Savage Songs - Electronic Works from 1961-1970

Jorge Antunes (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Jorge Antunes
• Audio CD (January 31, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Pogus/Stickfigure
• ASIN: B00008IMB0
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #294,136 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Pequena Peça para Mi bequadro e Harmônicos (Short Piece for E Natural and Harmonics)

2. Valsa Sideral (Sideral Waltz)

3. Música para Varreduras de Freqüências (Music for Frequency Sweepings)

4. Fluxo Luminoso para Sons Brancos I (Luminous Flow for White Sounds I)

5. Contrapunctus contra Contrapunctus (Contrapunctus versus Contrapunctus)

6. Três Estudos Cromofônicos - Study for Green and Red Circles

7. Três Estudos Cromofônicos - Study for Blue and Orange Spirals

8. Três Estudos Cromofônicos - Study for Yellow and Violet Points

9. Canto Selvagem (Savage Song)

10. Movimento Browniano (Brownian Movement)

11. Canto do Pedreiro (Mason's Song)

12. Cinta Cita

13. Auto-Retrato sobre Paisaje Porteño

14. Historia de um Pueblo por Nacer or Carta Abierta a Vassili Vasilikos y a todos los Pesimistas

Editorial Reviews

The works on this cd are: Pequena Peça para Mi bequadro e Harmônicos (1961); Valsa Sideral (1962); Música para Varreduras de Freqüências (1963); Fluxo Luminoso para Sons Brancos I (1964); Contrapunctus contra Contrapunctus (1965); Três Estudos Cromofônicos (1966); Canto Selvagem (1967); Movimento Browniano (1968); Canto do Pedreiro (1968); Cinta Cita (1969); Auto-Retrato sobre Paisaje Porteño (1969/1970); Historia de um Pueblo por Nacer or Carta Abierta a Vassili Vasilikos y a todos los Pesimistas (1970).

Jorge Antunes (b. 1942, Rio de Janeiro) studied violin, composition and conducting at the University of Rio de Janeiro, as well as studying physics at the same institution. He further studied composition with Alberto Ginastera and Luis de Pablo. From 1970-71 he attended the University of Utrecht (Gotfried M. Koenig). From 1972-73 he worked with Groupe de Recherches Musicales in Paris. In 1962 he began his research in electronic music thus becoming a pioneer in the development of this field in Brazil. He is the director of the Electronic Music Laboratory and the conductor of Orquestra da Universidade de Brasilia.