Tanto Mar

André L. Martins, and Paulo Assis Barbosa

Music Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

• Year: 2019
• Location: Porto Alegre, Brazil
• Pages: 50–51
• PDF link

Abstract:

"Tanto Mar" seeks to recreate the properties present in history between Portugal and Brazil, embracing the idea of an aqueous sound that dances and moves as much by cadence as by voluminous waves. The Atlantic Ocean, which separates and unites the two countries, serves as an inspiration for this quadraphonic performance, involving musical instruments and live electronics, where the sounds move through the four speakers. Each speaker symbolizes the paths that the sea travels uninterruptedly, in a unique dance of latitudes and longitudes. The intersection of sounds occurs through processes of reverberations, spatializations, echoes, modulations and grains that slowly form the sound material, composing, decomposing and manipulating the sound waves. Sound characters such as wind, oars, storms, calm, among others, are metaphorically evidenced through the sound material, creating a kind of rhythmic movement of a caravel at sea. The sounds of "Tanto Mar" move between entropy and chaos, between stillness and tsunami, between starboard and port, culminating in a textural dance where the objective is to take the listener away from electronic processing, and propose a dive in an intensified, attentive, deep and involving listening. New musical possibilities can happen through the experimentation of new routes, unusual routes and horizons not yet covered. The sea and its imprecise distances represent permanent challenges. "Tanto Mar" seeks to revive the feeling of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa, when he wrote: "to dream even if it is impossible".

Citation:

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{nime19-music-Martins,
 abstract = {"Tanto Mar" seeks to recreate the properties present in history between Portugal and Brazil, embracing the idea of an aqueous sound that dances and moves as much by cadence as by voluminous waves. The Atlantic Ocean, which separates and unites the two countries, serves as an inspiration for this quadraphonic performance, involving musical instruments and live electronics, where the sounds move through the four speakers. Each speaker symbolizes the paths that the sea travels uninterruptedly, in a unique dance of latitudes and longitudes. The intersection of sounds occurs through processes of reverberations, spatializations, echoes, modulations and grains that slowly form the sound material, composing, decomposing and manipulating the sound waves. Sound characters such as wind, oars, storms, calm, among others, are metaphorically evidenced through the sound material, creating a kind of rhythmic movement of a caravel at sea. The sounds of "Tanto Mar" move between entropy and chaos, between stillness and tsunami, between starboard and port, culminating in a textural dance where the objective is to take the listener away from electronic processing, and propose a dive in an intensified, attentive, deep and involving listening. New musical possibilities can happen through the experimentation of new routes, unusual routes and horizons not yet covered. The sea and its imprecise distances represent permanent challenges. "Tanto Mar" seeks to revive the feeling of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa, when he wrote: "to dream even if it is impossible".},
 address = {Porto Alegre, Brazil},
 author = {André L. Martins and Paulo Assis Barbosa},
 booktitle = {Music Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 editor = {Federico Visi},
 month = {June},
 pages = {50--51},
 publisher = {UFRGS},
 title = {Tanto Mar},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2019/nime2019_music013.pdf},
 year = {2019}
}