Tnok (2024) - Paulo Bastos
Channel: Paulo Bastos
Date: 20/02/2024

IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE (WOW) is my latest electronic work. I composed the 16 songs on this album in the last 3 weeks, you could even say that some of these pieces didn't mature as much as they could have, but nevertheless, that's how it all happened, there's no disguising the impulsive nature of this work.
Some of the pieces on this album reflect the vision I have of many of the things around me, the idiosyncrasies of things, people, tics, habits and language. For example, the fact that the album begins with a piece called "Dizer que", one of those common language tics of our times, starting a sentence with the infinitive. For what purpose? But also the very "in" Anglicism of "input" as a form of basic substitution for the word stimulus, people need "inputs" a lot, they want to give "inputs", so, nonsense embedded in our beautiful language, in our cultural identity. Then there's the cartoonish absurdity of "You've got to talk to Davida!", a song that expresses linguistic and social affectation taken to the point of ridicule.
Finally, I'd like to comment on the very title of this album, the ironic "IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE (WOW)" in capital letters, because everyone has to HEAR it, as if we didn't hear it in lower case, the permanent and modern need for all experiences of musical enjoyment now to be immersive and incredible, another curious thing at the moment, everything is incredible, WOW or WOW, as you like!
I leave the impulsiveness of musical works, without filters, without maturation (3 weeks only), without anything that is not just and only, music, I hope...

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Released February 12, 2024 © all rights reserved
Tags: classical, electronic, acousmatic composition, contemporary classical