D       E       O
emanuel dimas de melo pimenta

part of L like Liberty Project




dedicated to
the people of Bolognano




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recorded and filmed at
Casa della Musica
Bolognano, Italy, 2021 November

Sandro Botticelli - Primavera (Spring) late 1470s or early 1480s, Tempera on panel, 202 cm × 314 cm (80 in × 124 in) - Uffizi Gallery, Florence

 

DEO (YouTube)

 

Emanuel Pimenta

Casa della Musica

L like Liberty

Bolognano

Joseph Beuys Museum

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Blind obedience to authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
Albert Einstein

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
John Cage

To make people free is the aim of art, therefore art for me is the science of liberty.
Joseph Beuys

DEO is another name for the Greek goddess Demeter, who is also related to Ceres, goddess of liberty, and to Liber Pater, god of wine and liberty.
The word Demeter has its ancient etymological origins in the Indo European *met, which indicated the idea of mother, of a generating element, of creative energy, and which was related to matter and mind, from which these words originated.
On the other hand, the Indo European root *D indicated the idea of light and generated our word "god" (deus in Latin).
For the philologist and scholar of the classical world Martin Litchfield West, who lived between 1937 and 2015, Demeter would result from the fusion of da- (meaning "earth") and -matura (meaning "mother").
In India, the earth-goddess is Bhumi, also known as Prithvi or Prithvi Mata, meaning 'the Vast One'.
So we could understand DEO as the earth-goddess… a goddess of matter and mind.
We are rarely aware that we are the Earth! About 60% of our bodies are made up of beings with non-human DNA. We are colonies of many different beings. Our skins are covered with them. When we feel an emotion, for example, it is bacteria in our intestines that produce a large part of our neurotransmitters responsible for what we feel.
To leave the Earth means to expand it.
Our way of thinking is directly related to the Earth, to Nature.
This reminds me of two moments in Krishnamurti's thought: "It is utterly and irrevocably possible to empty all hurts and therefore to love, to have compassion. To have compassion means to have passion for all things, not just between two people, but for all human beings, for all things of the earth, the animals, the trees - everything the earth contains. When we have such compassion we will not despoil the earth as we are doing now and we will have no wars. (...) All life is a movement in relationship. There is no living thing on earth which is not related to something or other".
Therefore, the individual is and is not, separation exists and does not exist - revealing the logic of the universe of quantum physics.
Thus, when we admire Nature, we are admiring ourselves, because what we see is what we are.
But none of this happens when there is no thought. And when that happens, conflicts of all kinds emerge, war, races against races, duels between brothers, friends, parents, children, and so on - just as happens in the forest when the zero-sum game dominates. Only when there is thought, civis, is there liberty - because thought implies knowledge of the other.
That is the first nature of Deo.
And that is the primary sign of liberty.
That is why Demeter is closely related to earth, spring, love, wine, peace, liberty, wisdom and knowledge.
When we look around us, what is the nature of order that stands out? The answer lies in an order of a teleological nature - it is the cars, streets, houses, human-made objects, popular music, manufactured objects - all obedient to a teleological strategy, of a strongly hierarchical nature. Think of something as simple as a table. It is basically a tabletop and three or four feet. Something that has been teleologically "thought out" for its function. Go to the movies: the movie you watched was made for a purpose, articulating everything to communicate something in terms of a hierarchical order designed by the human. The same is true of practically everything that surrounds us. Everything is intentionally elaborated to achieve an end.
Whenever this happens, there is a dramatic decrease in what we call intelligence, which implies diversity and discovery. Everything being intentionally hierarchical and leading to expected ends, expected functions, everything becomes entertainment.
Entertainment is the absence of thought, as was the case in the Nazi universe or in any other kind of totalitarianism. It eliminates critical vision, the capacity to react to authoritarian determinations - entertainment produces the obedient and blind mass of sheep.
Critical vision implies knowledge and liberty. This reminds me of a thought by Albert Einstein when, in 1933, he said, "I cannot understand the passive reaction of the entire civilized world to this modern barbarism. Can't the world see that Hitler's goal is war?!" - it should be emphasized: Einstein said that in 1933! Isn't this somehow exactly what we are living today, when the elements of liberty are daily suppressed in the name of a supposed good of all? What could be the result with the end of liberty but totalitarianism and war? How can we understand the passive reaction of the entire civilized world?
Therefore, more than forty years ago I started to question this logical principle that makes almost everything that is material and that constitutes us as humans, as unconscious, always possess a strongly hierarchical, similar and teleological logical nature - leading to the annulment of difference and, in this way, of consciousness and thought. I started elaborating paratactic logical structures, by coordination, which trigger a process of perception and cognition that follow the principle of Chaos Theory, and which determine, therefore, a different logical universe, unchaining a process of self-knowledge, of questioning, of criticism.

Only difference produces consciousness - and by this means, the conflict of two different logical orders, triggers a state of consciousness.
This is the ultimate meaning of Deo: thought.
When one is faced with a different logical order, he or she has the contradictory sensation of "already knowing" and "strangeness".
DEO is a composition for transverse flute solo, composed in 2021 as part of the larger project entitled L like Liberty, which is made up of movies, concerts, texts, images and so on.
All musical notes were set according to chance operations in a stochastic system. I started from a piece by Erik Satie and the process resulted in a transformation of the old order of sounds.
The new order leads to a new state.
The world premiere of DEO took place at Casa della Musica in Bolognano, in the mountains of Abruzzo, Italy, in October 2021.

The recording of DEO at Casa della Musica, created with Lucrezia De Domizio more than twenty years ago, in the year 2000, was a version for two transverse flutes, both played by me.
The score of DEO allows the performer to freely choose the order of the pages, and in the case of two or more flutes playing together, one must not know the order of the other.

Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta
Locarno 2022
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Casa della Musica
Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta
2019


Bolognano
photo by Emanuel Pimenta
1999


Joseph Beuys Square and
Palace Durini
photo by Emanuel Pimenta 2019


Bolognano
photo by Emanuel Pimenta
2019


Lucrezia De Domizio,
Baroness Durini celebrating
at Palace Durini, 2019


Joseph Beuys' house in
Bolognano
photo by Emanuel Pimenta 1999


Giorgo d'Orazio, Emanuel
Pimenta and Lucrezia De Domizio
at Joseph Beuys Museum
2019