Contemporary Music and
Prehistory at Second Life
XUACSAL - the new concert by Emanuel Pimenta
SECOND LIFE. The world premiere of XUACSAL, a contemporary classical music concert by the composer Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta, will happen at the Second Life next May 23 2010. The performers will be the composer himself, playing digital systems, and the Italian classical guitarist Francesco Cuoghi - both will perform in real time. The designer David Lucas Desiderio specially created the virtual space for the concert. XUACSAL is a composition based on the paintings of prehistoric caves of Lascaux, France. Since the late 1970s, Emanuel Pimenta has developed a technique of composition with notation created inside virtual environments. Through such technique, fragments of those prehistoric paintings, dating from about fifteen thousand years ago, are transformed into three-dimensional elements in computers. These elements basically determine the performance of the sounds by the musicians. Emanuel Pimenta was composer for Merce Cunningham, collaborating with John Cage, for about twenty-five years in New York City. Francesco Cuoghi is professor at the Conservatory of Florence, Italy, and studied at the IRCAM in Paris. David Lucas Desiderio lives in Brazil, Sao Paulo, and completed his MA thesis with a revolutionary virtual space inside Second Life. The sound production is made in Rio de Janeiro by Pablo Valença, also known as PV Slade, founder of the Xtream Hotspot Streams. Emanuel Pimenta lives in Locarno, Switzerland; Francesco Cuoghi, in Rome, Italy; David Lucas Desiderio in Bauru, a city near Sao Paulo, Brazil; and Pablo Valença in Rio de Janeiro. None of them know personally each other. They will perform standing in different parts of the planet. So the concert on May 23 will happen at 16:00 in New York, 17:00 in Brazil, 21:00 in London, and 22:00 in Paris. The concert is associated and has the support of PIPOL Online Integrated Research Projects of the State University of São Paulo - Baurú. The entrance to the concert is free. However it is necessary that the person first sign up in Second Life, which is also a simple and free procedure. It is advised that people who are not already in Second Life make their registration and login in the Second Life about one hour before the concert. The concert lasts thirty-eight minutes. The access to the site of the concert as well as biographies of participants, a short film about the score and several other information are at http://www.emanuelpimenta.net/xuacsal.html
For more information:
http://www.emanuelpimenta.net/xuacsal.html
directly with the composer:
www.emanuelpimenta.net
email: a/c. Luciana Freire - luciana@emanuelpimenta.net
tel: +41 91 7913911
Francesco Cuoghi
email: f.cuoghi@libero.it
David Lucas Desidério
email: dave_luke@hotmail.com
Pablo Valença
e-mail: xtreamhotspot@gmail.com
Skype: pvalenca_slade
phone: +55 21 99613002