Listening to GLOSSOLALIA

by Barbara Engelmann

Whenever Miguel Martins describes one of the musical projects of “A Favola da Medusa” to me he gives me a warning: very experimental, noisy, crazy. He defines them as “very free”. They are very “free”, in fact  - free of musical conventions and restrictions. They are a crossover, which overcomes the frontiers of our listening habits – a challenge and an opportunity to whoever is ready to listen.

The band’s or rather the collective’s latest project GLOSSOLALIA appears to be the utmost elaboration of the artistic understanding that fuels the creativity of “A Favola da Medusa”:

Glossolalia means pronouncing words or sounds in a foreign “language” – unknown to the listener, unfamiliar, not yet explored – may be mystical. Glossolalia is the appropriate title for this project, which melts various elements of our perception, like music, sounds, noises, words, breath… into a soundscape, which opens the opportunity to cross familiar horizons, to open ears, heart, mind to something which may appear as strange, noisy, crazy, experimental … but actually offers a different way of listening, not only to these sounds, but to a whole cosmos of acoustic possibilities – free of restrictive conventions.

The project involves 18 artists, all named on the front of the cover, without revealing the character of their individual contribution, like voice, musical  instrument, text, technical or conceptional support – whatever adds to the creation of this artistic possibility: open, free – and at the same time demanding.

 

 

Studio Harcourt

 

1924

 

 

 

The Kirchner Museum, Davos, Switzerland

 https://kirchnermuseum.ch/en/

Mais 10 de Sábado (fotos de Liliana Pacheco)

 

 

 

 

 

Lino Guerreiro - Clarinet Solo IV (2023)

Documentary: André Schäfer & Tabea Sperl's "La montagne magique" - Thomas Mann et son roman emblématique (2024)

 

Documentary: Nicolas Autheman's Le diamant d'Ingres (2022)

 

 

Mais algumas de Sábado

 (Fotos: Ana Água & Luís França.)

Michele Marieschi

 

Hoje (mesmo a não perder)

 

primeiras de ontem

(foto: Sílvia.)
 

The Ornett̲e̲ C̲o̲l̲e̲m̲a̲n̲ Double Q̲uartet – ̲F̲ree J̲azz (A Collect̲ive̲ I̲m̲provisation) (1961)

A minha agenda, a minha agenda

30/11 - Leitura musicada de um texto de Mariana Pinto dos Santos na livraria das Edições do Saguão (Lisboa) - Rui Miguel Ribeiro, Ana Água, Miguel Martins + João Pedro Viegas (clarinete baixo);

14/12 - Concerto de A Favola da Medusa na galeria Safra (Lisboa) - Miguel Martins (piano), João Pedro Viegas (saxofones), Mário Rua (bateria), Ana Água (voz), Jorge Nuno (guitarra eléctrica); 

17/12 - Apresentação dos novos livros de m. parissy, Gabriela Ludovice e António de Miranda, com prefácios de Filipe Homem Fonseca, Levi Condinho e Raquel Serejo Martins, no Templo da Poesia (Oeiras).

Primeira quinzena de Junho de 2025 - 6ª Noite de Jazz & Poesia - Elenco provisório: colectivo Homem do Saco, Ana Zanatti, Catarina Santiago Costa, João Pedro Viegas, Carlos Zíngaro, Paulo Galão - Feira do Livro (Madrid).

 

 (Thanks, Vasco.)

 

Ontem, em casa do Viegas

 (Camarão da costa, lapas dos Açores, jardineira de mão de vaca e maçãs assadas.)