Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta

emanuel dimas de melo pimenta
concerts, exhibitions, events

Legendary musicians like David Tudor, Takehisa Kosugi, John Tilbury, Christian Wolff, Martha Mooke, John DS Adams, Maurizio Barbetti, Michael Pugliese, Umberto Petrin, Susie Georgetis, Audrey Riley and the Manhattan Quartet among others have performed his compositions. His concerts have been performed in some of the most prestigious theatres all over the world, like the Lincoln Center and The Kitchen in New York; the Opera Garnier or the Theatre de La Ville in Paris; the Shinjuku Bunka Center in Tokyo; la Fenice in Venice; the Montpellier Municipal Theatre, the Aix en Provence Festival, the Modern Art Museum in Sao Paulo, the Bienniale of Venice and the Bienniale of Sao Paulo among others. His concerts of music integrating visual art have been performed in various countries in the last thirty years. One of the most important moments of the beginning of his career was his great concert at the anthological 18th Biennial of Sao Paulo, for four large orchestras, in 1985, when the Biennial also received John Cage, Francesco Clemente, Sandro Chia and Robert Raushemberg among others. Among his many celebrated projects around the world there are RAWWAR in Portugal, in 2005; ZYKLUS, also in 2005, which had an audience estimated in more than three hundred thousand people along fifteen days of continuous performance in the city of Locarno, in Switzerland; DEEP OCEAN, in 2005, also in Switzerland, in Lausanne, near Geneva, at the EPFL Technology Institute, with the support of NOAA - the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, of the United States; DR. JEKYLL AND MR. X, in 2004, based on the film Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in its 1932 version, in the Amalfi Coast, Italy; ABELL 2218, at the Experimental Intermedia Foundation in New York City in 2004; KIRKOS - A Dialogue Between Marcel Duchamp and Jusqin des Près, in Naples, in 2004, and many more. Both on architecture and music, his works have been exhibited and are part of important collections, like the Bienniale of Venice, the Bienniale of Sao Paulo, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Streaming Museum, the Whitney Museum of New York, the Cultural Centre of Sao Paulo, MASP - the Museum of Modern Art of Sao Paulo, MART - Contemporary and Modern Art Museum of Rovereto and Trento and the Electronic Art Museum of Seattle, among many others. See bellow some of his concerts, exhibitions, lectures and events.




			2008 Streaming New York \| world	2008 DANTE electronic opera
HOLOTOPIA ACADEMY Punta Campanella	2008 SETI New York	2008 Deep Ocean New York	2007 Orez Trancoso Portugal	2007 Logical Traps United Kingdom - Portugal
2007 Leonardo Locarno Switzerland	2007 Kepler's Vestiges Trancoso Portugal	2007 Hidden Beings Locarno - Switzerland	2007 Ghed Trancoso Portugal	2007 Mondo Georgetown University
2007 Spirit of Discovery II Trancoso Portugal	FACTO Trancoso Portugal	2006 Erdos Budapest Hungary	2006 EET Trancoso Portugal	2006 Spirit of Discovery I Trancoso Portugal
2005 Zyklus Locarno Switzerland	2005 Rawwar Lisbon Portugal	2005 Deep Ocean EPFL Lausanne Switzerland	2004 Abell2218 EIF New York	2004 Fifteen Stones Locarno - Switzerland
2003 Seti EIF New York	2003 Kirkos Italy	2003 Holotopia Italy	2003 Art Forum Italy
2003 MART Italy	2002 Celebrate Cage New York	1998 ISIS Symmetry Haifa - Israel	1997 Janus Lisbon Portugal	1995-2007 BES Ernesto de Sousa Fellowship