Big Pharma Dharma (2020), Video, 45 min
The piece chosen is a raw excerpt from a live broadcast made on May 16, 2020 – two months after the beginning of the social isolation imposed by the global pandemic. In this 45-minute excerpt I am reading my chapter from the book „Desobediência Sonora“ while improvising with ORCA + Puredata + Helm + the genome of the Sars-Cov2 virus as „score“. In this chapter I argue about the practice of computer programming (especially with artistic applications in mind) as a type of musical rehearsal or even compositional routine. Contrary to the defense of a conceptual novelty or some supernatural authorial inspiration, I would not like to support as a concept for this piece any kind of invention or melancholy, but on the contrary, a daily practice of breathing and sharing a very simple moment, but that gave me breath and inspiration to go on these strange days. I hope that from this piece could come infinite others, and the cure for this complicated moment.
Excerpt from „Sonic Desobedience“
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