https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/ 2026-05-04T12:28:51+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/ https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/lib/tpl/prsnl10/images/favicon.ico text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/adfulgoramartis?rev=1692136799&do=diff Martis Observatio in Leone (2012) for piano and chamber orchestra (1 Fl, 1 Ob, 1 Cl, 1 Bs, 2 Hns, 1 Tpt, 1 Tbn, 5 Vln I, 5 Vln II, 5 Vla, 4 Vc, 2 Cb, 1 perc.) ---------- This is a small piano concerto for a rather moderate-sized orchestra. It was inspired by my observations of the planet Mars during its aphelic opposition to Earth in the first months of 2012 (and also - guilty as charged - by some readings of Edgar Rice Burroughs's text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/alpheratz?rev=1692136799&do=diff The Mercurial Clouds of Alpheratz (2018) (As Nuvens Mercuriais de Alpheratz) acousmatic music; computer-generated recording. Duration: 5' 05'' Channels: 2 “The Mercurial Clouds of Alpheratz” (“As Nuvens Mercuriais de Alpheratz”) is an acousmatic music composition in two channels composed in May 2018 specially for the microFOLIA project of the Núcleo Música Nova of Curitiba-PR, Brazil. The work is made by the superimposition of three layers of musical elements, namely a choir of seven … text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/aquaeductus?rev=1692136799&do=diff Aquaeductus (2006) electroacoustic music; computer-generated recording. Duration: 5' 39'' Channels: 2 Aquaeductus is a little construction featuring tuneful water drops, bubbling columns of water and submerged brass choirs. These sonic entities swim and bathe across the multichannel and depth fields, processed by a constantly shifting chain of convolution filters which simulate an imaginary microphone voyage through aqueduct pipes and water chambers of all sorts and sizes. text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/aquamarine?rev=1692136799&do=diff Aquamarine (2016) electroacoustic music; computer-generated recording. Duration: 11' 36'' Channels: 2 Aquamarine reworks the sound world of Be2+(Beryllium), where a harmonic cloud of synthetic sounds coordinates the revolution of two plucked-string entities, which react to it through the uttering of obsessive and sometimes eccentrically imitative musical textures. The work starts dwelling in a certain state of harmonic indefinition, and little by little it adventures itself through the… text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/bathyscaphe?rev=1692136799&do=diff Bathyscaphe (2005) for ring-modulated piano and electroacoustic orchestra. This is a concerto for solo ring-modulated piano and an electroacoustic acousmatic orchestra. The acousmatic orchestra is an automatic engine implemented with the software Pure Data, and is controlled by the very pianist during the execution of the piece. The sounds of the piece were created with custom-made software by the composer himself, and its microtonal harmony is based on the principle of creating sidebands t… text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/beryllium?rev=1692136799&do=diff ---------- for two acoustic guitars and synthetic electronic sounds. Heliodor (2016) for two acoustic guitars. In the sound world of Be2+(Beryllium), a central sonority comprised of a harmonic cloud of synthetic sounds coordinates the revolution of two guitar entities, which react to it through the uttering of obsessive and sometimes eccentrically imitative musical textures. The work starts dwelling in a certain state of harmonic indefinition, and little by little it adventures itself… text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/cahierdebourges?rev=1692136799&do=diff Cahier de Bourges: Quatre Esquisses Sonores (2004-2007) electroacoustic music; computer-generated recording. Duration: 21' 59'' Channels: 6 (L, R, SideL, SideR, BackL, BackR) The Cahier de Bourges is a collection of four older stereo pieces, adapted and assembled as a cycle and remixed for a multi-channel hexaphonic format. It was premiered at a concert of the text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/cantilenasdenatal?rev=1692136799&do=diff Two Christmas Carols (2014) for choir (female, youth, or mixed voices). I) Hodie Christus Natus Est II) Veni, Veni Emmanuel These Christmas carols, which quench the thirst I had for a while to compose Christmas songs in Latin from Gregorian chants, have parts for two sopranos and two contraltos, but male voices can also be added, singing in unison the part of the second contralto one octave lower. text/html 2026-01-04T21:00:54+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/cantilenasdenatalqtvl?rev=1767560454&do=diff Two Christmas Pieces (2025) for guitar quartet. I) Hodie Christus Natus Est II) Veni, Veni Emmanuel Quite a while ago I heard on the Vatican Radio a Christmas Gregorian chant that impressed me so much that I kept myself for years imagining that I had someday to make a transformed version of mine of it. In 2014, my colleague and friend Paulo Lopes suggested to me that I should write something for the youth choir he conducted, and I then recovered that old idea, composing two Christmas … text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/chimaera?rev=1692136799&do=diff Chimaera (1999) electroacoustic music; computer-generated recording. Duration: 13' 54'' Channels: 2 Composed with bits and pieces of sounds from real wind instruments, this work presents the life and adventures of a huge sound monster made of amalgams of all sorts of sonic entities, including thick walls of cluster sounds made up with 20,000 horns. text/html 2026-01-04T20:36:16+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/compositions?rev=1767558976&do=diff Compositions by Marcus Alessi Bittencourt 46. The Mercurial Clouds of Alpheratz (2018) acousmatic music; computer-generated recording. 45. Aquamarine (2016) electroacoustic music; computer-generated recording. 44b. Heliodor (2016) for two acoustic guitars. 44. Be2+(Beryllium) (2016) for two acoustic guitars and synthetic electronic sounds. text/html 2026-04-30T17:13:51+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/contactme?rev=1777569231&do=diff Send me a message: ---------- text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/costere_calculator?rev=1692136799&do=diff COSTERE compositions text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/costerecalculator?rev=1692136799&do=diff ---------- Introduction This project was developed by Dr. Marcus Alessi Bittencourt and demonstrated in 2007 at the Brazilian Symposium of Computer Music (Simpósio Brasileiro de Computação Musical - SBCM-07) and at the XVII Congress of the Brazilian National Association of Graduate Research in Music (XVII Congresso da ANPPOM), both in São Paulo, Brazil. It presents a computational model in PHP of the analytical music theories by Edmond Costère (Costère, 1954), combined to Set-Theory (Forte, … text/html 2024-10-30T20:41:49+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/curriculumvitae?rev=1730320909&do=diff Marcus Alessi Bittencourt, DMA musician (composer, pianist, theorist, educator, conductor, sound engineer) Associate Professor of Music Theory and Composition State University of Maringá, Paraná, Brazil ---------- Contact Information: Universidade Estadual de Maringá, text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/dharmapala?rev=1692136799&do=diff Dharmapala (2008-2010) eight pieces for a solo live player and live electronics. Dharmapala is a collection of eight musical works for a solo instrument and live electronics which presents itself as a closed improvisational sound environment, implemented with the computer software Pure Data. Some of its pieces have been performed several times with the composer as soloist, including a concert at the Third International Pure Data Conference (PDcon09). At that event, two pieces of the collect… text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/dierose?rev=1692136799&do=diff Die Rose (2006) soundtrack for an animation video. Music and sound design: Marcus Alessi Bittencourt Direction, script and editing: Gustav Augustin Lima Photography: Júlio Alessi ---------- Soundtrack: ---------- Video: text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/dischord?rev=1692136799&do=diff Dischord (2001) a dynamic installation for three dancers with motion-density controlled composite video, computer music mediated by laser beam-breakers and an optional live berimbau player. The music for Dischord is a piece of Musique Concrète, projected by a quadraphonic sound system and realized in real-time by an algorithm programmed with the text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/dma_dissertation?rev=1692136799&do=diff Marcus Bittencourt's DMA Dissertation at Columbia University Dissertation Essay Title: “Doctor Frankenstein, I Presume ... or The Art of Vivisection”, a series of studies on the internal mechanisms of Music Composition and Computer Music reworking concepts taken from theoretical works about Cinema, Musique Concrète and Semiotics. text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/dma_dissertation_proposal?rev=1692136799&do=diff DMA Dissertation Proposal Part I - Proposal of an Acousmatic Composition Title: KA acousmatic radio-opera in nine scenes; based on the homonymous 1916 short story by Vielimir Khlebnikov (1885-1922). The term “opera” is used here only to designate a piece of music that is dramatic in nature and where the spoken voice is substituted by a musical voice (not necessarily a singing one). Strictly speaking, the content and form of the piece do not relate to the tradition of Western world Opera. … text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/donadochinha?rev=1692136799&do=diff Dona Dochinha (2007) soundtrack for a documentary video. [photo by Julio Alessi] This is a little piano piece I composed for a video project by my cousin Julio Alessi. It is something very light, a long and flowing melody, somewhat in the style of old brazilian piano music. text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/embroidery?rev=1692136799&do=diff Embroidery (1998) electroacoustic music; computer-generated recording. Duration: 5' 37'' Channels: 2 This is the third and last installment of the “Geometry Notebook”, a series of pieces constructed with polygonal waveforms of all sorts. It was originally called text/html 2024-10-30T17:54:09+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/events?rev=1730310849&do=diff EVENTS Here you will find information on my upcoming events, as well as on past concerts, recitals, performances and radio broadcasts I have done as a composer, pianist, keyboardist, conductor, performer, and sound engineer. See the complete listing of all 96 past performances: text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/extensao?rev=1692136799&do=diff UNIVERSITY EXTENSION ACTIVITIES * The Music Creation Group from the Laboratory for Research and Audio Production, at the State University of Maringá, Paraná, Brazil; * Educational Radio Broadcasts, in Maringá, Paraná, Brazil. The Music Creation Group from LAPPSO 05/2009 to present date. State University of Maringá, Paraná, Brazil. text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/formabstrpsicoharm?rev=1692136799&do=diff The formalization and abstraction of paradigmatic psychoacoustical properties of agglomerates of sounds of definite pitch as theoretical grounds for a new discipline of Harmony Research conducted at the State University of Maringá, Paraná, Brazil, from 2014 to 2019. text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/formodestrproject?rev=1692136799&do=diff Formulation of a structural model for 19th-century Tonality from the critical revision of historical music theory bibliography Research conducted at the State University of Maringá, Paraná, Brazil, from 2010 to 2014. Being both a composer utterly curious about the secrets of the art of music and a teacher of all levels of composition and music theory, I have been dedicating myself for more than two decades to the research of an efficient way to localize, explain and graph, in a synthetic, c… text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/grammatica?rev=1692136799&do=diff Grammatica (1993-1995) a book of 14 piano pieces divided in four episodes. STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK 0. Fuga Iniziale Episodio Primo 1.1. Allegro e Fuga 1.2. Invocazione e Fuga Episodio Secondo 2.1. Moto Perpetuo e Fuga 2.2. Elegia e Fuga text/html 2024-10-30T21:03:51+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/harmonytreatise?rev=1730322231&do=diff Ars Armonica (Ars Magna Consoni et Dissoni): the completion of a harmony treatise, demonstrated in geometrical order, as the consolidation of a theoretical groundwork for a Music Harmony discipline in the 21st century. Research conducted at the State University of Maringá, Paraná, Brazil, from 2019 to 2024. text/html 2024-10-30T21:00:18+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/ilustrandooarsharmonica?rev=1730322018&do=diff Ilustrando musicalmente o Ars Armonica: planejamento, composição, revisão e editoração de exemplos musicais analíticos e seus escólios para um tratado original contemporâneo de harmonia musical. Pesquisa em andamento desde 2024. Este projeto de pesquisa pretende dar seguimento à consolidação em formato livro das pesquisas realizadas em três projetos anteriores do mesmo proponente, a saber, text/html 2024-10-30T19:55:53+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/iniciacaocientifica?rev=1730318153&do=diff UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH ADVISING These are the undergraduate research projects I have been advising since 2006 at the State University of Maringá-Paraná, Brasil: Undergraduate Research Projects with student fellowship grants (PIBIC) * 09/2021 - 08/2022. Lilian Cristyelen Martins. text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/karadioopera?rev=1692136799&do=diff KA: Electroacoustic Acousmatic Radio-Opera in nine scenes (2002) electroacoustic music; computer-generated recording. Music and libretto by Marcus Bittencourt, based on a story by Vielimir Khlebnikov (1885-1922). Duration: 1h 46' Channels: 2 text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/lampiaonoinferno?rev=1692136799&do=diff Lampião no Inferno (2003) for four percussionists. I have never ever intended to be a “Brazilian” composer, even though I am, really, Brazilian, and a direct descendant of the Brazilian Nationalist School. Having studied with students of nationalist musicians like Fructuoso Vianna and Camargo Guarnieri, I am in a way their grandson. But I never went that way, the way or the National, I mean. Nonetheless, I do know a great deal of Brazilian Music, popular, erudite, folklore. And what is mine… text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/lappsolinux?rev=1692136799&do=diff THE LAPPSO-LINUX PROJECT a Linux distribution. ---------- Currently, I have been developing at the Laboratory of Research and Audio Production (LAPPSO) of the State University of Maringá-Paraná, Brazil, a Linux distribution for audio work which consolidates the magnificent software collecting work done at Stanford University by the text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/lectures?rev=1692136799&do=diff SCHOLARLY LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS Scholarly Lectures given and Other Professional Presentations 29. 30/oct to 01/nov/2013. III Colloquium of the Laboratory for Research and Audio Production. State University of Maringá-PR, Brazil. Three-day workshop: text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/lisboaumcaderno?rev=1692136799&do=diff Lisboa: um caderno de viagens (1999) (Lisbon: a travel notebook) Cycle of 16 pieces for solo piano. This is a collection of musical postcards from a trip I did to Lisbon at the time, arranged in the form of a diary. PIECES: I) Azulejos Brancos text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/lupanar?rev=1692136799&do=diff Lupanar (2002) electroacoustic music; computer-generated recording. Duration: 14' 31'' Channels: 2 I first concocted these machine-instruments as “supporting actors” for one of the scenes of my radiophonic opera KA but, down the road, the musical possibilities of those click-clacking-screaming monsters seemed so promising - and they were so under-utilized in KA, just like some pauper petty hirelings - that I couldn't help but to give them a title role in a text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/mabblog?rev=1692136799&do=diff text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/malediction?rev=1692136799&do=diff Malédiction (2001) for piano and unmanned ensemble (automated live electronics controlled by the pianist). This is a concerto for solo piano and an electroacoustic acousmatic orchestra. The acousmatic orchestra is an automatic engine implemented with the software Pure Data, and is controlled by the very pianist during the execution of the piece. These are the program notes for the piece: text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/martisobservatio?rev=1692136799&do=diff Martis Observatio in Leone (2012) for piano and chamber orchestra (1 Fl, 1 Ob, 1 Cl, 1 Bs, 2 Hns, 1 Tpt, 1 Tbn, 5 Vln I, 5 Vln II, 5 Vla, 4 Vc, 2 Cb, 1 perc.) This is a small piano concerto for a rather moderate-sized orchestra. It was inspired by my observations of the planet Mars during its aphelic opposition to Earth in the first months of 2012 (and also - guilty as charged - by some readings of Edgar Rice Burroughs's text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/missasanctigeorgii?rev=1692136799&do=diff Missa Sancti Georgii de Cappadocia (2011-2015) electroacoustic music; computer-generated recording. Acousmatic microtonal Mass in five parts with a script in Latin, Classical Greek and Romanian Duration: 1h 20' Channels: 6 (concert version); 2 (radiophonic version) text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/mobile?rev=1692136799&do=diff A Mobile (2000) a cycle of 10 pieces for solo violin. In ten vignettes, two weeks of the intimacy of a lonely person, the sole master of a deserted nation, declaimed by a lonely instrument: some readings by Mário de Andrade, cryptic messages drifting afloat on a proverbial sea, a stroll in the park, and three failed trials of self-portraiting at the shadow of an angel-like figure. As a motto, Mayakovski: text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/mysoftware?rev=1692136799&do=diff Software (without patent: open-source) software and programming work I have been doing since 1998. ---------- * A Cybernetic Garden in Shambhala (2020) a virtual, automatic and infinite sound/musical environment intended for meditative practices, algorithmically generated in real-time by computer means. text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/noitenareparticao?rev=1692136799&do=diff Noite na Repartição (1995 - 1996) (Night in the Office) chamber opera in one scene for dubbed puppets, a tenor on-stage and a chamber ensemble of nine players. Music Composed by Marcus Alessi Bittencourt. Libretto in portuguese by Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1902-1987). text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/nostalgia?rev=1692136799&do=diff Nostalgia (2007) electroacoustic music; computer-generated recording. Duration: 4' 46'' Channels: 2 Perhaps the most particularly curious type of melancholia is the one associated with the longing for a past that is no more: nostalgia. This is a past that can only be resurrected by memory, and this process is rather infectious in a cyclical and obsessive way, insidious and irresistible. Detachment from the past seems to be a definite human inability and whether this is good or bad depe… text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/oeunoclaroenigmadisperso?rev=1692136799&do=diff "O Eu no Claro Enigma Disperso” (1993-1995) a cycle of three songs for tenor and piano. Songs: I- O Lamento das Coisas poem by Augusto dos Anjos (1884-1914) II- Fraga e Sombra poem by Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1902-1987) III- Dispersão text/html 2024-10-30T19:48:29+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/orientacaoposgrad?rev=1730317709&do=diff GRADUATE DISSERTATION ADVISING These are the Graduate Dissertations (Master of Music Program) I have been advising since 2020, at the State University of Maringá-Paraná, Brazil: Completed: * 2024 Weslei Flávio Rodrigues “A Hybridization of the Blues in the Experimental Composition for the Electric Guitar: a proposal based on Bloomsian misreadings. text/html 2024-10-30T20:01:36+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/orientacaotcc?rev=1730318496&do=diff UNDERGRADUATE SENIOR THESIS ADVISING These are the Undergraduate Senior Theses I have advised since 2004, mainly at the State University of Maringá-Paraná, Brazil: * 2023 Matheus Simões Machado “Fear through sound - a typomorphological analysis of the industrial sounds of Silent Hill text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/pianoconcerto?rev=1692136799&do=diff Piano Concerto (1998) for solo piano and orchestra. This is the thesis work for my Master of Arts degree, defended at Columbia University in 1998. score:lib/exe/fetch.php?media=pdfs:PianoConcerto.pdf text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/poemaviolao?rev=1692136799&do=diff Poem (1995) for solo guitar. A short piece for solo guitar, the last remnant of a never finished cycle. ---------- score:lib/exe/fetch.php?media=pdfs:PoemaViolao.pdf text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/portfoliocd?rev=1692136799&do=diff PORTFOLIO OF COMPOSITIONS (Audio CD length) (total length: 78:11) * For more information on the pieces, complete scores and audio recordings, please click on each composition name; * For the complete portfolio of compositions, including complete scores and audio recordings, please visit the text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/primeirocadernomadrigais?rev=1692136799&do=diff O Primeiro Caderno de Madrigais a Cinco Vozes (1995 - 1996) (The First Book of Madrigals for Five Voices) for five voices: S-A-A-T-B or S-A-T-T-B Madrigals: I- Tudo Foi Dito (all has already been said) poem by Fernando Pessoa, Ele-Mesmo (1888-1935) text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/processional?rev=1692136799&do=diff Processional (1997) electroacoustic music; computer-generated recording. Duration: 5' 08'' Channels: 2 This is the second installment of the “Geometry Notebook”, a series of pieces constructed with polygonal waveforms of all sorts. ---------- text/html 2024-10-30T21:11:45+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/projects?rev=1730322705&do=diff RESEARCH PROJECTS * Graduate Research advising (Master of Music) at the State University of Maringá-Paraná, Brazil; * Undergraduate Research advising at the State University of Maringá-Paraná, Brazil; * Undergraduate Senior Thesis advising, mostly at the State University of Maringá-Paraná, Brazil; * Complete list of Research Grants received. text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/quintetomisto?rev=1692136799&do=diff Mixed Quintet (1994) for flute, oboe, violin, guitar and cello. score:lib/exe/fetch.php?media=pdfs:QuintetoMisto.pdf text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/rabodearraia?rev=1692136799&do=diff Rabo-de-Arraia (2004) electroacoustic music; computer-generated recording. Duration: 5' 25'' Channels: 2 In Rabo-de-Arraia, I thought of sharing with you a little bit of the folk traditions of Brazil. Rabo-de-Arraia (2004) comes from several memories of mine of watching Capoeira circles ( text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/ratatoskr?rev=1692136799&do=diff Ratatoskr (2015) for solo piano “Ratatoskr” is a little eight-minute piece for solo piano which consists basically of the piano part from my piece “Yggdrasill” detached from its accompanying set of acousmatic sounds. Upon hearing this piano part alone when I was at the studio mixing down text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/renga?rev=1692136799&do=diff Renga (1996) eleven concatenated haiku for solo piano. A collection of aphorisms for piano, with a recurring idée-fixe. ---------- score:lib/exe/fetch.php?media=pdfs:Renga.pdf text/html 2024-10-30T20:13:50+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/researchgrants?rev=1730319230&do=diff RESEARCH GRANTS RECEIVED 2014 to 2016 Project: The formalization and abstraction of paradigmatic psychoacoustical properties of agglomerates of sounds of definite pitch as theoretical grounds for a new discipline of Harmony; Responsibilities: proponent and director (coordenador) of the project, and main researcher. Funding Agency: Fundação Araucária (governmental Brazilian agency - Araucaria Foundation for the Scientific and Technological Development of the State of Paraná, Brazil). text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/rimance?rev=1692136799&do=diff Rimance (1997) for piano solo. A large epic poem for solo piano, entirely and monolithically built out of a [0 1 4] collection. “Rimance” is an old portuguese word for “short sung epic poem”. ---------- score:lib/exe/fetch.php?media=pdfs:Rimance.pdf text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/scorchingsun?rev=1692136799&do=diff Scorching Sun (1996) electroacoustic music; computer-generated recording. Duration: 4' 32'' Channels: 2 This is the first installment of the “Geometry Notebook”, a series of pieces constructed with polygonal waveforms of all sorts. It was originally called text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/shambhalagarden?rev=1692136799&do=diff A Cybernetic Garden in Shambhala a virtual, automatic and infinite sound/musical environment intended for meditative practices, algorithmically generated in real-time by computer means. * you can hear it in action AT THIS LINK. This musical creation was composed by Marcus Alessi Bittencourt and Francisco Alves de Oliveira during a research project with financial support from the PIBIC/CNPq-FA-UEM Undergraduate Research Program, and was developed at the Laboratory for Research and Audio P… text/html 2024-11-02T13:47:03+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/sicpdslappso?rev=1730555223&do=diff Solutions for the implementation of complete chains of digital audio production and post-production by means of open-source software in Linux-powered computers INTRODUCTION This project, conducted from 2006 to 2010 and named “Solutions for the implementation of complete chains of digital audio production and post-production by means of open-source software in Linux-powered computers text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/snaketrain?rev=1692136799&do=diff Snake Train- Flight (1997) for sextet ( oboe, bassoon, Bb trumpet, trombone, piano, double-bass ) and soprano. score:lib/exe/fetch.php?media=pdfs:snaketrain.pdf recording: The Speculum Musicae text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/sonataparapiano?rev=1692136799&do=diff Piano Sonata (The Backbone Flute) (1993) for solo piano score:lib/exe/fetch.php?media=pdfs:SonataParaPiano.pdf ---------- The Backbone Flute (Prologue) 1915 For all of you, Whom I've admired or still am admiring, Hidden like icons in the cave of the soul, Like a goblet of wine at a festive gathering, text/html 2025-08-11T12:36:22+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/start?rev=1754915782&do=diff Marcus Alessi Bittencourt is a Brazilian composer, pianist, conductor and music theorist, and he is an Associate Professor of Music Theory and Composition at the State University of Paraná at Maringá, in Brazil. He studied music with composers such as Willy Corrêa de Oliveira, Fred Lerdahl, Joe Dubiel, Jonathan Kramer, and Tristan Murail, and Computer Music with Brad Garton and Thanassis Rikakis. As a composer, he is prolific both as an instrumental and an electroacoustic composer and his music… text/html 2024-10-30T19:23:35+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/teaching?rev=1730316215&do=diff TEACHING COURSES TAUGHT * at the State University of Maringá, Paraná, Brazil (2006 to present date); * at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg VA, USA (2003 to 2006); * at Lehman College of the City University of New York, NY, USA (2002); * at Columbia University, New York, NY, USA (1998 to 2002); OTHER TEACHING ACTIVITIES * text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/telemetry?rev=1692136799&do=diff Telemetry (2005) electroacoustic music; computer-generated recording. Duration: 5' 44'' Channels: 2 Concerning Telemetry, I am always astonished to how much my conception of “the sounds of the future” is tied to the Past, to the old sound effects of sci-fi movies, cartoons and TV adventure series I imbibed myself with when I was a child: robotic bleeps, swooshing spacecrafts, ray beams, computer panels. That may explain my enduring fascination for sounds of telemetry of all sorts. With… text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/temposmetalicos?rev=1692136799&do=diff Quatro Tempos Metálicos (2012) (Four Metallic Movements) for solo piano with quadruple ring modulation (live electronics). Quatro Tempos Metálicos is a cycle of 4 pieces for solo piano with realtime audio processing, by means of the Quadruple Ring Modulator. This modulator is basically composed of four specially designed ring-modulation units assembled in parallel, and it was designed and programmed by the composer himself using the software text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/test?rev=1692136799&do=diff hello, this is a test text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/thesaurus?rev=1692136799&do=diff THE Tn-TYPE THESAURUS * The Tn-Type Thesaurus Viewer is available AT THIS LINK. The Tn-Type Thesaurus Viewer (2017) The “Tn-Type Thesaurus” is a harmonic encyclopedia of Tn (transpositional) set types generated by a computational library in C++, which includes a visualizer text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/threenocturnes?rev=1692136799&do=diff Three Nocturnes (1995) for solo piano. These three short pieces were devised as a distracting balm for a lonely pianist at night. It is night music with its somber moods and erratic behaviour, unaware of its own destiny. Although trying to keep the sound soft in tone not to wake up those asleep, they fail to refrain themselves, sometimes achieving loud commotion, unyielding. The first Nocturne works a recurring melody always troubled by an incessant accompanying flow of never surrendering n… text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/threevignettes?rev=1692136799&do=diff Three Vignettes (1999-2000) electroacoustic music; computer-generated recording. Duration: 6' 24“ (0' 44” + 2' 23“ + 3' 17”) Channels: 2 These three little pieces are studies made mostly with material from sketches for Chimaera and Malédiction. The last vignette was distributed as part of the CD text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/toccatasopra?rev=1692136799&do=diff Toccata Sopra La Passacaglia (1997) for organ solo. This work was composed for the magnificent organ located at Saint Paul's Chapel at Columbia University in New York. The original organist gave up the task to play the piece, but I myself eventually ended up recording the piece with that very same instrument. Since I am not that proficient at the pedals, I had to record its part separately, with my hands. text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/tonphoncalculator?rev=1692136799&do=diff ---------- Introduction This project, developed in 2013 by Dr. Marcus Alessi Bittencourt, presents a computational model in PHP of psychoacoustic music theories by Richard Parncutt (Parncutt 1988, 1989, 1997 and 2009), with the addition of other theoretical components of his (Bittencourt 2011), combined to Set-Theory (Forte, 1973 and Rahn, 1980) and the theories by Edmond Costère (Costère, 1954). This model was implemented in the form of an analytical calculator available to the community vi… text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/trombonequartet?rev=1692136799&do=diff Trombone Quartet (1995) for four tenor-bass (Bb-F) trombones. score:lib/exe/fetch.php?media=pdfs:QuartetoTrombones.pdf text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/vasabarris?rev=1692136799&do=diff “Vasa-Barris” (1998) for septet: flute, Bb clarinet, trombone, violin, viola, violoncello and contrabass. When I first started working on “Vasa-Barris”, my idea was to conceive something like an epic poem or a historical portrait, in short, a musical commentary on the Canudos War, one of the most gruesome events in the history of nineteenth century Brasil. Fully described by Euclydes da Cunha in his important book text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/vulturgryphus?rev=1692136799&do=diff text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/watchingman?rev=1692136799&do=diff And The Watching Man Goes Out for a Stroll (1995) for full orchestra. A miniature piece for large orchestra. A rather odd idea, but anyway... ---------- score:lib/exe/fetch.php?media=pdfs:WatchingMan.pdf text/html 2026-04-10T19:20:38+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/writings?rev=1775848838&do=diff WRITINGS Complete writings published in periodicals * BITTENCOURT, Marcus Alessi; MARTINS, Lilian Cristyelen. Breve Introdução ao Tratado “Contraponto Móvel Em Estilo Estrito” de Serguei Taneyev (A Brief Primer to Sergei Taneyev’s Treatise “Convertible Counterpoint in the Strict Style”). Revista Vórtex Music Journal text/html 2023-08-15T21:59:59+00:00 https://www.marcusalessi.com/site/en/yggdrasill?rev=1692136799&do=diff Yggdrasill (2014) for piano and acousmatic sounds Written for solo piano and pre-recorded acousmatic sounds, the work “Yggdrasill” proposes a microtonal sound universe to musically illustrate the homonymous legendary tree from Norse mythology together with the Nine Realms or different realities interconnected by that tree, which are populated by several mythical beings such as frost giants, elves, dwarfs, human beings and other assorted divinities. Above this sound universe we hear the wand…