New Music Ensemble of The Glenn Gould School
Conductor Brian Current

Mazzoleni Concert Hall, Toronto, Canada

Miguel Azguime - Águas Marinhas (2005)

Águas Marinhas is a piece for chamber orchestra composed under the request of ComeT Orchestra and JSCM (Japanese Society for Contemporary Music), to be premiered in Tokyo, in March 2005. The piece was later revised and Remix Ensemble conducted by Dominique My premiered the final version. Further it was released on CD, performed by Camerata Aberta with Guillaume Bourgogne as conductor.

Águas Marinhas, which in Portuguese means both “water stone” and the “sea waters” is about light through the medium of water and what such association might have to the musical world. Transparency, reflexion on top of the water and inside the water itself, difraction, radiation, color separation and many other light properties were concepts of particular interest to me in composing this piece.

As with most of my music, here again the unified concept of timbre and harmony is at the centre of the whole piece development, and the sound itself is the model, so to speak, for the musical material. This also has lead me to compose processes of continuous mutation of the music material, sometimes gradually changing from one state to another, and at other times just breaking this rule, by just “showing” some “windows” or states at some points in time, in a fragmented a discontinued manner.