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Um em um

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Alfredo Costa Monteiro. accordion and objects

Recorded at Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, on 16th November 2014 by Jarek Bodo Bajdowski.
Thanks José Carlos Costa Dias and Andrzej Zaleski.

This CD has been released thanks to Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua.

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Um em um assembles different techniques I've been working with for many years, giving them a status of material for improvisation and composition. The piece is deliberately contained, linear and constructed by layers, with the aim to give the possibility to the listener to converge on each of its parts, with a sense of the detail; the microphones have been placed in a way to enhance the harmonics and all the particularities of every sound.
Coming after my last accordion solo Cinq bruissements (no fun productions, 2010), where the microphones were almost inside the instrument, um em um would be like a step backwards in terms of visualisation and appreciation of my musical direction, but not in terms of audacity (there's more to come...); I needed a less crude approach, a kind of reformation, if not a clarification of what I've been setting up for more than 15 years.
Um em um, translated by “one in one”, expresses the way how an idea (material in time) can fit in another idea (structure in space), with a mutual and constant feedback.

A.C.M.
Barcelona january 2014

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from Um em um, released September 22, 2021

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Alfredo Costa Monteiro Barcelona, Spain

Alfredo Costa Monteiro is a sound artist, composer, multiinstrumentalist and sound poet who works in the field of experimental music. His work is regulated by conceptual restrictions and a special care of textures.
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