Mário Rafael
In memoriam Irene, 1931-02-01, 2010-11-01
Feb 1, 2011
(Este texto é bilingue, português e inglês, por essa ordem: a parte inglesa aparece a seguir à portuguesa, entre parêntesis retos. [This text is bilingual, Portuguese and English: the English part comes after the Portuguese, between square brackets.])
Queridos familiares e amigos [dear relatives and friends]:
Eis um pequeno nada pelo primeiro aniversário póstumo, o 80º, da minha mãe Irene [here's a little something for the first postumous anniversary, the 80th, of my mother Irene]:
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. [The photo, taken by myself in 1977, shows Irene in her workplace, the school where she taught chemistry. I was a student there.]
A letra do Requiem é sobre as "duas tristezas" descritas na Breve Elegia Fúnebre [the Requiem lyrics are about the "two sadnesses" described in the elegy I wrote and read at the funeral]:
"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. ..."
["Today there are two sadnessess, e none of them is the death of Irene. Irene had given up on life years ago. A rational or temperamental decision, or a result of depression—nobody knows—and that is the first sadness: our unability to understand, really understand, the final phase of the extraordinary life of this extraordinary woman. The second sadness is that the Universe it self, as stupid as us, had taken all those long years to grant Irene the concretization of her retreat. It did it, finally, the day before today. The day of the dead. ..."]
O texto integral da Breve Elegia Fúnebre encontra-se em [the unabridged text (in Portuguese) of the elegy is at]:
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"Collab" with Peter Gabriel
Jul 2, 2010
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.
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old blabbering about my self
Jan 27, 2010
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.
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I am listening back
Jan 26, 2009
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.
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