THE PLURALITY OF A GENERATION
Style is a fundamental concept on how we listen to and make music, and style unity was one of the most crucial factors in the development of the great occidental musical treasure. Until not so long ago (considering the extension of our musical history) a voyager who arrived in any city searching for some music, would run across very similar music practices in different places, from the theater to the church. In his next stop, it would be very likely that our voyager would see the same scenery, considering that style cohesion is the most prominent characteristic not only of a city, but of an entire continent during a certain period of time.
However, the arrival of modern art deeply changed the way artists started dealing with their art. Also, in music, we experienced these changes, symbolized by the “isms” that swarmed into the last century. Impressionism, expressionism, dodecaphonism (twelve-tone technique), neoclassicism, serialism, spectralism, among others. Nevertheless, no aesthetics stood out enough to be established as a consensus, and for this reason, today our voyager would run across an incredibly rich and diversified scenery, where he would not only listen to different music when he traveled from one place to another, but also watching a single presentation.
This is the intention of this album. It will turn the listener into a voyager who will witness the real musical fountain of our contemporaneity through the work of young Brazilian composers who track their way through new and challenging paths of the new music, where plurality is, ironically, the element that binds so diverse ideas and aesthetics together. Bon Voyage!