Target audience Young people aged 12 and over 

Sessions 10:00 to 13:00 and 14:30 to 18:00

Support Portuguese Republic - Culture / Directorate-General for the Arts. RTCP - Network of Portuguese Theatres and Cinemas

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Let's make Concrete Music! 

08 July (Mon)

Trainers: Inês Luzio and Beatriz Rola

Around 70 years ago in Paris, Pierre Schaeffer created a new way of composing music: musique concrète (concrete music). Schaeffer and other composers who frequented the Club d'Essai, a studio/laboratory housed in French Radio-Television, listened to concrete sounds (i.e. sounds that existed around them), recorded, manipulated, distorted and combined them to create new musical compositions. Everything was handmade: they cut pieces of tape, glued them to pieces of other tapes, changed the order of playing, made them play faster. Today we can compose music like Pierre Schaeffer's using just a smartphone, tablet or computer, and that's exactly what we'll be doing in this workshop! We'll be inspired by Schaeffer's music to become modern composers of concrete music, using the sounds we hear around us today and the technology we have at our disposal. 

Inês Luzio - Musician, creator and artist/educator. Her practice spans the dimensions of the experimental, the documentary and the community, and intersects musical creation and interpretation with video, sound art, theater, dance and performance. She has collaborated and/or is collaborating with CIRCUITO, Projeto Mutantes - Comédias do Minho, Mater 17 - COR(P)O Metropolitano, OJM Educational Program, Companhia de Música Teatral and Terra a Terra/Orquestra Sem Fronteiras - Projeto MINHA (Interventional Music like Never Before in Arganil). 

Beatriz Rola - Master in Music Leadership from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (London, UK). In addition to her creative and performance practice, she develops artistic work in the community and collaborates with artists from other areas. As a trainer and musical director she collaborates with: Casa da Música Educational Service, OJM Educational Program, CIRCUITO, Bonfim Community Theatre Group and Mater 17 - COR(P)O Metropolitano. Highlights include performances with Tangente, Retimbrar, Kalea trio and Levitation Orquestra.

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Collage with Augmented Reality 

09 July (Tue)

Trainer: Monika Reut 

Note: Participants are encouraged to bring their smartphone if they have one. Each participant should bring old magazines with photographs or images that can be cut out.

During this workshop, participants will have the opportunity to create works of art - collages with augmented reality. They will learn how to mix physical media (paper cut-outs, drawings, photographs) and video using augmented reality technology. No previous experience of augmented reality is necessary. We will use the free Artivive mobile application.

Monika Reut - A Polish visual artist currently living in Porto. She graduated from the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts and the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Technology in Gdansk, Poland. She is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto. Regularly participates in solo and group exhibitions and is the author and co-author of artistic murals. Her areas of interest include oil painting, drawing, screen printing, 3D animation, videomapping and augmented reality.

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Thinking about light through images

July 10th (Wed)

Trainer: Maria João Salgado 

Note: Participants should bring a smartphone.

What do you know about the formation of an image and the role of light in this process? In this workshop we will explore the construction of optical instruments that function as devices for creating images in real time. Through the application of a primordial technology, participants will be able to reflect on light and its essential role in the creation and manipulation of an image. The workshop also aims to reflect on the evolution of image technologies and the way we interact with, share and capture them. 

Maria João Salgado - Photographer and visual artist, Maria João Salgado (1992) develops projects focusing on documentary photography, mainly about human rights and oppressed communities. She is currently focusing on more intimate work with various artistic and authorial focuses. In 2022, she was distinguished in the "30 under 30 women photographers" promoted by Artpil - Profile of Arts and nominated to be part of FUTURES Talents 2022, by FUTURES, a photography platform co-financed by the European Union's Creative Europe program.

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A creative adventure with Artificial Intelligence 

11 July (Thu)

Trainer: Filipe Lopes 

Materials needed: Laptop computer 

In this workshop, a digital application will be created to link sound, image and the human body. Based on this application, some principles of artificial intelligence will be discussed and some work done in this area will be presented, as well as the dissemination and explanation of free and accessible tools that are available on the internet today. 

Filipe Lopes - Adjunct Professor at the School of Media Arts and Design (ESMAD) of the Polytechnic of Porto (P. Porto), researcher at the Center for Research in Psychology of Music and Music Education (CIPEM) and researcher at the Research Unit in Media Arts and Design (uniMAD). He is a composer and performer with a strong affinity for electronic music and interactive digital systems, and has received several commissions throughout his career. Has composed music for multimedia installations, cinema, theater and performances, as well as having an extensive work combining music pedagogy and digital technologies. He is currently researching the relationship between music and plants, the relationship between reverberation and musical performance and the role of musicality in teaching sound for film. 

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Circuit Bending

12 July (Fri)

Trainer: Inês Castanheira 

Materials needed: Participants are encouraged to bring toys and battery-operated sound electronics that can be modified during the workshop. 

Note: No technical prerequisites or knowledge of electronics required. 

Circuit Bending technique is an electronic art of implementing sound short circuits in low-voltage devices and toys, with the purpose of creating unique instruments, providing, through the unpredictability of the short circuit, the invention of new musical behaviors and creative possibilities beyond the initial intentions of the devices.  

Inês Castanheira - is a transdisciplinary artist and researcher. Her work is a continuous dialog between art and technology, exploring and combining image, sound, electronics, programming and interactivity. She develops projects in multiple domains and collaborative environments, in the form of video, installations, electronic objects, audiovisual performances, concerts and workshops. In recent years, has been researching and experimenting DIY strategies, hardware hacking and the creative recycling of obsolete or discarded electronic devices.