INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC: ENSEMBLE
Otherness
for amplified flute / bass flute, clarinet / bass clarinet, violin, viola, violoncello, piano and percussion
2014
2014
Performance: Talea Ensemble, at Paine Hall, Harvard University, 2014
A few words about Otherness:
Moving to a foreign country forced me to deal with the idea that I am “the other”: I am a non-citizen, an alien, “the international student”, “the Brazilian girl”, “the female composer from Brazil”. It was strange to see my whole identity become so intensely bound to the country in which I was born.
Some thoughts about being uprooted, culturally inadequate, socially disempowered and artistically overlooked set the tone of Otherness. In this piece I worked with materials that were radically different and tried to manipulate them to find points of similarity, either via physical gesture, timbre, melodic shape and/or rhythmic patterns. The idea of being in someone else shoes, as a way of understanding different perspectives and later on being able to incorporate and/or transform these perspectives, colored the way I treated the instruments in this piece, as well as some decisions about form.
Moving to a foreign country forced me to deal with the idea that I am “the other”: I am a non-citizen, an alien, “the international student”, “the Brazilian girl”, “the female composer from Brazil”. It was strange to see my whole identity become so intensely bound to the country in which I was born.
Some thoughts about being uprooted, culturally inadequate, socially disempowered and artistically overlooked set the tone of Otherness. In this piece I worked with materials that were radically different and tried to manipulate them to find points of similarity, either via physical gesture, timbre, melodic shape and/or rhythmic patterns. The idea of being in someone else shoes, as a way of understanding different perspectives and later on being able to incorporate and/or transform these perspectives, colored the way I treated the instruments in this piece, as well as some decisions about form.
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Recording: live performance of the premiere, at the Harvard Summer Festival, in 2014. Performed by Talea Ensemble.