.bio

Luiz Henrique Yudo was born in Brazil in 1962 and went on to study architecture at the University of Sao Paulo. In 1985 he had had composition lessons with the Brazilian composer Damiano Cozzella at the University of Sao Paulo University, but is mostly self-taught. After visiting Amsterdam for the first time in 1986 he went on to study at the Nederlandse Film & Televisie Academie there. Yudo has had works played in Brazil, Germany, Belgium and the USA.

.graphic scores

A QUARTET FOR CALDER
6’    String Quartet or any instrument with possibility to do glissandi

.video scores

AMAZE
9’    For any 4 players

EL CAMINO
15’ 30’ 50’    For any 4 players
The piece is about the pilgrimage of Santiago de Compostela.

On stage a video is projected on the screen. The musicians, looking at the screen, improvise according to previous instructions on how to 'read' the images and set them into music. The video is actually the 'graphic-score' for the musicians.

The video shows in one single shot a sequence of legs at the main square in Santiago de Compostela. The cathedral will be only revealed at the end of the video when we see the entire square zoomed out and slowly tilting up ending in the clouds of the sky.

The ensemble plays with the direct sound from the square.

The sounds created by the musicians together make a unique combination for each pair of legs shown in the video, as a tangible imprint of individualities.

It is a game of awareness and reaction: observing the real world and making music from it.

COUNTING WINDOWS FOR TOM JOHNSON
(1999) video-version with ensemble (2008)

10' 20' 30’

Sequences of images of windows from Amsterdam houses are shown on the video.

The musicians improvise rhythmic patterns from the windows.

This piece was premièred in 1999 to celebrate Tom Johnson's 60th birthday.

.mapping scores

A QUARTET FOR VASARELY
5’    For string quartet

A QUARTET FOR FARNK STELLA

6’    For any 4 players

DEVA
5’ to 7’    For any 4 players

BOUTEILLE

5’

.info

yudo_l@hotmail.com