Arthur Kampela

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Arthur Kampela is a Brazilian-American composer, guitarist, and songwriter.

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Compositions

Though Kampela has been associated with the New Complexity movement, his style evolves out of extreme extended-technique improvisational practices which remap the ergonomics of one instrument onto another (percussion onto guitar, or guitar onto viola). [1] [2]

An important aspect of Kampela's music is his development of micro-metric modulation, a formula for precisely controlled transition from any polyrhythm to any other polyrhythm, without either of the tempos of the respective polyrhythms being directly related. [3] [4] [5] (He has also participated in activities that revive the theories and practices of Swiss-Brazilian musician Walter Smetak. [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] ) Kampela's rhythmic and timbral techniques are sometimes framed by a reference to Theatre of the Absurd and combined with electronics. [11]

Another aspect of Kampela's music is the fusion of vernacular Brazilian roots (bossa novas and samba) with subversive wordplay lyrics and atonal harmonies, which can be heard in his 1988 LP Epopéia e Graça de uma Raça em Desencanto… (‘Epic and Grace…’) Although the 1988 album is of a more vernacular-popular genre, Kampela's later compositional style grows organically out of his earlier practices as a composer-guitarist-singer as represented on this album. As Alejandro L. Madrid puts it:

"Brazilian Arthur Kampela developed a personal language that reads popular and traditional Brazilian music styles, genres, and techniques through the aesthetics of New Complexity and Elliott Carter’s notion of metric modulation, including his series of Percussion Studies for solo guitar." [12]

Kampela's compositions, particular his Percussion Studies for Guitar, have been performed numerous times around the world (North America, South America, Europe, and Asia), resulting in dozens of renditions on YouTube, [13] , at the Tanglewood Contemporary Music Festival [14] , the Austrian Cultural Forum New York, and by ensembles such as the New York Philharmonic, Ensemble Linea, Momenta Quartet, Tokyo Gen'On Project, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, and Ensemble Modern.

Career

Kampela has taught composition at Columbia University, New York University, Bates College, and Escola de Música da UFRJ (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro).

Awards and Commissions

Education

Kampela attended Conservatório Brasileiro de Música, Centro Universitário, then Manhattan School of Music where he studied with Ursula Mamlok. He continued his studies at Columbia University, principally with Mario Davidovsky and Fred Lerdahl, and earned a DMA (1998) degree. (He also studied privately with Brian Ferneyhough in 1993.)

Selected works

Publications

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References

  1. ↑ Fernandes-Weiss, Ledice (2018). "Estudo do gesto instrumental sob o prisma da Labanotation: o exemplo da Tapping Technique em Percussion Study I para violão solo de Arthur Kampela". Capa. 24 (1): 199. doi: 10.20504/opus2018a2410 .
  2. ↑ Fernandes-Weiss, Ledice (2021). "Arthur Kampela and the Exoskeletons: the gesture and the guitarist". Er Musi. 40: 123. doi: 10.35699/2317-6377.2020.15077 . S2CID   237806030.
  3. ↑ Bortz, Grazie (2006). "Modulação micrométrica na música de Arthur Kampela". Per Musi, Bela Horizonte. 13: 85–99.
  4. ↑ Bortz, Grazie (2003). Rhythm in the music of Brian Ferneyhough, Michael Finnissy, and Arthur Kampela: A guide for performers (Thesis). City University of New York.
  5. ↑ Santos, Lucas Albuquerque Matias (2021). Rhythm in Arthur Kampela and Brian Ferneyhough (Thesis). UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL PAULISTA “JÚLIO DE MESQUITA FILHO” (UNESP) – INSTITUTO DE ARTES. hdl:11449/215656.
  6. ↑ Smetak Inventions: The Interfused Realms of Inventor, Sound Artist, and Musician Walter Smetak (1913-84). Wolke. 2019. ISBN   978-3-95593-094-3.
  7. ↑ "BBC programmes".
  8. ↑ "Berlin Kunstlerprogramm".
  9. ↑ "Smetak Inventions" (PDF).
  10. ↑ "An Arthur Kampela Playlist Frictions and utopian mixtures". VAN Magazine. 2017.
  11. ↑ Hornsby, Sarah (2015). The exploded flute of Arthur Kampela: An interpretative guide to Elastics II and Happy Days (Thesis). Campinas:Unicamp.
  12. ↑ Madrid, Alejandro (2015). "RENOVATION, RUPTURE, AND RESTORATION: The modernist musical experience in Latin America". In Lindgren, Allana; Ross, Stephen (eds.). The Modernist World. Routledge. p. 415. ISBN   9781315778334.
  13. ↑ "Dozens of renditions of Kampela's Percussion Etudes 1 for Guitar on YouTube".
  14. ↑ "Tanglewood Contemporary Music Festival". 2024.

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