Augmented Brazilian Pandeiro: a beginning of an idea
This project presents an augmented Brazilian pandeiro, developed and conceived at the Interdisciplinary Center for Sound Communication (NICS) as well as the partial results of the doctoral research entitled: Augmented Brazilian Pandeiro: Multimodal Interpretative Processes. This research aims to explore the sound of this hyperinstrument in interpretative contexts. In this conference, we will initially raise some historical questions originating from the Brazilian pandeiro, presenting its ancestry and the main interpreters who led the maintenance of the instrument for so many years, using as a reference the works of Rodrigues (2014). Next, we present the guiding concepts in the construction of the prototype and then the creative developments of the augmented (or expanded) instrument, with some authors such as: Rimoldi (2018) and Miranda and Wanderley (2006). In this part, we will discuss the definition of a hyperinstrument (or expanded instrument) and present the creative process of this prototype. Subsequently, we highlight the different practical results achieved to date, in the search to affirm the creative possibilities of multimodal interpretative processes, presenting a creative experimentation of the first timbral ideas that we are using in the research moment. Furthermore, the concepts of hybridization and confluences that fully permeate the theoretical questions of our work (Burke (2010), Espinheira (2022) and Bispo (2023)) and the methodological processes in the creation of the hyperinstrument and interpretation are also presented. Here we will support the concepts of artistic research and autoethnography (Cano and Opazo, 2014 and Stevance and Lancasse, 2018).
Keywords: Brazilian pandeiro, augmented instruments, composition, performance
Biography
He works as a symphonic and popular percussionist and has toured several countries such as Norway, Malawi, Germany and the Netherlands. He has attended classes and masterclasses with several renowned musicians such as: Javier Calvino, Carlos Tarcha, Clarissa Severo, Ney Rosauro, Stephan Froleyks, Luiz Fernando Teixeira, Brett Jones, among others. He graduated in symphonic percussion at USP Ribeirão Preto under the guidance of professor Eliana Sulpício, holds a degree in music from Centro Universitário Claretiano, a specialization in music education from the Federal University of São Carlos, a master’s degree in music from the Federal University of Uberlândia, under the guidance of Cesar Traldi and a specialization in popular percussion from Faculdade Santa Marcelina. He is currently a music educator at the GURI project and is pursuing a doctorate in music at the State University of Campinas, under the guidance of professors Jônatas Manzolli and Danilo Rossetti.
State University of Campinas, Brazil – vlyra95@gmail.com