The International Conference Electroacoustic Winds 2017: SYNCHRESIS - Audio Vision Tales, organised by the Center of Electroacoustic Research (CIME), the Institute for Ethnomusicology - Research Center for Music and Dance (INET-MD), Research Institute in Design, Media and Culture (ID+) and DigiMedia - Digital Media and Interaction (CIC.Digital), will be taking place between November 13 and 17 at the Art and Communication Department of the Aveiro University in Portugal. The event’s programme, seeking to establish bridges between music creation, design & soundscapes and new media, consists of presentations, among which various will be carried out by these composers published by the MIC.PT: Isabel Soveral, Rui Penha, Paulo Ferreira-Lopes, António de Sousa Dias, Carlos Alberto Augusto, Eduardo Luís Patriarca, António Chagas Rosa and Miguel Azguime. The theoretical approach at the EAW2017 will be also accompanied by a practical one in the context of workshops, whose participants will be gaining experience in using new software, simultaneously getting to know the most recent forms of creative aproaches towards sound and image. Finally, the EAW2017 also encompasses performances and concerts, including the two operas: Salt Itinerary (2006) by Miguel Azguime and Magdala (2017) by Eduardo Luís Patriarca.

Pedro Rebelo, composer published by the MIC.PT, is main researcher in the context of the project The Mozambique Case Study, exploring the sound art’s capacity to transform conflicts. The programme is based on participative methods, exercising a direct impact on the local communities of the Mozambican capital - Maputo. The project combines ethnographic approaches with sound research, exploring the war’s impact on the Mozambican society, to create an audio-visual and participative work - a reflection on the relation between sound and conflict. The performance of the work Por Trás de Uma Performance, with the participation of the Mafalala Tufo Group, Pedro Rebelo, Matilde Meireles and Iñigo Sanchez, will take place on November 12 at the Mafalala Festival in Maputo

The work for solo flute A Walk in the Countryside (2016) by Gonçalo Gato, will be representing Portugal at the next 2017 edition of the World New Music Days (WNMD). The festival organised by the International Society for Contemporary Music will be taking place in Vancouver in Canada between November 2 and 8. The work by this composer published by the MIC.PT, selected for the WNMD Festival within the oficial application by Miso Music Portugal (Portuguese ISCM Section) to the International Society for Contemporary Music, will be presented by the flutist Mark Takeshi McGregor at the concert entitled Event and Memory . Music for Solo Instruments on November 6. With duration of around 5 minutes, A Walk in the Countryside was commissioned to Gonçalo Gato by the Ensemble Recherche.

The work Re-Ciclo (2017) by João Castro Pinto, included on the PEN USB album of this composer published by the MIC.PT, ESOFONIA - obras acusmáticas (1999-2017), released by the Miso Records on October 7 at the O’culto da Ajuda in Lisbon, will be presented in Cracow (Poland) on November 22 at the Audio Art Festival, together with other pieces selected for this event within the scope of the CIME/ICEM - International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music. Re-Ciclo focuses on the musical exploration of two fundamental ideas: the recurrence of the phenomenons apparent in the reality’s cyclical nature, as well as recomposition and reformulation.

The acousmatic work About the Shovel and the Atom (2017) by António Ferreira, composer published by the MIC.PT, will be presented on November 8 in Córdoba (Argentina), in the framework of the event XXI Jornadas Internacionales de Música Electroacústica (November 6-8), co-organised by the International Confederation for Electroacoustic Music - the MIC.PT is one of the CIME/ICEM members. António Ferreira’s piece, recently released by the Miso Records on the composer’s monographic edition SoundAbility . composições electroacústicas 2000-2017, has been inspired in the book Voices from Chernobyl by the Ukrainian writer Svetlana Alexievich.

A concert with music by Igor C. Silva will be taking place on November 8 in the framework of the Sounds of Music festival in Groningen (The Netherlands). The programme of this Trash Panda Collective’s performance includes four works by this composer published by the MIC.PT: Smart-alienation (2016) for small flexible ensemble, electronics and video; Plastic Air (2016) for flexible duo, electronics and video/light; Static on my fingers (2017) for a group of improvisers, electronics and video; and Your Trash (2016) for percussion, electronics and video. Additionally, in the framework of the same festival Igor C. Silva and the pianist Philip Thomas will make a presentation on their work, as well as on John Cage’s music and music in the times of multimedia art.

The electroacoustic work Fluxus, Lift by Jaime Reis, composer published by the MIC.PT, will be presented during the concert organised in the scope of the MUSLAB 2017 project by the Arts Contemporánea association, on the occasion of the Long Night of Museums in Buenos Aires (Argentina). The event’s programme also includes pieces by six other composer from the world over - France, Mexico, Spain, Italy and Argentina - as well as a work by another Portuguese composer, Cláudio de Pina (Book of Eternal Brass from 2016/17). In November the piece Fluxus, Lift, composed by Jaime Reis in 2013, will also be presented in the context of the Electroacoustic Music Days 2017, taking place between November 24 and 26 on the Island of Crete.

The work Étude de Symétrie Organologique et Ergonometrique (2005/09) for piano by [ka'mi], composer published by the MIC.PT, will be premiered on November 25 in Tokyo, Japan (ART EXPO), by the Phidias Trio Tokyo - Kai Fumiko (violin), Ryuta Iwase (clarinet) e Eri Kawamura (piano). The programme of this concert also includes various pieces by Japanese composers. Additionally, the electroacoustic piece by [ka’mi], Xenakis’sche Grauwacke I (2012), will be presented during the OUA Electroacoustic Music Festival 2017 at the Art Information Center Corridor Gallery - Osaka University of Arts (November 13, 15, 17; Japan). This concert also includes a piece by Jorge Ramos (Project 2).

In November the pianist Joana Gama continues her tour with the recitals Viagens na Minha Terra, which include in their programme the work for piano Lume de Chão (2003/04) by Amílcar Vasques-Dias, composer published by the MIC.PT. Apart from this cycle composed of 13 short pieces, the recitals’ programme also consists of the cycle Viagens na Minha Terra (1969) by Fernando Lopes-Graça. This month Joana Gama will perform Viagens na Minha Terra on November 12 in Paris (Maison du Portugal) as well as on the Azores - on November 17 at the Teatro Micaelense (Ponta Delgada) and on November 21 at the Public Library in Horta (Faial island).

Various works by the composer published by the MIC.PT João Madureira, based on the poetry by Ana Hatherly (including: Três Momentos para Ana Hatherly from 2003), and interweaved with different baroque music pieces, will be presented on November 5 in the framework of the exhibition at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum - Ana Hatherly e o Barroco (Ana Hatherly and the Baroque), open until January 15, 2018. Within his artistic activity, João Madureira frequently pays tribute to other Portuguese artists. In this context the work of Ana Hatherly (1929-2015), teacher, writer and visual artist, plays an important role in the composer’s search for music as metalanguage, integrated in the cultural whole.

The video recording of João Pedro Oliveria’s work In Tempore (2000) - version for piano and video mapping - is included on the new DVD edition, Ouver - Projetos interdisciplinares em música, released by the Associação Nacional de Pesquisa e Pos-graduação em Música (ANPPOM), founded in 1988 with the aim to promote and consolidate the music research and postgraduate studies in Brazil. Another piece by João Pedro Oliveira, composer published by the MIC.PT - Neshamah (2015) for electronics and video - will be continuously presented at the Kuraia Festival, taking place between November 7 and 14 at the Musikene - Centro Superior de Música del País Vasco (Donostia/San Sebastián, Spain).

The Ruído Vermelho trio (in English: Red Noise), constituted by the composer published by the MIC.PT Luís Antunes Pena, the percussionist Nuno Aroso and the cellist Francesco Dillon, will be in residency in Venice, Italy, between November 7 and 9 (Biennale di Venezia 2017, Studio Venezia/French Pavilion). In this context the musicians will perform two Luís Antunes Pena’s works: Três Quadros Sobre Pedra (2008) and Música para 30 Metais (2012). Ruído Vermelho’s performances - each one with an original dramaturgy - include elements of improvisation, as well as the use of technological means, from analogue to digital. On November 10 the Ruído Vermelho trio will also give a performance in Milan.

The work alliveS (2017) for guitar and electronics by José Carlos Sousa was premiered on October 19 in the framework of the 8th Guitar Festival in Seville (Spain). The performance of this piece, commissioned to this composer published by the MIC.PT by the same festival, was carried out by the young Italian guitarist Giuseppe Mennuti. Additionally in October José Carlos Sousa, composition professor and pedagogical director at the Regional Music Conservatoire in Viseu Dr. José de Azeredo Perdigão, was one of the jury members at the following music competitions: 2nd Manuel de Falla Composition Competition, as well as at the 8th International Classic Guitar Composition Competition of Seville.

A scientific article entitled To Stop or Not to Stop - That is the Question written by Ricardo Matosinhos - composer published by the MIC.PT - in the context of his PhD thesis at the University of Évora, was published in the 2017 October edition of the International Horn Society journal, The Horn Call. This article is of interest both to horn players, from an interpretative point of view, as well as to composers when it comes to notation. In this sense, the article constitutes an essay on notating the right hand techniques of the horn part, pointing out some reasons regarding the general confusion connected with the horn performance techniques, such as: bouché, echo, glissandos played with the right hand, mute or even cuivré.

Through the initiative of professor Christopher Fox, editor-in-chief of Tempo (Review of New Music), the series of photographs entitled Clausum by Patrícia Sucena de Almeida - composer published by the MIC.PT who is also photographer - has been included in the most recent edition of this periodical journal published by the Cambridge University Press and dedicated to contemporary music. Tempo (Review of New Music) documents the international new music scene, while contributing to, and stimulating current debates therein. Its emphasis is on musical developments in our own century and on music that came to prominence in the later twentieth century that has not yet received the attention it deserves.

Works by three composers published by the MIC.PT, Raiana (2017) by António de Sousa Dias, Moda da Oliveira (2017) by Rui Dias and Voces excipere (2017) by Jaime Reis are included in the performance of the FRONTE(I)RA project, which will take place on November 18 at the Musée d'art et d'histoire de Saint-Denis in France. This performance brings together on stage the Soli-Tutti group (twelve singers) and the Castelo Branco Instrumental Ensemble (a cello and double bass duo, Beira viola, accordion and Portuguese guitar). FRONTE(I)RA is a multimedia project joining composers, musicians and conductors from Portugal, Spain and France to create a performance about the cultural traditions on each side of the “frontier” of the Iberian Peninsula. Its programme also includes works by Spanish composers from the Extremadura region (Inés Badalo, Rebeca Santiago and Enrique Muñoz), by Jean-Philippe Dequin, as well as by Emmanuel Nunes, to whom the concert is dedicated.