Studioforum

Woche 10 - 13 / 5.3. - 1.4.07

Miguel Azguime

1. O Centro do Excentrico do Contro do Mundo / 2000-2002 / 33:16
for 16 solo voices, 2 speakers and live-electronics

2. Yuay Zhi Yuan / 1997-98 / 30:40
for soprano, tenor, 6 traditional Chinese instruments, chamber choir and live-electronics

3. Deposer La foret / 1990 / 7:21
for flute, cymbals, bells, gongs, crotales, live electronics

4. Agua ou mare-nome de pedra / 1991/ 20:22
for piccolo, flute, bass flute, percussion, water, mill stones, magnetic tape, live electronics

5. Constelacoes / 1989 /10:55
for flute, xylomarimba

Distinguished for his work's originality and diversity; his musical world reflects an approach that relies on the multifaceted of his capabilities as a composer, as a percussionist, as an improviser and as a poet. He founded Miso Ensemble in 1985, a flute and percussion duo recognised by the public and by the critics as one of the most important Portuguese contemporary music groups. Besides giving numerous concerts in Portugal, the Miso Ensemble has been presented regularly abroad. Miguel Azguime has obtained various awards for composition and performance, has composed for diverse formations, instrumental and/or vocal with and without electronics, electroacoustic music, sound poetry, including music for exhibitions, sound installations, theatre, dance and cinema. He has received commissions from several national and international prestigious institutions. Azguime's music has been performed by renowned soloists, ensembles and conductors, being regularly presented at majors festivals of contemporary and electroacoustic music. Besides his activity as a composer, poet and percussionist, he remains actively dedicated to the promotion and diffusion of contemporary music, as artistic director of the independent label Miso Records and of the Mœsica Viva International Festival. Also for 10 years Miguel Azguime has been the producer of the radio broadcast "Mœsica Hoje" devoted to contemporary music at the Portuguese National Radio - RDP- Antena2. He has developed since 1995 the first Portuguese Loudspeaker Orchestra and as a researcher he has been working in the development of real time computer music, giving lectures and courses on this field. In 2003 he started, together with Paula Azguime, the Portuguese New Music Information Center. In that same year, Miguel Azguime was awarded the 2003 EMS composition prize. He lives and works in Lissabon and Berlin.

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