Vítor Rua interprets Telectu

July, 4th – 23h00 – 00h00 – GIG ‘Vítor Rua interprets Telectu’

Concert

Understage TM Rivoli

5 euros M/6

Duration: 50’

Curated by Teatro Rivoli

Synopsis:

The duo Telectu was formed in 1981 by Vítor Rua and Jorge Lima Barreto. In this multimedia concert, Vítor Rua will recreate compositions of this iconographic duo, on guitar. From the first album Belzebu to the Evil Metal or À lagardere, Rua will make a musical revisit of Telectu. A Sonosphere Telectu! ‘Three and a half decades after its original release, Belzebu inaugurates the Holuzam catalog, a label linked to the Flur record store in Lisbon – itself an inescapable epicenter of all the attention devoted to the most experimental electronics – which should bring back to the present other essentials titles of the impressive discography erected over the years by Telectu, long gone from the catalog. This reissue also motivates the return to the stage: tomorrow, at the Teatro Maria Matos, in Lisbon, Vítor Rua will present together with António Duarte the repertoire of Belzebu as this has never been heard. In order to fill Jorge Lima Barreto’s disappearance, Rua recruited an old ally of the group who, moreover, was also a kind of guardian of the technological estate that over the years was marking the different phases of Telectu’ (Rui Miguel Abreu).

Vítor Rua (b. 1961) began his career in the late 1970s with a series of interventions that changed the face of Portuguese pop/rock. In 1980, he founded the rock group GNR. In 1981, formed with Jorge Lima Barreto the duo Telectu, group of improvised music and live electroacoustic. In this work with Telectu he met great international figures of improvisation (Daniel Kientzy, Elliott Sharp, Chris Cutler, Jac Berrocal, Carlos Zíngaro, Jean Sarbib, Louis Sclavis, Ikue Mori, Sunny Murray, Paul Rutherford, Paul Rutherford, Evan Parker, Barry Altschul, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Gerry Hemingway, Tom Chant, Herb Robertson, Han Bennink) affirming himself as experimentalist and polyartist. In 1987, in an act of autodidactic determination, he devoted himself to the study of contemporary musical notation. His work is characterised by a variegated, embryonic post-modernism and an empiricist rejection of cultural confines, and reflects a transition from structured improvisation to strict composition.

Virtuosos interpreters, like Daniel Kientzy, John Tilbury, Frank Abbinanti, Peter Bowman, Kathryn Bennetts, Peter Rundle, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Bernnini Quartet, Remix Ensemble and OrchestrUtópica, have been played his music by around the world in national and international concerts and festivals.