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Larry Looney This recording is amazing, one of the finest combinations of free and composed jazz I've ever heard. My copy got misplaced several years ago -- so happy to have found this. This is music of creation, of the beginning of time. Favorite track: Suddenly the dream became a promise of white.
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1 recorded live on 16th June 2007 by Carlos Santos at OUTFEST Festival, Barreiro, Portugal.
2 recorded live on 26th April 2007 by Carlos Santos at Trem Azul Jazz Store, Lisbon, Portugal.
3 recorded live on 3rd February 2007 by Guilherme Gonçalves at ZDB Art Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal.
4 recorded live on 24th June 2006 by Rafael Martinez at D. Maria II National Theatre, Lisbon, Portugal.
5 recorded live on 7th June 2007 by Carlos Santos at Bacalhoeiros Association, Lisbon, during an outdoor screening of french filmmaker Chris Marker's "La Jetée".
Mastered by Diogo Tavares.
Graphic design by Carlos Santos.
Production by Ernesto Rodrigues.


The music produced by the Variable Geometry Orchestra (VGO) results from layers of acoustic and electronic sound matter that constantly searches for detail and meaning. Its sounds contain subliminal as well as psycho-acoustic characteristics and include the possibility of complete silence. The music emerges as if from nothingness only to disappear once again back into it. Thus chaos is formally organized with the use of new concepts of indeterminism, instantaneous composition, as well as through the asymmetrical eruption of alternated moments of sound and silence (the absence of identifiable sound).
Nevertheless, sound prevails. The conduction is operated by balancing the sound masses that travel in the acoustic space, dictating the construction of the real-time composition, and thus revealing the organized juxtaposition of specific instruments as mobile sound groups.
This leaves space for the musicians to regain their natural rhythm and breathing, as well as their sense of random pulsation. It also allows them to listen to all the sound events that are happening at any given moment and thus to act accordingly. On the contrary, they can simply listen to what another musician has just begun. The musical space is thus filled only with the intrinsically essential elements.
Another of the outstanding aspects of the orchestra is how open it is to new participants. That is one reason why it is called ‘variable’. The influx of new creative power is tempered only with a truly democratic spirit where hierarchy is reduced to a bare minimum, also permitting a very large number of combinations and permutations of smaller ensembles to be arranged on-the-spur-of-the-moment.
Last but not least, the orchestra encompasses three generations of musicians who have set age aside to pursue a common contemporary language.

Ernesto Rodrigues, director

Lisbon, 2000
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released October 10, 2007

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released November 14, 2018

Ernesto Rodrigues – Conduction, Violin, Viola
Sílvia Freitas – Violin
Kátia Santandreu – Viola
Guilherme Rodrigues – Cello
Miguel Pereira – Double Bass
Hernâni Faustino – Double Bass
Rachiim Ausar-Sahu – Double Bass
Sei Miguel – Pocket Trumpet
Pedro Portugal – Trumpet
Marcello Maggi – Trumpet
Jean Marc-Charmier – Trumpet, Flugelhorn & Euphonium
Johannes Krieger – French Horn, Trumpet
Fala Mariam – Alto Trombone
Eduardo Lála – Trombone
Eduardo Chagas – Trombone
Gil Gonçalves – Tuba, Euphonium
Miguel Bernardo – Clarinet
Bruno Parrinha – Clarinet , Alto Clarinet, Alto Saxofone, Harmonica
João Pedro Viegas – Bass Clarinet
Jorge Lampreia – Flute & Soprano Saxophone
Nuno Torres – Alto Saxophone
Lizuarte Borges – Alto Saxophone
Peter Bastiaan – Alto Saxophone, Melodica, Drums
Alípio C Neto – Tenor Saxophone, Alto Saxophone
Abdul Moimême – Tenor Saxophone, Electric Guitar
Ivan Fontes – Didgeridoo
Olympia Boule – Voice
Rodrigo Pinheiro – Piano
Etsuko Kimura – Electric Organ
Armando Pereira – Accordion
António Chaparreiro – Electric Guitar
Nuno Rebelo – Amplified Objects
Carlos Santos – Computer
Travassos – Circuit Bending, Tape
João Pinto – Computer
Nuno Moita – Sampler, Turntable
Adriana Sá – Digital Synthesizer
João Silva – Crackle Box, Field Recordings & Tibetan Bell
André Gonçalves – Analogic Modular Synthesizer
Rafael Toral – Modified MT10 Amp
Plan – Turntable
Pedro Castello Lopes – Percussion
Jorge Oliveira – African Percussion
Monsieur Trinité – Selected Objects
César Burago – Cowbell
José Oliveira – Drums

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Guilherme Rodrigues Berlin, Germany

Guilherme Rodrigues is a cellist, improviser and composer from Lisboa, Portugal.
He was born in 1988 in Lisboa and started to learn cello and trumpet when he was seven at Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa and later in Conservatório Nacional de Música de Lisboa to study classical and music theory until his twenty-three. With an intuitive approach to improvisation and exploration of the timbres... ... more

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