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Composed by
Carlos Lopes
Instrument(s)
full orchestra
With electronics
no
Work premiered
March 2019
Venue of the premiere
Teatro Helena Sá E Costa, Porto (Portugal)
Duration
9 minutes

AMOK was written to be played by a student orchestra. I tried to reconcile my pursuit of new instrumental possibilities with a simpler musical language. Most of its sonic material comes from spectral analysis of soundscapes and distortion of devised harmonic series.

The structure is directly inspired by Stefan Zweig's "AMOK", a brilliant tale of love, obsession and death.

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