Jorge Antunes

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Jorge Antunes was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1942. He began studying music in 1958 and in 1960 entered the National School of Music of the University of Brazil (the then Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), in the violin class of Prof. Carlos de Almeida. In 1964 he began a course in composition and conducting in the same school, studying with Henrique Morelembaum, José Siqueira and Eleazar de Carvalho. At the same time, he followed the composition course of Guerra Peixe at Pro-Arte, Rio de Janeiro. Until 1964 Antunes embraced the nationalist current in his instrumental works, influenced by Villa-Lobos. But already in 1962 he had become interested in electronic music, at the same time as he was beginning a Physics course in the National Philosophy Faculty (FNFi). After constructing a variety of generators, filters, modulators and other electronic equipment, Antunes founded the Studio for Chromo-Musical Research, and has since been reconized as the precursor of electronic music in Brazil. From 1966 he began to establish himself as one of the most representative names in avant garde Brazilian music and participated in many national and international festivals. In 1965 he initiated important research in the field of the correspondence between sound and colour, and composed a series of works which were named CROMOPLASTOFONIAS, performed by orchestra, magnetic tape, light, and which also made use of the olfactory, taste and touch senses. In 1967 he was invited by the Villa-Lobo

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Savage Songs: Early Brazilian Electronic Music

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Musica Eletronica 70's I

Savage Songs

Música Eletrônica

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History of Electronic Music

!No se mata la Justicia!

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Music from the Ether: Original Works for Theremin

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História da Música Eletroacústica CD 19 - 1964-1969

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Historia da Musica Eletroacustica Cd

In Defense of the Machine

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Historia da Musica Eletroacustica Cd 12

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