Search - Jorge Antunes :: Savage Songs - Electronic Works from 1961-1970

The works on this cd are: Pequena Peça para Mi bequadro e Harmônicos (1961); Valsa Sideral (1962); Música para Varreduras de Freqüências (1963); Fluxo Luminoso para Sons Brancos I (1964); Contrapunctus contra Contrapunctus (1965); Três Estudos Cromofônicos (1966); Canto Selvagem (1967); Movimento Browniano (1968); Canto do Pedreiro (1968); Cinta Cita (1969); Auto-Retrato sobre Paisaje Porteño (1969/1970); Historia de um Pueblo por Nacer or Carta Abierta a Vassili Vasilikos y a todos los Pesimistas (1970). Jorge Antunes (b. 1942, Rio de Janeiro) studied violin, composition and conducting at the University of Rio de Janeiro, as well as studying physics at the same institution. He further studied composition with Alberto Ginastera and Luis de Pablo. From 1970-71 he attended the University of Utrecht (Gotfried M. Koenig). From 1972-73 he worked with Groupe de Recherches Musicales in Paris. In 1962 he began his research in electronic music thus becoming a pioneer in the development of this field in Brazil. He is the director of the Electronic Music Laboratory and the conductor of Orquestra da Universidade de Brasilia.