Grupos e compositores portugueses de música contemporânea: preservação do património colectivo
Organic Unit: FCSH
Research Center: CESEM
Organic Unit: FCSH
Research Center: CESEM
This project aims to digitise, study and preserve collections of some of the most important composers and music ensembles from the last 30 years of the twentieth century, whose documentation is scattered and/or has never been treated. The main goal of this project is to make documents, recordings and scores accessible, keeping alive and valuing this relevant heritage of Portuguese contemporary music, thus allowing academics, musicians or other stakeholders to access, study and reinterpret works from this period, which had an impact on the Portuguese music scene. To achieve this objective, collaboration protocols have been drawn up between Universidade NOVA and the owners of the collections (heirs or others responsible for this heritage, both private and institutional). This project has been gaining relevance as many of the works from that period are experimental in several aspects (they include non-conventional instruments and artefacts, improvisation, electronics, etc.), and this documentation being dispersed, inconsistent or lost, it is difficult to put this repertoire back on stage.
