Latin American Electroacoustic Music Collection

Rodolfo Caesar (Brazil)


Rodolfo Caesar (born in Rio de Janeiro, 1950) is Lecturer at the School of Music in UFRJ, Brazil, where he coordinates LaMuT - Music and Technology Lab (Laboratório de Música e Tecnologia). Caesar works also as researcher at the National Council of Research (Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa).

He has an extensive catalog of electroacoustic music. Among other pieces Caesar composed: "Curare" in 1975; "Les deux saisons" and "Tutti Frutti" in 1976, both acousmatic works on tape realized at Groupe de Recherches Musicales in Paris, France; "Curare II" in 1978, also an acousmatic work on tape realized at the Sistema Globo de Rádio, in Rio de Janeiro; "Fragmentos Do Paraíso" for two magnetic tapes and slides in 1980; "Candomblet", a multimedia piece for tape and dancer, and "Tremola Impressão", acousmatic work on tape realized at Estúdio da Glória in Brazil, both in 1981; "Vibrata" for tape and 1 percussionist, and "Espiral" for two synthesizers and tape, with Vânia Dantas Leite, both in 1982 and realized at Estúdio da Glória; "Mosaic Blues", computer music for tape, commissioned by the GRM, and realized at it's Studio Numerique 123 in 1983; "Ricercare - Fuga" for dancers and tape, and "Divertimento" for DX7 synthesizer, both in 1985; "Presença" for cello and tape in 1988; "A carne da pedra" for DAT, and "Arcos I" for cello and tape, both realized at the University of East Anglia - Norwich in 1989; "Neolitica" and "Canto", both acousmatic pieces on CD, also realized at the University of East Anglia - Norwich, in 1990; "Canons/Chaos" for CD, and "Canibali" for three precussionists, produced interpolating MIDI files of Balinese music using Max software, both in 1991; "Volta Redonda" for CD, between 1992 and 1993; "A noite em concha" for CD, commissioned by the Arts Council of Great Britain, and "Industrial Revolutions" for Kurzweil K2000 only or CD, commissioned by the GRM, both in 1993; "Nemietoia" for CD in 1994, commissioned by the Arts Council of England/Sonic Arts Union; "Círculos Ceifados" for CD in 1997, commissioned by Fundação Vitae; "Divertimento IV" for live electronics in 1999; "Ranap-Gaô" for CD in 2000, commissioned by the Bolsa RioArte; "Liçoes Americanas: Ho Ho Ho" for CD and video, with Simone Michelin, "Dueto 1+I" for piano, CD and video, with Vânia Dantas Leite, and "Clips" for CD and video, all three pieces in 2002, and realized at personal studio.

Some of his research papers published are: "A eletrônica de uma poética em Ranap-Gaô" published in the proceedings of V Forum de Linguagens Musicais, 2002, São Paulo; "Novas tecnologia e outra escuta: para escutar a música feita com tecnologia recente" published in the proceedings of I Colóquio de Pesquisa e Pós-graduação da Escola de Música/UFRJ, 1999, Rio de Janeiro; "Composição, pesquisa e a internet" published in the proceedings of XI Encontro Anual da ANPPOM, 1998, Campinas - SP; "Novas interfaces e a produção eletroacústica" published in the proceedings of IV Simposio Brasileiro de Computaçao e Musica, 1997, Brasília; "Um encontro da composição com a bio-acústica via FM" published in the proceedings of X Encontro Anual da ANPPOM, 1997, Goiânia - GO; "Artefatos Fm Para A Producao de Ritmos Pseudo-Naturais" published in the proceedings of III Simposio Brasileiro de Computaçao e Musica, 1996, Recife; "O zig-zag conceitual no estúdio de composição" published in the proceedings of II Simpósio Brasileiro de Computação e Música, 1995, Canela - RS; "Perfil e Copacabana: dois aplicativos para a composição eletroacústica com o protocolo MIDI" published in the proceedings of VIII Encontro da ANPPOM, 1995, João Pessoa - PB. He also wrote "Composição e natureza", published in the book "A doutrina dos sons de Goethe a caminho da música nova de Webern", seleção, tradução e comentários de Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback, Editora UFRJ, 1999, Rio de Janeiro.

Rodolfo Caesar also developed "Copacabana" and "Perfil", software applications for electroacoustic music composition based on MIDI.

(text updated: October, 2003)

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- List of compositions (2 compositions)

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