Ernesto Rodrigues
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Ernesto Rodrigues (born in Lisbon, August 29, 1959) is a Portuguese composer, violinist, violist and electronic musician. Rodrigues has been playing the violin for 30 years and in that time has played all genres of music ranging from contemporary music to free jazz and free improvisation, in the studio and live around the world. He created the record label Creative Sources Recordings in 1999, which mainly concentrates on releasing experimental and electro-acoustic music. He is also known as a painter.
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[edit] Style and influences
As a violinist/violist his interests include contemporary improvised and composed music, as well as the avant-garde techniques of indeterminate, stochastic, aleatoric, minimalistic music and musique concrète. He has worked with the graphic scores of Gerhard Stäbler and studied with contemporary composers Paulo Brandão, Eurico Carrapatoso, Emmanuel Nunes, and Pedro M. Rocha. Electronic music was an early influence. He experiments with the sonic and textural elements of his instruments, often using extended techniques and going beyond the traditional romantic sound of the violin and viola through the use of preparations and micro-tuning.
[edit] Collaborations
Active in different settings on the Portuguese scene for free improvised music, both as a collaborator and in leading his own groups including many important and creative musicians such as Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Phill Niblock, Guilherme Rodrigues, Han Bennink, Eugene Chadbourne, Peter Kowald, Jeffrey Morgan, Evan Parker, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Cecil Taylor, Richard Teitelbaum, Iannis Xenakis, and Carlos Zíngaro.
He has also created music for films, dance, performance, and video. Has also worked with contemporary dancers like Mário Calixto, Manuela Cipriano, Ana Galan, Valérie Métivier and Andresa Soares.
[edit] Graphic Scores
 "#[Fromage Digital] I - for violin, electronics and percussion - 1997" |
 "#[Fromage Digital] II - for violin, electronics and percussion - 1997" |
[edit] Selected visual artworks
 "s/t" Summer 1981. Mixed media on paper 41"X29" |
 "s/t" Summer 1991. Mixed media on paper 35"X49" |
 "s/t" Summer 2002. Mixed media on canvas 30"X40" |
 ""s/t" Autumn 2002. Oil on canvas 22"X33" |
 "'"s/t" Spring 2003. Mixed media on canvas 12"X18" |
[edit] Discography
- Musique de Chambre - IC 100, Lisbon 1986/2002
- Movement Sounds - Leo Lab 032, London 1997
- Self Eater and Drinker - audEo 0399, Porto 1999
- Multiples - CS 001, Lisbon 2001
- Sudden Music - CS 002, Lisbon 2002
- 23 Exposures - CS 003, Lisbon 2002
- Ficta - CS 005, Lisbon 2002
- Assemblage - CS 007, Lisbon 2002
- Cesura - CS 008, Lisbon 2003
- Contre-Plongée - CS 011, Lisbon 2004
- Dorsal - CS 012, Lisbon 2004
- Kreis - CS 020, Lisbon 2005
- Prisma - ST4001, USA 2005
- Diafon - CS 041, Lisbon 2005
- Nostalgia - CTRL 25, Italy 2006
- Sable - CNV28, Spain 2006
- Kinetics - CS 043, Lisbon 2006
- Electric Trio - Esquilo, Porto 2006
- Oranges - CS 068, Lisbon 2006
- Undecided - CS 072, Lisbon 2006
- Drain - CS 075, Lisbon 2006
- Sen - CS 033, Lisbon 2006
- London - CS 080, Lisbon 2007
[edit] Compilations
- Way Out - AnAnAnA MMM01, Lisbon 1999
- EMFP05 - WIRE, London 2005
- Collection d'Univers Spontanés - Insubordinations, Genève 2006
