das linhas revoltas das mãos

Guitar and electronics

✉️ If you wish to perform the piece, please get the score here or contact me

Duration: ≈ 2 minutes

Premiered at “Reencontros de Música Contemporânea 2021“

Year: 2020

If Robert Bresson saw the expressive potential of hands, if Michelangelo felt the promise of touch as an unimaginable harbinger, if the poet I quote in the title is concerned with this part of the body, why shouldn’t we musicians rethink the actions we perform through them and that come into contact with a particular object? The sound-generating friction of the skin is the object of study at the beginning of this work, which dialogues with the use of bone and keratin and a more traditional production of the instrument through microtonal chords. The electronic part always remains with manual exploration as its main structure, with occasional foreign elements and a chaotic element that coincides with a numerical repetition in the series of twin cousins on which the work is based. I hope that young musicians will become familiar with the language of our time and adopt a new vision of their instrument: not only as a reproducer of notes, but as an inexhaustible source of timbres. I also hope that they understand that musical pleasure does not come only from sounds of defined pitch but also from sounds of undefined pitch. May their sensitivity to the beauty of sound grow within them.