Eduardo Reck Miranda
'Mother Tongue'
Cat. No: SCD28051 Genre: electroacoustic
Born in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Eduardo Reck Miranda started his career designing IT systems for shops and supermarkets. He soon discovered that the challenges of that sort of business held limited interest for him and opted for a radical change of career where he could combine his knowledge of computing with music. Currently in charge of computer music research at the University of Plymouth, England, Miranda is devoted to the quest for new forms of musical expression, independent of fashion and commercial tendencies, trying to amalgamate a diversity of styles with unorthodox but meticulous compositional methods.
Mother Tongue includes a selection of works from his research into exploring new possibilities and technologies for composing with voice. Miranda has always been fascinated by the physiology of the human vocal system, its pre-disposition for verbal communication, and especially the role of extra-linguistic utterances in language.
From Brazilian sambas to Hieronymous Bosch, Miranda's influences contribute to the blurring of boundaries between the human and the electronic. Sonic ambiguities for our listening pleasure
'Had I stuck to my original career path I would probably be swanning around on a yacht by now, but if you take a voyage into sound you don't get your feet wet.' (Eduardo Reck Miranda)
Credits:
Composed, engineered and produced by Eduardo Reck Miranda
Mezzo-soprano on 'Requiem' Simone Sahyouni
Orchestral part on 'Goma Arabica' performed by: The Contemporary Music Group (conductor: Steve Davismoon)
Reviews:
'These are immensely sophisticated pieces that constitute an electronic global music of convincingly organic simplicity' (The Wire)
Price: £12.00
