"Partita 3" for solo cello: performance process after notes on energy flow

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36025/arj.v6i2.17690

Keywords:

Collaborative creation, Creative practice, Musical performance, Musical composition, Contemporary music

Abstract

The article presents the process of constructing the performance of a piece of music to be premiered after the dialogues between the composer and the performer, from the most prosaic to the most elaborated conceptually. The main issue to be explored is the concept of 'energy flow', which permeates the whole discussion. The concept is conceptualized by the French philosopher Gilbert Simondon and achieves applicability as a mediation between the compositional act and the interpretative act, functioning as a framework that fades from linguistic referentiality or quasi-romantic subjectivism. In this way, it intends to present the concept in operation, besides presenting an anatomy of the piece itself, that crosses the compositional thinking and the thinking involved in its performance, offering a deeply collaborative analytical approach.

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Author Biographies

Silvio Ferraz, Universidade de São Paulo

Silvio Ferraz Mello Filho is composer and professor of Musical Composition at the São Paulo University. PhD in Semiotics by the Catholic University of São Paulo, he has participated in the seminars of Brian Ferneyhough at the Royaumont Foundation in Paris, and under Gerard Grisey and Jonathan Harvey at IRCAM. His compositions have been performed throughout Europe and in United States at the Sonido das Americas Festival, at the Carnegie Hall. He is a CNPq Research Fellow and has published four books, beyond chapters and articles. Currently, he researches processes of writing with extended techniques and technological processing.

William Teixeira, Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso do Sul

William Teixeira da Silva is a cellist and professor of Performance Studies at the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, in Brazil. He holds a BA in Cello Performance by the São Paulo State University, MA in Music by Campinas University and PhD in Music by São Paulo University. As a cellist he is mostly dedicated to the performance of Contemporary Music, and has premiered dozens of pieces of several generations of Brazilian composers, including appearences as soloist with the Campinas University Orchestra and the São Paulo University Chamber Orchestra. As a researcher he has published several articles and chapters and read papers in conferences in United States, United Kingdom and Portugal about his research on philosophical aspects of musical performance, particularly in its link with Rhetoric.

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Published

08-12-2019

How to Cite

FERRAZ, S.; TEIXEIRA, W. "Partita 3" for solo cello: performance process after notes on energy flow. Art Research Journal: Revista de Pesquisa em Artes, [S. l.], v. 6, n. 2, 2019. DOI: 10.36025/arj.v6i2.17690. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufrn.br/artresearchjournal/article/view/17690. Acesso em: 5 jul. 2024.