Virtual Notations - Softcover

Pimenta, Emanuel Dimas De Melo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1456416561 ISBN 13: 9781456416560

Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2010

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Virtual Notations presents almost two hundred virtual graphic music scores created by the composer Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta since 1980. With a revolutionary design, Pimenta's works follow a tradition in music notation that has John Cage, Earle Brown or Tohru Takemitsu as references. The music scores of Emanuel Pimenta are included in some important museums and contemporary art institutions around the world.

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Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta has been considered an important musician, architect, writer, photographer and intermedia artist in the beginning of the third millennium - according to statements written by personalities like John Cage, Ornette Coleman, Merce Cunningham, René Berger, Daniel Charles, Dove Bradshaw, Phill Niblock or William Anastasi among others. With several international prizes, more than thirty published books, many electronic books and twenty audio compact discs, his works are included in some of the most important art collections and world-wide recognized institutions like the Whitney Museum of New York, the ARS AEVI Contemporary Art Museum, the Biennale of Venice, the Computer Art Museum of Seattle, the Kunsthaus of Zurich, the Durini Contemporary Art Collection, the Bibliotèque Nationale of Paris and the MART - Modern Art Museum of Rovereto and Trento among others. His works are also included in the Universalis Encyclopedia (Britannica) since 1991, in the Sloninsky Baker’s Music Dictionary (Berkeley), the Charles Hall’s Chronology of the Western Classical Music, as well as in the All Music Guide - The Expert’s Guide to the Best Cds. Legendary musicians like John Cage, David Tudor, Takehisa Kosugi, John Tilbury, Christian Wolff, Maurizio Barbetti, Audrey Riley and the Manhattan Quartet among others have performed his compositions. He collaborated with John Cage, as commissioned composer for Merce Cunningham, from 1985 until his disappearance in 1992. He remained composer for Merce Cunningham along more than twenty years, until Merce Cunningham’s death in 2009. He is also founder and director of the Arts, Sciences and Technology Foundation - Observatory, in Trancoso, Portugal (www.asa-art.com/facto.html). He is co-founder and director of the HOLOTOPIA Academy, in the Amalfi Coast, Italy (www.asa-art.com/holotopiaacademy.html). Emanuel Pimenta lives in Locarno, Switzerland - but he is also based in New York and Lisbon. His site is www.emanuelpimenta.net

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• Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1456416561
• ISBN 13: 9781456416560
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 440
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