This Friday, “City Walk” is released, which is no ordinary album.

This Friday, the second day of the Contemporary Music Reunions, will be the launch of a new album, at the Sala Estúdio do Teatro Aveirense, at 7 pm. It should be noted that this is not just any album. The presentation will feature live music and the presence of the composer via video conference. “City Walk: Nuno Aroso plays João Pedro Oliveira” is the first album published by Arte no Tempo as an independent label (AnTaural) and brings together works for percussion composed over ten years (2011 - 2021), by João Pedro Oliveira (Lisbon, 1959), former professor at the University of Aveiro (UA), with the particularity that all of them were premiered by Nuno Aroso, in different contexts, advances an informative note sent to Diário de Aveiro. Speaking of Nuno Aroso, the project starts precisely with this percussionist and professor at the Department of Communication and Art at UA, where he never crossed paths with João Pedro Oliveira, who has since moved to Brazil and currently holds the Corwin Endowed Chair in Composition at the University of California, Santa Barbara. With initial support from the GDA Foundation for the recording, which was carried out by Carlos Lopes at Casa da Música and Espaço Limina between December 2022 and June 2024, the recording also features the participation of students and former students gathered within the scope of Clamat - a variable collective: a laboratory for the research, dissemination and development of percussion in which Nuno Aroso introduces his “apprentices” to the professional environment and which made its public debut at the Arte no Tempo electroacoustic biennial (2020). The title piece, “City Walk”, was composed in 2020, commissioned by Arte no Tempo, with funding from the Directorate-General for the Arts, for the show “A Fog Machine e outros poemas para o teu regresso”, which Nuno Aroso and João Reis brought to the stage in 2021, with text by Gonçalo M. Tavares and premiered at Teatro Aveirense. Written for a single percussionist (Nuno Aroso), “City Walk” leaves the choice of instruments to the performer, which can be a wide variety of metal objects, as long as they correspond to eight different pitches, and different sets of eight sounds can also be used, for greater timbral diversity. “In the House of the Glass King” (2021), for vibraphone (Aroso), marimba (Henrique Ramos), percussion trio (Bernardo Cruz, João Pedro Lourenço and Vitória do Bem) and electronics, is probably the greatest testament to the influence of rock that the composer was dealing with in his adolescence. The title of the piece derives from a combination of words from “In the Court of the Crimson King”, “House of Rising Sun” and “In a Glass House”. Premiered by Nuno Aroso in Florence, the oldest piece on the album is “Vox Sum Vitae” (2011), for vibraphone and fixed electronics. The composer defines it as a representation of the sound image he retained from a morning in Germany when he was awakened by hundreds of bells calling for church worship. Commissioned by the Atelier de Composição, the piece takes its title from an inscription on a bell in Strasbourg. The album also contains “Bridges and Gardens” (2016), for four percussionists, conducted by Aroso, both on the album and on its premiere, and “Broken Loops” (2013), for two percussionists. With graphics by Carlos Santos and a 16-page bilingual libretto, the album also includes a photograph by Elsa Arrais.

Arte no Tempo is a structure based in Aveiro, supported by the Portuguese Republic - Culture/General Directorate of Arts.

This Friday, the second day of the Contemporary Music Reunions, will be the launch of a new album, at the Sala Estúdio do Teatro Aveirense, at 7 pm. It should be noted that this is not just any album. The presentation will feature live music and the presence of the composer via video conference. “City Walk: Nuno Aroso plays João Pedro Oliveira” is the first album published by Arte no Tempo as an independent label (AnTaural) and brings together works for percussion composed over ten years (2011 - 2021), by João Pedro Oliveira (Lisbon, 1959), former professor at the University of Aveiro (UA), with the particularity that all of them were premiered by Nuno Aroso, in different contexts, advances an informative note sent to Diário de Aveiro. Speaking of Nuno Aroso, the project starts precisely with this percussionist and professor at the Department of Communication and Art at UA, where he never crossed paths with João Pedro Oliveira, who has since moved to Brazil and currently holds the Corwin Endowed Chair in Composition at the University of California, Santa Barbara. With initial support from the GDA Foundation for the recording, which was carried out by Carlos Lopes at Casa da Música and Espaço Limina between December 2022 and June 2024, the recording also features the participation of students and former students gathered within the scope of Clamat - a variable collective: a laboratory for the research, dissemination and development of percussion in which Nuno Aroso introduces his “apprentices” to the professional environment and which made its public debut at the Arte no Tempo electroacoustic biennial (2020). The title piece, “City Walk”, was composed in 2020, commissioned by Arte no Tempo, with funding from the Directorate-General for the Arts, for the show “A Fog Machine e outros poemas para o teu regresso”, which Nuno Aroso and João Reis brought to the stage in 2021, with text by Gonçalo M. Tavares and premiered at Teatro Aveirense. Written for a single percussionist (Nuno Aroso), “City Walk” leaves the choice of instruments to the performer, which can be a wide variety of metal objects, as long as they correspond to eight different pitches, and different sets of eight sounds can also be used, for greater timbral diversity. “In the House of the Glass King” (2021), for vibraphone (Aroso), marimba (Henrique Ramos), percussion trio (Bernardo Cruz, João Pedro Lourenço and Vitória do Bem) and electronics, is probably the greatest testament to the influence of rock that the composer was dealing with in his adolescence. The title of the piece derives from a combination of words from “In the Court of the Crimson King”, “House of Rising Sun” and “In a Glass House”. Premiered by Nuno Aroso in Florence, the oldest piece on the album is “Vox Sum Vitae” (2011), for vibraphone and fixed electronics. The composer defines it as a representation of the sound image he retained from a morning in Germany when he was awakened by hundreds of bells calling for church worship. Commissioned by the Atelier de Composição, the piece takes its title from an inscription on a bell in Strasbourg. The album also contains “Bridges and Gardens” (2016), for four percussionists, conducted by Aroso, both on the album and on its premiere, and “Broken Loops” (2013), for two percussionists. With graphics by Carlos Santos and a 16-page bilingual libretto, the album also includes a photograph by Elsa Arrais.

Arte no Tempo is a structure based in Aveiro, supported by the Portuguese Republic - Culture/General Directorate of Arts.

This Friday, the second day of the Contemporary Music Reunions, will be the launch of a new album, at the Sala Estúdio do Teatro Aveirense, at 7 pm. It should be noted that this is not just any album. The presentation will feature live music and the presence of the composer via video conference. “City Walk: Nuno Aroso plays João Pedro Oliveira” is the first album published by Arte no Tempo as an independent label (AnTaural) and brings together works for percussion composed over ten years (2011 - 2021), by João Pedro Oliveira (Lisbon, 1959), former professor at the University of Aveiro (UA), with the particularity that all of them were premiered by Nuno Aroso, in different contexts, advances an informative note sent to Diário de Aveiro. Speaking of Nuno Aroso, the project starts precisely with this percussionist and professor at the Department of Communication and Art at UA, where he never crossed paths with João Pedro Oliveira, who has since moved to Brazil and currently holds the Corwin Endowed Chair in Composition at the University of California, Santa Barbara. With initial support from the GDA Foundation for the recording, which was carried out by Carlos Lopes at Casa da Música and Espaço Limina between December 2022 and June 2024, the recording also features the participation of students and former students gathered within the scope of Clamat - a variable collective: a laboratory for the research, dissemination and development of percussion in which Nuno Aroso introduces his “apprentices” to the professional environment and which made its public debut at the Arte no Tempo electroacoustic biennial (2020). The title piece, “City Walk”, was composed in 2020, commissioned by Arte no Tempo, with funding from the Directorate-General for the Arts, for the show “A Fog Machine e outros poemas para o teu regresso”, which Nuno Aroso and João Reis brought to the stage in 2021, with text by Gonçalo M. Tavares and premiered at Teatro Aveirense. Written for a single percussionist (Nuno Aroso), “City Walk” leaves the choice of instruments to the performer, which can be a wide variety of metal objects, as long as they correspond to eight different pitches, and different sets of eight sounds can also be used, for greater timbral diversity. “In the House of the Glass King” (2021), for vibraphone (Aroso), marimba (Henrique Ramos), percussion trio (Bernardo Cruz, João Pedro Lourenço and Vitória do Bem) and electronics, is probably the greatest testament to the influence of rock that the composer was dealing with in his adolescence. The title of the piece derives from a combination of words from “In the Court of the Crimson King”, “House of Rising Sun” and “In a Glass House”. Premiered by Nuno Aroso in Florence, the oldest piece on the album is “Vox Sum Vitae” (2011), for vibraphone and fixed electronics. The composer defines it as a representation of the sound image he retained from a morning in Germany when he was awakened by hundreds of bells calling for church worship. Commissioned by the Atelier de Composição, the piece takes its title from an inscription on a bell in Strasbourg. The album also contains “Bridges and Gardens” (2016), for four percussionists, conducted by Aroso, both on the album and on its premiere, and “Broken Loops” (2013), for two percussionists. With graphics by Carlos Santos and a 16-page bilingual libretto, the album also includes a photograph by Elsa Arrais.

Arte no Tempo is a structure based in Aveiro, supported by the Portuguese Republic - Culture/General Directorate of Arts.