Matheus
Souza
Terra (meaning "Earth", in Portuguese) is a 34 minutes solo album that emerges from an interdisciplinary relationship between electroacoustic music and philosophy carried out through a Brazilian perspective, having in mind decolonisation and environmental issues topics in mind.
Composed and performed by Matheus Souza for the Buchla system of the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, the two movements of the piece presented in this album were also recorded by himself, in one take each movement.
The recording sessions of this album were conducted at one of the electroacoustic music studios of the KMH i Stockholm, in the end of the Spring term of 2023, while he was an Erasmus+ student at that institution.
Released on 20th of November, 2023
Composition, performance, recording, mastering and production, by Matheus Souza
Album cover made of gouache and biro markings made in response to the album, by Helena Atkin
Electroacoustic Music Studios and Buchla system, from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm
Phillipe Petit:
"3 years ago Modulisme gathered some music created playing Buchla instruments and 2 volumes of BUCHLAÏSMS appeared. Those 2 volumes, offering about 7 hours of music were already a mammoth of a collection.
BUCHLA - often labelled as the Stradivarius of Synthesizers - is one of the most innovative « musical vessel » ever designed, whose extent of the sound spectrum does not seem to belong to this world and the logic lies apart from everything that may have existed before its creation.
The Buchla synthesizer is named after the electronics pioneer Donald "Don" Buchla, who - In 1963 with the avant-garde musicians Ramon Sender and Morton Subotnick - managed to create an analog, modular synthesizer: The Buchla Series 100.
The Easel appeared in 1973 so in 2023 we should celebrate in a grand way offering 5 more volumes in our Buchlaïsms series.
An UNPRECEDENTED hommage!"
Released on December 1, 2023
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Matheus Souza. Rio de Janeiro. 2023.