Phd candidate in the Artistic Creation Doctoral Program at the University of Aveiro (UA) together with the Polytechnic Institutes of Porto and Leiria (IPP) (IPL). Ongoing project: Hyper-friction drum: free improvisation with cuíca and live electronics. Supervisor: Dr. Filipe Lopes.
Keywords: Artistic research, Live electronics, Free improvisation; Percussion
Movement-sound: creative interactions between music and dance in free improvisation performances (2023) Master’s thesis. Master’s in Sound Creation from the Federal University of Paraná. Universidade Federal do Paraná, Setor de Artes, Comunicação e Design, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Música. Supervisor: Dr. Indioney Rodrigues.
Abstract: The present research aims to investigate and analyze creative interactions between music and dance in free improvisation performances. Creative processes in free improvisation performances with music and dance were explored through semi-structured interviews involving musicians and dancers who develop systematic artistic research in the area of free improvisation and through several laboratories of artistic experimentation carried out in different contexts – in person and online -, and organized according to the exploration of the different levels of interaction between body and musical gestures, proposed by musicologist Marc Leman. Applied analysis of the results obtained in such interviews and laboratories was carried out, based on the collection of their audiovisual records, as well as on the experience reports of their participants. Such analysis was structured in a multidisciplinary manner, from the perspective of literature, on different aspects: in the specific field of free improvisation, based on the research of guitarist Derek Bailey; in the field of dance, based on the research of dancer and choreographer Rudolf Laban; in the field of embodied musical cognition, based on the research of musicologist Marc Leman; in the field of musical perception, based on research by Egil Haga.
Keywords: Free improvisation; Music and dance; Collaborative processes; Interdisciplinary creative processes
Descriptive memorial of exploratory laboratories of the interactivity between music and dance in contexts of free improvisation (2022). Essay published on the journal: O Mosaico – Revista de Pesquisa em Artes do Campus Curitiba II FAP/ Unespar.
Memorial of composition: Spectral pandeiro, routines of controlled improvisation for solo pandeiro (2017). Undergraduate thesis. Bachelor’s in Sound Production. Universidade Federal do Paraná, Setor de Artes, Comunicação e Design, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Música. Supervisor: Dr. Indioney Rodrigues.
Abstract: In this undergraduate thesis I describe the compositional process of a controlled improvisational solo for pandeiro which I named Pandeiro espectral in which I use Brazilian pandeiro modern techniques giving special attention to one which enables the player to modulate the instrument’s pitch which is presented here as the melodic-pandeiro technique. Throughout the text I make comments about advanced pandeiro techniques giving more emphasis to the ones spreaded by musician Marcos Suzano and I write about new perspectives for the Brazilian pandeiro that have been emerging in the contemporary world and I name some of the ones responsible for them. In order to notate parts of Pandeiro espectral in the score I researched alternative ways to represent the melodic pandeiro technique and I developed my own for the task.