Livio Tragtenberg, Wilson Sukorski /Tato Taborda

Geralda

is a mulit-instrumental structure, a one-man-band, designed by composer Tato Taborda in collaboration with Alexander Boratto. The instrument is equipped with 70 different electronic and electro-acoustic sound effects and its own amplifier. Moreover, Geralda is fitted out with a special transmission unit that, with the help of wheels, enables her to move about gracefully.

São Paulo Sinfonia & Cacofonia
Anti-ode to São Paulo

While the original soundtrack is rather conceived along the lines of symphonic traditions and represents a counterpoint to the film itself, the current live version shows an inclination towards cacophony.

Cacophony because it does not sound pleasant, because it is loud and noisy, or because it is improvised and develops with an increasingly dense intensity?

Music for a city, with various overlapping time levels, spaces and soundscapes. A space for electronic improvisation. Our electronic city. Quest, Muse, driving force: our all-enclosing, structural, amazing city, the space of our dreams.

After the synchronisation of the soundtrack (1994), the live version now formulates a comment on and a re-sounding assessment of the film. It is a music critique in a very concrete sense, a critique voiced through the sound itself, through a series of sonic acts in search of an intercourse with the images and the ideas behind them.

The improvisation – last transformation towards the squaring of the circle – creates a link between the measurement of time and events and pulsating, impulsive gestures. A refusal of narrativity and the irony of narration. Attraction and rejection. A real ‘come on – get lost’…