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Laminas Liquidas
for marimba and tape
Joao Pedro Oliveira
program notes
Let us imagine a marimba with bars made of a non-solid material.
Let us imagine that his marimba could produce sound.
Let us also imagine that the percussion of the mallets in this instrument would make it change its form, oscilate, resonate in different manners, and even break itself, or fall apart.
Finally, let us imagine that the performer and the instrument would have the possibility of dividing themselves into two or more instruments and performers, and all play against each other, making more complex polyphonies, or musical structures.
Physically all of this is impossible, but with the help of the tape, this piece tries to reproduce some of the processes described above.
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