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, Francesco Cuoghi 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 City; 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 and 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 Biennale of Sao Paulo, for four large orchestras, in 1985, when the Biennale 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; CANTO 6409 at the Cannes International Film Festival; or his opera DANTE, considered the first opera on Dante Alighieri in the history of music, and many more. Both on architecture and music, and also photography, his works have been exhibited and are part of important collections, like the Biennale of Venice, the Biennale of Sao Paulo, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Streaming Museum of New York, the Whitney Museum of New York, the Cultural Centre of Sao Paulo, MASP - the Museum of Modern Art of Sao Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, MART - Contemporary and Modern Art Museum of Rovereto and Trento and the Cyber Art Museum of Seattle, among many others. See bellow some of his concerts, exhibitions, lectures and events. Unfortunately, only a few of his concerts were registered on video - to see some of them click here. You can also listen his concerts in his radio online.

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STliz Fano | Italy | 2012
As Time Goes By Abstracta Festival | Rome | 2011
KAIROS orbital building Amalfi Coast, New York, Lisbon | 2011
IYOBH Ubicities | USP | 2011
Ballet de Lorraine Concert | Nancy | 2011
MARS Concert | Lisbon | 2011
MAJA Concert | 2010
LEONARDO 2010 Locarno | 2010
LIMIT Lecture at Locarno | 2010
15 STONES Lisbon | 2010
XUACSAL Second Life Concert | 2010
KOELLREUTTER 95 anos | 95 years | 2010
TIME ZERO 2009 romanian cultural institute | new york
concert at BABYLON 2009 berlin | germany
MAT 2009 oldenburg | germany
LEPTON 2009 archetime | new york
CANTO 6409 2009 International Film Festival Cannes
MICROCOSMOS 2009 concert for Daniel Charles, Nice
CENTRAL PARK 20 YEARS photographic essay
SOULS 35 years photographic essay
LOW POWER SOCIETY New York | world
2008 Streaming Museum 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