(Este texto é bilingue, português e inglês, por essa ordem: a parte inglesa aparece a seguir à portuguesa, entre parêntesis retos. [media] ) Queridos familiares e amigos [media] : Eis um pequeno nada pelo primeiro aniversário póstumo, o 80º, da minha mãe Irene [media] : A foto, tirada por mim em 1977, mostra a Irene no seu local de trabalho, a escola onde ensinava físico-química. Eu era aluno lá. [media] A letra do Requiem é sobre as "duas tristezas" descritas na Breve Elegia Fúnebre [media] : "Hoje há duas tristezas, e nenhuma delas é a morte da Irene. Já faz muitos anos que a Irene desistira de viver. Decisão racional, temperamental, ou resultado de depressão—não se sabe—e esta é a primeira tristeza: a nossa incapacidade de perceber, perceber mesmo, a fase final da extraordinária vida desta extraordinária mulher. A segunda tristeza é que o próprio Universo, tão estúpido como nós, tenha demorado todos aqueles longos anos a conceder à Irene a concretização da sua desistência. A aceitar a sua demissão. Fê-lo, finalmente, anteontem. No dia dos mortos. ..." [media] O texto integral da Breve Elegia Fúnebre encontra-se em [media] :

Rearranged Peter Gabriel's "Games without Frontiers" for a contest: Voting is closed. Old script: Take a listen. And cast your vote: I don't expect first place, but an honorable mention alone could jumpstart my pet project the Progressive Rock Academy. Thanks a lot.

Changed the text on my profile page greatly. For whatever purposes, follows the retired text. Professionally I have dwelt in the area of Software Engineering all my life. In Education, Industry, and Science (current status). I have not dwelt professionally in Music yet. That said, I am a composer since my teens. On 2007, my catalogue has circa 100 items of many genres (progressive rock, contemporary, piano solo, symphonic, etc.) A few works have been performed publicly, but not widely enough, and have not circulated long enough to make me a known composer. Now let's see how they strive on the Internet! I have been meaning to webify my works for a long time now, but never got the time to "do it right." Finally I decided to put my perfectionism aside. Something is better than nothing. SoundClick sure is a helper. Henceforth for more about the musical facet of myself see my homonym artist page.

Many thanks to all who listen and comment. I really appreciate. Even in places other than SoundClick, e.g. the Cakewalk forum. There I've learnt the Duran-Starr mix of my op.17 "Dialog (Feeling Low)" has the vocals overamped. My fault. Duran gave me two mixes to chose, one with the vocals "a bit more up front", which I chose. In the SoundClick forum I've learnt my The Dream mix has the vocals a bit underamped. Thanks. Will try to fix all eventually.

Got an epiphany the other day listening on the radio to Alejandro Sanz's superhit "Corazon Partio": my has the same format and hit potential. So this project is to replace the current English lyrics and overall too "Western" arrangement with a more "Latin" style. Probably Castillan (aka Spanish) lyrics, but Galician, Portuguese, Italian would also work. So far I got this hint for Castillan: where the English version say "girl", "say" (spanning three notes), the Castillan version could say "llamame", "bejame", and the rest of the lyrics would develop a correspondingly romantic, sexy, story, "llamame quando quieras", etc. (I have posted this on the Other Genres forum before, but it seems to have vanished from there.)