Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta (b.1957)
Partly autograph virtual notation and printed executive score signed ('Emanuel Pimenta') of Leonardo in Locarno, 2007
Virtual and executive scores of this celebration of Leonardo da Vinci, performed throughout the city of Locarno.

Computer-printed virtual notation with hand-painted additions in red, black and gold, two lines (quoting from Shakespeare and Joyce) inscribed in autograph, one page, 300 x 400mm, title and date inscribed in pencil at lower margin; computer-printed executive score on 7 leaves of thick paper, 297 x 421mm, each page signed and inscribed to Martin Schøyen, August 2014, all pages bearing Pimenta's red ink stamp and paraph.

Provenance:
(1) Presented by the composer to Martin Schøyen, June(?) 2014 (presentation inscription signed on verso).

(2) Schøyen Collection, MS 5523.

Leonardo was first performed across the entire city of Locarno in a continuous concert between 17 and 23 September 2007

The composer explained his method of constructing a score as follows 'Firstly, I "enter" inside a virtual environment and draw with my hand movements. Then, a plotter, which is a robot, draws on paper. After that, there is another human intervention: I paint in the three pre-historic colours gold, red and black at some points ... Then two lines are written with graphite pencil in my calligraphy, random excerpts from the seven most important books in my life: Shakespeare, Joyce, Pessoa, Camoes, Flaubert, Dante, and Borges. Each time a sentence is used in a score, it is erased from the book. In the end, these books will be empty' (email to M. Schøyen, 2014). The lot also includes a CD of the work and an explanation of the notation in the executive scores.