K l i n g K l a n g

O t a c í l i o M e l g a ç o

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The artist Otacílio Melgaço has two official curators in the virtual world. A curator (from Latin: ´curare´, meaning ´to take care´) is a manager or overseer. Traditionally, keeper of a cultural heritage institution (e.g., gallery, museum, library or, as the present case: sound archive) is a content specialist charged with an institution's collections and, highlighting the context in force here, involved with the interpretation of personal (heritage) material. Both, Mr. Paz and Mr. Campbell, are, therefore, reviewers of the Melgacian works. To learn more about their missions, tasks, assignments and responsibilities by means of valuable informations regarding the compositional process, the performative rhizomes and other special features, just click the following link: otaciliomelgaco.wixsite.com/preamblebypsp
(O.M.Team; P r e l u d e)

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"O.M. and his welcoming annunciations.

´Kling Klang´ (German term), an onomatopœia. ´Ding dong´ (in English). The sound made by a doorbell. A doorbell is a signaling device typically placed near an entry door to a building. When a visitor presses a button the bell rings inside the building, alerting the occupant to the presence of the visitor. Although the first doorbells were mechanical, activated by pulling a cord, modern doorbells are electric — they are actuated by an electric switch.

O.M. and his electrified metaphors.

Electronica is an umbrella term that encompasses a broad group of electronic-based styles such as techno, house, ambient, drum and bass, jungle, industrial dance, among others. It has been used to describe the rise of electronic music styles intended not just for dancing but also concentrated listening.

O.M. and his ambient, cerebral, technological, collectivist or/and esoteric odyssey.

There´s no doubt that the Melgacian lens brings the full range of possibilities of contemporary music. What I mean by that? The Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist explores any styles and languages with complete freedom and unlimited apparatus: robust in boldness, sophistication, iconoclasm and ability to go beyond borders, paradigms or conventions. Thus, any depuration and innovation will actually encompass an endless vocabulary and syntax. Elements originally of mass culture and entertainment (and I quote such terminologies purposely when for the sake of mere innocuous distractions, existential anesthesia and even chronic lobotomies) can, therefore in a more complex and evolutionary sense, turn into ´haute culture´ if properly designed and developed. The concentrated listening will enable a magnificent act of delight and extraordinary perceptions (sensory, aesthetic, intellectual, etc.) as well as the dance itself (which is also possible here) will reveal (if the listener allow yourself) intuitive and contrapuntal ´choreography´ - quite different from pasteurized movements as if they were coming from zombies in a hedonistic and ephemeral rite.

O.M. and his artistical transubstantiation.

Let us deal with rites of passage in their real depths, ontological consequences and marrowy ascensions: on behalf of extreme inventiveness, magnetizing atmospheres, captivating rhythmicities, mesmerizing effects, advanced sound architectures, plural interfaces, fruitful connotativity and symbolicity, charisma, libido, ... I state categorically that ´KlingKlang´ is a sparkling startling shocking Electronica Masterpiece." (Pablo S. Paz; Argentinean musicologist)

"A providential glossary:

0 - Kling Klang (also spelled as Klingklang) is the private music studio of the band Kraftwerk. The name is taken from the first song on the Kraftwerk 2 album. The studio was originally located at Mintropstrasse 16 in Düsseldorf, Germany, but in mid-2009 moved to Meerbusch-Osterath, around 10 kilometers west of Düsseldorf;

1 - Wu wei (traditional Chinese: 無爲; simplified Chinese: 无为; pinyin: wú wéi; a variant and derivatives: Japanese: 無為; Korean: 無爲(무위); Vietnamese: Vô vi; English, lit. non-doing) is an important concept in Taoism that literally means non-action or non-doing. In the Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu explains that beings (or phenomena) that are wholly in harmony with the Tao behave in a completely natural, uncontrived way. The goal of spiritual practice for the human being is, according to Lao Tzu, the attainment of this purely natural way of behaving, as when the planets revolve around the sun. The planets effortlessly do this revolving without any sort of control, force, or attempt to revolve themselves, instead engaging in effortless and spontaneous movement;

2 - The KitKatClub is a nightclub in Berlin, opened in March 1994 by Austrian pornographic film maker Simon Thaur and his life partner Kirsten Krüger. The name KitKatClub is inspired by the frivolous Berliner nightclub featured in the American musical Cabaret. Harold Prince’s Cabaret was set in Berlin in the early 1930s, against the backdrop of the uprising of the Nazi party, at a burlesque theater called the ´Kit Kat Club´. The name originated from the Kit-Cat Club, an 18th-century English liberal political society;

3 - XXX; various contexts, but especially:

- a type of X rating applied to some pornographic films;
- an indication of urgency in radio communication, less urgent than SOS;
- a comment to warn other programmers of problematic or misleading code;
- the code for ´no currency´ in ISO 4217;
- the code for ´unspecified nationality´ on a machine-readable passport;
- three kisses at the end of a letter, text, email or other textual communication;
- a symbol of the straight edge lifestyle;
- a reference to Amsterdam, after the three crosses on the Coat of arms of Amsterdam;
- a flavor of Vitamin Water;
- triplex (espionage) was a code name of a British World War II espionage operation;

4 - Frou-Frou (or Fru Fru) means a rustling sound, as of silk fabric. Plus: elegant; frilly; ornamental; fancy; elaborate, particularly as regards clothing.

A mustache with curly ends too. And quite Dalinian - culminating, in its surreality, all parallels with the present paranoiac-critical discographic album exuberantly given birth by an electrifying
Mr. Melgaço." (Caio Campbell; Anglo-Brazilian semiologist and musician)

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I - Kling Klang began as a studio in 1970; the band marked this as the real beginning of Kraftwerk. The studio began as an empty room in a workshop premises located in an industrial part of Düsseldorf. The building exterior was clad in yellow tiles with a large electric shuttered doorway leading to an enclosed courtyard. On the right was a loading stage used by an electrical installation company that used the upper floor. The studio was accessed through a small anteroom. The main studio room was fitted with sound insulation and measured about sixty square feet. Later on other adjoining rooms were used for things like making instruments such as home made oscillators. The basement of the studio was used to store old instruments and machines. The band never threw anything away, and subsequently used the older equipment to recreate sounds.

A key addendum: Otacílio Melgaço already has an album dedicated to the German electronic music band formed by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider,

melgacootacilio.bandcamp.com/album/psicastenia-legend-ria-otac-lio-melga-o-duration-53-05

´Psicastenia Legendária´;

II - Wu may be translated as not have or without; Wei may be translated as do, act, serve as, govern or effort. The literal meaning of wu wei is "without action", "without effort", or "without control", and is often included in the paradox wei wu wei: "action without action" or "effortless doing". There is another less commonly referenced sense of wu wei; "action that does not involve struggle or excessive effort". In this instance, wu means "without" and Wei means "effort". The concept of "effortless action" is a part of Taoist Internal martial arts such as T'ai chi ch'uan, Baguazhang and Xing Yi. It follows that wu wei complies with the distinguishing feature of Taoism, that of being natural.

In Zen Calligraphy, wu wei has been represented as an ensō (circle);

III - Kit Kat; other interesting references:

- a popular nightclub in London in the 1920s, in the basement of the former Odeon Haymarket movie theatre;
- an avant-garde New York City artists' club founded in 1881 that inspired the Kokoon Arts Club;
- a chocolate-coated wafer confection;

IV - Triple X syndrome chromosomal variation, often referred to as 47, XXX;

V - Frou-Frou, a film directed by Guy du Fresnay (1923); a French comedy directed by Augusto Genina (1955); a play by Ludovic Halévy and Henri Meilhac (1869).

"Frou-Frou Foxes In Midsummer Fires" is the title of a song from one of the Melgaço´s favorite bands ever: Cocteau Twins.

Below the lyrics:

"I buckle and rosed
As god and the rest(wrist)
How mere riches be
A war or we lose
Close into symbols
A fly drinks the ignitions(indications)
They turn infant's breath my
Milk and wrap to her baby
In day
And night to come

Their little hands
Smooth all things
Ad nauseum

Singed by it, pulled around of my blazening
(Pulled round)
Eyes on the usually science of cherry-colored
(Trousers)
Limelight not the music it's plain as as can be so
(Tighter)
All of the time I improvise by making sure
(Tighter)
It's to wait for you
Rounder
Pulled rounder
Pulled rounder
Pulled rounder

Pulled round
Trousers
Tighter
Tighter

Their fan I tickle
From serpents to dragons
I'd immerse you in flame
Your milk and your passion
Lead weight for his from his old turn
The young, I was eagerest
I'm losing the stars
I enlisted to find you
I buckle and rosed
As god and the rest(wrist)
How mere riches be
A war all we lose
Close into symbols
A fly drinks the ignitions
They turn infant's breath my
Milk and wrap to her baby

In day
And night to come
Their little hands
Smooth all things
Ad nauseum

Things old
And young
Very young
Rise here comes our reason
of the stars I enlisted to find you

Singed by it, pulled around of my blazening
(Pulled round)
Eyes on the usually science of cherry-coloursed
(Trousers)
Limelight not the music, it's plain as as can be so
(Tighter)
All of the time I improvise by making sure
(Tighter)
It's to wait for you
Pulled round of
Pulled round of
Pulled round of
Pulled round of."

..for purposes of pragmatism and clear exegesis,
quotes have Wikipedia as a source...

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Between two parentheses...
(Atonalism, Twelve-Tone, Serialism, Musique Concrète... Acousmatic. Eletroacoustic. Magnetic Tape. Expressionism, New Objectivity, Hyperrealism, Abstractionism, Neoclassicism, Neobarbarism, Futurism, Mythic Method. Electronic...Computer Music, Spectral, Polystylism, Neoromanticism, Minimalism and Post-Minimalism...are addressed by Melgaço. Paradoxically New Simplicity and New Complexity also.
Art Rock, Free Jazz, Ethnic Dialects, Street Sounds are occasional syntax elements.
All the possibilities mentioned above and others that were not mentioned are the usual accoutrements of the composer/instrumentalist to establish his ´babelic´ glossary. We can prove this in a short passage of a single composition up along the entirety of a conceptual phonograph album. All distributed over a career and idiosyncratic records. Have we a universe before us and I propose to see it through a telescope, not a microscope.
I propose not handle very specialized topics here. Otherwise would be, with the exception of musicians and scholars, all hostages of a hermetic jargon. Because more important is to present Otacílio Melgaço to the general public and not to a segment of specialists. Faction of experts not need presentations, depart for the enjoyment beforehand. For this reason there is no niche here for intellectual onanism and encrypted musical terminology. The reason for these parentheses is to establish such elucidation. The non-adoption of technicalities leads to more panoramic, amplifier reviews. Are You always welcome. Those who do not dominate contemporary music and are introduced to the world of ubiquitous O.M. [autodidact and independent artist who, being more specific, does not belong to schools or doctrines; artist who makes Music and that´s enough; music devoid of labels or stylistic, chronological, historical paradigms or trends] and Those who belong to the métier and turn to enjoy propositions they know and also delving into advanced Melgacian sound cosmogonies...
I conclude poetically. ´Certeza/Certainty´ by Octavio Paz. ´Si es real la luz blanca De esta lámpara, real La mano que escribe, ¿son reales
Los ojos que miran lo escrito? De una palabra a la otra Lo que digo se desvanece. Yo sé que estoy vivo Entre dos paréntesis.´ If it is real the white light from this lamp, real the writing hand, are they real, the eyes looking at what I write? From one word to the other what I say vanishes. I know that I am alive between two parentheses.
We´re all more and more a-l-i-v-e now.)
- P.S.P.