SONG TO BE SUNG IN THE CITY, by Daniel Puig
The inspiration for this “song to be sung in the city” is a photo from a graffiti in a street in Rio de Janeiro, where silence is a rare commodity entangled with social opportunities: “Escuto o silêncio”, “I hear the silence”. The image-song-textscore organism tries to build an atmosphere where performers can bring about their experience of the city in all its contrasts and possibilities around sound, and silence.
Daniel Puig (1970) is a Brazilian composer that currently lives and teaches in Porto Seguro, Bahia. His works interface different media with vocal, instrumental and electronic means, in organic complex performances that explore multimodality in unexpected ways. Well recognized in his country, after a prize at Darmstadt in 2010, he has had performances in Europe and the United States.