Ernesto Rodrigues

Ernesto Rodrigues (born in Lisbon, August 29, 1959) is a Portuguese composer, violinist, violist and electronic musician. Rodrigues has been playing the violin for 30 years and in that time has played all genres of music ranging from contemporary music to free jazz and free improvisation, in the studio and live around the world. He created the record label Creative Sources Recordings in 1999, which mainly concentrates on releasing experimental and electro-acoustic music. He is also known as a painter. File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... District or region Lisbon Mayor   - Party Carmona Rodrigues PSD Area 84. ... August 29 is the 241st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (242nd in leap years), with 124 days remaining. ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A composer is a person who writes music. ... A violinist is an instrumentalist who plays the violin. ... Violist is a term sometimes used for a musician who plays the viola. ... Electronic music is a term for music created using electronic devices. ... In the broadest sense, contemporary music is any music being written in the present day. ... Free jazz is a movement of jazz music characterized by diminished dependence on formal constraints. ... Free improvisation or free music is improvised music without any rules beyond the taste of the musicians involved, and not in any particular style. ... Creative Sources Recordings is a dynamic record label founded by Ernesto Rodrigues in 1999 and based in Lisbon, Portugal. ... Painting by Rembrandt self-portrait Detail from Las Meninas by Diego Velazquez, in which the painter portrayed himself at work For the computer graphics program, see Corel Painter. ...

Style and influences

As a violinist/violist his interests include contemporary improvised and composed music, as well as the avant-garde techniques of indeterminate, stochastic, aleatoric, minimalistic music and musique concrète. He has worked with the graphic scores of Gerhard Stäbler and studied with contemporary composers Paulo Brandão, Eurico Carrapatoso, Emmanuel Nunes, and Pedro M. Rocha. Electronic music was an early influence. He experiments with the sonic and textural elements of his instruments, often using extended techniques and going beyond the traditional romantic sound of the violin and viola through the use of preparations and micro-tuning. A work similar to Marcel Duchamps Fountain Avant garde (written avant-garde) is a French phrase, one of many French phrases used by English speakers. ... Indeterminate music was a form of music pioneered by the late John Cage. ... Stochastic, from the Greek stochos or goal, means of, relating to, or characterized by conjecture; conjectural; random. ... Aleatoric (or aleatory) music or composition, is music where some element of the composition is left to chance. ... Minimal music is sometimes applied to classical music of the last 45 years which displays some or all of the following features: emphasis on consonant harmony, if not functional tonality; reiteration of musical phrases, with subtle, gradual, and/or infrequent variation over long periods of time, possibly limited to simple... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Tape music. ... Electronic music is a term for music created using electronic devices. ... Extended technique is a term used to describe unconventional, unorthodox or improper techniques of playing musical instruments or singing. ... A violin The violin is a bowed stringed musical instrument that has four strings tuned a perfect fifth apart. ... A viola The viola (in French, alto; in German bratsche) is a stringed musical instrument played with a bow which serves as the middle voice of the violin family, between the upper lines played by the higher violin (soprano register) and the lower lines played by the deeper cello (bass...

Collaborations

Active in different settings on the Portuguese scene for free improvised music, both as a collaborator and in leading his own groups including many important and creative musicians such as Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Phill Niblock, Guilherme Rodrigues, Carlos Zíngaro,Han Bennink, Eugene Chadbourne, Peter Kowald, Jeffrey Morgan, Evan Parker, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Cecil Taylor, Richard Teitelbaum, Iannis Xenakis, and Carlos Zíngaro. Lawrence Ferlinghetti Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born March 24, 1919) is a poet who is best known as the co-owner of the City Lights Bookstore and publishing house, which published early literary works of the Beat Generation, including Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. ... Phill Niblock (born Oct 2, 1933, in Anderson, Indiana) is a minimalist composer, videographer, and director of Experimental Intermedia, a foundation for avant-garde music based in New York. ... Guilherme Rodrigues Guilherme Rodrigues (b. ... Carlos Zingaro (or Carlos Zingaro Alves, b. ... Han Bennink (born April 17, 1942) is a Dutch jazz drummer and percussionist. ... Eugene Chadbourne (4 January 1954 in Mount Vernon, NY) is a USA composer, improvisor, guitarist and banjoist. ... Peter Kowald (born April 21, 1944, died September 21, 2002) was a German free jazz musician. ... Evan Parker (born 5 April 1944) is a British free-improvising saxophone player. ... Karlheinz Stockhausen (born August 22, 1928) is a composer. ... Cecil Percival Taylor (born in New York City March 15, 1930) is an American pianist and poet now generally acknowledged to be one of the great innovative sources of free jazz (along with the better known Ornette Coleman). ... Richard Teitelbaum (May 19, 1939 in New York, NY) is a composer, keyboardist, and improvisor. ... Iannis Xenakis Iannis Xenakis (Ιάννης Ξενάκης) (May 29, 1922 Brăila – February 4, 2001 Paris) was a Greek composer and architect who spent much of his life in Paris. ... Carlos Zingaro (or Carlos Zingaro Alves, b. ...

He has also created music for films, dance, performance, and video. Has also worked with contemporary dancers like Mário Calixto, Manuela Cipriano, and Ana Galan.

Graphic Scores

"#[Fromage Digital] I - for violin, electronics and percussion - 1997" Image File history File linksMetadata Fd1. ...

"#[Fromage Digital] II - for violin, electronics and percussion - 1997" Image File history File linksMetadata Fd2. ...

Selected visual artworks

"s/t" Summer 1981. Mixed media on paper 41"X29" Image File history File linksMetadata 1pc. ...	"s/t" Summer 1991. Mixed media on paper 35"X49" Image File history File linksMetadata 2pc. ...	"s/t" Summer 2002. Mixed media on canvas 30"X40" Image File history File linksMetadata 5pc. ...	""s/t" Autumn 2002. Oil on canvas 22"X33" Image File history File linksMetadata 3pc. ...
"'"s/t" Spring 2003. Mixed media on canvas 12"X18" Image File history File linksMetadata 4pc. ...

Discography

• Musique de Chambre - IC 100, Lisbon 1986/2002
• Movement Sounds - Leo Lab 032, London 1997
• Self Eater and Drinker - audEo 0399, Porto 1999
• Multiples - CS 001, Lisbon 2001
• Sudden Music - CS 002, Lisbon 2002
• 23 Exposures - CS 003, Lisbon 2002
• Ficta - CS 005, Lisbon 2002
• Assemblage - CS 007, Lisbon 2002
• Cesura - CS 008, Lisbon 2003
• Contre-Plongée - CS 011, Lisbon 2004
• Dorsal - CS 012, Lisbon 2004
• Kreis - CS 020, Lisbon 2005
• Prisma - ST4001, USA 2005
• Diafon - CS 041, Lisbon 2005
• Nostalgia - CTRL 25, Italy 2006
• Sable - CNV28, Spain 2006
• Kinetics - CS 043, Lisbon 2006

Compilations

• Way Out - AnAnAnA MMM01, Lisbon 1999
• EMFP05 - WIRE, London 2005

See also

• List of noise musicians

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External links

• Ernesto Rodrigues CS
• Ernesto Rodrigues IC