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 an avant-garde violinist/violist his main interest shifted towards contemporary improvised and new music as well as graphic scores by Gerhard Stäbler, Nikolaus Gerszewski and Phil Niblock. Studies with contemporary composers Eurico Carrapatoso, Emmanuel Nunes and Pedro M. Rocha. The relationship with his instruments is focused in sonic and textural elements as well as the use of extended techniques. Electronic music was an early influence on his approach to violin playing, which challenges traditional romantic concepts of the violin and viola through use of preparations and micro tuning. Silence plays an important and determinant role in his music. Has founded and directs Variable Geometry Orchestra since 2000. A large ensemble where the conduction is operated by balancing the sound masses that travel in the acoustic space, dictating the construction of the realtime composition, and thus revealing the organized juxtaposition of specific instruments as mobile sound groups.
[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, Carlos Zíngaro and the young composer Tiago Gonçalves
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
- 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
- Musique de Chambre - IC 100, Lisbon 2002 (rec. 1986)
- 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
- Stills - CS 100, Lisbon 2007
- Doppelgänger - CS 103, Lisbon 2007
- Flexigos 007 - GOS, Lisbon 2007
- Refrain - CS 097, Lisbon 2008
- "May there be..." - CS 134, Lisbon 2008
- Ordinary Music vol. 3 - CS 136, Lisbon 2008
- Paura - The Construction of Fear - CS 139, Lisbon 2008
- Live at the Casa da Musica - VL2008-2, S. Francisco, USA 2008
- Noite - CS 142, Lisbon 2008
- Eterno Retorno - CS 144, Lisbon 2009
- GioPoetics - CS 114, Lisbon 2009
- Twrf Neus Ciglau - CS 156, Lisbon 2009
- Fower - CS 161, Lisbon 2009
- Vinter - CS 158, Lisbon 2010
- Murmúrios - CS 170, Lisbon 2010
[edit] Compilations
- Way Out - AnAnAnA MMM01, Lisbon 1999
- EMFP05 - WIRE, London 2005
- Collection d'Univers Spontanés - Insubordinations, Genève 2006
- Sonic Scope 2008 - GOS22, Lisbon 2008
