Call for Papers: Nova Contemporary Music Meeting “Composing Music Today”

NCMM18 Lisbon, Portugal, 21 to 23 November 2018 Presentation Nova Contemporary Music Meeting (NCMM) is a biennial, 3-day international conference launched by the Contemporary Music Research Group (GIMC) of CESEM (Centre for the Study of Sociology and Musical Aesthetics at Nova University, Lisbon) and focused on a variety of questions relating to music since the...
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(Free course) Between the arts and music: an aesthetics of sonic experience

A critical and philosophical introduction to the arts of sound From 20th March until 2nd May 2018; Tuesday and Wednesday, from 18h to 20h. In the past few years, expressions like “sound art”, “sonic arts” or “audio art” have arisen rather frequently in the academic discourse and in the artworld verbiage – more often than...
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Musical Iconography Nucleus Publication: Organology, Luthiers and Performance Practice in Dialogue (PT/EN)

Musical iconography is a research field that acts within a range of interdisciplinary, crosscutting, mainstreaming and priority focused musicological themes. Before musical events were photographically documented, artworks were the only source of pictorial representations of various events, and therefore crucial in assisting us with information about music history. This third volume aims to establish a...
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Caravelas Newsletter

The latest issue of the Caravelas Newsletter is now available! http://caravelas.com.pt/newsletter_caravelas_marco_2018.pdf All issues can be found here.  

Ribeira de Muge’s Romancebook

SANCT’IRENE ENSEMBLE Gustavo Pimentel – Voice and Percussion António Baptista – Guitar, Lute and Voice Clara Curado – Cello and Voice José Blanco – Cello, Rebec and Voice ROMANCEIRO DA RIBEIRA DE MUGE This is the first of many projects that the Sanct’Irene Ensemble wants to carry out in the region of Santarém. Therefore, this...
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Notice – Opening of a Tender and Selection of PHDS

CESEM – 5 positions At a meeting of the Academic and Scientific Committee on 16th February 2018 it was decided to open tenders for the international selection of 103 PhD positions to carry out research activities in the areas of Social Sciences and/or Humanities, with work contracts for an indefinite period of time under the...
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31 Dec 2020

CESEM’s Satellite Unit P. Porto: IV International Contemporary Piano Meeting

Porto (Portugal) December 2019. Conference dates: December 12-14, 2019 Deadline for abstracts: 1 August, 2019 Call for papers: pianocontemporaneo4@gmail.com Location: Porto, Portugal The fourth International Contemporary Piano Meeting will take place on December 12-14 2019 at the School of Music and Performing Arts (ESMAE/IPPorto, Portugal) in affiliation with the the Graduate Program in Music of...
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31 Dec 2020

CD ARCUEIL Release by pianist Joana Gama – new edition supported by CESEM

ARCUEIL is the latest album by Portuguese pianist and researcher Joana Gama. This is the second chapter of her work on Erik Satie, following SATIE.150 (2017). In this album Satie’s work dialogues with that of composers such as John Cage, Morton Feldman, Federico Mompou, Marco Franco and Vitor Rua, who share with him a certain...
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