On May 11 the late Clotilde Rosa (1930-2017), composer published by the MIC.PT, would have celebrated her 88th anniversary of birth. On this occasion, and on this day the Belém Arts Centre in Lisbon will be hosting a special Homage event dedicated to this artist and personality who marked the History of Music of Portugal in the 20th, and in the first decades of the 21st century. The Homage to Clotilde Rosa will begin at 6h00 p.m. with a Performative Session, whose programme includes projections of films with and about Clotilde Rosa, presentations by the pianist Anna Telles, the writer João Rebocho and Father António Colimão, as well as a Round Table with the participation of numerous personalities from the Portuguese musical, cultural and artistic environment, including: various composers published by the MIC.PT (Miguel Azguime, Christopher Bochmann, Manuel Pedro Ferreira, João Pedro Oliveira, Jaime Reis and Isabel Soveral), Clotilde Rosa’s sons (José and Jorge Sá Machado), members of the Lisbon Contemporary Music Group (GMCL), and many other participants. At 9h00 p.m. the Season will be followed by a concert performed by the members of the GMCL, the Saxofínia Quartet, and various soloists. This programme includes eight works by Clotilde Rosa, among which three will have their world premiere performances - Waving II (2016), Interferências . 2nd version (1991- 2016) and Monólogo (2007-08).

Suoni Inauditi 2018 is the festival in Livorno (Italy) where on May 4 Jaime Reis will execute the spatialization of his own works - Omniscience is a Collective; Phonopolis; Fluxus, Lift; Fluxus, pas trop haut dans le ciel; Jeux de l’Espace; & Fluxus, Transitional Flow (with the violist Matteo Tripodi) - as well as of pieces by Rui Dias (Big Bend) & João Pedro Oliveira (‘Aphâr), composers published by the MIC.PT. Also between May 2 and 4 at the ISSM "Pietro Mascagni" in Livorno, Jaime Reis will lead a Masterclass - 2002-2018, from Synthesis Cycle to Sangue Inverso/Inverso Sangue. Additionally, on May 13 in Cagliari in Italy this composer published by the MIC.PT will make a presentation - Festival DME Soundscape (Pedagogical) Projects - at the Conference Natura percepita, natura idealizzata. In the 2nd half of the month, between May 18 and 25, Jaime Reis will be responsible for the execution of the sound projection during the tour with Karlheinz Stockhausen’s music - Lisbon (ESML - Composition Week), Seia (House of Culture), Porto (Casa da Música), Castelo Branco (Cine-Teatro Avenida) and Galicia (Vertixe Sonora Festival).

Trabalhos da madeira (2016/17) for marimba and electronics by Miguel Azguime makes part of the concert programme of the Portuguese Chamber Orchestra with the artistic direction by Pedro Carneiro - the event will take place on May 31 at the the Belém Arts Centre in Lisbon. This performance also includes other two works by Leoš Janáček and Fernando Altube. The work Trabalhos da madeira constitutes a musical meditation on wood. It’s constructed as an abstract narrative on the extinction of precious woods and the consequent disastrous, social, economic and cultural implications. Additionally, on May 2 at the B2013 Auditorium of the ISCTE-IUL in Lisbon, Miguel Azguime participated in the Cycle of Meetings on Cultural Experiences - reXistir. Together with Paula Abreu, he presented the paths of the Miso Music Portugal, MIC.PT, Música Viva Festival and O'culto da Ajuda. And on May 4 at the São Carlos National Theatre this composer published by the MIC.PT will participate in the cycle Memórias da Ópera, during which he will make a presentation on the theme: New Op-Era.

Two works by João Pedro Oliveira, composer published by the MIC.PT, will be presented on May 24 and 25 at the Elektro Arts Festival in Cluj-Napoca (Romania). The first one - Rust for viola and electronics (2014) - will be performed by Aida-Carmen Soanea during the concert entitled Flows and dedicated to mixed music, while the second one - Neshamah, 8-channel, acousmatic, with video (2016) - is included in the dance performance The Geometry of Echo directed by Nicoleta Demian. This month João Pedro Oliveira’s music also makes part of three other events: on May 8 the work Neshamah will be performed in the context of the Noisefloor Festival at the Staffordshire University in the UK; and on May 2 and 3 the videomusic Petals (2016) will be presented, respectively - at the Vídeo Art Show in Brasília (Brazil), and at the Video-Art and Visual Music International Festival in Colonia Juárez (Mexico).

The work Canções populares transmontanas (2013), for guitar quartet, by Fernando C. Lapa is included in the programme of the concerts by the Paris Guitar Quartet, which will take place on May 11 at the Cine-Teatro Ponte de Sor, and on May 12 at the Church of the Santo António Convent in the framework of the Alter CulturFest - an initiative promoted by the Alter do Chão Municipality, offering the audience a fusion of musical genres within a journey without boarders. This month the music by this composer published by the MIC.PT will be also performed on May 20 at the Redemptorist Church in Porto, by the ANIMA MEA Choir directed by Francisco Melo (Precónio Pascal for choir, soloists, two flutes, trumpet, piano and organ); and on May 27 at the Culturgest in Lisbon by the Darcos Ensemble conducted by Nuno Côrte-Real (Destinos for soprano, viola, cello and piano).

Embodied Natures - a Sensitive Perspective (2015) is a performance by Isabel Costa - visual and performative artist - with electroacoustic music by Filipe Lopes, composer published by the MIC.PT, which will be presented on May 13 at Cais de Gaia in Vila Nova de Gaia (Portugal), in the framework of Festival DDD - Dias da Dança (Porto - Matosinhos - Gaia). As Isabel Costa describes this work - “Embodied Natures is a performance born from a proposal to use the material gathered for the online archive available at embodiednaturesworkbook.blogspot.pt. The sounds, colours and textures of the archive are exposed in the body as plastic, shifting potencies, ranging from shapes to odours, shades of light, temperatures and lines... When handed over to the consciousness of the body, those elements expand perception-wise”.

The electroacoustic work Xenakis'sche Grauwacke I by [ka'mi], composer published by the MIC.PT, will be presented on May 8 in the context of the Noisefloor Festival at the Staffordshire University in the UK. It is an event whose first edition took place in 2000 and whose objective is to showcase original works by electroacoustic music composers and experimental filmmakers. The piece Xenakis'sche Grauwacke I by [ka'mi] is “dedicated to all the musicians with whom this composers has had contact through music”; it was premiered in 2013 in the framework of the Música Viva Festival in Lisbon.

Humanidade ergue-te/Humanity rise-up (2018), controlled improvisation work - conceived and directed by Pedro M. Rocha, composer published by the MIC.PT - was premiered on April 20 at the Loreto Church in Lisbon. It has been realized in collaboration with his students of the Composition Workshop III at the Academy of Music Amateurs in Lisbon. As Pedro M. Rocha explains in the programme notes - “this piece can be perceived as a «sonic reflection» on the possibility for the humanity to construct a better world through the adoption of a more spiritual approach”.

70 years have passed since the invention of concrete music, and 90 years since the birth of Karlheinz Stockhausen. It is in this framework that the Música Viva 2018 Festival - this time under the theme The Unsustainable of Being! - offers a broad panorama of electroacoustic music, in order to celebrate one of the greatest musical revolutions of all times. The programme of this event - taking place between May 19 and 26 at the O’culto da Ajuda in Lisbon - includes not only the renowned names form the 20th/21st century music (Horacio Vaggione - Música Viva 2018 featured composer; and Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Schaeffer, Jonathan Harvey, Iannis Xenakis, Edgard Varèse, Morton Subotnick, Jean-Claude Risset or John Chowning), but also the music and participation of various Portuguese contemporary composers, many of them published by the MIC.PT: Miguel Azguime, Carlos Caires, António de Sousa Dias, António Ferreira, José Luís Ferreira, Paulo Ferreira-Lopes, Cândido Lima, João Pedro Oliveira, Carlos Marecos, Rui Penha, João Castro Pinto, Jaime Reis, Pedro M. Rocha and Igor C. Silva. The Música Viva 2018 are eight days and 15 Meetings of intense activity, raging from courses, conferences and concerts. It is an affirmation of the musical creation of our time - a time when art needs to insist on being free and resist the hegemonic logics of numbers and quantifications, giving value to the quality of human intelligence and sensibility… The Unsustainable of Being!

Works by the two composers published by the MIC.PT - Os Contos do Oboé by Ricardo Matosinhos and Saudade para oboé solo by Manuel Pedro Ferreira; and also - Suite Romantique by António Fragoso, Sonatina Breve para oboé e piano by Anne Victorino d’Almeida, Bergerettes para oboé solo by Sérgio Azevedo and Três Peças Atlânticas by Eurico Carrapatoso - compose the programme of the concerts by Courtney Miller (oboe) and Réne Lecuona (piano), which will be taking place in the second half of May at various venues in Portugal, including: the Superior School of Music in Lisbon in the context of the Composition Week (May 17), at the School of Music of the National Conservatoire in Lisbon (May 18), at the Machado de Castro National Museum in Coimbra (May 23), at the FAM Auditorium in Viana do Castelo (May 28) and at the Superior School of Music and Performance Arts in Porto (May 30). The programme of the tour of these two American musicians entitled Perspectives: Oboe Music from Portugal also includes workshops/masterclasses and anticipates the release of a new CD album.

On May 27, on the ramp leading to the Galleries at the Culturgest in Lisbon, the Darcos Ensemble will give a concert entirely dedicated to Portuguese contemporary music. This programme includes two works by the composers published by the MIC.PT - the world premiere of a new piece by João Madureira (commission for the Darcos 2018 Concert Season) and also Destinos (2010-13) for soprano, viola, cello and piano by Fernando C. Lapa, to the poems of José Manuel Mendes. Together with these works the Darcos will also perform two premieres of pieces by the emerging composers Fábio Cachão e Tomás Borralho (also commissioned by the Darcos 2018 Concert Season) and Noite Antiquíssima (1999) for soprano, violin, double bass and piano by Nuno Côrte-Real, based on the Álvaro de Campos’ ode - Vem, Noite antiquíssima e idêntica. This performance entitled Mosaico will include the participation of: Nuno Côrte-Real (declamation and musical direction), Inês Simões (soprano), José Pereira (violin), Reyes Gallardo (viola), Filipe Quaresma (cello), Pedro Wallenstein (double bass) and Helder Marques (piano).

The Sax@Sul - 2nd Saxophone Meeting of Algarve, which will be taking place between May 18 and 20 in Portimão, includes in its programme a concert with works by four Portuguese composers - three of them are published by the MIC.PT: João Pedro Oliveira (Angel Rock), Rui Penha (Cellular) and Igor C. Silva (Smart-alienation). The other artists whose music composes this programme - presented on May 18 at the Municipal Theatre in Portimão by the Electric.PT/Collective - are: Rodrigo Lima (premiere of a new work) and Louis Andriessen (Workers Union). Following the success of the 1st Edition in 2017, the 2nd Sax@Sul Edition, produced by the Contramaré in partnership with the EBS da Bemposta and with artistic direction of Filipe Valentim, will have as the central theme: The Saxophone and the USA.

The 8th Meeting on Research in Music - ENIM 2018 will take place at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto between November 8 and 10, 2018. In this context researchers from the world over are invited to send their proposals of communications/lectures, which have not yet been presented on other occasions. The ENIM 2018 organizers also accept proposals of panels with three to four orators (at most), around the same subject. All the themes relevant in the framework of research in music will be taken into consideration. The submitted proposals should contain an abstract in one of the ENIM official languages (Portuguese, English or Castilian), within the following formats: communications, panels and communications with performance. The deadline for the proposals’ reception is May 20, 2018 (inclusive). The ENIM 2018 is organized by the Portuguese Society for Research in Music (SPIM), the Porto School of Education (ESE) and the Superior School of Music and Performing Arts in Porto (ESMAE).