Tríade Maior - Unfold, 2023, Eurorack modular synthesizer, Electro dynamical exciter, power amplifier

Taffimai, Lisbon

"Every sound was created by Carminho singing the Harry Partch scale note by note using different “articulations” (aaaahs, taaaaas, eeeehs, etc.). I broke all of the notes down individually and it left me with a kit of one-shots that I used for this piece.

— João Pimenta Gomes on his work Doppelgänger (with Carminho and Harry Partch), 2021

For the new project of Janela Taffimai, the artist João Pimenta Gomes proposes a new way of experiencing this creative place, through a sound piece that, using speakers installed in the window glass itself, invites us to approach, to feel the vibration that music echoes in the physical matter of glass. Tríade Maior reveals the artist's sound experiments over the last two years, made in a studio with a modular synthesizer. Pimenta Gomes creates sound fragments that unfold in a very progressive way, first through LFOs [Low Frequency Oscillators] that below 20 Hz allow to generate a rhythmic pulse, and later, when experimenting with the successive repetition of these sounds, he changes them manually and adds new elements that complicate the melody. The result is a slow song, inspired by Unfinished Music No. 1 and 2 by Yoko Ono and John Lennon, musical references that helped him find free sequences of succession of notes, or concrete rhythmic ideas.

Photos: Pedro Tropa