Alvaro M. Rocha
Alvaro M. Rocha | |
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| Born | 24 February 1975 |
| Origin | Esmoriz, Portugal |
| Genres | Ambient, New Age, electronic, trance, progressive rock |
| Occupation(s) | Composer, musician, artist, producer, audio engineer |
| Instruments | Synthesizer, piano, organ, guitar, bass guitar, drums |
| Years active | 1990–present |
| Website | www |
Alvaro M. Rocha (born 24 February 1975 in Ovar), often known as AMR, is a Portuguese composer, performer, music producer, and audio engineer.
Biography[1][2]
At the age of four, he started his first steps into the music world at the Academy of Music. He was introduced to learn and play a variety of instruments. And after 15 years of studies, Alvaro Rocha finished his formal training and then jumped into learning more about analog and digital electronics and received complementary training in Audio Engineering.
“The Shire” is Alvaro M. Rocha’s first complete musical work which he wrote at the age of six. In 1984, at age nine, he got in contact for the very first time with analog synthesizers. He then got into FM synthesis and later also into wave-samples and granular synthesis.
During the 90's, and due to academic background in Electronics and Computer Science, Alvaro got into digital processing and hard-coded most of a musical theme in C++[citation needed] long before virtual-analog was a trend. This was his 1994 work titled ”Electricity” and, by the same time he did one other, yet unreleased, titled "Magnetism".
In mid 2012, Alvaro M. Rocha teamed up with mastering engineer João Ganho of “O Ganho Do Som”,[3] a world reference HQ studio, for audiophile recordings[4] to master old and new work for public release.
Highlights
Although up to 2012 most of Alvaro M. Rocha’s work has been mainly backstage and invisible to the general public, there’re a couple of projects that were made public:
- 2006 - The Beyond Piano Project
- 2004 - The 1981 Beijing Opening Concert - Jean Michel Jarre Remastered
Style
Alvaro M. Rocha’s main course of work is soundtrack works. Depicted informally as a "Portuguese synth wizard"[5] and with a style analogous to the likes of Jean Michel Jarre and Vangelis, AMR fuses Classical music foundations with electronic elements into a not so formal popular music package. An eclectic range of styles usually converging into or diverging from old school vintage analog-electro pop instrumentals and full on epic orchestral works the common denominator is often the melodic component's weight.
Commercial albums and singles
- The Beyond Piano Project [Album]
- Stay
- Feel
- TP52
- Electricity
- Mechanism
- Syncretism
- Lift Aoife
- Goodbye
- Sail
- Sleepy
Live versions yet without studio version releases
- Jubilus
- Sunset Lagoon
- Walkabout
- Oceans of Mars
- Sea and Foam
- Mos Eisley
- The Shire
- Echoes of Hope
- Echoes of Everyday
- Echoes of Silence
- Raindrops
- One Sixtieth Of A Degree (One Minute)
- Anamia
- Hyperjumps
- Kaotech
- Once Upon A Time
Location
Alvaro M. Rocha’s studio is located at Park of the Nations in Lisbon, Portugal.
References
- ↑ http://www.alvaromrocha.com/composer.htm/
- ↑ AEIOU - Investimentos Multimédia, S.A. "Alvaro M. Rocha - BLITZ". blitz.sapo.pt. Retrieved 2014-04-10.
- ↑ "http://www.oganhodosom.pt/". oganhodosom.pt. Retrieved 2014-04-10. External link in
|title=(help) - ↑ "Renowned Engineer James Lock Moves to Portugal's O Ganho do Som Studio". mixonline.com. Retrieved 2014-04-10.
- ↑ Alvaro M. Rocha. "Alvaro M. Rocha is number 1 in the Portuguese Music Charts | PRLog". prlog.org. Retrieved 2014-04-10.
External links
- Blitz Sapo (Portuguese)
