Ernesto Rodrigues

The violinist Ernesto Rodrigues is a significant improviser from Portugal by himself, but coupled with his son Guilherme Rodrigues on cello, he’s part of among a deeply expressive exemplory case of family bonding through creative music. Anyone would agree that has noticed a live or filmed functionality of both on-stage, the daddy crouching over his kid somewhat awkwardly within the throes of spontaneous structure but looking a little like he’s aiming to smell the kid’s breathing for alcoholic beverages — not a Portuguese dad would do any such thing. The mature Rodrigues continues to be energetic in avant-garde music for many years, aligning himself numerous revolutionary types of appearance including micro-tonal tunings as well as the artwork of “planning” stringed equipment by actually changing their physical framework. The violinist provides performed numerous groups over the Lisbon avant garde picture, especially the ensembles Assemblage and Ficta. Within the last mentioned trio, the Rodrigues dad and son interact with percussionist José Oliviera. The mature Rodrigues were only available in the path of free of charge improvisation groups like this when he emerged in touch with the sort of avant-garde traditional scores which are often referred to as “indeterminate,” signifying a number of of the facts of the real performance are still left as much as interpretation and/or serendipity. Rodrigues was also inspired by digital music, like many improvisers on traditional equipment relishing the task of making use of their axes to complement, sound for audio, the noise appearing out of plugged-in apparatus. The violinist provides performed for movies, dance, performance artwork tasks, and video in addition to in concerts and on recordings. In 1999 he began up his personal label, Creative Resources.