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The Secret Apprentice

by João Silva & Carlos Santos

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The constructor will always take into account the flexibility of the breeze 10:00
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The constructor will always take into account the flexibility of the breeze and the massive weight of being. His construction will be contemplative, cast between the cliffs of marble and the placid river that enfolds it. Attentive to the thrill of being, to its corporeal roundness and the rhythm of its configurations, he will construct his white home in the steep flank of the impregnable. All landscapes will be unified according to the principle of the individuation of being and its solar integrity. António Ramos Rosa
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This is not the time to say anything 09:27
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This is not the time to say anything. Everything must remain hidden in its bare, unapproachable potentiality (and unanimity). This absolute respect is the condition for a possible future germination, and the sole mediation for an enigma that is entwined with the constructor’s own breathing.
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Like the exhalation of an old shade 07:35
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Like the exhalation of an old shade, the breeze of a dawn of renewal and nostalgia will accentuate the paradox of the construction of being. If the morning light brings along the great movements of ships and suns, the trace of the night lingers on a blue moon over the gentle hills. The constructor feels the attraction of the maternal matter and the splendour of the magnificent landscapes of the immediate reality. The origin was divided and the constructive energy was suspended between the glorious excess of the day and the unspeakable nocturnal matter. It is at this point that the task of unification of forms and the lively circulation of opposites is due, so that the insides of the construction acquire the slow thickness of temporality and the clear liveliness of each moment. António Ramos Rosa
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The construction of the work is also a construction of the body 11:00
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The construction of the work is also a construction of the body. The constructor leaves himself to enter himself. The relationship between the forces and the world changes from the blind point where vision is generated to the fields on whose smooth and pure tranquillity the light is laid out. To construct is therefore to create the space of original union where time and being reunite as the sole vibration of an arc between the visible and the invisible. António Ramos Rosa

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This album was created for a multimedia instalation /performance based on the book "O Aprendiz Secreto" by António Ramos Rosa and translated to english by Olga Morais. This project was comissioned by Granular, Ciclo Vinte e Sete Sentidos and presented at Culturgest.

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released November 15, 2012

Sound Editing & Electronics: Carlos Santos, João Silva
Field Recordings: Carlos Santos, Francisco Janes, João Castro Pinto, João Silva
Photography/Cenography: João Silva
Costume designer: Ângela Orbay
Poetry: António Ramos Rosa
Translation: Olga Morais

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João Silva Lisbon, Portugal

Sound artist based in Lisbon, has been doing experimental and improvised music using prepared guitar field-recordings, electronics, percussions and found objects.
Curated and produced Ciclo Escuta Profunda.
Since 1993 he is also exploring sound as therapy using himalayan bowls and bells, gongs, tuners, shruti box, harmonium, overtone flutes and drums. ... more

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