Contemporary Music

Contemporary Music

Coordinator: Isabel Pires
Co-Coordinator: Filipa Magalhães

The GIMC (Research Group on Contemporary Music) integrates researchers, composers and performers interested in the multiplicity and diversity of contemporary music manifestations and interdisciplinary work on the 20th and 21st century music. The members of this Research Group, very active in research and with recognized careers as composers and interpreters, have worked in Portugal and abroad in areas as diverse as technologically assisted music, history of music and analysis, aesthetics, musical creation and interpretation.

Main fields of research: Musical composition; Performance and Reception; Music and Sound Spaces; Electronic Music and Computer Music; Music and interactivity; Sound Technologies and Music Industries; Music and Image; Theory of Music and Analysis, Contemporary and Aesthetic Philosophy; Perception and Musical and Sound Cognition; Music and Sound Representation and Musical Notation; Preservation and Documentation of Musical Heritage.

Full members
Full members without PhD
Collaborators
Visitors
Projects
2023-2029Music theatre preservation: a bridge between musicology and archival science2022.07416.CEECIND/CP1725/CT0047
2023-2026Middle, broad music: incorporating popular song into a Western art music context2023.00819.BD
2023-2024REVERBDATA – Impulse response database of important portuguese spacesIDI&CA 2023
2023Portuguese music for guitar: Pieces by Fernando C. Lapa
2022-2023Habitus - Inhabited SoundscapesIDI&CA2022
2021-2023MusicEd - Perspectives on Music Teaching and SocietyID&CA2021
2021-2022AURA3D - 3D AuralizationIDI&CA2021
2020-2022The construction of teaching: the Pedagogical Residency in Arts at the Federal University of Ouro Preto
2020-2021IMMERSUS - Electroacoustic ImmersionsIDI&CA2020
2020-2021ACUSVMOTTA - Determination of the objective acoustic quality of the ESML Vianna da Motta AuditoriumIDI&CA 2020
2020-2021CTP-Lab - Improvised Counterpoint LaboratoryIDI&CA2020
2019-Portuguese contemporary music composers and ensembles: collective heritage preservationCESEM/UID/EAT/00693/2019
2019-2023PASEV: Patrimonialization of Évora's Soundscape (1540-1910)PTDC/ART-PER/28584/2017
2019-2022IMCC — Itinerant musical composition classes to develop and enhance artistic skills2019-1-FR01-KA203-062976
2018-DiRE-SoNo: “Discursos de (R)Evolução do Som no Espaço
2018-The sound expansion on the historical organ and performance practices of contemporary music2021.07298.BD
2018-2022Fragmentation and Reconfiguration: experiencing the city between art and philosophyPTDC/FER-FIL/32042/2017
2017-2019CCRE-MPC: Creation, circulation, audio recording and edition of works of contemporary Portuguese music, from a reflective perspectiveLISBOA-01-0145-FEDER-023453
2011-2013Jorge Peixinho’s Chamber Music – Critical EditionPTDC/EAT-MMU/113714/2009