josé luís ferreira "IN FOCUS" ON MIC.PT IN novemBER
In November the mic.pt In Focus section is dedicated to José Luís Ferreira, composer who this year celebrates his 40th anniversary and whose "first contact with music occurred with Beethoven and Amália's fados…" He graduated from composition at the Lisbon Superior School of Music where he studied under the direction of Christopher Bochmann, António de Sousa Dias and António Pinho Vargas. At the moment he is completing his PhD thesis in the area of "Mixed Music and Dynamic Relation Systems". In addition to his Composition course he attended several workshops and seminars with Emmanuel Nunes, Jean-Claude Risset, John Chowning, Per Anders Nilsson and Trevor Wishart, among others. In his compositional practice José Luís Ferreira refers to such diverse composers as Gérard Grisey, Salvatore Sciarrino and Helmut Lachenmann, yet whose departure point for composition is always the sound. "Being composer of mixed music (…), it is essential for me to understand how the sound phenomenon functions. It is the «hands on» with which we tend to cope initially, when we write «the» first note in the score (…)", says José Luís Ferreira in one of the answers to the Questionnaire / Interview, which we publish this month in the In Focus section.

Arte Eletroacústica is a radio programme presented, directed and produced by Miso Music Portugal and the Portuguese Music Research & Information Centre for the Antena 2 National Radio, in conjunction with the Ars Acustica group, of the European Broadcasting Union. Every month, fortnightly on Saturdays at 1 a.m., Arte Eletroacústica presents to its listeners an art which constitutes the pulse of the future, making use of new technologies, interactivity and multimedia, giving them uncommon auditory sensations and letting them rediscover the radio as a platform for new aesthetic experiences.

The latest programmes are already available on-line:
>> October 12 - Composers resident at the LEC (Lab for Electroacoustic Creation) - 1^st part
>> October 26 - Composers resident at the LEC (Lab for Electroacoustic Creation) - 2^nd part

Arte Eletroacústica in November:
>> November 9 - António de Sousa Dias - "A Dama e o Unicórnio"
>> November 23 - Música Viva Festival 2013 - part 1

festival musica viva 2013
Space-Time for Portuguese new music, affirmation of its vitality, platform for circulation and dialogue of ideas and aesthetics, the Música Viva Festival will be completing in 2013 its 19th edition. It’ll showcase the resistance to maintain the supreme values of civilization and humankind – the ones that are neither to buy nor to sell!
The Festival’s programme will include the performance of 30 works (about half of them are premiere performances by Portuguese composers); six concerts on December 11, 12 and 13; activities for children; courses; sound and multimedia installations (from more than 50 composers from all around the world); and, for the first time, the Música Viva “Fringe” (Cascais, Guimarães and Évora), which will begin on November 16 with the Sound Walk at the Centre for Art and Architecture Affairs in Guimarães (CAAA).

Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble Composition Competition
In order to encourage the creation and dissemination of new musical works the Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble is organizing the 5th edition of the Composition Competition "New Chamber Music with Electronics". It is open to composers of any age and nationality and the deadline for submission of works is January 15, 2014. The winning work will be performed by the Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble on March 7, 2014 at the Centro Cultural de Cascais.

a dama e o unicórnio
"A Dama e o Unicórnio", a project by António de Sousa Dias, published by Dom Quixote in partnership wih Miso Records / Miso Music Portugal will be presented at the São Luiz Municipal Theatre from October 31 to November 2.
From the universe of the tapestries "La Dame à la Licorne", medieval wonder at the Cluny Museum in Paris, António de Sousa Dias and Maria Teresa Horta develop their collaboration, and together with Ana Brandão create an environment across literature, music, visual arts and performance, "contaminated" by the use of technological means.

joão castro pinto in residency at lec
The Portuguese composer João Castro Pinto is in Residency at the Miso Music Portugal's Lab for Electroacoustic Creation, from the end of October until December.
João Castro Pinto started his artistic activity during the 1990s and his sound work ranges between: soundscape composition, dense droning, noise, electroacoustic, acousmatic and tape music as well as experimental electronic genres.

PEDRO REBELO ON WORLD NEW MUSIC DAYS 2013
Pedro Rebelo's "Trio", submitted for the World New Music Days 2013 by Miso Music Portugal, will be performed during this Festival by the Veni Ensemble / Thrensemble on November 5 in Košice.

OPEN FARM THURSDAYS - ELECTROACOUSTIC AGRICULTURE
A cycle of monthly musical gatherings dedicated to electroacoustic music, during the whole year on every first Thursday of the month at 9:30 p.m., to present the principal currents of this music, which revolutionized the musical creation of the last 60 years. Works of reference, which created history of this genre will be presented side by side with current production with the focus on Portuguese composers, always with their presence to establish a space for an enriching dialogue between the creators and the public.
November 7, 2013 – 9:30 p.m.
Talking music with Jonas Runa: music by Jonas Runa and Gottfried Michael Koenig.

MIC.PT SCORE CATALOGUE
The online edition and distribution of scores is one of the main focuses of the Portuguese Music Research & Information Centre. Presently there are 724 scores by 47 composers available for download, among which 4 are by José Luís Ferreira, in November the composer In Focus on the mic.pt. To browse the complete list of the scores published by the mic.pt consult our online catalogue.

Cândido Lima Quatro Peças >> see score

Christopher Bochmann String Trio >> see score

Christopher Bochmann Elegy II Expanded >> see score

Christopher Bochmann Dithyramb >> see score

Joana Sá, Elogio da Desordem
	works by Joana Sá Edition: Shhpuma / Trem Azul 2013

Joana Sá & Luís Martins, Almost a Song
	works by Joana Sá and Luís Martins Edition: Shhpuma | Trem Azul 2013

Marina Pacheco & Olga Amaro, Canções de Lemúria
	works by Osvaldo Fernandes, Paulo Ferreira-Lopes, Nuno Jacinto and Eduardo Luís Patriarca Edition: Parlophone

João Godinho Bicho Pau percussion October 5, Culturgest, Lisbon João Carlos Pacheco, marimba >> see work

José Júlio Lopes Seekers of the Truth (GI Gurdjieff)  bass clarinet and violoncello October 5, Culturgest, Lisbon Luís Gomes, bass clarinet Catherine Strynckx, violoncello >> see work

Andreia Pinto-Correia Sobre um quadro de Júlio Pomar: "Fernando Pessoa encontra D. Sebastião num caixão sobre um burro ajaezado à andaluza" violoncello and flute October 5, Culturgest, Lisbon Katharine Rawdon, flute Catherine Strynckx, violoncello >> see work

Francisco Monteiro Mr M string quartet October 10, Cine Teatro Constantino Nery, Matosinhos Matosinhos String Quartet

António Pinho Vargas Magnificat choir & orchestra October 12, Culturgest, Lisbon Gulbenkian Choir Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa Cesário Costa, conductor >> see work