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INESC Porto prepares musical summer in Porto

INESC Porto prepares musical summer in Porto

INESC Porto organised the Sonic Interaction Design Summer School and the 6th Sound and Music Computing, which took place at the Casa da Música concert hall between 18 and 25 de July. Presided and organised by Fabien Gouyon, collaborator at the Telecommunications and Multimedia (UTM), the events also had the participation of the Research Center for Science and Technology in Art (CITAR) of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Porto, the School of Music and Performing Arts (ESMAE) of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto, the Casa da Música, and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. 

Addressing the theme of sound and music technologies, one of INESC Porto’s areas of expertise, the Summer School and the Conference constituted the two summer activities for music technology aficionados, guaranteeing a multifaceted set of concerts, keynote speeches with renowned speakers, and other activities.

“The Sounds of Porto” was the theme for the Sonic Interaction Design Summer School, which took place between 18 and 21 July at the Digitópia area of the Casa da Música. This European initiative aimed at representing the city of Porto through sound. Throughout the four-day event, 21 higher education students (selected from a total of 52 applications) interested in Sound Art had the opportunity to learn from senior researchers how to communicate, convey emotions or create pieces of art or scientific research with the sounds of Porto. The choice of articles and music pieces constituted a difficult and demanding tasks and only one third of the candidates were selected.

Other than an educational component where 11 senior researchers gave different lectures, the young researchers were encouraged to show their ideas and share their knowledge through Freesound.org, a social network where it is possible to edit, categorise and share sound contents.

Organised for the first time in Portugal and the first of its kind in the country, the 6th Sound and Music Computing was a privileged forum where it was possible to exchange ideas and experiences in the context of Sound and Music Computing, and interdisciplinary field that combines scientific and artistic methodologies, aiming to understand, model and generate sound and music through computational approaches.

The Conference started with a network performance, a concert where musicians from all over the world and interconnected through the most recent ICTs were encouraged to create and improvise music. With more than 250 participants, hundreds of people more were able to see this concert aver the Internet.

Next, it was time for the presentations of experts in the area, such as the presentation of the renowned Portuguese scientist José Carlos Príncipe, entitled "Perception as Self Organization in Space Time", and the presentation of the American scientist Atau Tanaka, entitled "From Mainframes to DIY Culture - Continuous Evolution in Computer Music”.

After previous editions in Paris, Salerno, Marseille Lefkada and Berlin, the Conference at the Casa da Música that INESC Porto brought to Portugal for the very first time was considered to be an enourmous success, having welcomed more than 200 participants from different areas of the planet, such as North and South America, Asia, Australia, among others.