gabriel francisco lemos

Aug.2019 - Ø |Exhibition Somos Muit+s |Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo - Brazil
Ø consists of a durational sound performance that uses electronic guitar and pedals as medium for emphasizing acoustic properties of the museum space.

Commissioned by the Spaceship Ensemble and the Gaudeamus Festival in 2022, this short composition written for extended piano, harp, accordion, harpsichord, viola, marimba and clarinete is a work inspired by Gerard 't Hooft's futuristic animals. Trying to mimic the molecular structure of plastic being dissolved by the Plasticophagus Edulis, this composition is an experiment on fast rhythmic patterns and contrasting cut-up gestures and long sonic resonances.

works

yet we laugh is a lecture performance in which a narrator tries to explain what laughter and humor could mean to human beings. Based on text and sound, the project is an hybrid 45 minutes piece that invites audiences to reflect on humor's complex embodied and cultural phenomena, as well as witness the learning process of a machine attempting to laugh. The research in which the performance is based concerns laughter's effect on psychology and how performed theory can comment on the entanglement between humans, sound, language, objects and technology.