"O C í r c u l o I m p e r f e i t o"
O t a c í l i o M e l g a ç o
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C a d a v r e X q u i s E n s e m b l e
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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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"´The Imperfect Circle´ (´O Círculo Imperfeito´, in Portuguese).
As unlimiting case of other figures.
Trans-inscribed in or uncircumscribed about other figures.
Criss-Cross-Ratios.
Eccentricity." (Caio Campbell; Anglo-Brazilian semiologist and musician)
"´Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city,´ Frank Gehry ponders.
It's a way of trying to understand the sonic circularity, and what might happen in the imperfect circle.
Perfection seems boring, unimaginative, stagnant.´Slit´,
´inadequacy´, ´acerbity´ are some synonyms for the antithesis (more profane but paradoxically no less divine). In process, in progress - I prefer an open work. ´Acerbity´, ´inadequacy´, ´slit´ - liquid words, liquid music.
The freedom to be erratic.
The Melgacian Free Jazz.
P.S.: Jan Garbarek once made an interesting comment: ´Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.´ Iconoclastic, Otacílio Melgaço is one of those who still retains this finished circuit as an open circle. For the sake of our privilege and excitement." (Pablo S. Paz; Argentinean musicologist)
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I - The word "Circle" derives from the Greek κίρκος/κύκλος (kirkos/kuklos), itself a metathesis of the Homeric Greek κρίκος (krikos), meaning "hoop" or "ring". The origins of the words "circus" and "circuit" are closely related.
The circle has been known since before the beginning of recorded history. Natural circles would have been observed, such as the Moon, Sun, and a short plant stalk blowing in the wind on sand, which forms a circle shape in the sand. The circle is the basis for the wheel, which, with related inventions such as gears, makes much of modern machinery possible. In mathematics, the study of the circle has helped inspire the development of geometry, astronomy, and calculus.
Early science, particularly geometry and astrology and astronomy, was connected to the divine for most medieval scholars, and many believed that there was something intrinsically "divine" or "perfect" that could be found in circles;
II - Some highlights in the history of the circle are:
1700 BCE – The Rhind papyrus gives a method to find the area of a circular field. The result corresponds to 256⁄81 (3.16049...) as an approximate value of π. 300 BCE – Book 3 of Euclid's Elements deals with the properties of circles.
In Plato's Seventh Letter there is a detailed definition and explanation of the circle. Plato explains the perfect circle, and how it is different from any drawing, words, definition or explanation.
1880 CE– Lindemann proves that π is transcendental, effectively settling the millennia-old problem of squaring the circle;
III - Below, other records released by CadavreXquis:
melgacootacilio.bandcamp.com/album/tree-house-otac-lio-melga-o-cadavrexquis-ensemble-otac-lio-melga-o-duration-40-49
melgacootacilio.bandcamp.com/album/x-otac-lio-melga-o-cadavrexquis-ensemble-otac-lio-melga-o-duration-01-00-42
...for purposes of pragmatism and clear exegesis,
Wikipedia was the main 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.