About
From a need to share some ideas I have about the contemporary world came the desire to write this piece. I'm honestly not interested in qualitative assessments nor moral judgements about what's right and what's wrong I leave that to others.
Living in the jungle that is London, where I am confronted with modern ideologies on a daily basis, I am spurred more than ever to respond creatively to the inseparable traits of the millennial generation. And God only knows what a marvellous adrenaline rush I get when I think of crowds, when I think of consumption, when I think of missiles, when I think of the end. We've been without steering wheel for a while now, I don't know if we'll get it back again, but after all, who cares? This piece is a reaction to all this, it's a musical alliteration and also a story that seeks to combine drama with humour.
"Talking (A)bout My Generation" is a message where the vehicle itself - the piece - has become the message it wanted to be. Having the Remix Ensemble, a superb group absolutely committed to modernity, premiere this piece is a luxurious pleasure that imbues the music with an even more visceral meaning.
It's dedicated to my entire generation.
biography:
Natural de Braga, Pedro Lima é um destacado compositor português. Formou-se no Conservatório de Música Calouste Gulbenkian e, em 2017, ingressou no Mestrado em Opera Making & Writing, na prestigiada Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Com 21 anos, estreou a primeira peça para orquestra e um ano depois, venceu o Prémio de Composição da Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores. Após uma residência na Casa da Música em 2019, escreveu Talking About my Generation (2019), peça que dá agora nome ao disco de estreia do compositor.
Born in Braga, Pedro Lima is a prominent Portuguese composer. He graduated from the Calouste Gulbenkian Conservatoire of Music and, in 2017, entered the MA in Opera Making & Writing at the prestigious Guildhall School of Music and Drama. At the age of 21, he premiered his first piece for orchestra and a year later won the Portuguese Society of Authors Composition Prize. After a residency at Casa da Música in 2019, he wrote Talking About my Generation (2019), the piece that now gives its name to the composer's debut album.