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.

tyle 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.

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, Han Bennink, Eugene Chadbourne, Peter Kowald, Jeffrey Morgan, Evan Parker, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Cecil Taylor, Richard Teitelbaum, Iannis Xenakis, and Carlos Zíngaro.

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

Graphic Scores

elected visual artworks

Discography

* "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
* "Musique de Chambre" - IC 100, Lisbon 2002 (rec. 1986)
* "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
* "Electric Trio" - Esquilo, Porto 2006
* "Oranges" - CS 068, Lisbon 2006
* "Undecided" - CS 072, Lisbon 2006
* "Drain" - CS 075, Lisbon 2006
* "Sen" - CS 033, Lisbon 2006
* "London" - CS 080, Lisbon 2007
* "Stills" - CS 100, Lisbon 2007
* "Doppelgänger" - CS 103, Lisbon 2007
* "Refrain" - CS 097, Lisbon 2008
* ""May there be..."" - CS 134, Lisbon 2008

Compilations

*"Way Out" - AnAnAnA MMM01, Lisbon 1999
*"EMFP05" - WIRE, London 2005
*"Collection d'Univers Spontanés" - Insubordinations, Genève 2006

ee also

*List of noise musicians

External links

* [http://www.creativesourcesrec.com/artists/e_rodrigues.html Ernesto Rodrigues CS]
* [http://www.geocities.com/ic_records/ernesto_rodrigues.html Ernesto Rodrigues IC]