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Realised between 2022 and 2023, Two Virgins is the new work by João Pimenta Gomes. Through an installation, the Portuguese visual artist and musician presents two sound pieces composed in parallel during this period, connected by a device that links them. Based on the idea of false stereo and the construction of this fictionalised imaginary, closely linked to the design of records from the second half of the 1960s, João Pimenta Gomes creates two sound compositions of fixed duration but variable perception, using the Eurorack modular synthesis systems he usually uses to install and manipulate sounds in space.
Two Virgins follows on from another work he recently presented, Poly-Free, and marks a new approach by João Pimenta Gomes to the construction of sounds. While maintaining the sound matrix he uses - exclusively the voice - he changes the environment of the composition, and all the music presented in this installation was composed in transit during around 80 train journeys, using only a computer and headphones. Without being able to measure the impact of this context on the sound of these pieces, the constant presence of a drone in the work may have originated from this confrontation with the landscape. Although composed separately, João Pimenta Gomes imagined them as Siamese pieces, in a question/answer relationship, of individuality compromised by physical space, of two bodies seeking a single end.