We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

LACAZ (s i n g l e) {Otac​í​lio Melga​ç​o} [duration 03​​​​​:​​​49]

by Otacílio Melgaço

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $1 USD  or more

     

1.

about

L A C A Z ( s i n g l e )

O t a c í l i o M e l g a ç o

[duration 03​​:​49] all rights reserved

"LACAZ" (and "DUKE" and "ECO")
form a Triptych (of Singles).
Respectively are dedicated to
Guto Lacaz, Wesley Duke Lee, Umberto Eco.

#

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)

+

"For me, it is a concise
l i t u r g i c a l
n o i s e
w o r k.
Once more the charming idiosyncrasies of Mr. Melgaço." (Pablo S. Paz; Argentinean musicologist)

"Would be Carlos Augusto Martins Lacaz, or simply Guto Lacaz, a kind of ´Gyro Gearloose´? Despite the good humor intrinsic to the hypothesis, no. But the figure of a contemporary artist who merges with a fanciful (flamboyant?) inventor - yes - may be considered.

´Lacaz is already tired of hearing that his work is inspired by Duchamp, who, incidentally, he had never heard of until it began to be analyzed by the critics. Guto continues to disassembling radios, cars, blenders, turntables and watches as a nosy child.´

The perspective adopted by O.M. is impeccable because the most appropriate sound sources here are in fact the NOISES. Added to the ´alchemy´ of technological possibilities, ´LACAZ´ makes the Melgacian sonic focus a relic in this genre.

A curiosity is the use of the organ - maybe in referring to a religious aura. A paradox? Over again: no. In my view, there´s a sense of ´religiosity´ in Lacaz and own artistic activity if we think that the artist can also be a kind of shaman (without necessarily any handcuffs related to religious institutions and doctrines, of course). As in the old Eastern saying, ´each Artist must be the God of its Art´. Still analyzing the polysemy of the composer's perspective, the Inventor is - above all - a Creator. Or, if you prefer, vice versa.

Two interesting examples:

An installation - krafts - is a contemporary art form composed of elements arranged in an environment. Lacaz also performs great krafts like the Auditorium Sensitive Issues (1989), which is an intervention in the Ibirapuera Park in Sao Paulo. Installs in the middle of Lake Park, sequences chairs, which, through hidden structures seem to float in the water.

In Cosmos (1991), defined by the artist as a free interpretation of celestial mechanics, has, in a dark room, pedestals of different heights, whose electric motors make small orbital describe white spheres that vary in direction, diameter and speed. By walking through the installation, the viewer has the feeling of walking through the celestial bodies.

Floating (much like treading?) on the water; walk on the stars, the cosmic bodies ... such also metaphors are more than enough, no?

Otacílio makes mention of (typical features of Carlos) seriousness; thoughtfulness; craftsmanship; plastic integrity; expertise; ingenuity ... and simultaneously brings up a mysterious atmosphere.

This is one differential. ´LACAZ´ exceeds the limpidity & inventive Cartesianism of the honoree (Mr. L. as well behaves as a scientist; works constantly with the laws of physics, mechanics, e.t.c.), and thus enters a dense dimension, transcendent. Probably in the name of a musical architecture that encompasses both personalities.

I could not forget, Guto is also an architect. That turns ´making art´ into ´playing art´. And among many names, what I write - yes, one way or another / by creations or personal profile or mythology around - is true for Da Vinci, Dalí, Duchamp, Carroll, Calder, Cage, Joyce, Jarry, Gehry, Greenaway, Schiaparelli, Partch, Tzara, Zappa, Satie, (Cecil) Taylor, (Sun) Ra, Hagen, Bowie, Björk, Barrett, Moondog, Marceau, Picasso, Melgaço and Lacaz: Let the kids play!

Otacílio makes mention of (typical features of Augusto Martins) childlike spirit (regarding curiosity and creativity); ludicity; disparate; delicacy (always under the wings of); sometimes naïveté ... and simultaneously brings up a fathomless scenario.

One more differential. ´LACAZ´ exceeds the surrounding amusement park (although Otacílio is there too; just listen to another organ - that arises incidentally -, the barrel organ; the cuckoo; et cetera), and thus enters spectra of an adult (synchronously abyssal and ascensional) view of such captivating toy store. From this confluence point is that our little odyssey begins. Making a reference to a Lacazian performance: begin our (and it´s a privilege for all of us) strange accidental Discoveries ...

post scriptum

Highlighting (on disc cover) the ´graphic sculpture´ also made by Otacílio Melgaço - under his designing designer vertebra. He works here as a doer of ideograms.

G.L. was the illustrator of a book that could have its title translated as
´In a Zoo of Letters´ (Régis Bonvicino). It seems clear that, reviewing the art of ´LACAZ´, O.M. did not let this biographical data go unnoticed. To our joy, doubtless. I see the buttocks of an elephant; the beak of an eagle; a snake plus two unidentifiable small reptiles (or miniaturized dinosaurs?) - one with open eyes, another with eyes closed ... Who knows even a platypus, a dragon, a unicorn? Anyway.
It´s the most odd cover image of the three singles. Another translation of the work to whom pays tribute. To our enjoyment, assuredly." (Caio Campbell; Anglo-Brazilian semiologist and musician)

&

I - Carlos Augusto Martins Lacaz known as Guto Lacaz (São Paulo, September 20, 1948) is a Brazilian illustrator, designer, performer, cenographer etc.

II - See complete biography (in Portuguese)

prezi.com/qwydpv18uh5s/biografia-de-guto-lacaz/

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

credits

released March 3, 2016

Hear more here:
soundcloud.com/otaciliomelgaco

>>

O t a c í l i o
M e l g a ç o {conception | composition | arrangement | synopsis | instrumentation | orchestration | engineering & sound design | art design | production | direction}

Special Guests: Nausícaaa Ensemble

Estúdio Yoknapotawpha/BR + Unidade Euromobile

<<

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Otacílio Melgaço Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Composer, Arranger, Conductor, Multi-
Instrumentalist
from
Minas Gerais,
Brazil.
+
Official (English) Site
otaciliomelgaco.wixsite.com/omenglish
+
PORTAL O|M
(Portuguese)
otaciliomelgaco.wixsite.com/otaciliomelgaco
+
Site to be viewed exclusively on Mobile Devices (smartphones, etc.)
otaciliomelgaco.wixsite.com/mobileom
&
"Music is like a bewitched Mistress." (Paul Klee)
... more

contact / help

Contact Otacílio Melgaço

Streaming and
Download help

Report this album or account

Otacílio Melgaço recommends:

If you like Otacílio Melgaço, you may also like: