Permute by [Des]integração

recorded 2002 at the center of modern art (cam/gulbenkian foundation, lisbon)

artists:
live mix by Carlos Zíngaro
edited and produced by Paulo Raposo for Sirr

Reviews:

The sweepingly evolving portuguese experimental music scene has already granted to us a lot of interesting projects, [des]Integração is the recent one. As we used to say and see, it's a supergroup, i.e. consists of famous musicians: Carlos Santos and Paulo Raposo are musicians of the band Vitriol and founders of Sirr.ecords, Miguel Carvalhais is designer and done some records for various portuguese labels, other musicians are Nuno Moita, Joao Pinta, Pedro Lourenco and Carlos Zingaro. Quite elegant and accurate piece of soundplay in three parts is there, with total time about half-hour. It's much like a romantic fantasy takeoff from the digi-minimalism age, but in fact the musical profile of the band is uncertain. Each conceptual unit as it is, it may have only a general purpose which speaks for band approach and is clearly declared in the band name. Disintegration means disassembling every solid matter, crushing to pieces, to construct something new from these loose particles. It isn't the interpretation of music, it's re-interpretation of sound. In the case of current album, this is the sound from Carlos Zingaro's recent recording, "Cage of sand". Endlessly changed and permutated snapshots can be only recognized by those who has listened to the original source. For the rest of audience, this is just a calm and quiet mix of lowercase sounds without deployment. No such obvious sound organization as harmony and rhythm are present, but the slightly evolving timbres of abstract and disconnected snippets, coming from nowhere and blurred away for a while, when a bleak and colourless wallpaper turn to silence. A beautiful abstraction, an example of sound design as single object of art, elusive emotional nothingness, which isn't accessible for any rational thoughts. (ДВ)

Paulo Raposo is a sound artist, curator and publisher. He started working on the early nineties in the medium of live electronics and computer sound, performing, recording and exhibiting works in Europe, Middle East and United States. Founded the label Sirr in 2001.

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