"In a way, it's easier to frivolous individuals, and requires less responsibility,
to describe with words nonexistent things than existing ones, but with respectful
and conscientious historian happens just the opposite: there´s nothing to flee of
the description in words, and that´s more required to men, than things that have
no real appearance and whose existence can not be proved, but that, precisely
because to respectful and conscientious individuals the deal as existing
things are taken to take another step toward being the possibility of
being born." Sayings of Albertus Secundus.
Personal Melgacian (including careeristic) life has always been a challenge
to (even) researchers. Echoing the stance of some in art history, he´s still
those who believe that an artistis his creations. That's why he gives no information
- I emphasizing the following word - b-i-o-graphical, or when he gives statements,
according to O.M. - in all his instigating iconoclasm -, are false. And always tries
to modify them. (Is there a more artistic act than this?) Ask what we want to know
and he´ll respond but never will say the truth. The truth (his truth) is the very Work.
the melgacian bio-g-r-a-p-h-y: s-p-e-l-l his life is the s-p-e-l-l-i-n-g of its Art."
(Celina Vivacqua; journalist and cultural producer. Born in the city of Belo Horizonte,
Minas Gerais / Brazil; currently resides in Lisbon, Portugal)
prelude > In order to absorb news, vehicularities,
references, releases, curiosities et cetera
on O.M.,
f u l l d i s c o g r a p h y
{You can hear all
the phonograph albums
as well as read reviews here
Also are available for purchase}
C o n t e m p o r a r y
Minotauromancia
Salomé
Aleph
Omnia Vincit Amor
Carnivàle
Marienbad
Codex Gigas / Codex Seraphinianus
Konzertstück für Rasputin - Sieben Sätzse für Orgel, Schlagzeug und Percussion
Ok Ragas por la Komenco de Tempoj
ヒッグス粒子 (EP)
SteamPunk (EP)
Stendhals Syndrom (EP)
Sátántangó
το τραγούδι των σειρήνων - 7 G i n o p e d i e s
OBLUZ [A Brazilian Rhapsody]
Dos Cânticos de Maldoror
ROSÁRIO [Tombeau d´Arthur Bispo]
Bodas Del Amor Oscuro [A Spanish in the Works]
Serenìsima Venexia [Capriccio per la Dominante]
圖騰 [12 Cosmopolieder]
メタボリズム / Metaborizumu [Pieces for Vibraphone, Voices and
Broken Glass]
Brenn And
OCA [Otacílio Melgaço and The Mahashiva Orchestra]
Serendipity or In Praise of Sleep
A f r e e k a
Tanzt Karl Tanzt!
Maximinimalistic
N a d j a / Les Champs Magnétiques de L´Immaculée Conception
Mauritia Flexuosa - 11 pieces for viola caipira transubstanciated
Procissão Nordestiça
JaXperience - pieces for double + electric bass and drums
Sexus Plexus Nexus | The Rosy Noise for Guitar
Onze Arabescos para Diadorim
Entelékheia - dix berceuses à Aristote comme un enfant
En dansant la Javanaise
Sonata "Sempiterna" - for strings and percussion
Aurora Boreal / Aurora Austral - Otacílio Melgaço & HoniG Stahl Orchester
Говорите, пожалуйста, медленнее
Pipiripau - 3 fantasies for organ
Saturnalia - Six Pieces for Harpsichord
راه ابریشم
Gætiru sýnt mér á kortinu? - Pieces for Percussion
& Electronics
Black Box
B-Sides
Hemmet av Isak Jacobi
Deslimite
Zwanzig Fugen für Aracy Moebius de Carvalho Guimarães Rosa
On Contrapuntal Glenn Street
Clepsydra
Rorschach
Sonata "Errática"
Mons Sancti Michaeli in periculo mari - Short Pieces for Rhodes Piano
Kunst Kabinett
Lusco-Fusco
"X" - O.M. & CadavreXquis Ensemble
Golden Ratio
Diegesis Triptych - Piece I _ Nêmesis
Diegesis Triptych - Piece II _ Sursis
Diegesis Triptych - Piece III _ Catártis
Live From The Red Carpet
Jouissance - Piano Works
Misophonia - Vol. 1
Misophonia - Vol. 2
Pompeii - Solo Cellos Piece
Delirium Tremens
Mazeppa - An Equestrian Passacaglia
EQUUS
Make Do and Mend
entartete Kunst
Untitled Piece # 11
Panoptikum
Le Taj Mahal Noir [Otacílio Melgaço and The Mahashiva Orchestra]
Camouflage - Klangfarbenmelodie für Flávio de Carvalho
The Modern Prometheus
Besouro Mangangá
Sede Vacante - Liturgical Piece For Recorder Solo
Jaguad´Arte
Camara Oscura
ECLIPSE - Otacílio Melgaço & HoniG Stahl Orchester
Capriccio for El Eazar
Das Glasperlenspiel
Nefelibata
Trompe-l'œil / A Sci-Fi Experience
Spoiler
Cortile Dei Gentili
Shruti Madrigal
Monad
"O Círculo Imperfeito" - O.M. & CadavreXquis Ensemble
L'Enfer d'H.-G.C.
Abyssal Zone
Mojo
Beethovens Taubheit
Eretto in Memoria (Cantata Spirituale) _ Dittico
- I - Esodo
Eretto in Memoria (Cantata Spirituale) _ Dittico
- II - Combustione Spontanea
Baldaquino - Sarabande for Pipe Organ & Clavichord
Cornu Copiae (Oratorio)
Struldbrugs (Pastorale)
Mükemmel Döngüsü Suite
Oxymoron (Concerto pour Ondes Martenot
et Quatuor à Cordes)
Musicophilia or Seeing Voices: A Journey Into The Land Of The Deaf (Entr'Act To Oliver Wolf Sacks)
Psicastenia Legendária
Spiritual Graffiti
Mano a Mano
Prawie Zerowy (Nocturnus guided by Voices
and Daedalian Tuba)
Carranca
Pinhole
Totem - Five Impromptus For Piano
с о н я ш н и к и (Recitative for Lista)
Michelet - Fantaisie avec Guitare Électrique
pour Monsieur J.M.
Eureka
tower of silence
tesla
L'Autre Côté Du Vent
Brutalism
When Blue Turns Gould
Coup De...Maître - Tombeau Pour Pierre Boulez
Hy-Brazil
Triptych of Singles - ECO / duke / lacaz
Galápagos - A Mellotronic Suite
Taboo & Totem
Glossolalia
Elektric Marienbad
K a s p a r H a u s e r - Piece for Strings
KlingKlang
D a n d e l i o n - Experimental Indo Jazz Music
"Tree House" - Otacílio Melgaço & CadavreXquis Ensemble
M - der Vampir von Düsseldorf
Troubadour - Quatro Peças para Violão
Six Degrees of Separation
C h i r p
Salon des Refusés - Concerto pour Percussion, Orgue, Flûte et Cordes
Cóndor
M is for Music, Mozart, Mystery, Melgaço, Mankind - Piece for Strings & Choral
Legião Estrangeira
Plywood
Dronology
Electrocochleography
Le Monde Codifié - Pièces pour Piano Préparé
A Lua vem da Ásia
Le Sexe de Dada
Château de Lacoste
O n k a l o - Eskatoteleologinen Odyssey
I Would Prefer Not To or 3′44″ (s i n g l e)
Prisme Noir - Otacílio Melgaço et L'Anus Solaire Projet
dial 'M' for
Defeated By Silence, Here Is A Place Where The Silence Is More Subtle Unvanity Case Singles Series | Zodiak Free Arts Lab
Unvanity Case Singles Series | Le Bateau-Lavoir
Unvanity Case Singles Series | Organisation für Kernforschung
Unvanity Case Singles Series | Lapa Nova de Maquiné
Unvanity Case Singles Series | Village Vanguard
Unvanity Case Singles Series | L'Église Métropolitaine d'Art de Esotérik Satie Conducteur
Unvanity Case Singles Series | ISS
Unvanity Case Singles Series | Chelsea Hotel #8
The Trumpets Of Jericho - Liturgical Piece For Wind Instruments
Trommeln in der Nacht - Konzertstück für Percussion
Psychoacoustics - Eleven studies on the unheard-of
Le Nom de la Rrose Sélavy - Pataphysique Pièce pour Voix, Machine à Coudre, Parapluie, Percussion, Piano, Bols Chantants et Tanpuri
Stockholmssyndromet
De Humani Corporis Fabrica
Sonata "Selenita"
A Török - Concertino for Toy Piano
Ajiuo
Train Fantôme - In Celebration of the 130th Anniversary
of the Birth of Villa-Lobos -
侘寂
Fantômas
引き篭り
Période Vache
青木ヶ原
Vathek
Doppelgänger
Wall of Sound
Ars Subtilior
Deus Ex Machina
Busker
WERTHER EFFECT - ARPsychedelic Project
Chiaroscuro - Piece for String Orchestra
Domus Aurea
E n t o u r age
Notes of a Native Man Suite
Dark Ambient
Spiral
Spectral
TUTUGURI (Pieza sónica para Piano, Efectos Electrónicos, Tambura, Gongo, Percusión y Artaudiana Voz)
Tолкование Cновидений |Спящая красавица|
The Alexandria Quartet
COBOGÓ
Rosebud |furniturambient music|
K.R.U.M.P.
BAOBAB
Antífona Brumariana (Peça para Coral e Órgão)
Beethovens Taubheit |The Outtakes| - Celebrating the 250th Anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven's Birth -
SI.VM E.T AV.VM
The Ninth Wave
SALOMÉ (Piece for Female Choir)
L´Apparato Umano
Vitrea Pompei (Pezzo per Organo e Percussioni)
En Hibernant à 's-Hertogenbosch
MISSISSOL-REMILÁ (Divertimento para Pífanos, Zabumba, Triângulo, Carrilhões, Contrabaixos Acústicos, Brinquedos e Crianças)
JAZZED-UP | OTACÍLIO MELGAÇO featuring THE OMPHALLUS TRIO |
COELORUM PERRUPIT CLAUSTRA (Astrumpsalmī for Transfigured Bassoons)
花見 (Abloometropolitanippastorale Suite)
Kunstwegen (Piece for solo Accordion)
V O I G T - K A M P F F (Cuatro-O-Cinco KAMPFF-VOIGTANGOS)
Physarum Polycephalum
Maloja Snake or Variations on Gluck | Mélodie (from Orfeo ed Euridice)
When I Am Laid In Earth
VEIT BACH
Rêveries Diurnes
OCTACHORDUM APOLLINIS
E Che Sospiri La Libertà!
SOUS LE DÔME ÉPAIS
LACRIMOSA
SALVADOR ROSA
A CLOCK-WORLD ORANGE
A PILGRIMES SOLACE
TARANTISMO (on Johann Sebastian Bach´s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor)
ÉCOUTE RÉDUITE | ÉCOUTE ÉTENDUE (on Richard Wagner´s Tristan und Isolde, Prelude & Ludwig van Beethoven´s 7th symphony, 2nd movement)
Pet Shop Beuys [>>This album is part of the launch of the eBook <<Furious Sphinx [THE MOST AUDIBLE TRANSFERAL OF A DEAFENING Æ N I G M A]>>, which deals with the Melgacian sound universe through multiple constellations of viewpoints (Nicolette Michalla, Laetitia Reboul, Denismar do Nascimento, Sílvia Maria Vilarejo, Caio Campbell, Pablo S. Paz and, last but not least, Azusa Seyama). It can be downloaded for free by means of the following link.<<]
G E S U A L D O - Profano Madrigale -
Tracks, Trails & Traces - For Dance, Film & Theatre, Selected Works -
FARNESE- Assemblage Para Transubstanciadas Guitarras -
Penderecki's Garth
J A S M
Ad Iugum Tamen Suave Transeo (Melgacian Variations on a Theme of orff) TINTINNABULA.C.T.I.O.N.
La Prochaine Peau (Pièce Sonique pour Synthétiseur, Percussion, Clarinette Bass , Sifflement et Récitation)
Pavane Pour Une Infante Ressuscitée (MELGACIAN Variations on a Theme of RAVEL)
Delphic Delphinus (MELGACIAN Variations on a Theme of BARBER) BATAILLEMACHINE
Estetica Del S-i-l-e-n-z-i-o
I.C.O.M. [partnership of O.M. with the Belgian multidisciplinary artist
Ine Claes]
LORELEY, LORELEY, LORELEY! (MELGACIAN Variations on a Theme of BRAHMS)
Mio Mistero Non È Più Chiuso In Me, Mio Bacio Scioglierà Il Silenzio (MELGACIAN Variations on a Theme of PUCCINI)
Concertino in O´ Maggiore per Arpa e Nitroglicerina
G l a s m a l e r (MELGACIAN Variations on a Theme of MAHLER)
Le Sacre Du Phœnix ou Enchantée Par l'Oiseau de Feu, Danse-Rituelle [melGACIAN Variations on a Theme of STRAVINSKY)
THE OTACÍLIO MELGAÇO GESAMTKUNSTWERKESTRA presents THE ♄ CONCERT
lacrimozartianesque
S y m p h o n y
Akhenaton Symphony
The "N" Symphony
Burle Marx Symphony
Klink Symphony
Salgado Symphony
Darcymphony
Goeldi Symphony
Hilst Symphony
Lispector Symphony
Luci(mph)o(ny)
агитпроп Sinfonietta
SINFONIA BRUMARIANA / BRUMARIAN SYMPHONY >> Hearing & Site
O p e r a
Il Theatro della Memoria (NeoGrand Ópera in 7 Acts)
DOKTOR FAUSTUS ODER ADRIAN LEVERKÜHN WEHEKLAG, ERZÄHLT VON MEPHISTOPHELES - APOCALIPSIS OPERETTE
Language is a Virus (A Tragicomic Operetta in One Act)
M a s s
Missa solemnis ouropretana (Aleijadinho, Descendit de cælis)
Requiem pour Hô Chi Minh (Concrètélectronique Liturgie)
ICONOSTASIS - Otacílio Melgaço & HoniG Stahl Orchester
S o u n d P o e t r y
Bloomsday (Homage to James Joyce)
Auto Do Deus-Menino (Homage to William Blake)
S o u n d t r a c k s ( B a l l e t, C i n e m a, e t c )
Mort Peut Danser
Enxadachins
Schiaparelli (Humoresque Pour Un Ballet Surréaliste)
フリーフォール [Free Fall | Queda Livre] Soundtrack |-| Koan
Dance Company
BALLET DU DIEU MORT
Jerusalien (URIZEN: Original Graphic Novel Soundtrack)
P o p u l a r B r a z i l i a n
Desiderium
O Nome Do Rosa
I n s t r u m e n t a l B r a z i l i a n
Veredas Mortas
Madame Satã
M e l t i n g P o p
Du Spirituel Dans L'art (Der Blaue Reiter - Melgaço's Music Project
/ CdI Bauhaus / CdII De Stijl)
Música Para Camaleões (Stabat Mater Afro)
OMFUG! | Other Music For Uplifting Gormandizers - A Tribute to David Bowie
Never Mind the Molochs
Circus-Museum (Avant-Folk)
Island In The Moon / These boots are made for divin´ ("Baal Des Quat'z'arts" - Experimental Art-Rock)
High Brazil, vol. 10 by Chico Dub (check here)
Útero Que Encerra Áurea Era - Triptych
Gêmeos De Cocteau (Collectanea)
+
OM<>Boîte-en-valise (Box in a Valise)
+ Melgaço is responsible for both (1) Sound Engineering
- and, as is wont to designate ´Metarquitetura sonorosa´
(´Sonic Metarchitecture´) - as (2) the art design of his records.
[plus]
* on August 13, 2018, it was released the Ebook
DEMOLITION LITERATURE [Reviews + References
+ reinterpretations + Reinventions Of
the OTACÍLIO MELGAÇO Discography].
by Mel-Em-Branca Pub Co., In its entirety, a deluxe publication with 3410 pages (three thousand four hundred and ten); 15 with inedited photos. Encompassing 201 (two hundred and one) O.M. albums, through an interdisciplinary and exuberant exegetical vision. In addition to in-depth notes by the duo of curators, there is an introductory essay by the Iranian philosopher and musician OMAR MEHREGAN, especially engendered for this monumental Work. Authors: PABLO SUAREZ PAZ & CAIO CAMPBELL
* * on November 9, 2018, it was the turn of the digital (Maga)Zine, Θevrumineś.
bilingual (Portuguese-English), with 444 pages: a compiling of
essays, articles, reviews, quotes, iconography ... focused on
the exuberantly plentiful Work of Melgaço.
* * * on November 20, 2019; the Second Issue, with 796 pages.
* * * * On March 26, 2021; the third Issue, with 459 pages.
All publications are Available on Amazon Books (Kindle Store) for appreciation and purchase or if you prefer, please contact the author / Mel-em-Branca Pub Co. directly through the following email: melgacianesque@gmail.com
D r a m a t u r g y
"T r i l o g y - I"
Gewollt
Her(r)envolk
Anatomia de um Enigma
Respectively bring references and do obeisance to the Greek Theatre,
the Elizabethan and modern - this, dedicated to Samuel Beckett. The first trilogy received translation into German of Curt Meyer-Clason. Some of the most important Brazilian authors were moved to the German language by Herr Meyer-Clason, as Machado de Assis, Clarice Lispector, Carlos Drummond de Andrade and Manuel Bandeira João Cabral de Melo Neto. He
was particularly known as a translator of João Guimarães Rosa.
[plus] Will be exposed excerpts (original copies) of
the correspondence that took place between CM-C. and O.M.
In one of the letters exchanged by both physical (connection Munich - Belo Horizonte), in opinion of the illustrious translator about Melgacian drama, Curt stated the following verbatim: "(...) I am sure I read something convincingly current and auspicious: drama, apparently static, but a dynamic intimately (dramatization) unsurpassed. Congratulations to your genius for inventiveness, theatricality and understanding of
(if not THE) issue of our ´existential today´."]
read some fragments (in Portuguese)
"T r i l o g y - II" (a.k.a.
´La Sangre Es Más Dulce Que La Miel´) -
A Vida
Os Pobres na Praia
Os Saltimbancos
(Melgaço flirts with Pablo Picasso in his second dramaturgical triptych.)
"Stabat Mater"
(Based on poems - transplanted from Spanish to Portuguese by OM. -
of Santa Teresa D'Avila)
>>The entire dramaturgical work of O.M. was published and,
in Portuguese, available for purchase on amazon books. If you prefer, please contact the author directly: here.<<
[PLUS] Engenders Theory (to unfold thereafter as Method) for his
"Theatre Ecstatic" ©
F i l m o g r a p h y
Le Guide des Perplexes
filmic Experiment coming to light in the post-adolescent artist with tarkovskyan and bergmanian influences.
Short film / 16 mm -, scripted and directed by Melgaço, was exhibited (April 1994) in Usina Banco Nacional de Cinema (Belo Horizonte / MG). Free inspiration in Maimonides.
check out some stills.
V i d e o g r a p h y
V i d e o A r t
´FRACTAL´ series
sob a sua letra 'M'
oppressive Uninvisibility
Nudo-des-Nudo
Ragan
Argus
Orquidário
Stanzas for Music
Il N'y Aura
epos
Paranoia Oder Verwunderung?
Anechoic Chamber Music
Orugooru
vertical Pier
Cledalismic
Furthermore, several video clips and teasers.
Watch here.
P h o t o g r a p h y
"Anagke Kai Chronos or Do Mel-em-Branca Aos Vergéis Encantados"
Individual exhibition from the mythical universe of the writer João Guimarães Rosa. La Brace Gallery, then located in Paraíba Street, 1279 - Savassi - Belo Horizonte/MG. Curator: Papoula Bicalho. From 07 October to 03 November / 2004. The Journal ´O Tempo´ referred to the exhibition as "pictures of ´minerian Being´ with an innuendo of supernaturality."
see photos.
Buy the photobook which contains all the photos [besides bilingual (english-portuguese] introduction and interview): here.
D a n c e
melgaço Designs theory dedicated to the world of dance and gives it
the name "Cordiographia" ®. It´s based on the deconstruction of
(the figure of) Choreographer and a plural and more interpenetrating relationship between Musician and Dancer.
in favor of sporadic presentations, Founded in 2015,
the KOAN Dance Company.
In the same year the debut through spectacle 'Queda Livre'
(フリーフォール / Free Fall).
See the website of the Company.
And here the soundtrack.
In seven short pieces, seven cutting edge choreographers - with
the collaboration of dancers from ICK and Ballet National de Marseille - show the audience what fascinates them and moves them to the creators of dance. The performance, not unlike a laboratory, using the body as the main source of inspiration and strength. Raw to stylized, political, technological, minimalistic or expressive: 7EVEN displays the diversity of contemporary dance. The seven dancers of ICK and Ballet National de Marseille will rise to the challenge in order to capture the essence of each choreographer in every single piece. With the Canadian-Polish choreographer and performer Ula Sickle, in 2017, melgaço makes
the music for one of the short pieces, "Borrowed Time".
From such an international debut, he was invited by Fabien Prioville (La
La La Human Steps; Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch; Fabien Prioville Dance Company) and Azusa Seyama (Ballet Austin; Tanztheater
Wuppertal Pina Bausch; etc.) to compose soundtracks
especially for original spectacles (as is the case
with ´Alpha´, ´1250 Mb/s´ and ´The ZOOMOLOGISTS´).
Otacílio has developed several partnerships with choreographers
and dancers such as, for instance, the German
Beljana Metje,the french Laetitia reboul
and the Mexican company Árbol de Ginkgo.
Featured works:
In celebratory tone,
on the 28th of May / 2023,
a dreamlike Melgacian Work
comes to light embodied in an eBook:
蜂蜜と鋼
- G H O S T
M U S I C
A N D
B U T O H
I N
L I V I N G
F L E S H -
Under the aegis of Mel-em-Branca Pub Co., the Oeuvre has 287 pages, intermediated by photographs & engravings, with an Introduction by Beljana Metje - German dancer, choreographer, illustrator -.
It is an Opuscule conceptually structured as a kaleidoscope, from which there are idiosyncratic fragments echoing polyphonic voices, both self-contained and interpenetrating. A ´spectral´ choir? Yes, we´re probably facing a conjuration of what could be called (artistically / apotheotically) 'Phantasmagoria'. But, after all, in what sense? Here there is an ethereal intersection of the figures of Tatsumi Hijikata /
Kazuo Ohno
and Otacílio Melgaço.
The Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist, taking the denominative perspective of <<Ghost Dance>> as a reference, brings to the public
a compositional expression that already existed beforehand in its career but that gains, from now on, such baptism: <<Ghost Music>>, an equally fluxuous concept, as one of the multifarious effigies of his polystylistic mosaic. Intertwined with Butoh - as well as surrealism, expressionism, etc. -, Melgaço proposes to us, through 蜂蜜と鋼, the sprinkling of
constitutive pollens of this sonic language that hovers over
such fresh supercalifragilisticexpialidocious release.
Plus - We can also uncover a link in that Publication to takes us to
a Sound Piece (<<KAMKAKAMI>>) created especially for this occasion.
To unveil
蜂蜜と鋼
for free,
simply click the following link.
Side by side with other professional activities that belong to the kaleidoscope that are the careers of Otacílio Melgaço (BR) and Laetitia Reboul (FR), both also begin to develop a partnership that hovers, in essence, through the unfolding universe of music and dance. In other words, the <<MELGALASEK duo>> is given birth.
Here & now, the first video art based on
this rhizomatic experience,
named SÈVES.
You are all invited to embrace it and, equally,
be embraced by Laetitia and Otacílio. Be welcome:
https://www.tiktok.com/@otaciliomelgacoofficial
Go deeper through the following link: here.
v i s u a l a r t s
Under the aegis of Mel-em-Branca Pub Co., on June 16 (Bloomsday), 2019,
the PhotoBook "ODYSSEUS HORIZONTALIZED", containing 145 drawings / paintings by Otacílio Melgaço, is released and made available for purchase. There are 210 pages; introduction signed by Milan Vesselovský, Czech visual artist.
The work portrays what would be a 24-hour journey through the city inhabited by O.M., Belo Horizonte, having the Ulissesian testimony of
its architecture as cartographied (and metaphorized) concreteness-in-Odyssey.
available on Amazon Books (Kindle Store) for appreciation and purchase or if you prefer, please contact the author / Mel-em-Branca Pub Co. directly through the following email: melgacianesque@gmail.com
See 24 pictures, here.
Read an interview with O.M. about such imagistic work, here.
Released in October 2021, the Artbook "PAVILLON DE L´ALMA", containing 236 Paintings, Mosaics, Photos + Sculptures, Tapestries, Tiles Projects by Otacílio Melgaço. There are 274 pages; introduction signed by Anushka Lakshmi, Asiatic philosopher. "O.M., for me, has a fluidly Renaissance spirit. And so I allow myself to visit Indian mythology and say that he reminds me of some Hindu deities who have countless arms. Thus, its qualities are numerous. Multiple, plural and synergistic. In this fascinating Oeuvre in focus, between lyrical and geometric abstractionism, despite occasionally flirting with figurative art, Melgaço seems to morph forms & colors into a mysterious, sui generis Calligraphy audible." (A.L.)
available on Amazon Books (Kindle Store) for appreciation and purchase or if you prefer, please contact the author / Mel-em-Branca Pub Co. directly through the following email: melgacianesque@gmail.com
Additional Information: Mel-em-branca pub co.
U R I z e n
<<URIZEN is a Graphic Novel by Otacílio Melgaço, a Brazilian man
of culture with forays into various areas of artistic expression
such as music, dramaturgy, photography, cinema, etc.
This release is, until then, an unprecedented work, fulfilling the role
of being an Introduction to the forthcoming series. In it, we will meet
the character OTTO KAVENDISH, who interconnects with the plurality
of surreal personae, ineffable scenarios, veins and viscera of
the hamlet that gives its name to this oeuvre.
A painter of portraits and still lifes (flauto player in his exotic intimacy), he absorbs, metabolizes and reflects on the pulsating time-in-earth of this intriguing place, both as a voyeur and a flâneur. Whether through
its ingrained interaction with the eccentric panorama of
such unsituable burgh, or athwart his memory, especially
replete with imaginations, inventions, hallucinations.
Everything happens during the dawn and dusk of a same day, May 28, 1918. Suffice it to say that we are in a frank pandemic, the so-called (a
common misnomer) Spanish flu. And, in equal measure, it is worth noting
that the globe is still experiencing the palpitation of the First World War.
In the end, when words come to the superficies, KAVENDISH writes a missive
(to a hidden personage? to himself? or to us?) in which he faces
a reality that completely transcends any waking life.
The illustrations, based on paintings by James Sidney Edouard, Baron Ensor (1860 – 1949), are interventions by Melgaço
transcreating lines & colors, in a minute - and fascinating -
process of refiguration and recontextualization.
There are 359 pages, which also include an
enlightening interview with Otacílio.
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Otacílio Melgaço engendered a Soundtrack to be listened while
reading URIZEN. Elevating the dimensional reach of the Graphic
Novel to new heights. The link that takes the reader to
this sonic addendum is contained
inside the eBook.>>
available on Amazon Books (Kindle Store), here.
W e b p h o n o d e s i g n
All O.M.´s sites are architected by him.
Below, some examples of creations
and adaptations of the Artist.
I - ophicina de sons
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To discover a series of links related to O.M.'s career,
including thematic websites and social networks, see here.