In 2018 I’ll become the Young Composer in Residence at Casa da Música, Porto, Portugal, writing music for the in-house symphony orchestra (Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música), for the Remix Ensemble, and for the award-winning Trio Adamastor. I’m humbled to be joined by Georg Friedrich Haas who will become Composer in Residence for…
Vitorino Coragem photographed Cláudia Sampaio, a Portuguese poet. The result is Fada do Lar (home fairy), a new exhibition to take place at O Bom o Mau e o Vilão, a famous and vibrant club in Lisbon’s Cais do Sodré. I worked with Carolina Amaral, who lent her voice, to create an electroacoustic soundtrack. The premiere…
The piece A Walk in the Countryside, for solo flute, has been selected by the International Society for Contemporary Music for performance at the ISCM World New Music Days in Vancouver, Canada. The festival will take place from 2-8 November. The flute piece — commissioned by Ensemble Recherche, Germany, and developed with its flutist Martin Fahlenbock — will…
A new work will be premiered by the Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble (Lisbon, Portugal) on the 21st of October, 2017. The Sond’Ar-te is an amazing ensemble, setup by Miguel and Paula Azguime. It performs regularly at O’culto da Ajuda, a recent and rather unique venue in Lisbon where the concert will take place.
Algorithm and Decision in Musical Composition (2016) PDF file (click to download) Attached Algorithms CD-ROM (click to download the ZIP file) City University London digital publication: City Research Online Abstract Through a series of creative projects this doctorate set out to research how computer-assisted composition (CAC) of music affects decision-making in my compositional practice. By reporting on…