2019 | O Grivo | Belo Horizonte | MG | Length: 50 min.

Projection of films of the director Cao Guimarães and the Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander and simultaneous execution of original soundtrack built live with a series of musical instruments (traditional and prepared), sound objects and electronic means.

O Grivo

By the end of the year 1990, O Grivo performed its first concert in Belo Horizonte, beginning its trajectory of research in the field of “New Music”. Since then, O Grivo has been attempting to explore and expand the acoustic landscape, to discover new ways of organizing improvisations towards the
development of the group’s own musical language. Because of their constant search for “new” sounds and different possibilities of orchestration and arrangement, O Grivo works with the research of acoustic and electronic sources; with the design, development and construction of sound machines and sound mechanisms; and with unconventional uses of traditional musical instruments. This research has led the group to use and manipulate a variety of objects and materials in such a way that the importance of visual information and its organization has taken an increasingly greater role in the group’s performances. A greater care and attention to visual presentation in performance is also a result of the fact that the group has been keen to join and participate in a continuous dialogue with other art forms, such as movies, video, drama, and dance. In O Grivo’s installations/concerts, the borderline and intersection between sound and vision is the place where an experience of certain notions – such as “texture”, “spatial organization”, “overlapping”, “perspective”, “density”, “velocity”, “repetition”, “fragmentation” – is built. The core idea governing O Grivo’s work is the discussion of the relations between sound and space, and this is done through an invitation to a state of active engagement with a more contemplative and receptive listening activity – one motivated by an attitude of openness and curiosity.

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