Artist description Composer, Improviser, producer, video artist, painter, designer.

Music Style contemporary

Musical Influences Monteverdi, Gesualdo, Bach, Webern, Boulez, Stockhausen, Kagel, Ligeti, Scelsi, Nono, Lachenmann, Sciarrino, Radulescu, Zappa, Monk, Hendrix.

Artist History Vítor Rua ( b. 1961 ) began his career in the late seventies with a series of interventions that changed the face of Portuguese pop/rock. In 1987, in an act of autodidactic determination, he devoted himself to the study of contemporary musical notation. His work is characterised by a variegated, embryonic post-modernism and an empiricist rejection of cultural confines, and reflects a transition from structured improvisation to strict composition. The multiple intention of his work is therefore an aesthetic and kaleidoscopic propaedeutic about the situationism of post-modern music - a proposition for a new musical subjectivism. In the course of his work as an improviser, he has played with leading figures in the world of improvisation (Chris Cutler, Elliott Sharp, Jac Berrocal, Carlos Zíngaro, Jean Sarbib, Evan Parker, Paul Lytton, Eddie Prévost, Louis Sclavis, Sunny Murray, Ikue Mori, Paul Rutherford, Barry Altschul and Daniel Kientzy). His music has been played by around the world by virtuosos interpreters like Daniel Kientzy, John Tilbury, Ensemble QTR (Peter Bowman and Kathryn Bennetts), Ana Ester Neves, Frank Abbinanti.

Instruments 18 string guitar (my design), computer (G4 Titanium), electronics.

Albums STRESS RELAX (released by Farol, 1993); GRACEFUL BRILLIANCE (released by STRAUSS, 2002)

Press Reviews Many, and all good...

Additional Info Member of TELECTU a duo of improvised music with Jorge Lima Barreto

Location Lisboa, Lisboa - Portugal

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