André Malhado SFRH/BD/145674/2019 (entre 2019 e 2023)

André Malhado, a musicologist, music producer, and cultural commentator, is a Ph.D. candidate in Historical Musicology at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the New University of Lisbon. His thesis explores the centrality, functions, and aesthetic heterogeneity of the cyborg as a mode of music and technological expression in the first two decades of the 21st century. He holds a research scholarship funded by the FCT (SFRH/BD/145674/2019) between 2019 and 2024. In 2019, he obtained his master’s degree with a dissertation on the musical label cyberpunk. With a sociomusicological perspective, he problematized cyberpunk in digital and audiovisual media from 1982 to 2017. André Malhado received awards for best undergraduate (2018) and master’s (2020) student, as well as a merit scholarship granted by Public and Private Higher Education Institutions to students with exceptional performance (2019). His work spans the fields of music sociology, digital and audiovisual cultures, sexuality, and gender. He co-edited the books Log in, live on: música e cibercultura na era da Internet das coisas (2018) and Convergências Musicais: gosto, identidade e mundo (2022), and authored various national and international articles and chapters. André Malhado is a member of SociMus, NEGEM, and coordinator of CysMus since November 2021, all integrated into the Critical Theory and Communication Group (GTCC) at CESEM. He serves as a scientific editor, peer reviewer, and internship supervisor. Additionally, he organizes colloquia and seminars, presents documentaries and films, conducts workshops, lectures, and other activities. André Malhado also holds a Course in Music Production and Creation, composed solo works, provided sound production and editing for the theatrical play Vortice (2019), and created music for the photographic exhibition 24 Horas Lisboa (2013). He collaborates with the LGBTI+ project esQrever since 2020.