‘Luiz Vaz 73’ in the CAM Collection
In the centenary year of the birth of the multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker, curator, critic and essayist Ernesto de Sousa, the Modern Art Centre, in collaboration with the Foundation’s Music Department and musicologist Jaime Reis, presents on the stage of the Grande Auditório the mixed-media work ‘Luiz Vaz 73’ (1975-1976), a project by Ernesto de Sousa (Lisbon, 1921-1988) and Jorge Peixinho (Montijo, 1940 – Lisbon, 1995).
The presentation also marks the incorporation of the physical work of the two artists and associated documentation in the CAM Collection (2019), thus completing a cycle of works of conservation (restoration, digitalisation of analogue slides and digital transcription of magnetic tapes), study and material and historical reconstitution of the work.
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Excerpt from the presentation of the work ‘Luiz Vaz 73’. Grand Auditorium Stage, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 2 June 2021
The title ‘Luiz Vaz 73’ evokes the work ‘Os Lusíadas’ [The Lusiads], by Luiz Vaz de Camões, published 400 years previously in Lisbon, in 1573. The ten cantos of the epic poem inspired the composition of a work of electronic music – an electronic ‘symphonic poem’ – with the same title, produced by Jorge Peixinho in Ghent, at the Institute for Psychoacoustics and Electronic Music, between 1973 and 1974. In 1975, Jorge Peixinho and Ernesto de Sousa began working on the Luiz Vaz 73 ‘musical-visual engagement’, based on four of the poem’s ten cantos (I, III, IX and X).
The collaborative work ‘Luiz Vaz 73‘ is simultaneously a spatial, visual, and sound project, based on a visual and a musical structure, features live instrumental improvisation (acoustic abd unconventional instruments, mostly the originals that Jorge Peixinho used) by the Lisbon Contemporary Music Group, founded by the composer in 1970.
This presentation followed the script of the presentation of the project at the National Gallery of Contemporary Art in Belém in 1976, which at the time had the plastic collaboration of Fernando Calhau in the conception of the space, and was attended by GMCL members Ana Castanhito (harp), Jorge Sá Machado (cello), José Sá Machado (violin), João Pereira Coutinho (flute), Luís Gomes (clarinet), Ricardo Mateus (viola d’arco), under the direction of Jaime Reis, who was also responsible for the spatial diffusion of Jorge Peixinho’s electronic music.
The work was presented in two sessions on 2 June 2021, accompanied by a brochure that can be downloaded free of charge.
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