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Flute and Percussion: works composed for the Miso Ensemble

• Ascèse [1986] Flute and percussion First performance: Évora, May 1986,Teatro Garcia de Resende
• 4 Estaçöes [1987/88] MCD 001 Amplified flute and amplified percussion Exposisom prize awarded by Juventude Musical Portuguesa 1st composition prize in the Culture and Development Competition -1988 First performance: Évora, May 1987,Teatro Garcia de Resende
• Arcano I,II,IV,VI,VII,VIII [1986/92] flute and wooden drum
• Arcano III,V,IX [1986/92] wooden drum
• 1 + 1 = 3 [1988] MCD 001 flute and percussion First performance :Portimão parish church, August 1988, Parish Church
• Passing Rooms [1988] MCD 001 flute and percussion First performance: Sintra Casino, September 1988
• Constelações [1989] MCD 003 flute and marimba Commissioned by Fundação das Casas de Fronteira e Alorna First performance: Lisbon, October 1989, Palácio Fronteira
• Déposer la forêt [1990] MCD 003 flute, cymbals, bells, gongs, crotales and live electronics Commissioned by Rádio Difusão Portuguesa Antena-2 First performance: Lisbon, 1990, RDP Auditorium
• Mandala [1990] MCD 003 marimba First performance: Lisboa, September 1990, Palácio Fronteira
• Água or Maré — nome DE pedra [1991] MCD 003 piccolo, flute, alto flute, percussion, water, mill stones, magnetic tape (collage of a narrative about the miller of the Corroios tidal mill and fragments of Finisterra by Carlos de Oliveira) and live electronics Commissioned by the Seixalç Municipal Council for the Corroios Tidal Mill First performance: Corroios, May 1991, Moinho de Maré
• Determinante — Solar [1991] MCD 003 bass flute and percussion First performance: Lisbon, June 1991, Palácio Fronteira
• Ícone I [1992] MCD 009 wood vat (dorna) and wood stairs First performance: Lisbon, December 1992, ACARTE
• Ícone II [1992] MCD 009 roto-toms and voice texts by Miguel Azguime First performance: Lisbon, December 1992, ACARTE
• Ícone III [1992] MCD 009 wood drums First performance: Lisbon, December 1992, ACARTE
• Ícone IV [1992] MCD 009 metal percussion, glockenspiel, sound-icon and live electronics First performance: Lisbon, December 1992, ACARTE
• Ícone V [1992] MCD 009 marimba First performance: Lisbon, December 1992, ACARTE
• Ícone VI [1992] MCD 009 percussion First performance: Lisbon, December 1992, ACARTE
• Multiplos-transitorios [1995] marimba and live electronics First performance: Guimarães, June 1995, Festival da Primavera
• Pulse Code Modulation: uma história industrial [1996] flute, bass flute, percussion and live electronics Commissioned by Setúbal Municipal Council First performance: Setúbal, February 1996, Michel Giacometti Museum
• Nónio [1998/2002] 5 flutes and live electronics Commissioned by the Ministry of Culture First performance: Lisbon, May 1999, Grande Auditório, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
• Du Néant de l’Étant [1999/2000] vibraphone and live electronics First performance: Weimar, October 2000, Neue Musik Festival
• Escrituras [2002] flute, percussion and live electronics Commissioned by the Ministry of Culture First performance: Porto, December 2002, Teatro do Campo Alegre

Chamber Music: except works for flute and percussion

• Mammouths over the Rainbow [1989] flute, trumpet, prepared piano, percussion and live electronics First performance: Lisbon, October 1989, Palácio Fronteira Miso Ensemble, Sei Miguel-trumpet, Sérgio Pelágio-prepared piano
• PARFAIRE LE BLEU [1996/1998] flute, harpsichord and live electronics (version I) clarinet, piano and live electronics (version II) Commissioned by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian First performance (version II): Lisbon, May 1999, Grande Auditório Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Alain Damiens - clarinet, Alain Neveux – piano
• SOUND PREFERENCES or A Forma do Silêncio [1999] flute, percussion, organ and live electronics Commissioned by Gegenwelten Festival -Heidelberg First performance: Heidelberg, October 1999, Jesuiten Kirche / Gegenwelten Festival. Miso Ensemble, Thomas Bening - organ
• DERRIÈRE SON DOUBLE [2001] for flute/bass flute, clarinet/bass clarinet, violin, viola, violoncello, piano and live electronics Commissioned by PORTO 2001 First performance: Porto, April 2001, Festival Música Viva Ensemble Recherche, cond.Johannes Kalitzke - Mention at 30 ème Concours International de Musique et d’Art Sonore Electroacoustiques de Bourges 2003 - category music for instruments and electronics.
• EIKO-IN ou les modèles de l’indifférence [2001/2002] for viola, trombone, piano and live electronics Commissioned by the Ministry of Culture together with a grant from CRFMW - Liège, Belgium First performance: Brussels, March 2002, Ars Musica Festival Ensemble L’Autre Trio, live-electronics Jean-Marc Sullon
• ALENTOUR ALLANT MÊME [2003] clarinet, french horn, bassoon, 2 violins, viola, cello, doublebass and live electronics First performance: Festival Música Viva 2003 Coimbra Capital Nacional da Cultura Ensemble Antipodes

Solo Instruments: except works for flute or percussion

• Une Aile Pourvu qu’elle Soit du Cygne [1993] for piano First performance: Lisbon, May 1994, Grande Auditório, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Roberto Bollea - piano
• Du Néant qui le Croit [1994] bassoon and live electronics Commissioned by Fundação das Casas de Fronteira e Alorna First performance: Lisboa, May 1994, Grande Auditório, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Robert Glassburner - bassoon
• De l’Étant qui le Nie [1997] piano and live electronics Commissioned by the Ministry of Culture First performance: Lisbon, November 1998, Festival Música em Novembro Alain Neveux - piano
• Para Saxofone [2003] saxofone and live electronics First performance: Julho 2003 Teatro Rivoli Porto por Rico Gubler
• Para Violino [in preparation 2003/2004] violin Commissioned by Casa da Música

Vocal Music / with/without instruments

• Yuan Zhi Yuan (from origin to origins) [1998] soprano, tenor, 6 traditional Chinese instruments, chamber choir, live electronics. Sung in Chinese using texts by the classic Taoist Huainanzi (second century B.C.) Commissioned by Fundação Oriente First performance: Lisbon, September 1998, Grande Auditório, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Xing Rufeng - soprano, Gao Yongping - tenor, Hua Xia Ensemble (China), Antifonia choir (Romania), cond. Tsun Yeh.
• O Centro do Excêntrico do Centro do Mundo [1999/2002] 16 solo voices, 2 speaking voices and live electronics, sung in Latin and old Portuguese with texts by mathematician Pedro Nunes (16th century) Commissioned by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian First performance of 1st version: Lisbon, May 2000, Grande Auditório, Culturgest Soloists from the Gulbenkian Choir, cond. Jorge Mata First performance of 2nd version: Coimbra, November 2002, S.Jorge de Milreu Convent Singcircle, cond. Gregory Rose

Sound Poetry / Electroacoustic Theatre

• O Itinerário do Sal [2003/2004] Paula Azguime & Miguel Azguime - conception Paula Azguime - staging and multimedia conception Director: Perseu Mandillo Miguel Azguime - texts Miguel Azguime – actor/musician Paula Azguime - Sound Design Live Electronics: Miso Studio supported by Instituto das Artes/Ministério da Cultura
• A Procura de Dizer as Palavras dos Poetas [2002] 8 speaking voices texts by several Portuguese poets Commissioned by Teatro Viriato First performance: Viseu, September 2002, Teatro Viriato
• O Ar do Texto Opera a Forma do Som Interior [2001] sound poetry performance with texts by Miguel Azguime, for a speaking flutist and a speaking percussionist. First performance: Guarda, May 2001 - Festival Correntes de Ar. First performance of the new version: Porto, November 2001, Teatro da Vilarinha
• Poesia Cantada [2000] 8 speaking voices texts by several Portuguese poets Commissioned by Sindicato de Poesia First performance: Braga, July 2000, Salão Medieval, Biblioteca Pública de Braga
• A Ausência do Autor [1999] for voice, table, paper, pen and live electronics Texts by Miguel Azguime First performance: Lisbon, May 1999, Grande Auditório, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Miguel Azguime – voice and percussion

Electro-acoustic Music

• Déposer la Forêt [1990] Dur. 7’33 ” First performance: Santiago de Compostela, July 1993, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporânea
• 96 Digital Bells [1993] Dur. 21’00 ” Commissioned by Centro Cultural de Belém and ARX Portugal First performance: Lisbon, June 1993, Centro Cultural de Belém
• Comunicações [1998] Dur. 7’59 ” First performance: Lisbon, November 1998, Grande Auditório, Culturgest Festival Música em Novembro
• Sobreposições [1998/1999] Dur. 9’17 ” First performance: Lisbon, April 2000, Auditorium of the Instituto Franco Português Festival Música Viva
• Le Dicible Enfin Fini [2003] Dur. 8’ 47’” First performance: Festival Música Viva 2003 Coimbra Capital Nacional da Cultura EMS Prize 2003 Stochkolm
• Uniusombadiudubi [2003/2004] in preparation

Installations and Music for Exhibitions

• Sound installation for exhibition of the architecture of Manuel Vicente Lisboa - Galeria EMI-Valentim de Carvalho [1989]
• Sound installation for exhibition of sculptures by Bauduin Paris - Musée de la Forêt [1990]
• Sound installation for exhibition of paintings by Jorge Vilaça Lisbon – Goethe Institut - [1990]
• Sound installation for architectural exhibition Realidade-Real by Nuno Mateus //ARX Portugal Lisbon - Centro Cultural de Belém [1993]
• Sound installation for the exchibition Terra-Mãe...Terra-Pão Corroios - Seixal - Moinho de Maré [1995]
• Música e Texturas Sonoras CD 010 music and sound installation in 94 audio channels (± 300 loudspeaker) for the exhibition designed for the Knowledge of the Seas Pavilion by ARX Portugal Lisbon – Knowledge of the Seas Pavilion, Expo ’98.
• Sound installation for the shipping exhibition at the Seixal Ecomuseum Arrentela - Seixal – shipping section [in preparation]

Multimédia

• Déposer la Forêt [1990] music for vieo by Bauduin Produced by Bauduin (Paris)
• Realidade-Real [1993] music for video by Nuno Mateus Produced by INESC (Lisbon)
• Teatro Virtual [1998] music for video Produced by SONO

Music for Theatre

• Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare, Companhia de Teatro da Cornucópia directed by Luís Miguel Cintra [1990] jointly composed with Paula Azguime and Constança Capdeville performed live by Miso Ensemble
• Pimavera Negra, Raúl Brandão, Companhia de Teatro da Cornucópia, directed by Luís Miguel Cintra [1993]
• O Jogo das Perguntas, Peter Handke, Companhia de Teatro da Cornucópia, directed by Stephan Stroux [1993]
• A Disputa, Marivaux, Companhia de Teatro do Teatro Nacional D.Maria II directed by João Perry [1995]
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare, Companhia de Teatro do Teatro Nacional D.Maria II, directed by João Perry [1996]
• 12 Rounds, Matarile Teatro. Santiago de Compostela, directed by Ana Vallés [1997]

Music for Film

• Uma Pedra no Bolso, directed by Joaquim Pinto [1988]
• Onde Bate O Sol, directed by Joaquim Pinto [1989]

Music for Dance

• Solo para dois intérpretes, choreographed by João Fiadeiro [1991] First performance: Leuwen - Belgium, October 91, Festival Europália Performed live by Miso Ensemble
• Solos, choreographed by João Fiadeiro [1992/93/94] First performance: Rennes, October 1992, Théatre National de Bretagne Performed live by Miguel Azguime
• Self(ish)Portrait, choreographed by João Fiadeiro [1995] First performance: Lisbon, Festival Danças na Cidade

Miguel Azguime is a composer, poet, and percussionist. He founded the Miso Ensemble in 1985, a flute and percussion duo recognised by the public and by the critics as one of the most important Portuguese contemporary music groups. Besides giving numerous concerts in Portugal, the “Miso Ensemble” has been presented regularly abroad.

Miguel Azguime has obtained various awards for composition and performance, the last was the EMS Prize 2003, has composed for diverse formations, instrumental and/or vocal with and without electronics, electroacoustic music, sound poetry, including music for exhibitions, sound installations, theatre, dance and cinema. He has received commissions from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Portuguese Ministry of Culture, Ars Musica Festival, Heidelberg Festival,… among many others national and foreign cultural institutions.

Azguime’s music has been performed by renowned soloists, ensembles and conductors (Alain Neveux, Jean-Marie Cottet, Alain Damiens, Robert Glassburner, Paula Azguime, Yoshiko Shibuya, Tsung Yeh, Johannes Kalitzke, Stefan Asbury, Gregory Rose, Pascal Galois, Roberto Bollea, Ensemble Recherche, Ensemble Aventure, Remix Ensemble, Miso Ensemble, Gulbenkian Choir, Antifonia Choir, Singcircle, Hua Xia Ensemble, L’Autre Trio,…), being regularly presented at majors festivals of contemporary and electroacoustic music (ISCM-World Music Days — Japan, festival Ars Musica — Belgium, festival Spring in Havana – Cuba, Florida Electroaoustic Music Festival – USA, ISCM-World Music Days – Luxembourg, Xornadas de Musica Contemporanea of Santiago de Compostela – Spain, Festival Synthèse Bourges — France, Festival Audio Art Warsaw – Poland, Encontros Gulbenkian de Música Contemporanea — Lisbon, Festival Musica Viva — Lisbon,…), from Portugal to Japan, through Germany, Austria, Belgium. Chile, China, Cuba, Slovenia, Spain, USA, Finland, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, UK, Tchec Republic, Russia, Switzerland.

Besides his activity as a composer, poet and percussionist, he remains actively dedicated to the promotion and diffusion of contemporary music, either as artistic director of the independent label “Miso Records” and of the “MÚSICA VIVA International Electroacoustic Festival”.

Also for 10 years Miguel Azguime has been the producer of the radio broadcast “Musica Hoje” devoted to contemporary music at Portuguese National Radio — RDP — Antena2.

He has developed since 1997 the first Portuguese Loudspeaker Orchestra and as a researcher he has been working in the development of real time computer music, giving lectures and courses on this field.

In 2003 he started, together with Paula Azguime the Portuguese New Music Information Center.