensemble, BBC Singers, Quarteto de Matosinhos, Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble, Smith Quartet, California EAR Unit, etc.), and conductors ( Laurent Cuniot, Petter Sundkvist, Franck Ollu, Guillaume Bourgogne, Renato Rivolta, Johannes Kalitzke, Pedro Neves, Pedro Carneiro, Pedro Amaral) and presented at major festivals of contemporary music around the world (Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, MaerzMusik, Warsaw Autumn Festival, Nordic Music Days and Festival Synthèse, among others). The composer also regularly receives commissions from Portuguese and international music institutions.
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