The jury, composed of composers Gilles Gobeil (Montréal, Canada), Pedro Rebelo (Belfast, UK) and Miguel Azguime(Lisbon, Portugal), has decided to award the Música Viva 2026 Prize to LEO MAGNIEN (France) for his work Dans la plaine incertaine (2024)
The jury has also decided to award an Honourable Mention to Edmar Soria (Mexico) for his work Meta-auralidades de un Río Improbable.
Honorable mentions Ângela da Ponte (Portugal), and Eduardo Nespoli
Honorable mention to the Italian Filippo Mereu with the electronic composition “Dimenticati”
CONCURSO INTERNACIONAL DE COMPOSIÇÃO ELETROACÚSTICA MÚSICA VIVA 2023 RESULTADOS
O Júri do Concurso Internacional de Composição Eletroacústica Música Viva 2023, constituído pelos compositores Francis Dhomont (França), Natasha Barrett (Reino Unido/ Noruega) e Miguel Azguime (Portugal), decidiu atribuir o 1.º Prémio ao compositor checo residente em Viena (Áustria), Otto Wanke (1989), pela obra “Cycling” (2021). Segundo o compositor, a obra «dividida em quatro secções, caracterizadas por diferentes formas e efeitos de feedback», surgiu «enquanto trabalhava em Max/ MSP». Além da música eletroacústica, o catálogo de obras de Otto Wanke conta também com peças para diversas formações instrumentais, vocais e multimédia. Nesta edição, o Concurso Música Viva recebeu propostas de 87 peças eletroacústicas de 33 países diferentes. A obra vencedora será apresentada em 2024 pela Orquestra de Altifalantes da Miso Music Portugal no contexto da 30.ª edição do Festival Música Viva.
MÚSICA VIVA 2023 INTERNATIONAL ELECTROACOUSTIC COMPOSITION COMPETITION RESULTS
The Jury of the Música Viva 2023 International Electroacoustic Composition Competition, constituted by the composers Francis Dhomont (France), Natasha Barrett (United Kingdom/ Norway), and Miguel Azguime (Portugal), has decided to give the 1st Prize to the Czech composer residing in Vienna (Austria), Otto Wanke (1989), for the work “Cycling” (2021). According to the composer, the work ‘divided into four sections, characterised by different forms and effects of the feedback’, came about ‘while working on Max/ MSP’. Besides electroacoustic music, Otto Wanke's work catalogue also includes pieces for diverse instrumental, vocal, and multimedia formations. At this year's edition the Música Viva Competition received 87 proposals of electroacoustic pieces from 33 different countries. The winning work will be presented in 2024 by the Miso Music Portugal's Loudspeaker Orchestra, during the 30th edition of the Música Viva Festival.
Jury of the 2022 Jonty Harrison, Kees Tazelaar, Miguel Azguime
Prize Winner 2022
23RD INTERNATIONAL ELECTROACOUSTIC COMPOSITION COMPETITION MÚSICA VIVA 2022
Jury of the 2022 edition Jonty Harrison, Kees Tazelaar, Miguel Azguime
RECEIVED 116 WORKS OF 30 COUNTRIES
Robert Seaback 1985, is a composer and sound artist from the US currently based in Oslo, NO. His music expresses corporeality, the hyperreal, digital stasis, and continuums between—integrating voices, instruments, soundscapes, and synthetic sources through digital techniques. He has worked in different mediums including spatial audio, mixed music for ensemble, electroacoustic improvisation, and sound installation.
Robert has a PhD in composition from the University of Florida and degrees in music from Mills College (MA) and Northeastern University (BS). He is currently an Artistic Research Fellow at the Norwegian Academy of Music, working with Natasha Barrett. His music has been presented at international events such as ICMC, NYCEMF, Sonorities, MA/IN, and the ISCM World New Music Days, and has been recognized with awards from IEM & VDT 3D Audio Production Competition, Xenakis International Electronic Music Competition, ASCAP/SEAMUS, University of Florida, and Mills College.
Lightness in Transit derives sound archetypes from subway and commuter train recordings made in Oslo. The sonic residue of metal, wind, engines, and movement contribute to the sensual, corporeal experience of the music. Against this backdrop, a voice continually emerges and recedes, oscillating between song-like utterance and digital stasis. Sources were recorded from Nationaltheatret Station, Holstein, and mezzo-soprano, Marika Schultze.
After an initial period of experimentation, my intention for Lightness in Transit became to mirror the visual and vibrational pulses of trains from different sonic perspectives—as an observer and as a traveler: enclosed, underground, or emerging—and in ways that traverse between fantasy and hyperreality. In the latter case, sound field recordings are presented in raw states, with subtle additions to enhance the scenes.
Another association which came to mind at the outset was the similarity of the raw sounds of trains in a steady state of movement to the bleak noise-scapes of some industrial music. This inspired the opening motive and other parts of the work.
O Júri do Concurso Internacional de Composição Electroacústica Música Viva 2021, constituído pelos compositores Flo Menezes(Brasil) , Todor Todoroff (Bélgica) e Miguel Azguime (Portugal), decidiu atribuir duas Menções Honrosas: a Hyunsuk Jun (Coreia do Sul) pela peça “Anatomy I” e a Jorge Ramos (Portugal) pela peça “Paysage”. Nesta edição do Concurso não foi atribuído o 1.º Prémio.
The Jury of the Música Viva 2021 International Electroacoustic Composition Competition, constituted by Flo Menezes(Brasil) , Todor Todoroff (Belgium) and Miguel Azguime (Portugal), has decided to distinguish the two composers with Honourable Mentions: Hyunsuk Jun (South Korea) for the piece “Anatomy I” and Jorge Ramos (Portugal) for the piece “Paysage”. This year the Jury hasn't awarded any work with the 1st Prize.
Concurso Música Viva 2020 · Resultados
1.º Prémio: Zhaoyu Zhang, “Inheritance” · Menções Honrosas: Simone Conforti, “MusicThatMoneyCanBuy"; David Q. Nguyen, “Adumbrations”
1st Prize: Zhaoyu Zhang, “Inheritance” · Honourable Mentions: Simone Conforti, “MusicThatMoneyCanBuy"; David Q. Nguyen, “Adumbrations”
O Júri do Concurso Internacional de Composição Electroacústica Música Viva 2020, constituído pelos compositores Claude Cadoz (França), James Dashow (EUA) e Miguel Azguime (Portugal), decidiu atribuir o 1.º Prémio ao compositor Zhaoyu Zhang (China) pela obra “Inheritance”; e distinguiu ainda com Menções Honrosas as obras – “MusicThatMoneyCanBuy” de Simone Conforti (Suíça/ Itália) e “Adumbrations” de David Q. Nguyen (EUA).
Nascido na China e residente no Canadá, Zhaoyu Zhang cresceu na Mongólia, cuja herança cultural exerce uma influência relevante na sua criação musical. O conceito de “herança” é a chave na percepção do desenvolvimento sonoro da obra “Inheritance”, em que os materiais são replicados e animados a partir de um ponto de partida comum. A música de Zhaoyu Zhang será apresentada na 27.ª edição do Festival Música Viva, em 2021.
The Jury of the Música Viva 2020 International Electroacoustic Composition Competition, constituted by the composers Claude Cadoz (France), James Dashow (USA) and Miguel Azguime (Portugal), has decided to give the 1st Prize to the composer Zhaoyu Zhang (China) for the work “Inheritance”, as well as two Honourable Mentions – to Simone Conforti (Switzerland/ Italy) for the work “MusicThatMoneyCanBuy” and to David Q. Nguyen (USA) for the work “Adumbrations”.
Born in China and residing in Canada, Zhaoyu Zhang grew up in Mongolia, whose cultural heritage has significantly influenced his music. The concept of “inheritance” is the key to follow the sonic development of his awarded work, where the materials are replicated and animated from a common starting point. Zhaoyu Zhang’s music will be presented at the 27th edition of the Música Viva Festival, in 2021.
Prémio • Sutures de Leo Magnien
Júri do Concurso 2019: Trevor Wishart, Gilles Gobeil, Miguel Azguime
Sutures (2019)
this piece explores the memory that sounds carry from the moment they were taped. In stitching together candid recordings made years apart, it attempts to conjure the relative events as well as to cast them in a sonic amulet.
The tension between the acoustic sources, the digital projections and their inmost content draw a network of remanences, a multiplex of signs. The work becomes a pool of possibles, never to be decoded but open for all to wander.
Leo Magnien has been working with sounds for more than a decade. During night shifts in a radio station, he discovered the poetic nature of acousmatic sound and transmission. He has since developed a practice of listening that results in the use of phonography as a basis of all his works. His focus is on the subtle variations, the tenuous perceptions, and how to present these to the listener. He lives in a natural zone in northern France.
Música Viva 2018 -19º Electroacoustic Composition Competition
On the 25th and 26th of May 2018 at O’culto da Ajuda in Lisbon, took place the jury meetings for the final selection and decision for the prize winner of the Música Viva 2018 Electroacoustic Composition Competition.
The jury members were Horacio Vaggione, António de Sousa Dias and Miguel Azguime and it was unanimously decided that due to the insufficient quality of the candidate’s works, no prize should be awarded.
Concurso Música Viva 2017
O vencedor do 18.º Concurso Internacional de Composição Electroacústica Música Viva 2017 é o compositor britânico Chris Bevan (1992), com a sua obra Ceramos.
O júri decidiu ainda distinguir com menções honrosas duas outras obras: Mute Sirens, de Giulio Aldinucci (1981), de Itália, e Tunnel Azur, de Robert Normandeau (1955), do Canadá.
Os membros do júri deste ano foram Miguel Álvarez-Fernández, Paulo Ferreira-Lopes e Miguel Azguime.
The prize winner of this year’s Musica Viva International Electroacoustic Composition Competition is the british composer Chris Bevan (1992), with his work Ceramos.
Additionally the jury decided to distinguish with honourable mentions two other works: Mute Sirens, by Giulio Aldinucci (1981), from Italy, and Tunnel Azur, by Robert Normandeau (1955), from Canada.
Vencedores do concurso Música Viva 2016
O vencedor do Concurso Internacional de Composição Electroacústica Música Viva de 2016 é o compositor italiano Roberto Palazzolo, com a sua obra Materia.
O júri decidiu ainda distinguir com menções honrosas duas outras obras: Ode to Kitchen, de Konstantinos Karathanasis, da Grécia e Foundry Flux, de Adam Stansbie, do reino Unido.
Os membros do júri deste ano foram Rui Dias, Adrian Moore e Miguel Azguime.
Winners of the Música Viva 2015 Competition
At this 16th edition of the Música Viva International Electroacoustic Composition Competition the jury constituted by Ludger Brümmer, João Pedro Oliveira and Miguel Azguime decided to award the work Counterattack by the British composer Adrian Moore.
Miso Music Portugal is pleased to announce the selection of the electroacoustic miniatures, which make part of the sound installation, Sound Walk 2014 - Revolution and Metamorphosis, Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Portuguese Revolution.
From among around 100 miniatures received from 26 different countries, Miso Music Portugal has selected 12 works:
Trigonometría by Alejandro Casales (Mexico)
Déferlante by Blas Payri (Spain)
ofmikio´ by Daniel Steiner (Switzerland)
Ισπαχάν (ISPAHAN) by Dimitris Maronidis (Greece)
Publica Res by Fabio De Sanctis De Benedictis (Italy)
Re_carnation by Gerald Fiebig (Germany)
Banalità del male by Giuseppe Gavazza (Italy)
Celeste by Juan María Solare (Argentina)
Rivoluzione dei garofani by Matteo Bertolina (Italy)
Liquid Metamorphosis by Panayiotis Kokoras (Greece)
Rivière Noire by Paul Ramage (France)
Red Carnations by Sondre Bryntesen (Norway)
The Sound Walk 2014 - Revolution and Metamorphosis was presented in the form of a sound installation during the Música Viva 2014 Festival, on November 23 and 24, from 6h00 p.m. to 11h00 p.m., at O'culto da Ajuda in Lisbon.
The Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Miso Music Portugal and the Música Viva Festival 2013 convoked composers to send electroacoustic miniatures to be part of a sound installation of the Triennale. This year's edition under the theme Close, Closer.
"Nastymouf" by Andrew Babcock
"Stereotomics" by António Ferreira
"BabyBirdBeat" by Bejamin O'Brien
"Divertimento in Eb" by Christopher Bailey
"Estuve demasiado tiempo fuera" by David Mantecon
"intra muros" by Denise Ritter
"icygrape" by Diana Simpson Salazar
"Stous Theous" by Dimitrios Savva
"Oiseaux Électroniques" by Gilberto Filho
"Aqua Modulah" by Girilal Baars
"Music for Film" by Goni Peles
"Henry's Cowbell" by Gonzalo Varela
"Caged One" by Hamish Hossain
"DNA" by Hans Parment
"... proksime, pli proksime" by Hiroyuki Saeki
"Va e Viene" by João Fernandes
"Violins of Summer" by Konstantinos Karathanasis
"Black Shred" by Lin Culbertson
"ROAR Myopia" by Maggi Payne
"ANTI part3" by Maxime Corbeil-Perron
"Boids Noise" by Motoki Ohkubo
"... s'extirpe, lointaine résonance" by Nils Potet
"Mnmonic Generator" by Panayiotis Kokoras
"Giros II" by Rafael Gutierrez Gandia
"Spectrum" by Roberto Zanata
The Sound Walk / Close, Closer took place between 6th and 13th of December in Palácio Sinel de Cordes in Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa, in the context of the Música Viva 2013 Festival.
Cristina Dignart
prize winner of the 15th edition of the International Composition Competition of Electroacoustic Music
This year the Música Viva Competition has received a record number of proposals - 187 electroacoustic works from 34 countries.
The jury of the 15th edition of the Música Viva International Composition Competition of Electroacoustic Music constituted by Elzbieta Sikora, Andre Bartetzki and Miguel Azguime, has awarded the work Cerberus created by the Brazilian young composer, Cristina Dignart.
From October 1 to 10, 2012, the 5th edition of the Sound Walk / Sound Garden, collective and original sound installation, gave the visitors of the Goethe-Institut Garden an oppotunity to immerse in 25 sounscapes, that year joined by the "sound-text composition" theme.
"Micromaa" by Anna Korsun
"La Luna ha perso il suo occhio" by Anne-Claude Iger
"Tempus Fugit" by António Ferreira
"Digressione Ipertestuale Nr.10" by Cesare Saldicco
"Letzte Gebarde offener Munder" by Christian Banasik
"Is This Real?" by Christos Alexopoulos
"The Spell" by Christos Zachos
"Ever Decreasing Circles" by Damian O’Riain
"sphaira01_remix_2012" by Denise Ritter
"Emotion Machine" by Donika Rudi
"Stochasticity" by Emma O’Halloran
"Emptied Words" de Gerald Fiebig
"Griechenland: Ich liebe dich!" by Herbert Baioco
"F" by João Fernandes
"Growing Verse" by Junya Oikawa
"Sing at 83.33Hz" by Luis Marques
"Interference" by Matías Couriel
"Word of Mouth" by Nichola Scrutton
"Transfert" by Rosa Parlato
"Glittering Fragments" by Ruud Roelofsen
"Take a Winter Walk in the Garden with Jean-Jacques Rousseau" by Sirpa Jokinen
"Ideomas (2nd and 3rd movement)" by Stephen McCourt
"Cecilia" by Thomas McConville
"Alpha State Suggestions" by Vedran Mehinovic
"2 Days in the Tank" by William Price
The following selected works were broadcasted in Arte Electroacústica in July 6th, 2013- LISTEN HERE
"Tempus Fugit" by António Ferreira
"Growing Verse" by Junya Oikawa
"F" by João Fernandes
"Griechenland: Ich liebe dich!" by Herbert Baioco
"Emptied Words" de Gerald Fiebig
The following selected works were broadcasted in Arte Electroacústica in July 20th, 2013 - LISTEN HERE
"Emotion Machine" by Donika Rudi
"Digressione Ipertestuale Nr.10" by Cesare Saldicco
"Micromaa" by Anna Korsun
"Ever Decreasing Circles" by Damian O’Riain
"Transfert" by Rosa Parlato
"La Luna ha perso il suo occhio" by Anne-Claude Iger
"Letzte Gebarde offener Munder" by Christian Banasik
"Sing at 83.33Hz" by Luis Marques
"The Spell" by Christos Zachos
"Glittering Fragments" by Ruud Roelofsen
The following selected works were broadcasted in Arte Electroacústica in August 3rd, 2013- LISTEN HERE
"Ideomas (2nd and 3rd movement)" by Stephen McCourt
"Take a Winter Walk in the Garden with Jean-Jacques Rousseau" by Sirpa Jokinen
"Is This Real?" by Christos Alexopoulos
"sphaira01_remix_2012" by Denise Ritter
"2 Days in the Tank" by William Price
"Alpha State Suggestions" by Vedran Mehinovic
"Cecilia" by Thomas McConville
"Interference" by Matías Couriel
"Stochasticity" by Emma O’Halloran
"Word of Mouth" by Nichola Scrutton
The Sound Walk / Sound Garden took place between October 1st and 10th, 2012, in the Garden of the Goethe-Institut Lisboa, in the context of the Música Viva 2012 Festival.
The Sound Walk / Sound Garden was also presented between November 16th 2013 and January 5th 2014 in Centro para os Assuntos da Arte e Arquitectura , in the context of the Música Viva 2012 Festival.
The 13th edition of this competition received 171 works from 34 countries.
Winner : "Buoy" by David Berezan (Canada)
The 12th edition of this competition received 179 works from 35 countries.
Winners:
"Anthozoa" by Daniel Blinkhorn (Australia)
"sys_m1" by Louise Harris (United Kingdom)
"Sting" by Theodore Karkatselas (Greece)
The 11th edition of this competition received 100 works from 29 countries.
Winners:
"Auto Harp" by Enda Bates (Ireland)
"Urban Adagio" by Georges Forget (Canada)
"Public Bodies" by Sam Salem (United Kingdom)
compilação discográfica em livro de 6 novos Álbuns em formato digital .wav e mp3 com obras e poemas de Miguel Azguime
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ADIOTOPIA
Carla Santana -sintetizador analógico, piezos, hidrofone e objectos
Carlos Santos - sintetizador modular, sampler, piezos e objectos
O som que se dissolve no espaço não é um ponto fixo, mas sim movimento entre o gesto e a ressonância do lugar. Existe no limiar entre o que poderia ser e uma trajetória. Um mapa de escuta, que habita o tempo.
Gravado ao vivo no O’Culto da Ajuda durante o Festival Curto-Circuito, 7 de Dezembro de 2024.
Mistura e masterização de Carlos Santos
Fotografias de Carla Santana
Design gráfico de Carlos Santos
ADIOTOPIA
Carla Santana – Analog synthesizer, piezos, hydrophone, and objects
Carlos Santos – Modular synthesizer, sampler, piezos, and objects
Sound dissolving into space is not a fixed point but rather a movement between gesture and the resonance of place. It exists on the threshold between what could be and a trajectory— a listening map that inhabits time.
Recorded live at O’Culto da Ajuda during the Curto-Circuito Festival on December 7, 2024.
Mixing and mastering by Carlos Santos
Photographs by Carla Santana
Graphic design by Carlos Santos
EIGHT DIALOGUES is the result of home sessions recordings made between 2016 March, and 2017 January, that caught Buchla brand’s attention, and they kept a video of our duo on the their homepage for a certain time. Sadly, these were the Music Easel creator, Don Buchla (1937-2016), last days.
This album’s music has its inspiration on how the characteristics, sound, and timbre of the Buchla Music Easel, and the Double Bass can influence each other, and construct together musical ideas, textures, melodic games, and forms, exploring at same time the spontaneous flow of improvisation, as a composition way.
As we both share fascination for the 20th century Avant-garde and Conceptual Art movements, and Don Buchla was pioneer of new synthesis concepts that became the West Coast style, connected to a more experimental point of view of the electronic music, we dedicate Eight Dialogs to Don Buchla, the creator of the Music Easel.
ARMANDO TEIXEIRA’s creative common denominator is electronics, whether in an experimental vision, or transposing discoveries, possibilities, and interpretations into genres from song to soundtrack. His electronics, but in an experimental approach, play a decisive role in his career, which has seen more than two dozen records released since 1994.
MIGUEL LEIRIA PEREIRA as double bassist has his strongest influence by Gary Karr, with who he have been in touch since 1996. He teaches the double bass at the Lisbon National Conservatory, as he keeps a musical activity in different areas, but with focus on music that brings the double bass into a creative path.
Both musicians have been working together since de mid 80's until present, and Eight Dialogues marks the point on this time line, that brings together the most personal, and at the same time, abstract representation of a long friendship and share, by a musical conversation.
ARMANDO TEIXEIRA: Buchla Music Easel
MIGUEL LEIRIA PEREIRA: Double Bass
Recorded 2016/2017, mixed and mastered in 2023, by Armando Teixeira, and Miguel Leiria Pereira.
DIALOGUE I
DIALOGUE II
DIALOGUE III
DIALOGUE IV
DIALOGUE V
DIALOGUE VI
DIALOGUE VII
DIALOGUE VIII
Support: Portuguese Republic, DGArtes, CML, EASTN, Creative Europe, CIME, MIC, Miso Studio, Miso Records.
livro sobre os 40 anos de actividade da Miso Music Portugal
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