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This text investigates the use of hybrid notations, involving cartographic techniques, musical notation and calendarization, to analyze and propose rhythmic situations based on categories such as duration, measure, tempos, dynamics and scales, crossing “natural” rhythms (circadian cycles, solar years, etc.) and “cultural” rhythms (working weeks, event calendars, etc.).
Rhythmic inflections in street parties in Bahia. Based on the articulation of the concepts of revelry, function and slack, I analyse the rhythms of Salvador's summer parties, including the graphic representation of the parties' score-calendar.
The self-perception of human beings as distinct from other creatures is at the root of the threat to ecosystems posed by the Anthropocene. The Anthropocene is therefore a humanist dilemma. Could the relationship between inter-species expression and communication (such as contact with the aesthetic world of insects) be capable of activating a critical listening and perspectivist reflection on the Anthropocene? Based on multidisciplinary references (bioacoustics, ethology, cultural entomology, biomusicology), the implications of a possible music of insects are discussed, as a result of the reflections that emerged in the research process of the 'entomúsica' project (a neologism merging the root 'entomo' [insect], and music). Entomúsica, in this context, means: music made by, with or for insects.
When talking about "urban music", I'm referring not only to the presence of musicians in public spaces separated from an audience of passers-by, but also to everyday musicalities: the preaching of vendors, portable sound-systems, percussive performances on the bodyworks of buses and cars and other typical examples of Salvador's urban culture. This urban music contributes to the creation of a common time, in other words, shared temporalities and rhythms.
This text seeks to theorise about "phonetic music" by investigating the process of creating a "phonemotet". Phonetic music is defined here as the creative use of speech sounds as musical material. "Phonetic music", however, is not a term commonly used in the field of musicology(ies) (including the various disciplines that make up the field: ethnomusicology, music psychology, music analysis and theory, performance...). This text provides a conceptual and practical (poetic) overview of the relationship between speech sounds and musical composition processes.