Música Viva Festival 2008

Intersection of multiple musical expressions and aesthetics

In its 14th edition, the Música Viva Festival is both national and internationally recognised as a vast breathing space of renewal; as a meeting point of today’s music metamorphoses; as a place for some to share their experiences; as a source of inspiration for many. It is a privileged platform for exchanging and discussing ideas and aesthetics; a crossroad between music and technology; an occasion for dialogue with other realms of contemporary creation, in a field that extends from the instrumental and analogue to the virtual and electronic.
From improvisation to score music, Música Viva Festival offers once more the most prominent names alongside the youngest composers and performers.
The Festival reaffirms the Portuguese music creation full vitality and diversity by presenting performances with large orchestras, the Miso Music Portugal’s Loudspeaker Orchestra and its notorious electronic music concerts, chamber music, electroacoustic theatre, concerts for children, sound and video installations, and vocal performances.
The Música Viva 2008 will present 24 different performances; 106 pieces; 39 world premieres; works from more than 60 different composers of which 23 Portuguese composers. Finally there will be the new Sound Walk project and 6 sound installations at the festival’s Interactive Lounge.

All in all these numbers prove the extremely fertile creative activity one can witness today in Portugal and to which the Festival gives its voice.

19 to 27 of September 2008
Jerónimos Monastery, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and Belém Arts Centre

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Results of the 1st Sond’Ar-te Composition Competition 2008 Chamber Music with Electronics


Miso Music Portugal and the Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble have the pleasure to announce the results of the 1st International Composition Competition "Sond'Ar-te 2008 - Chamber Music with Electronics".

It has been decided by the jury members Pedro Amaral, Miguel Azguime and Philippe Leroux that none of the pieces merited a prize. Instead a Honorable Mention has been deserved to the portuguese composer Duarte P. Dinis Silva with the piece Paralelus II for ensemble and electronics.

This piece will be premiered by the Sond'Ar-te Electric Ensemble on the 20th of September 2008 during a concert at the Belem Arts Centre in Lisbon as part of the Musica Viva Festival 2008.

Soon the 2nd International Composition Competition "Sond'Ar-te 2009 - Chamber Music with Electronics", will be launched.

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MISO MUSIC PORTUGAL SEASON AT THE FRANCO-PORTUGUESE INSTITUT

JUNE 2008

MUSIC - Solo music: saxophone and live-electronics
in cooperation with CoMA
(Contemporary Music and Artists, Växjö, Suécia)

Jörgen Pettersson - saxophone
                                                                      
JUNE 7th – 9:30 P.M. - P.F. Auditorium

Programme:
Vítor Rua – Saxopera (portuguese première), for alto saxophone and tape
Miguel Azguime – “para saxofone” (Absolute première), for bass saxophone and live-electronics
Klas Torstensson - Solo, for bass saxophone and live-electronics
Kent Olofsson - The Lines of Confusion, for alto saxophone and tape
Dror Feiler - Tio Stupor, for alto saxophone and tape
Tommy Zwedberg – Exoj (Absolute première - commissioned by Rikskonserter Sweden), for saxophone and electronics
PerMagnus Lindborg – Tusalava, For alto saxophone, live-electronics and film (Film by Len Lye 1929)

Tickets: 5 EUR ; 4 EUR for under 30

MUSIC - Electronic music with the Loudspeaker Orchestra
in cooperation with CoMA
(Contemporary Music and Artists, Växjö, Suécia)                                                                         
JUNE 6th – 9:30 P.M. - P.F. Auditorium
Sound projection - Ricardo Guerreiro, Miguel Azguime

Programme:
Åke Parmerud - La Vie Mécanique
Erik Mikael Karlsson - Membranes et Mémoires
Paulina Sundin - Med lekande kval
Hans Parment - Short cut
Jens Hedman - Waterfields
Rolf Enström - Up!

Tickets: 5 EUR ; 4 EUR for under 30

FOR THE CHILDREN                                                
JUNE 3 and 5 - 10:00 and 11:30 A.M. - P.F. Auditorium
Contos Contados..Cantados com Som / Teatro Electroacústico
Stories with sounds for children from 4 to 12

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Laboratório Electroacústico de Criação (LEC) - New Residence


André Castro - 01/12/07 to 01/02/08

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Música Viva Festival 2008

Lisbon - Centro Cultural de Belém, Mosteiro dos Jerónimos, Gulbenkian Foundation

19th to 27th of September 2008

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