58 Compositions for Cello as part of a sound investigation process from Portuguese cellist based in Berlin, Guilherme Rodrigues, recording in 11 locations with interesting resonant properties, capturing several brief improvisations at each space, the architecture, delay, decay, and interaction affecting his approach and the sonic response to his playing.
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UPC: 5609063407624
Label: Creative Sources
Catalog ID: cs762
Squidco Product Code: 32974
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2022
Country: Portugal
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold
Recorded in Berlin, Germany, between May and October, 2022. Spaces in Berlin where the pieces were recorded: Passionskirche; Magdalenenkirche; Christuskirche; Herz-Jesu-Kirche; Evangelische Stephanus-Kirchengemeinde; St. Christophorus Kirche; Ms Heimatland; Zwinglikirche; Sophienkirche; Zionskirche; Marthakirche.
"The Rodrigues family and I seem to share a distant personal connection. The father, violist Ernesto, was among the first people to alert me to the fruits of his labor on the ever-magnificent Creative Sources imprint. His talented cellist son Guilherme, besides collaborating with illustrious comrades already at the age of 15 or so, launched his webpage in the early 2000s with a somewhat naive introduction scribbled by a still-young Massimo Ricci. Twenty years later, with more experience and more sophisticated improvisational and compositional skills, Guilherme Rodrigues exhibits a significant advancement in his own musical development. I'll go right to the point: this CD is superb, one of the few in recent months that were revisited time and again in this writer's house.
The album's title is quite straightforward, and easily understood since the inaugural listen. Except for a single episode captured within a historical boat, the recordings took place inside ten different churches, whose spaces facilitated the natural extension of the cello's voice, enriching it with an air that is indeed sacred, but of a "clean" sacredness, unsoiled by religious or faux-otherworldly implications. Although the audio quality would make ECM's Manfred Eicher jealous, it fortunately lacks the German label's trademark coldness that sometimes shields the sonorities from revealing their throbbing hearts. There is no feeling of excessive fragmentation or lack of structural consistency despite the program consisting of 58 tracks (!), many of them fleetingly concise. On the contrary, what is heard is, in all actuality, suggestive of a full-fledged suite for solo cello.
When the soul of an instrumentalist is tuned to a concept of whole vibration - meaning both inner and outer - they are able to extract from the instrument, with firm yet sensitive touch, all the myriad nuances that define it. This is exactly how it sounds as one's ears get used to Rodrigues' acumen, always in line with the expressive signal's deepest connotation, not overly virtuous, eventually capable of transmitting to the listener a sense of sober solemnity that is hard to find nowadays. Whatever you hear in Acoustic Reverb will comprehensively satisfy your psychosomatic nature, whether it be combinations of singing partials, melody fragments flavored with Bachian canon, minimalist cues, rattling drones bathed in glissando, or string and wood noises that nearly let you smell the cello itself. It is music that puts the audience in a calm mental state, entirely open to consistent evidence of evolution. A reminder to get back on track and resume paying attention to the pitch's oscillating core, the diaphanous halo around it, the resonating silence currently not included in the lingo of the dominant auditory mediocrity. Thankfully, Guilherme Rodrigues has never been a part of that ridiculous anthropomorphic microcosm."-Massimo Ricci, touchingextremes
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• Show Bio for Guilherme Rodrigues "Was born 1988 in Lisboa, Portugal and started playing cello and trumpet at Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa at the age of 7. In 1999 joined Conservatório Nacional de Música de Lisboa to study classical and music theory and in the current year recorded his first album - Multiples - with Ernesto Rodrigues and José Oliveira out on Creative Sources Recordings. Apart from work in music ensembles ranging for contemporary classical to free improvisation, also works with live music poetry, theatre and film-music. After lengthy residency in Lisboa, (1988-2016) moved to Berlin and has been active as composer and improviser in the scene. Worked with some international and renewed artists like Ernesto Rodrigues, Jean-luc Guionnet, Margarida Garcia, Manuel Mota, Alfredo Costa Monteiro, Sei Miguel, Tim Goldie, Jeffrey Morgan, Oren Marshall, Gerhard Uebele, Klaus Kurvers, Gabriel Paiuk, Nicolas Field, Jaime Fennelly, Blaise Siwula, Will Guthrie, Pawel Grabowski, Michael Thieke, Wade Matthews, Leonel Kaplan, Diego Chamy, Gabriel Paiuk, Barry Weisblat, Joe Giardullo, Jassem Hindi, Tisha Mukarji, Masahiko Okura, Taku Unami, Toshihiro Koike, Sharif Sehnaoui, Christine Abdelnour, Alexandre Bellenger, Carlos Zingaro, Romaric Sobac, Nuno Rebelo, Nuno Torres, Naoto Yamagashi, Heddy Boubaker, Gerhard Uebele, Guillermo Torres, Tomas Gris, Carlos Santos, Bruno Parrinha, Miguel Leiria Pereira, Miguel Ivo Cruz, Alberto Cirera, Nuno Morão, Mark Sanders, Dennis Gonzaléz, Alípio Carvalho Neto, Raymond Macdonald, Neil Davidson, David Stachenas, Lisa Ullén, D'incise, Cyril Bondy, Miguel Mira, Rodrigo Amado, Abdul Moimême, Monsieur Trinité, João Madeira, Álvaro Rosso, Gil Gonçalves, Marian Yanchyk, Filipe Passos, Rodrigo Pinheiro, Christian Wolfarth, Thanos Chrysakis, Bechir Saade, Kurt Liedwart, Miguel A. Garcia, Ilia Belorukov, Andrew Lafkas, Gao Jiafeng, Eric Wong, Johan Moir, Casey Moir, Magda Mayas, Matthias Muller, Alexander Frangenheim ... Has performed and toured in all Europe. Released more than 30 albums of his own projects." ^ Hide Bio for Guilherme Rodrigues
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Track Listing:
1. Passionskirche I 0:41
2. Passionskirche II 0:57
3. Passionskirche III 1:17
4. Passionskirche IV 1:27
5. Passionskirche V 3:08
6. Magdalenenkirche VI 1:24
7. Magdalenenkirche VII 1:06
8. Christuskirche VIII 2:49
9. Christuskirche IX 1:14
10. Herz-Jesu-Kirche X 1:26
11. Herz-Jesu-Kirche XI 2:28
12. Herz-Jesu-Kirche XII 2:15
13. Herz-Jesu-Kirche XIII 2:00
14. Herz-Jesu-Kirche XIV 1:21
15. Evangelische Stephanus-Kirchengemeinde XV 1:02
16. EvangelischeStephanus-Kirchengemeinde XVI 1:38
17. Evangelische Stephanus-Kirchengemeinde XVII 0:57
18. Evangelische Stephanus-Kirchengemeinde XVIII 1:33
19. Evangelische Stephanus-Kirchengemeinde XIX 2:34
20. St. Christophorus Kirche XX 1:06
21. St. Christophorus Kirche XXI 1:15
22. St. Christophorus Kirche XXII 1:01
23. St. Christophorus Kirche XXIII 0:59
24. St. Christophorus Kirche XXIV 1:08
25. St. Christophorus Kirche XXV 0:45
26. St. Christophorus Kirche XXVI 1:12
27. St. Christophorus Kirche XXVII 1:09
28. Ms Heimatland XXVIII 1:16
29. Ms Heimatland XXIX 1:19
30. Ms Heimatland XXX 2:07
31. Ms Heimatland XXXI 1:19
32. Zwinglikirche XXXII 0:44
33. Zwinglikirche XXXIII 3:18
34. Zwinglikirche XXXIV 0:43
35. Zwinglikirche XXXV 0:59
36. Zwinglikirche XXXVI 1:32
37. Zwinglikirche XXXVII 1:13
38. Zwinglikirche XXXVIII 1:54
39. Zwinglikirche XXXIX 2:22
40. Zwinglikirche XL 0:59
41. Zwinglikirche XLI 2:44
42. Sophienkirche XLII 0:34
43. Sophienkirche XLIII 1:21
44. Sophienkirche XLIV 0:54
45. Zionskirche XLV 1:04
46. Zionskirche XLVI 0:58
47. Zionskirche XLVII 1:24
48. Zionskirche XLVIII 0:32
49. Zionskirche XLIX 1:42
50. Zionskirche L 1:01
51. Zionskirche LI 0:37
52. Marthakirche LII 0:33
53. Marthakirche LIII 0:29
54. Marthakirche LIV 1:30
55. Marthakirche LV 0:45
56. Marthakirche LVI 1:18
57. Marthakirche LVII 1:47
58. Marthakirche LVIII 0:58
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 | Rodrigues, Guilherme / Ben Bennett / Ernesto Rodrigues This Full Mouth (Creative Sources) |
 | Uebele, Gerhard / Ernesto Rodrigues / Guilherme Rodrigues Con versa tions (Creative Sources) |
 | Floridis, Floros / Ernesto Rodrigues / Guilherme Rodrigues / Ulf Mengersen Xafnikes Synantiseis (Creative Sources) |
| Legendary Greek bass clarinetist and improviser Floros Floridis, also performing on clarinet, and German double bassist Ulf Mengersen of the Berlin Improvisers Orchestra and Ensemble MIA, meet the ever-creative duo of violist Ernesto Rodrigues and cellist Guilherme Rodrigues for this 6-part active studio improvisation whose title aptly translates to "Unexpected Encounters". | |
 | Okura / Rodrigues / Rodrigues / Buder Your Dramatic Joy (Creative Sources) |
| Father and son string improvisers Ernesto Rodrigues on viola and Guilherme Rodrigues on cello join with Berlin improvisers Fumio Okura (Ensemble 222) on violin and Hannes Buder on guitar for six collective chamber free improvisations using extraordinary technique and focus, creating parallel and converging conversations that build and recede in vigorous momentum. | |
 | Rodrigues, Ernesto / Nuno Torres / Guilherme Rodrigues / Eric Bauer / Stephen Flinn Letters to Milena (Creative Sources) |
| Referencing the book Letters to Milena (Briefe an Milena) by Franz Kafka of his intense love affair with Czech journalist & writer Milena Jesenská, through four lettered parts of a subtly sophisticated set of improvisations by Ernesto Rodrigues (viola), Nuno Torres (alto sax), Guilherme Rodrigues (cello), Eric Bauer (electronics) and Stephen Flinn (percussion). | |
 | Suspensao Serendipity (Creative Sources) |
| A fortuitous 2015 concert from the lowercase chamber/ea-improv octet Suspensão, captured live at Ler Devagar Bookstore in Lisbon from Ernesto Rodrigues (viola & harp), Guilherme Rodrigues (cello), Nuno Torres (alto sax), Eduardo Chagas (trombone), Antonio Chaparreiro (guitar), Rodrigo Pinheiro (piano & melodica), Miguel Mira (bass), Carlos Santos (electronics) and Jose Oliveira (percussion). | |
 | Rodrigues, Ernesto / Bruno Parrinha / Guilherme Rodrigues Signes Emergents (Creative Sources) |
| The trio of violist Ernesto Rodrigues, cellist Guilherme Rodrigues and clarinetist Bruno Parrinha on alto & bass clarinets are captured live at Lisboa Incomum, during the 2022 Festival DME, performing two sophisticated chamber improv works, their titles translating to "The aging skies - it's all illusion" and "Pass The Bridges If It's Windy - The Flame Of The Solemnity". | |
 | Flak / Guilherme Rodrigues / Bruno Parrinha / Ernesto Rodrigues Aeon (Creative Sources) |
| The cosmological concept of the aeon, the conflict between matter and spirit, is explored in eight "Chronicles" of collective free improvisation using impressive technique and concentrative interaction from the Portuguese quartet of Flak on acoustic guitar, Guilherme Rodrigues on cello, Bruno Parrinha on bass clarinet and Ernesto Rodrigues on violin. | |
 | Symbolist (Flinn / Rodrigues / Carroll) The Age Of Bronze (Creative Sources) |
| Improvising collaborators, percussionist Stephen Flinn and cellist Guilherme Rodrigues join with Irish improviser and composer Roy Carroll, a member of Splitter Orchestra and who works with the amplification and signal processing of diverse objects, here the trio performing an extended improvisation of exotic and transformative sonic interaction through unusual, encompassing soundscapes of exotic and transformative sonic interaction. | |
 | Rodrigues / Rodrigues / Madeira / Taylor / Parrinha / Taubenfeld / Carmelo / Trinite A Tale Unfolds (Creative Sources) |
| In four parts this primarily acoustic octet of Lisbon improvisers evolve a deceptive narrative of collective interaction, highly textured through rich combinations that emerge and subside throughout the natural development of their converstations; with Ernesto & Guilherme Rodriguez, João Madeira, Noel Taylor, Bruno Parrinha, Ziv Tuabenfeld, Guilherme Carmelo and Monsieur Trinite. | |
 | Sjostrom, Harri / Floros Floridis / Guilherme Rodrigues / Lawrence Casserley Fields (Creative Sources) |
| Two reeds, a cello and a signal processing instrument in this live electroacoustic improvisation session captured at Petersburg Art Space, in Berlin, Germany between cellist Guilherme Rodrigues, saxophonist Harri Sjostrom on soprano & sopranino using selected mutes, clarinetist Floris Floridis and electronic improvising legend Lawrence Casserley. | |
 | Rodrigues/ Rodrigues / Barbiero (The) Nature (Of Things) Likes To Hide (Creative Sources) |
| Recorded over a 3 year period, the trio of Portuguese string improvisers Ernesto Rodrigues on viola and Guilherme Rodrigues on cello met with New Haven, Connecticut double bassist & synth player Daniel Barbiero, developing this detailed, two part lowercase acoustic improvisation with a spacious, patient feeling that interacts with its ambient environment. | |
 | Rodrigues / Rodrigues / Torres / von Buttlar Leipzig (Creative Sources) |
| Named for the Leipzig, Poland location in which this live concert was recorded, the acoustic free improvising quartet of Ernesto Rodrigues on viola, Guilherme Rodrigues on cello, Nuno Torres on alto saxophone, and Johannes von Buttlar on percussion, explore extended ranges and approaches to their instrument in these building and detailed dialogs. | |
 | dis/con/sent (Petzold / Rodrigues / Rodrigues / Bauer) Munchen (Creative Sources) |
| A double opus of improvised String Quartets in four movements each, using impressive technique and exquisite pacing in this live recording captured at the Offene Ohren, in Munich, Germany, 2023 by Dietrich Petzold on violin, tenor violin, clavichord & bowed metal, Ernesto Rodrigues on viola, Guilherme Rodrigues on cello and Matthias Bauer on double bass. | |
 | Dorner / Rodrigues / Kim / Flinn Chess Music (Creative Sources) |
| A profoundly patient extended improvisation referencing the pensive and strategic decisions made in a game of chess, creating a dynamic interplay of sounds through unconvential technique in this live recording at Werkhalle Wiesenburg, Berlin from the quartet of trumpeter Axel Dorner, cellist Guilherme Rodrigues, tenor saxophonist Jung-Jae Kim and percussionist Stephen Flinn. | |
 | Rodrigues / Rodrigues Intenso como o Mar (Creative Sources) |
| With the nearly telepathic communication that only a father & son duo could have, Lisbon violist and Creative Sources label leader Ernesto Rodridgues and cellist Guilherme Rodrigues recorded these two string improvisations live at Cossoul in Lisbon during the "Esta Noite Improvisa-se", a melding of remarkable technique, concentration and profound expression. | |
 | Bechegas / Rodrigues / Rodrigues Secrets Under Trees (Creative Sources) |
| Recording at Berlin-Wedding's performance space Werkhalle Wiesenburg in the summer of 2023, the free improvising chamber trio of violist Ernesto Rodrigues and cellist Guilherme Rodrigues meet with Portuguese flutist Carlos Bechegas, bringing contemporary classical technique to an extended and energetically tempestuous improvisation and a sprightly "Time Between". | |
 | Kim / Rodrigues / Rodrigues / Cholet Taedong (Creative Sources) |
| Emulating the Korean river Taedong through it's undulating flows, uproar, flux and treachery in eleven succinct chamber-oriented improvisations from the quartet of South Korean tenor saxophonist Jung-Jae Kim, French-born South Korean-based drummer Quentin Cholet, with the Portuguese father/son duo of Ernesto Rodrigues on viola and Guilherme Rodrigues on cello. | |
| Okura / Rodrigues / Rodrigues / Buder Your Dramatic Joy (Creative Sources) |
| Father and son string improvisers Ernesto Rodrigues on viola and Guilherme Rodrigues on cello join with Berlin improvisers Fumio Okura (Ensemble 222) on violin and Hannes Buder on guitar for six collective chamber free improvisations using extraordinary technique and focus, creating parallel and converging conversations that build and recede in vigorous momentum. | |
 | Claman / Rodrigues / Rodrigues / Tallone Three Shadows (Creative Sources) |
| Berlin recordings from the lowercase chamber improvising string quartet of New Zealand violinist Sarah Claman, Portuguese violist Ernesto Rodrigues and cellist son based in Berlin, Guilherme Rodrigues, with Swiss sound artist Caroline Cecilia Tallone on electroacoustic hurdy gurdy & amplified objects, exploring three shadow aspects of "Umbra", "Penumbra" and "Antumbra". | |
| Rodrigues, Ernesto / Nuno Torres / Guilherme Rodrigues / Eric Bauer / Stephen Flinn Letters to Milena (Creative Sources) |
| Referencing the book Letters to Milena (Briefe an Milena) by Franz Kafka of his intense love affair with Czech journalist & writer Milena Jesenská, through four lettered parts of a subtly sophisticated set of improvisations by Ernesto Rodrigues (viola), Nuno Torres (alto sax), Guilherme Rodrigues (cello), Eric Bauer (electronics) and Stephen Flinn (percussion). | |
| Suspensao Serendipity (Creative Sources) |
| A fortuitous 2015 concert from the lowercase chamber/ea-improv octet Suspensão, captured live at Ler Devagar Bookstore in Lisbon from Ernesto Rodrigues (viola & harp), Guilherme Rodrigues (cello), Nuno Torres (alto sax), Eduardo Chagas (trombone), Antonio Chaparreiro (guitar), Rodrigo Pinheiro (piano & melodica), Miguel Mira (bass), Carlos Santos (electronics) and Jose Oliveira (percussion). | |
 | Rodrigues, Ernesto / Guilherme Rodrigues / Stephan Bleier Anamorphose (Creative Sources) |
| A confluence of strings from the trio of Portuguese improvisers Ernesto Rodrigues on viola and Guilherme Rodrigues on cello, performing in Berlin with double bassist Stephan Bleier, the title referring to a gradual ascending progression formed through small changes, an apt analogy for the illusory and shape-shifting approach their 5-part improvisations lead. | |
 | Rodrigues / Carvalho / Rodrigues / Valinho Eclipse (Creative Sources) |
| Emulating a solar eclipse and a lunar eclipse in two evolving improvised chamber works that take the quartet of Guilherme Rodrigues on cello, Mariana Carvalho on piano, Joao Valinho on percussion and Ernesto Rodrigues (switching from viola to harp & deploying electronics) through mysterious soundwork that move from darkness to light in detailed and subtle ways. | |
 | BERG (Keller / Rodrigues / Okuda / Rodrigues) Mesozoic (Creative Sources) |
| Berlin studio recordings from the free improvising quartet of Beat Keller on feedbacker electric guitar, Ernesto Rodrigues on violin, Rieko Okuda on piano and Guilherme Rodrigues on cello; four string players invoking the reptilian Mesozoic age through unusual approaches to their instruments, extending the palette of each while creating unexpected percussive elements. | |
 | Schindler / Rodrigues / Rodrigues / Torres Conspiratorial And Fulminate Things Happen [2 CDs] (Creative Sources) |
| The quartet of Udo Schindler on reeds, Ernesto Rodrigues on viola, Guilherme Rodrigues on cello and Nuno Torres on saxophone are heard in Munich, first in a wildly interactive live performance at Schindler's Salon successor: BASIS_Soundscape at MUCCA; then live in the studio for 7 improvisations with track titles borrowed from and under the influence of the poetry of Allen Ginsberg. | |
