VISUAL MUSIC
For me, music has always been a handful of colored strokes on an imaginary canvas, evoking shapes, timbres and poetry, in a kind of magical arena where color and sound merge into poetic feelings. As a boy, I remember painting lying on the bedroom floor, to the sound of Beethoven’s symphonies, and then composing songs […]
BUILDING BRIDGES
Building bridges is probably what I would choose as the most emblematic feature of Nuno Côrte-Real’s music. Bridges, first of all, between the contemporary composer and his audience, in the very opposite of Milton Babbitt’s infamous remark “who cares if they listen?”. Côrte-Real does care — and intensely so — if he is heard, and […]