Conference time zone: GMT+1:00 (Lisbon)
Wednesday, 7 May
Morning
8:30
Registration
Atrium – Auditorium B1 Tower B
09:30
Opening Session: Auditorium B1, Tower B
Conference presentation
Isabel Pires
Institutional Presentation
- Professor Teresa Araújo: NOVA School for Social Sciences and Humanities (FCSH)
- Professor Luísa Cymbron: CESEM — Centre for the Study of Sociology and Aesthetics of Music || Musical Sciences Department
Best PhD Student Proposal Awards Ceremony
10:30
Opening Lecture: Auditorium B1, Tower B
11:00
Coffee Break
11:30
Keynote Lecture 1: Auditorium B1, Tower B
Moderated by: Filipa Magalhães
- Matthias Rebstock
(Un-)doing memories in contemporary music theatre
12:45
Lunch
Afternoon
Parallel Sessions
14:00
Room: Auditorium B1, Tower B
Session 1 – Archiving and Preserving Musical Heritage
Moderated by: Rita Sampaio da Nóvoa
- Azadeh Nilchiani
Electroacoustic music archives: memories of an evolving music
- Christine Esclapez
[CO S-A]/Corsica Sud Archives: a research-creation-action project based on the reactivation of Corsican music and sound archives
14:00
Room: A304, Tower A
Session 2 – Reimagining Classical Works
Moderated by: Paulo Ferreira de Castro
- Kirill Smolkin
Re-composing Tchaikovsky Today
- Francesco Finocchiaro
Film Adaptations of Operas as Reservoirs of Musical Memory
14:00
Room: A310, Tower A
Session 3 – Narrative, Memory & Media
Moderated by: Sofia Vieira Lopes
- João Gabriel Rizek
Composing with the Remnants of History
- Pedro Flor* & Susana Varela Flor*
Musical Stumbles: Discoveries of the Past Shaping Today’s Musical Memory
- Malwina Marciniak*
Narrative Theories as an Important Tool for the Analysis and Interpretation of Contemporary Music: the Case of 21st-Century Piano Concertos
- Ivana Petković Lozo
Embodying Memory and Intimate Voice: Unfolding Derrida, Barthes, and Catroga in Paulo C. Chagas’s Canções de Adélia (2017-2022)
16:00
Coffee Break
16:15
Room: Auditorium B1, Tower B
Session 4 – Digital Memory & Preservation
Moderated by: Filipa Magalhães
- Dimitra Nefeli Trigka*
The Lost Myspace Files: Digital Archiving, Internet Music Communities, and the Challenge of Preserving Cultural Memory
- Pedro Massano Almeida
Preservation and Restoration of Magnetic Tape Recordings
- Peter Edwards
Memory and the Aesthetics of Overload
16:15
Room: A304, Tower A
Session 5 – Curating Musical Nostalgia
Moderated by: Sofia Vieira Lopes
- Neil Johnson-Symington*
Alive and Kicking: Curating Riverside Museum’s Record Shop Exhibit
- Francisco Iván García Jimeno
Between Spaceships and Flying Kicks: A Study on Auditory Perception, Music, and Nostalgia in Arcade Soundscapes
16:15
Room: A310, Tower A
Session 6 – Music, Education & Memory
Moderated by: Cristiane Nogueira
- Lina Navickaitė-Martinelli
In Search of a Canon: (Lithuanian) Pianists and Their Cultural Memories
- Ambra Natati
AMUSED – The MUSical Activities in Educational Services from an integrated 0-6 year perspective
- Haftor Medbøe
Hvor En Var Baen – Places of Childhood
18:30
Concert: Auditorium B2, Tower B (3rd floor)
Detailed program
Isabel Pires — Ombres (2006)
John Zorn — Merlin (2015)
Maka Virsaladze — Prayer (2016)
Vuk Kulenović — Hilandarska zvona (1992)
Luciano Berio — Sequenza X (1984)
Taissa Marchese: Piano
Claudio Silva: Trumpet
20:00
Social Dinner
Pano de Boca Restaurant
Thursday, 8 May
Morning
Parallel Sessions
09:00
Room: Auditorium B1, Tower B
Session 7 – Soundscapes in Arab-Islamic Contexts
Moderated by: Isabel Pires
09:00
Room: A304, Tower A
Session 8 – Soundscapes & Avant-Garde Echoes
Moderated by: Azadeh Nilchiani
- Rafael Lopes dos Santos
Soundscapes as a resource for musical creation: A reflection based on the discography of Egberto Gismonti
- Joevan de Mattos Caitano*
Venezuelan Composers at the International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt: An Introduction
10:30
Coffee Break
10:45
Room: Auditorium B1, Tower B
Session 9 – Improvisation & Musical Memory
Moderated by: Claudio de Pina
- Nicholas McNair
Improvisation versus score – memory, language and ritual
- Nicholas Souchal
Memorization and recall in collective improvisation – the example of the El Memorioso group
10:45
Room: A304, Tower A
Session 10 – Embodiment and Gesture
Moderated by: Jorge Graça
- Rachel Elizabeth Sullivan
Neurologically-Disrupted Composition: A self-case study on navigating the compositional process with a neurological disorder
- Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka
Rumours, Whispers and Broken Memories: musical aesthetics of trauma-related memory disorders in the works of Beat Furrer
- Isotta Trastevere
Composing through listening: awareness of the role of short- and long-term memory in the sound creation processes
12:45
Lunch
Afternoon
Parallel Sessions
14:00
Room: Auditorium B1, Tower B
Session 11 – Notation & New Composition Tools
Moderated by: Claudio de Pina
- Marina Sudo & Olivier Lartillot*
Contemporary Music Analysis and Auditory Memory: The Use of Computational Tools as an Aid for Listening
- Ely Janoville Santana Sobral
Some questions about the writing of the Miradouro series: representations and meanings of the score for the modular synthesizer
14:00
Room: A304, Tower A
Session 12 – Microtonality & Timbre*
Moderated by: Ernesto Donoso
- Vitor Lyra Biagioni*
Augmented Brazilian Pandeiro: a beginning of an idea
- Luís Neto da Costa*
Microtonal expansions: the diverse techniques in Luís Neto da Costa’s pieces from 2016 to 2021
- Beata Oryl*, Michał Garnowski* & Monika Karwaszewska*
Motus-qualius. From Motive Creation to Audio-Visual Experience
- Vitor Lyra Biagioni* & Daniel Nogueira Parente*
Creative and interpretive possibilities based on the aural model concept
16:00
Coffee Break
16:15
Room: Auditorium B1, Tower B
Session 13 – Memory as Resistance
Moderated by: João Pedro Cachopo
- Christine Dysers
Memory as Material, Remembrance as Resistance
- Gonçalo Valente
Timbral perception and semantic description of synthesized sounds in European Portuguese
16:15
Room: A304, Tower A
Session 14 – Composition as Research Practice
Moderated by: Ernesto Donoso
- Adrian Alvarez Gálvez
Challenges and perspectives of performative analysis in contemporary music: the case of Andrés Alén’s Theme and Variations (on a Silvio Rodríguez’s theme)
- Ricardo João Domingues Pires, Henrique Portovedo & Mário Dinis Marques
The sound of gesture: Gesture as an element of manipulation in real-time electronic music for saxophone
Friday, 9 May
Morning
Parallel Sessions
09:00
Room: Auditorium B1, Tower B
Session 15 – Ibero-American Musical Memory
Moderated by: Alberto Pacheco
- Rita de Cássia Domingues Santos*
Analysis of six works by Gilberto Mendes from the perspective of intertextuality
- Carlos Villar-Taboada
Dialectics between Transformation and Memory: Sonata (1989) by Enrique X. Macías
- Valentín Benavides
Tratado de lágrimas by José María Sánchez-Verdú: A Contemporary Musical Materialisation of the Lamentations of Jeremiah
09:00
Room: A304, Tower A
Session 16 — Rediscovering Musical Heritage
Moderated by: Elsa de Luca
- Ângela Maria Soares da Ponte*
Framed stories – narrative, memory and media in Homenagem Subconsciente
- Cristina Eleonora Pascu
Guardians of Memory: The Role of Biography in Preserving Performance Traditions and Legacies
10:30
Coffee Break
10:45
Room: Auditorium B1, Tower B
Session 17 – Performative Analysis & Creative Collaboration
Moderated by: Paula Gomes Ribeiro
- Caroline Ann Wilkins
The Play of Music Memory: A Performative Presentation
- Rachel Elizabeth Sullivan
Metamorphic Conservation: Creating new instruments through interdisciplinary experimentation
- Jack Edward Adler-McKean
Collaborative creativity through analysis and experimentation: bringing the serpent into the twenty-first century
10:45
Room: A304, Tower A
Session 18 – Cultural & Musical Legacy
Moderated by: Martin Laliberté
- Kai-Young Chan
Creativity through Cantonese Text-setting: Algorithmic Approaches and AI Potentialities
- Vitor Lyra Biagioni*
Bumba meu boi from Maranhão: description of two creative contemporary processes
- Cláudio de Pina
The legacy of the first electronic instruments: memories of the past applied in today’s technology
10:45
Room: A310, Tower A
Session 19 – Popular Music & Collective Memory
Moderated by: Maria Espírito Santo
- Luís Candeias Mandacaru
The History of the DJ in Portugal
- Saverio Beccaccioli
Anonymity and hype create collective memory: itineraries in 21st century Italian independent music
12:45
Lunch
Afternoon
14:00
Keynote Lecture 2: Auditorium B1, Tower B
Moderated by: Isabel Pires
- Anne-Sylvie Barthel-Calvet
From Traces of the Imaginary to the Construction of Memory: Rethinking the Composer’s Workshop within Its Ecosystem
16.00
Room: Auditorium B1, Tower B
Closing Session & NCMM 2027 Theme Announcement
* Remote participation (videoconference)