Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta, born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, has been considered an important musician, architect and intermedia artist in the beginning of the third millennium - according to statements written by personalities like John Cage, Ornette Coleman, Merce Cunningham, René Berger, Dove Bradshaw or William Anastasi among others.


His works are included in some of the most expressive art collections and world-wide recognised institutions like the Whitney Museum of New York, the ARS AEVI Contemporary Art Museum, the Biennial of Venice, the Computer Art Museum of Seattle, the Kunsthaus of Zurich, the Durini Contemporary Art Collection, the Bibliotèque Nationale of Paris and the MART - Modern Art Museum of Rovereto and Trento among others.


He develops music, architecture and urban projects using Virtual Reality and cyberspace technologies.


His concerts of music integrating visual art have been performed in various countries in the last thirty years. An important moment was his great concert at the Biennial of Sao Paulo, for four large orchestras, in 1985, side by side with 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 300,000 people along fifteen days of continuous performance at 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 Naples, Italy; ABELL 2218, at the Experimental Intermedia Foundation in New York City in 2004; KIRKOS - A Dialogue Between Marcel Duchamp and Josqin des Près, in Naples, in 2004, and many more.


His works are included in the Universalis Encyclopaedia (Britannica) since 1991, in the Sloninsky Baker's Music Dictionary (Berkeley), the Charles Hall's Chronology of the Western Classical Music, as well as in the All Music Guide - The Expert's Guide to the Best Cds.


Legendary musicians like John Cage, 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.


He collaborated with John Cage, as commissioned composer for
Merce Cunningham, from 1985 until his disappearance in 1992. He remains commissioned composer for Merce Cunningham in New York. Not only, he has been composer for several companies like the Appels Company in New York among others.


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, the Montpellier Municipal Theatre, the Festival of Aix en Provence, the Modern Art Museum in Sao Paulo, and the Biennial of Sao Paulo among others.


Articles on his works have appeared in different newspapers and magazines, like the New York Times, Le Monde, Le Parisien, O Estado de Sao Paulo, O Expresso, and O Globo, Il Sole 24 Ore, la Reppublica, among others.


With more than four hundred musical compositions already recorded, twenty published compact discs, four cd-roms, he has wrote and published about thirty books, several of them individually, and several papers. His works have been regularly published in England, the United States, Japan, the Netherlands, Portugal, Brazil, Germany, Switzerland, Hungary, Italy and Spain.


He has also been curator for various institutions, like the Biennial of Sao Paulo, in Brazil; the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, in Portugal; the Triennial of Milan, in Italy; and the Belem Cultural Centre, in Lisbon, among others.


In the early 1980s Emanuel Pimenta coined the concept virtual architecture, later largely used in universities all over the world. Since the end of the 1970s he has developed graphical musical notations inside virtual environments.


He won the National Marketing Prize in 1977 by the Brazilian Association of Marketing; the APCA Prize in 1986 by the Art Critics Association of Sao Paulo; and the Lac Maggiore Prize in 1994 by the Lombardia Regional Government, the International Association of Art Critics, the Unesco and the Council of Europe, in Locarno, Switzerland. In 1993 his works were selected by the Unesco, in Paris, as one of the most representative intermedia researchers of the world.


He is member of the SACD - Societè des Autheurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques in Paris since 1991. He also is an active member of the European Environmental Tribunal, http://www.eeft.org/eeft.html, in London, where he has been member of the board since 1995. He is an active member of the New York Academy of Sciences, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington DC and of the ASMP - American Society of Media Photographers. He is member and advisor of the AIVAC - Association Internationale pour la Video dans les Arts et la Culture, in Locarno, Switzerland. He was a founding member of the International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry - ISIS Symmetry, in Budapest.


He is member of the jury of the
BES Fellowship (Experimental Intermedia Foundation of New York, the Luso American Foundation and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation) since 1995.


He was Editorial Director of the art and culture magazine RISK Arte Oggi, in Milan, from 1995 to 2005. He is also member of the Advisory Editorial Board of the science magazine Forma, in Tokyo, Japan; and of the art and philosophy magazine Technoetic Arts, in Bristol, England.


He studied with Hans Joachim Koellreutter (Paul Hindemith, Hermann Scherchen, Marcel Moyse), Demetrio Lima (Jean Pierre Rampal), Eduardo Corona, Eduardo Kneese de Mello (Alvar Aalto, Walter Gropius), Decio Pignatari (Roman Jakobson), Holger Czukai (Karlheinz Stockhausen), Conrado Silva (Olivier Messiaen) and Roti Nielba Turin (Haroldo de Campos) among others. He took part in various workshops and master classes on architecture with Kenzo Tange, Oscar Niemeyer, Yona Friedman, Peter Cook (Archigram) and Charles Moore among others.


Mr. Pimenta has been frequently invited, as professor and lecturer, by several institutions, among then the universities of New York, Georgetown, Lisbon, Florence, Lausanne, Tsukuba, Sao Paulo, Palermo, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Monte Verita Foundation in Switzerland and the Technion Institute in Haifa, Israel.


He his founder and director of the contemporary music and art festival
HOLOTOPIA, in the Amalfi Coast. He is also founder and director of the Foundation for Arts, Sciences and Technology - Observatory, in Trancoso, Portugal.

 

MUSICAL EDITIONS

MUSIC FOR 144 VOICES
Year:1987
Music for 144 Voices (1987)
Source (1987)
Cassette Tape
EPITAPES, Ohio, United States

DIGITAL MUSIC
Year: 1989
Rings (1989)
Rozart (1989)
Structure 2 (1988)
Short Waves 1985 (1985)
Compact Disc
MODE Records - MODE 21, New York, United States

INTRA-UTERINE SOUNDS
Year: 1992
Intra-Uterine Sounds (1990)
Cassette Tape
EPITAPES, Ohio, United States

THE GREAT NEW WORLD IN ENVIRONMENT AND ACCELERATION
Year: 1993
Eyes and Ears (1993)
Compact Disc
V2 Organisation, Roterdan, the Netherlands

ARES
Year: 1996
Ares Concert
Compact Disc (65 minutes)
CMC-101
ASA Art and Technology, London, United Kingdom

L'OBIETTIVO DELL'ARTE DI BUBY DURINI
Year: 1997
Andromeda Concert
Compact Disc (57 minutes)
CMCX-201
ASA Art and Technology, London, United Kingdom
Il Clavicembalo, Milan, Italy

WARE
Year: 1997
in WAY OUT
Compact Disc
AnAnAnA - HHH001
AnAnAnA, Lisbon, Portugal

BOOK ONE
Year: 1997
Book One Concert
Compact Disc
CMC-102
ASA Art and Technology, London, United Kingdom

DIFESA DELLA NATURA
Year: 1998
Original Soundtrack of the film Joseph Beuys - Difesa della Natura
Compact Disc
CMC-103
ASA Art and Technology, London, United Kingdom

PESSOA
Year: 1999
Compact Disc
CMC-104
ASA Art and Technology, London, United Kingdom

OLIVESTONE
Year: 1999
Original Soundtrack for the film Joseph Beuys - Olivestone
Compact Disc
CMC-105
ASA Art and Technology, London, United Kingdom

TURNING POINT
Year: 2001
Compact Disc
CMC-106
ASA Art and Technology, London, United Kingdom

SMALL ELECTROACOUSTIC PIECE #6
Year: 2001
in EXPLORATORY MUSIC FROM PORTUGAL
Compact Disc
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, London

HLMRPHSS
Year: 2001
Concert at the MEIAC Museum of Contemporary Art, Spain
Compact Disc
CMC-107
ASA Art and Technology, London, United Kingdom

DARK CENTRAL PARK
Year: 2001
Concert for Ars Electronica, Austria
Compact Disc
CMC-108
ASA Art and Technology, London, United Kingdom

Music for Merce Cunningham
Year: 2003
The Concerts for Merce Cunningham, includes the concert at the Lincoln Center, New York City, in 2002, with Takehisa Kosugi and Christian Wolff
Compact Disc
CMC-109
ASA Art and Technology, London, United Kingdom

Music for John
Year: 2003
Concert for MART Contemporary Art Museum of Rovereto and Trento, Italy
Compact Disc
CMC-110
ASA Art and Technology, London, United Kingdom

18/6 - The Silence of the Music
Year: 2003
Concert for MART Contemporary Art Museum of Rovereto and Trento, Italy
Compact Disc
CMC-111
ASA Art and Technology, London, United Kingdom

KIRKOS - A Dialogue Between Marcel Duchamp and Josqin des Prés
Year: 2004
Compact Disc
CMC-112
ASA Art and Technology, London, United Kingdom

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. X
Year: 2004
Compact Disc
CMC-113
ASA Art and Technology, London, United Kingdom

Diary of Seychelles
Original Soundtrack for the film Joseph Beuys - Diary of Seychelles
Year: 2004
Compact Disc
CMC-114
ASA Art and Technology, London, United Kingdom

YARNAM
Year: 2004
Compact Disc
CMC-115
ASA Art and Technology, London, United Kingdom

DEEP OCEAN
Year: 2006
Compact Disc
CMC-116
ASA Art and Technology, London, United Kingdom

ZYKLUS
Year: 2006
Compact Disc
CMC-116
ASA Art and Technology, London, United Kingdom

ABELL2218
Year: 2006
Compact Disc
CMC-118
ASA Art and Technology, London, United Kingdom


CD-ROMS

VIRTUAL ARCHITECTURE
Year: 1997
For the exhibition Virtual Architecture in Lisbon
Trans-Formers #1
ASA Art and Technology, London, United Kingdom

NOTATIONS
Year: 2001
Theory of Music
CDC101
ASA Art and Technology, London, United Kingdom

SOULS
Year: 2001
Photography
CDC102
ASA Art and Technology, London, United Kingdom


PUBLISHED BOOKS (on paper, please click here to see the published ebooks)

LAGOA DA CANOA (1974-1975)
Tales, 80 pages
MG Editions, 1980
Sao Paulo, Brazil

MARESIA (1975-1976)
Poetry, 124 pages
MG Editions, 1980
Sao Paulo, Brazil

TAPAS - ARCHITECTURE AND THE UNCONSCIOUS
the impermanence of things and ideas (1981-1985)
theory of architecture, 180 pages
PROJETO Editions, 1985
Sao Paulo, Brazil

VIRTUAL ARCHITECTURE
virtual environments and architecture (1981-1991)
architecture, 230 pages
ASA Art and Technology, 1991
London, England

PLANNING AND GROUP STRATEGY
Planning and architecture (paper)
INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH (Great Britain), 1991
Lisbon, Portugal

ARCHITECTURE, MARKET AND CREATIVITY
Theory of architecture (paper)
INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH (Great Britain), 1992
Lisbon, Portugal

SPACE, ARCHITECTURE AND THE UNCONSCIOUS
Theory of architecture (paper)
International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry, 1992
Budapest, Hungary

ROME (1989)
Theory of architecture (paper)
ASA Art and Technology, 1992
United Kingdom

HOW MANY SENSES DO WE NEED? (1987)
in ART AND TECHNOLOGY
theory of architecture
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 1993
Lisbon, Portugal

ARCHITECTURE ET ART VIDÉO (1993)
Theory of architecture (paper)
VideoArt Festival -AICA, UNESCO and the Council of Europe, 1993
Locarno, Switzerland

KATACHI (1994)
Theory of architecture (paper)
International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry Symposium, 1993
Tsukuba, Japan

VIRTUAL ARCHITECTURE
Theory of Architecture
Architecti, 1997
Lisbon

BUBY DURINI
In L'OBIETTIVO DELL'ARTE DI BUBY DURINI
Il Clavicembalo, 1997
Milan, Italy

TELEANTHROPOS
The Dematerialization of the Material Culture
Theory of architecture, 450 pages
Estampa Editorial, 1999
Lisbon, Portugal

THE FUTURE OF THE MUSIC OF THE FUTURE
Theory of music
In MUSIC AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES
L'Angelot, 1999
Barcelona, Spain

OMAR GALLIANI
In TURNING POINT BY OMAR GALLIANI
Il Clavicembalo, 2000
Milan, Italy

POETIC COSMOLOGY
In JOSEPH BEUYS, THE IMAGE OF HUMANITY
Silvana Editoriale, 2001
Milan, Italy

THE POETRY OF SCULPTURE
In JOSEPH BEUYS - SCULPTOR OF SOULS
Silvana Editoriale, 2001
Milan, Italy

THOUGHT AS DESIGN
Theory of architecture and neuro-imaging (paper)
ExperimentaDesign 2001
Lisbon, Portugal

KIRKOS - A Dialogue Between Marcel Duchamp and Josqin des Prés
Music and neurology
ASA Art and Technology, Naples, 2004

AMORES - A Floating Island for Lisbon
Project for the 2020 Olympic Games
Architecture
ASA Art and Technology, Lisbon, 2005

The Time Design Museum
Architecture
ASA Art and Technology, Trancoso, 2006

Logical Traps
Thirty Years of Works - Fifteen years of Interviews
Architecture, Music, Photography
ASA Art and Technology, London, 2007

Graphic designer for the visual poem/book titled "VOCOGRAMAS" by Decio Pignatari for the Mexican magazine "Plural" (Octavio Paz). Published in 1985 by the Federal University of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
Virtual Music Drawings for the book ALDO RODA - THE THOUGHT TAKES SHAPE by Lucrezia De Domizio Durini. Il Clavicembalo, Milan, Italy, 1998.

 


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