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CÂNDIDO LIMA

 (1939)

A Portuguese computer music pioneer, Cândido Lima studied composition in the Lisbon and Oporto conservatories and, later on, with Stockhausen, Ligeti, Pousseur and Boulez, among others. He got a doctorate in Aesthetics in Paris with his thesis supervised by Iannis Xenakis, took courses in computer music systems in Paris' and Vincennes' universities and followed training programs at CEMAMU and IRCAM. Besides teaching music composition, he also directs the Grupo Música Nova, which he founded in 1975. "This work belongs to a period of aesthetic preoccupation and meeting of new acoustic and musical spaces. Here the music is interpreted as energy, as speed, as pure motion, as beings on their own. To find the frontiers between freedom and submission to models and systems – either grammatical or technological – where subversion to determinism and rationality is, here’s the challenge to the listener, the analyst and the composer himself." "According to mythology, Oceanus was the first god of the sea. The ancients thought Oceanus was a river surrounding the Earth. The piece is everything that can present analogies with the mythology, with real or imaginary oceans, with our planet or interstellar realities."

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