Passarola

Piano, Electronics and Sacred Geometry

"When the machine flies, the whole sky will be music."

José Saramago

The work "Passarola | Variations on the Past and the Future K.87" is the first research and cultural creation project that is part of Via Scarlatti - one of the European Music Centre's programmes.

With Pedro Emanuel Pereira on piano and composition, Vítor Joaquim on electronics, and Rui Gato on sacred geometry, this project emerges after a sensory and analytical dive into Scarlatti's Sonata in B minor K.87 - composed in Portugal in the 18th century - and the literary work "Memorial do Convento" by José Saramago.

This piece - which was attended by three heads of state at its premiere at the Theatro Circo in Braga - emerges from the dialogue between the classical piano, software and hardware, interacting with the past, innovating and transforming itself for the future.

PROGRAMME

• Passarola | Variations on the Past and the Future K.87

Pedro Emanuel Pereira, piano and composition

Rui Gato, sacred geometry

Vítor Joaquim, live electronics