Emanuel Dimas De Melo Pimenta

John Cage: O Silencio Da Musica: 100 Anos Emanuel Dimas De Melo Pimenta

Publisher Marketing: John Cage: O Silencio da Musica foi escrito originalmente na passagem do ano 2000, pelo compositor brasileiro Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta, como celebracao dos noventa anos de John Cage, seu grande amigo, e dos dez anos da sua morte. Totalmente revisto para os cem anos do grande compositor americano, o livro conta com mais de setecentas paginas, quase cento e cinquenta ilustracoes e fotografias, muitas delas raras e ineditas. Trata-se de uma viagem magica ao universo de Cage, revelando nao apenas a sua musica e as suas ideias, mas tambem quem ele foi como ser humano, as suas relacoes com o mundo, os seus sonhos. O livro conta, ainda, com textos de Lucrezia De Domizio, a legendaria Baronesa Durini, uma das mais importantes personalidades da arte contemporanea do seculo XX; com um ensaio do genial filosofo da musica frances Daniel Charles; com raras fotografias de diversos fotografos, entre eles Roberto Masotti, grande amigo de Cage; um ensaio fotografico inedito de Flavio Matangrana, tambem conhecido como Matangra, sobre John Cage na Bienal Internacional de Sao Paulo em 1985; uma autobiografia de John Cage; uma lista das suas composicoes, dos seus livros, assim como dos livros escritos sobre ele. Este livro se inclui nas varias celebracoes dos cem anos de John Cage em todo o mundo. Esta sendo vendido pelo preco de custo. Contributor Bio:  Pimenta, Emanuel Dimas De Melo Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta has been considered an important musician, architect, writer, photographer and intermedia artist in the beginning of the third millennium - according to statements written by personalities like John Cage, Ornette Coleman, Merce Cunningham, Rene Berger, Daniel Charles, Dove Bradshaw, Phill Niblock or William Anastasi among others. With several international prizes, more than seventy published books, many electronic books and thirty audio compact discs, his works are included in some of the most important art collections and world-wide recognized institutions like the Whitney Museum of New York, the ARS AEVI Contemporary Art Museum, the Biennale of Venice, the Computer Art Museum of Seattle, the Kunsthaus Zurich, the Durini Contemporary Art Collection, the Biblioteque Nationale of Paris and the MART - Modern Art Museum of Rovereto and Trento among others. His works are also included in the Universalis Encyclopedia (Britannica) since 1991, in the Sloninsky Baker's Dictionary (Berkeley), the Charles Hall's Chronology of the Western Classical Music, as well as in the All Music Guide - The Expert's Guide to the Best Cds. Legendary musicians like John Cage, David Tudor, Takehisa Kosugi, John Tilbury, Christian Wolff, Maurizio Barbetti, Audrey Riley and the Manhattan Quartet among others have performed his compositions. He collaborated with John Cage, as commissioned composer for Merce Cunningham, from 1985 until his disappearance in 1992. He remained composer for Merce Cunningham along more than twenty-five years, Emanuel Pimenta coined the concept of virtual architecture and designed the first virtual planet in history. He is member of the New York Academy of Sciences, of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, of the Space Architecture Technical Committee of the American Institute of Astronautics and Aeronautics, of the SACD Paris, of the Council of Architects in Brazil and of the Order of Architects in Portugal among other institutions. He is founder, with Leonel Moura, of the SA2 Space Art Association; he is also founder and director of the Arts, Sciences and Technology Foundation - Observatory, in Trancoso, Portugal (www.asa-art.com/facto.html). He is co-founder and director of the HOLOTOPIA Academy, in the Amalfi Coast, Italy (www.asa-art.com/holotopiaacademy.html). Emanuel Pimenta lives in Locarno, Switzerland - but he is also based in New York and Lisbon. His website is www.emanuelpimenta.net