The work we are presenting - MAGNIFICATIO ALGERVENSIS - is rightly inspired by the Algarvensis Geopark, through its many facets: unique geological aspects, but also landscapes, fauna and flora.
It consists of a transdisciplinary performance in which instrumental music and generative visuals communicate through the mediation of digital technologies. On the sonic side, a computational component adds characteristics to the traditional electroacoustic potential, as well as taking an important part in the musical dialogue through the use of Interactive Machine Learning algorithms, making it possible for the musical response of the computational component to evolve in real time.
On the visual side, there is a generative system that is controlled in real time, as if it were an instrument, and in which the textures - based on a photographic survey of the Algarvensis Geopark and subsequent digital manipulation - are transformed to accompany the musical performance. Thus, the convergence of these three vectors - musical performance, digital augmentation and responsive generative art - is used to take the audience on a magnificent sensory journey.
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MEMBERS
RUI TRAVASSO
Rui Travasso holds a PhD in Digital Media Arts (UAb/UAlg) and is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Beja. His research crosses performing arts, multimedia communication and interactive technology, with a focus on instrumental expansion and performance ecologies mediated by algorithms, as well as pedagogy related to Audiovisual and Media Production. She has participated in projects funded by DGArtes and the GDA Foundation, integrating artistic production and applied research. His artistic practice includes a decade as head of clarinet in the Algarve Orchestra, interactive performances, audiovisual systems, sound experimentation with an emphasis on inclusion and cultural mediation, and he has published over a hundred tracks.
ANDRÉ CONDE
André Conde has a PhD from the University of Évora (UE) in Music and Musicology. He began his musical studies at the Academia de Música Eborense and continued them at the Escola de Música do Conservatório Nacional de Lisboa. He was a member of international youth orchestras such as the Mediterranean Youth Orchestra and the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra. After completing his degree at the National Superior Academy of Orchestra, he was admitted to the University of the Arts in Zurich (ZHDK) on the Master's programme in Orchestral Performance, with a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. She was an academician at the Zurich Opera, where she later worked as Assistant 1st Trombone. He is completing his second Master's degree, this time in Specialised Performance - Soloist, at the ZHDK. He also has a background in ancient and contemporary music. He has attended masterclasses with some of the world's most prestigious trombonists and is a guest member of national and foreign orchestras: Zürich Opernhaus; Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra; Tonhalle Orchester Zürich; Gullbenkian Orchestra; Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto; among others. In addition to his participation in orchestras, he also performs regularly as a soloist, interpreting Early Music and Romantic repertoire as well as repertoire linked to the interpretation and composition of repertoire in the fields of Contemporary Music and Digital Art. He teaches at the EU.
PEDRO ALVES DA VEIGA
Pedro Alves da Veiga is an artist and researcher with a PhD in Digital Media Art from the University of Algarve and Universidade Aberta. He is an Assistant Professor at the Universidade Aberta, where he is Deputy Director of the PhD in Digital Media Art. He has been an entrepreneur for over two decades and has developed award-winning web design and multimedia projects. He is an integrated member of the Arts and Communication Research Centre and a collaborator with the ID+ Institute for Research in Design, Media and Culture. He has recorded two albums for the Polygram label and one of his songs is part of the soundtrack for the film "Variações". He has exhibited his generative artworks, individually and collectively, in Portugal, Brazil, Spain, France, Italy, Holland, Romania, Russia, China, South Korea, Thailand and the USA.
