8 Jan 2025

II MMP (Music in the Modern Period Group) Symposium

The II MMP (Music in the Modern Period Group) Symposium will occur on February 15. This day will bring together researchers and collaborators who, by presenting their most up-to-date work and research results, create group dynamics and promote participatory ways of doing science, while also promoting exchanges and social interaction between all its members. The...
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Lecture by Martha Thomae (EMS) at Latin American Music Information Retrieval (LAMIR)

In the lecture ‘Digital Images and Symbolic Encoding of Guatemalan Polyphonic Choirbooks: Enhancing Preservation and Access for Early Music Sources through Digitisation and Music Information Retrieval’, Martha E. Thomae (Early Music Studies Group) presented a pilot project focused on the digitization and encoding of one of six colonial polyphonic choirbooks from the Archivo Histórico Arquidiocesano...
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Newsletter I January 2025

The January’s Newsletter is out and it has news you do not want to miss! If you have not yet subscribed to our newsletter, you can do so at this link.

‘Algorithmic Audiovisualities: Music and Media in the Age of AI’ I Call for proposals until May 11

In November 2025, CysMus/SociMus will organize the international conference ‘Algorithmic Audiovisualities: Music and Media in the Age of AI’. With recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies applied to music and audiovisual media, it becomes urgent to inquire into the significant transformations that these tools and their reception (from enthusiastic adherence to vehement rejection) have...
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Advances in Design, Music and Arts III I Chapters by CESEM researchers

Advances in Design, Music and Arts III, a book published by Springer, it is possible to find several chapters written by CESEM members: “Museums, Musical Iconography, and Cultural Intersections: Exploring the Vinyl Record Collection of the Kwok On Collection”, by Luzia Aurora Rocha; “‘Ratinhos’, Musical Iconography and Popular Culture: 19th Century Faiance from the Manuel Cargaleiro...
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Essay by Caio Priori-dos-Santos (CTC) in the Opus journal

The essay “The Preludes for Guitar by Villa-Lobos: Contributions to an Analytical Paradigm Approach”, authored by Caio Vitor Priori-dos-Santos, a collaborator of the Research Group for the Study of Music, Critical Theory and Communication and a doctoral fellow of the Thematic History of Music in Portugal and Brazil project, has been published in the journal...
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Lectures by Haig Utidjian (EMS) in January

On January 15, at 7 pm, Haig Utidjian, a collaborator in the Early Music Studies Group, will give a presentation in Armenian called The hymn ‘Loys Zuart’ – texts and melodies. The evening will take place in the Utidjian Hall of the Armenian Prelature, located in Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus. On January 20, the researcher...
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