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.
Website
https://gimccesem.wordpress.com/
GIMC Team
Coordination
PhD researchers
Ana Cristina Bernardo; Ana Telles; António Sérgio Azevedo; Benoît Gibson; Carlos Caires; Carlos Marecos; Christopher Bochmann; Diogo Alarcão; Diogo Alvim; Djalma Martins; Filipa Magalhães; Gonçalo Gato; Isabel Pires; Jonas Runa; José Tomás Henriques; Luís Tinoco; Madalena Soveral; Manuel Jerónimo; Maria João Serrão; Nuno Fonseca; Paulo Assis; Paulo Jorge Gaspar; Pedro Taveira; Radu Ungureanu; Rui Pereira Jorge; Tiago Porteiro.
PhD Students
Andreia Nogueira; Bruno Gabirro; Carla Pires; Elsa Filipe; Ernesto Donoso; Francisco Santiago; Helder Gonçalves; Hugo Paquete; Joana Gama; João Dias; João Ventura; Marija Mihajlovic; Pedro Nuno Marreiros Louzeiro; Ricardo Jacinto; Riccardo Wanke.
MA Students
Tiago Poeiras; Tiago Rodrigues.
Collaborators
André Pinto; Daniel Pinheiro; Fernando Fadigas; Hugo Novo; José Bica.
Visiting Researchers
Fernando Magre (São Paulo University, Brazil), 2016-2017.
Ongoing Projects
Portuguese contemporary music composers and ensembles: collective heritage preservation
The CESEM’s “Portuguese contemporary music composers and ensembles” project intends to digitize, study and preserve collections of some important composers and ensembles from the last 30 years of the 20th century whose heritage is dispersed and/or has never been treated. This project has gained relevance since most Portuguese works of that time is at many levels experimental (including unconventional instruments and artefacts, improvisation, electronics, etc.), and since its documentation is scattered, incoherent or lost, preventing new performances of these musical works.
The main goal is to make accessible documents, recordings and scores, keeping alive this important heritage and valuing the Portuguese Contemporary Music heritage, while allowing academics, musicians or other interested parties to access, study and re-stage the works of this relevant period.
To pursue with this goal, collaboration protocols have been made between the NOVA University and the owners of the collections (composer’s families or other heritage custodians, private and institutional).
This work needs a deep search in order to gather the dispersed documents, namely those in the possession of the musicians, performers or other participants in performances. The work needs also to meet the participants and to discuss with them collaborative strategies to find and access the documents as well as gather additional information about the works. This is a work conducted conducted by researchers from the CESEMs’ Contemporary Music Research Group (GIMC) with the close collaboration of Music Department students and trainees.
The project is currently working on the collections of the composers José Lopes e Silva and Constança Capdeville, but also the ensembles Quadrifonia, Opus Ensemble and ColecViva. The collections include manuscripts, personal papers, and sketches, recordings, photos and so on, and are being documented, digitized and registered at LIM (CESEMs’ Computer Music Lab). After treating the collections, and accordingly with the specifications of each protocol, these will be returned to their owners or, in particular cases, will be deposited at the National Library of Portugal.
Team
Isabel Pires (PR)
Filipa Magalhães (co-PR)
Carolina Martion (M.A. student)
Previous team members (graduating interns)
1. Beatriz Amaral 2020-21 (1st Sem.)
2. Edgar Freire 2020-21 (1st Sem.)
3. Adriana Margarida de Jesus Lopes 2019-20 (1st Sem.)
4. Carolina Pacheco Alves 2019-20 (1st Sem.)
5. Rafaela da Silva Cavaco 2019-20 (1st Sem.)
6. Samuel Alexandre Fernandes Martins 2019-20 (1st Sem.)
7. Carolina Martins 2018-19 (2nd Sem.)
8. Mariana Marques Pedrosa 2018-19 (2nd Sem.)