As a result of a scholarship provided by CESEM, where Sara Maia began to develop research in the José Mário Branco Archive, the collaborator from the Research Group for the Study of Music, Critical Theory and Communication has created a series of episodes dedicated to the life and work of José Mário Branco, for whom... Read More

Kristin Hoefener, a member of the Early Music Studies Group, participated in the conference ‘Ibersaints: Making and Remaking Saints’ in the Spanish city of Salamanca (March 24-26). In addition to presenting the paper ‘Between Royal Duty and Religious Devotion: Princess Joana of Portugal and the Dominican Convent of Aveiro’, Kristin Hoefener also moderated the session... Read More

On April 24, at 5:30 pm, Paula Gomes-Ribeiro, coordinator of NEGEM – Advanced Studies in Gender and Music, will take part in a roundtable entitled ‘About Women composers’, with Anália Cardoso Torres (sociologist) and moderated by Andrea Lupi. The event, organised by the Teatro Nacional de S. Carlos, is part of the ‘Travessias’ cycle and... Read More

‘Invisible Places’. This is the name of the interactive sound installation by Carlos Caires, composer, and member of CESEM / ESML – IPL (Research Group on Contemporary Music), now showing at the 25th edition of MONSTRA | Lisbon Animation Festival. Until March 30, ‘Invisible Places’ invites participants to awaken and manipulate an immersive sound system through... Read More

‘Birds & Mushrooms’ (‘Pássaros & Cogumelos’), published by Flâneur in December 2024, was recently featured on the ‘Império dos Sentidos’ programme on Antena 2. The book was written by Joana Gama. The pianist and integrated researcher at CESEM (Research Group on Contemporary Music) had already spoken about the book on Jornal 2 (RTP2), “Fila J” (TSF), “Fala com Ela”... Read More

The latest issue of Anuario Musical, a Spanish journal published by CSIC – Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, features an article by Rosana Marreco Brescia and Ana Maria Liberal, both researchers from the Music in the Modern Period Group, in collaboration with Inês Thomas Almeida (IELT – Universidade Nova de Lisboa). Click here to read the article ‘Cloistered women, freed musicians: the... Read More

Researcher Isabel Pires (Research Group on Contemporary Music) has published an article in the journal Behavioral Sciences, exploring the relationship between auditory perception and the descriptive language used for abstract sounds. Using synthesized sounds with no identifiable sources or musical structures, the study named ‘Listening Beyond the Source: Exploring the Descriptive Language of Musical Sounds’... Read More

The Music in Childhood Postgraduate Course applications are open until April 21. The two-semester course, coordinated by the researchers Helena Rodrigues and Ana Isabel Pereira, will occur on Fridays (6 to 9 pm) and Saturdays (1 to 7:30 pm). The design of this course reflects the choice of “immersive experiences” in a vision centred on the formation... Read More