Ana Fridman: piano, voice, percussion and flutes
Rogério Costa: alto saxophone.
Ana Fridman is a researcher, composer, pianist and former dancer. Most of her work relates to Music and Dance interactions such as soundtracks for Dance and Theatre, collaborative works with musicians and dancers, and music educational processes involving music and movement. She has four released albums in Brazil and is frequently performing as a jazz pianist and improviser. As a researcher she has been studying body percussion interventions at orchestral works (MFA at California Institute of the Arts), extended techniques for music improvisation found on non-Western cultures (PhD at the University of Sao Paulo/ECA-USP), and improvisation projects using gestural interfaces (Postdoctoral program at Interdisciplinary Nucleus for Sound Studies at the University of Campinas/NICS-UNICAMP). She is currently a professor at the Music Department of Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and working on a collaborative project with professor, composer, performer and researcher Rogério Costa.
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Professor, composer, performer and researcher, Rogério Costa (1959) works as full professor at the Music Department of the University of São Paulo/Brazil (USP). His main topic of research is music improvisation and its connections with other areas of studies such as philosophy and technology. Nowadays, he develops research projects about the environment of free improvisation with electroacoustic interaction in real time, creative processes and collective creativity. The most important current artistic project related to this research is the Orquestra Errante
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In this group, besides being the coordinator, professor Costa acts as an improviser at the saxophone. The Orquestra Errante works in a democratic and non-hierarchical way, and strongly emphasizes the idea of creating music in real time. In 2016, professor Costa published a book on improvisation titled Música Errante: o jogo da improvisação livre (Errant Music: the game of free improvisation).
Nowadays he develops a new project of artistic and scientific collaboration with professor and composer Ana Fridman.
This track is part of the g-r-a-p-h-i-c project where musicians from across the world interpret graphic scores made by Belgian musician Dirk Wachtelaer.
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