Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta KIRKOS A Dialogue Between Marcel Duchamp and Josqin des Prés (2004) audio cd
In June 17, at the Chiesa
di San Marcellino in Naples, Italy, the composer Emanuel Dimas
de Melo Pimenta created an unexpected concert-installation. Titled
Kirkos - a dialogue between Marcel Duchamp and Josqin des Prés,
the work recovers, through the use of computers, some fragments
of Duchamp's voice in real time, collected from a recording dated
from the 40s, as well as it recreates, also in real time, the
famous Missa Pange Lingua, that was the last piece by Josqin
des Prés, composed in the 16th century. This complex and
fascinating installation included more than two hundred images
created by Pimenta, which will be shown through four different
screens. «It is about a reflection on our own life and
it is also about our world, the complex and amazing civilization
that breaks, in the passage of the third millennium, all barriers
between East and West, incorporating all cultural elements as
if we would be, now, participating in the birth of a new civilisation»
- said the composer. The word kirkos, that gives the central
name to the piece, comes from the Greek and means circle, and
it explains, in many senses this important work by Pimenta, that
will remain to the history of contemporary art as a landmark.
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