João Castro Pinto, will continue throughout May his Austrian tour, which began with his radio-art performance-piece The No Land Soundscape Project, broadcast on April 30, from the Austrian Broadcasting Studios (ORF1). The composer published by the MIC.PT will present another 3 colaborative live performances. On May 3^rd, the composer will perform in Vienna with the painter and composer Philippe Lamy (laptop) in a sound performance entitled Sonicanvas centered on the exploration of potential intersections between music and painting. On the 4^th, Castro Pinto will improvise with the composer and turntablist Jorge Sánchez-Chiong, at the concert series Interpenetration 2017, in Graz. The tour will end on the 6^th of May, back in Vienna, with a recording session in the afternoon and a concert in the evening, both at the plataform Small Forms. It'll be a concert with an improvised and electroacoustic music quartet which puts into dialogue the musical languages of João Castro Pinto (laptop), Michael Fischer (violin and saxophone), Bernhard Loibner (modular analog synthesizers) and Clemens Hausch (laptop). João Castro Pinto will also have the premiere of a new work with the Loudspeaker Orchestra at Música Viva Festival 2017, on the 26^th of May.

The work Petals by João Pedro Oliveira won the award for best special effects at the Cinema World Fest Awards. On the 1^st of May, the composer published by the MIC.PT will have his works Lei Liang and Bridges and Gardens performed by the Grupo de Percussão da Universidade do Minho, at Reencontros de Música Contemporânea, and on the 3^rd Madalena Soveral will perform his work Mosaic, for piano and electronics, at this same meeting, in Aveiro. João Pedro Oliveira will also have his work Heavy Metals performed by Franck Lavogez and present a conference at Monaco Electroacoustique 2017, on the 5^th of May. On the following day, the composer will lecture a Composition Masterclass, still at Monaco Electroacoustique 2017, at the same time that his works Time Spell, Vox Sum Vitae and Angel Rock will be performed at Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo in México, on a concert entitled "en Torno de la Musica de João Pedro Oliveira". Between the 2^nd and 6^th of May, the composer published by the MIC.PT, will also have his work Petals played at the Festival Segnali 2017, in Italy. On the 12^th, João Pedro Oliveira will premiere his work Ut Ex Invisibilibus Visibilia Fiant, for orchestra and eletronics, at Casa da Música, and will also have his work Magma performed at Festival Sound Thought 2017 in Scotland, between 10 and 12 May. Still this month, the work Le chant de l’oiseau-lyre will be performed by Remix Ensemble Casa da Música conducted by Pedro Neves, at Casa da Música on the 16^th. Finally, throughout May the composer will also have various performances of his work Tensão-Deformação by Performa Ensemble.