#5 Letters to Wolfgang is a work composed and dedicated to my friend and flutist João Vidinha, who was searching for a set of works that would (also) enable its performance with dance/theater.
I believe that a speech is not built over itself, but it is a path to another text. In other words, the other (text) passes through, crosses, influences the speech of a new self. In this way, #5 Letters to Wolfgang is totally conditioned to the principle of Dialogism of M. Bakthin – writing in which one reads the other, the speech of the other refers to another work.
The appearance of this speech/concept in this work is set by the “dialogue” of several composers, such as Brukner, Stravinsky, Vivaldi, among many others and may be found on the work 15 minutes for 13 morphs by the Austrian composer Wolfgang Mitterer.
Although #5 Letters to Wolfgang absorbs a certain amount of quotations as a kind of mosaic of Mitterer’s work, different transformation processes/morphologies are applied to them, in order to reach aural connections far from the source. This will of hiding/transforming the source, seeks to symbolize the experience of a forbidden love, hidden within the “5 Letters”. Nuno Peixoto de Pinho
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