E C L I P S E
O t a c í l i o M e l g a ç o
&
H o n i G S t a h l O r c h e s t e r
[duration 01:11:11] all rights reserved
#
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)
+
"Eclipse. The term is derived from the ancient Greek noun ἔκλειψις (ékleipsis), which means ´the abandonment´, ´the downfall´, or ´the darkening of a heavenly body´, which is derived from the verb ἐκλείπω (ekleípō) which means ´to abandon´, ´to darken´, or ´to cease to exist,´ a combination of prefix ἐκ- (ek-), from preposition ἐκ (ek), ´out,´ and of verb λείπω (leípō), ´to be absent´.
If an artist has the ability to reinvent - in the form of his resonant offspring - this meaning (in all its magnitude, elevation/depth and imaginable polysemy),
nowadays - and, I dare say, perennially - he is called Otacílio Melgaço." (Caio Campbell; Anglo-Brazilian semiologist and musician)
"This colossal sound work for symphonic strings is the second alliance between O.M. and HoniG Stahl Orchester. The Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist seems seeking, how can I say?, ´hidden dimensions of Music´ and so - makes perfect sense - inspiration in cosmological phenomena of considerable expression.
I do not believe there are exact words to describe the immeasurable stature, the incalculable carat of a creation with these characteristics.
We must appeal to metaphors.
The region of the Moon's shadow in a solar eclipse is divided into three parts:
1- The umbra, within which the Moon completely covers the Sun (more precisely, its photosphere);
2- The antumbra, extending beyond the tip of the umbra, within which the Moon is completely in front of the Sun but too small to completely cover it;
3- The penumbra, within which the Moon is only partially in front of the Sun.
Spectrally, the Melgacian strings - brightly under the auspices of H.S.O. - form kinetic collations, tangles, interpenetrations that reproduce such triadic phases. Neil deGrasse Tyson once said ´There is no science in this world like physics. Nothing comes close to the precision with which physics enables you to understand the world around you. It's the laws of physics that allow us to say exactly what time the sun is going to rise. What time the eclipse is going to begin. What time the eclipse is going to end.´ What I hear through ´ECLIPSE´ does not seem to surrender to physical determinations. Perhaps, without beginning and without end, metaphysics metamorphosed into sound. Metaphysics is a traditional branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the fundamental nature of being and the world that encompasses it, although the term is not easily defined. Traditionally, attempts to answer two basic questions in the broadest possible terms:
i- Ultimately, what is there?
ii- What is it like?
Otacílio performs an eclipse between the two questions and so he, Sphinxian, offers us a unique response through his idiosyncratic Orphic Music." (Pablo S. Paz; Argentinean musicologist)
&
I - An Eclipse is an astronomical event that occurs when an astronomical object is temporarily obscured, either by passing into the shadow of another body or by having another body pass between it and the viewer. An eclipse is a type of syzygy.
The term eclipse is most often used to describe either a solar eclipse, when the Moon's shadow crosses the Earth's surface, or a lunar eclipse, when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow. However, it can also refer to such events beyond the Earth–Moon system: for example, a planet moving into the shadow cast by one of its moons, a moon passing into the shadow cast by its host planet, or a moon passing into the shadow of another moon. A binary star system can also produce eclipses if the plane of the orbit of its constituent stars intersects the observer's position;
II - An eclipse cycle takes place when a series of eclipses are separated by a certain interval of time. This happens when the orbital motions of the bodies form repeating harmonic patterns. A particular instance is the saros, which results in a repetition of a solar or lunar eclipse every 6,585.3 days, or a little over 18 years (because this is not a whole number of days, successive eclipses will be visible from different parts of the world).
...for purposes of pragmatism and clear exegesis,
Wikipedia was the main source...
\|/
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.
