COMMISSIONS / projects / prizes /

new work [2008-2009] for Court Circuit
Commissioned "Commande de l'Etat" Ministère de la Culture Français

new work [2007-2008] string quartet
Commissioned
Câmara Municipal de Matosinhos

CIRCUNDANTE CIRUCUNTÂNCIA DOS CÍRCULOS for chamber ensemble, choir and electronics [2007]
Commissioned by Casa da Música
and Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

• 104 Electroacoustic work [2007]
Commissioned by 104

MOMENT À L'EXTRÊMEMENT [2006] cello and live electronics
Commissioned by Collectif éOle

ÁGUAS MARINHAS [2005] chamber ensemble (15 instrumentalists)
Commissioned by Japan Society for Contemporary Music

ITINERÁRIO DO SAL [2004/2006] multimedia opera
Commissioned by the Portuguese Ministry of Culture with support by the DAAD and TU studio

SOIT SEUL SÛR DE SON [2004/2006] for solo violin
Commissioned by Casa da Música

ESCRITURAS [2002] flute, percussion and live electronics
Commissioned by the Portuguese Ministry of Culture

EIKO-IN ou les modèles de l’indifférence [2001/2002] for viola, trombone, piano and live electronics
Commissioned by the Portuguese Ministry of Culture together with a grant from CRFMW - Liège, Belgium

A PROCURA DE DIZER AS PALAVRAS DOS POETAS [2002] 8 speaking voices texts by several Portuguese poets
Commissioned by Teatro Viriato

DERRIÈRE SON DOUBLE [2001] for flute/bass flute, clarinet/bass clarinet, violin, viola, violoncello, piano and live electronics
Commissioned by PORTO 2001

POESIA CANTADA [2000] 8 speaking voices texts by several Portuguese poets
Commissioned by Sindicato de Poesia

O CENTRO DO EXCÊNTRICO DO CENTRO DO MUNDO [1999/2002] 16 solo voices, 2 speaking voices and live electronics, sung in Latin and old Portuguese with texts by mathematician Pedro Nunes (16th century)
Commissioned by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

SOUND PREFERENCES or A Forma do Silêncio [1999] flute, percussion, organ and live electronics
Commissioned by Gegenwelten Festival -Heidelberg

NÓNIO [1998/2002] 5 flutes and live electronics
Commissioned by the Portuguese Ministry of Culture

Sound installation for the shipping exhibition at the Seixal Ecomuseum Arrentela - Seixal – shipping section [1998/2000]
Commissioned by the Seixal Municipal Council

YUAN ZHI YUAN (from origin to origins) [1998] soprano, tenor, 6 traditional Chinese instruments, chamber choir, live electronics. Sung in Chinese using texts by the classic Taoist Huainanzi (second century B.C.)
Commissioned by Fundação Oriente

MÚSICA E TEXTURAS SONORAS [1997/1998] music and sound installation in 94 audio channels (± 300 loudspeaker) for the exhibition designed for the Knowledge of the Seas Pavilion by ARX Portugal, Lisbon – Knowledge of the Seas Pavilion, Expo ’98.
Commissioned by EXPO'98

DE L ’ÉTANT QUI LE NIE [1997] piano and live electronics
Commissioned by the Portuguese Ministry of Culture

PARFAIRE LE BLEU [1996/1998] flute, harpsichord and live electronics (version I) clarinet, piano and live electronics (version II)
Commissioned by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

PULSE CODE MODULATION: uma história industrial [1996] flute, bass flute, percussion and live electronics
Commissioned by Setúbal Municipal Council

Sound installation for the exchibition Terra-Mãe...Terra-Pão - Corroios - Seixal - Moinho de Maré [1995]
Commissioned by the Seixal Municipal Council

DU NÉANT QUI LE CROIT [1994] bassoon and live electronics
Commissioned by Fundação das Casas de Fronteira e Alorna

96 DIGITAL BELLS [1993] 8 channels electroacoustic music
Commissioned by Centro Cultural de Belém and ARX Portugal

Sound installation for architecture exhibition Realidade-Real by Nuno Mateus //ARXPortugal Lisbon - Centro Cultural de Belém [1993]
Commissioned by ARX Portugal

ÁGUA or MARÉ - NOME de PEDRA [1991] MCD 003 piccolo, flute, alto flute, percussion, water, mill stones, magnetic tape (collage of a narrative about the miller of the Corroios tidal mill and fragments of Finisterra by Carlos de Oliveira) and live electronics
Commissioned by the Seixal Municipal Council for the Corroios Tidal Mill

DÉPOSER LA FORÊT [1990] MCD 003 flute, cymbals, bells, gongs, crotales and live electronics
Commissioned by Rádio Difusão Portuguesa Antena-2

CONSTELAÇÕES [1989] MCD 003 for flute and marimba
Commissioned by Fundação das Casas de Fronteira e Alorna