Events | Symposium ACTUS – Audience as Performer

ACTUS (The Audience as Performer) is a project focused on creating artistic responses that contemplate audience participation as a performer in contemporary classical music. The objectives include the creation of memorabilia relating to audience participation in the musical work; the identification of ideas, main concepts, and types of audience participation in the current paradigm of contemporary classical music (with special emphasis on Portugal); the development of strategies for integrating the audience into the musical composition; and the creation of works based on the strategies above. The ACTUS project integrates artistic research, documentar research and case studies to respond to the possible research gap on participatory classical music, contributing to the reduction of audience alienation at contemporary music concerts.

The Institute of Ethnomusicology - Centre for Music and Dance Studies (INET-md) and Aveiro University will host the online symposium, ACTUS: Audience as Performers, on the 8^th and 9^th of November 2024. This event is linked to the project “ACTUS: Audience as Performers”, a project funded by INET-md, with funds from FCT. Researcher Sara Carvalho leads the project, in collaboration with researcher Gilvano Dalagna and doctoral student Daiana Maciel.

This symposium focuses on the role of the audience in contemporary music, inviting composers, performers, sound artists, scholars, music promoters, and audience members to share their insights.

Attendance is free but registration is mandatory. Please enroll here.

Program

8th November ‘24

10:15 . Opening: Sara Carvalho (ACTUS Project leader) e Henrique Portovedo (representing INET-md/UA)

5 minute break

10:30 . “What do audiences do when they listen?” - Keynote Stephanie E. Pitts (University of Sheffield)

10 minute break

11:30 . “Documentary Analysis and Case Studies of Audience Participation in Contemporary Classical Music: A Portuguese Perspective” - Gilvano Dalagna, Sara Carvalho e Daiana Maciel (INET-md/UA)

5 minute break

12:15 . “music as an invitation – from audience participation to collaboration in the creation of an online piano concert” - Késia Decoté (Universitetet I Bergen)

13:00 . lunch break

14:00 . “Compositional strategies to engage audiences in live new music pieces” – Sara Carvalho (INET-md/UA)

5 minute break

14:45 – “Sounding together - Audience participation in a Western classical music concert” -Sanna Vuolteenaho (Sibelius Academy)

5 minute break

15:30 – “Playing with/Playing to - Same audience, different listeners “ - Nuno Aroso (INET-MD /UA)

5 minute break

16:15 – “Performance as REaction, REflection, REcreation, REvelation and Reconfiguration” - Mafalda Carvalho (INET-MD /UA)

17:00 – end of day 1

09 de Novembro de 24

10:00 – “Vanguarda na Aldeia: engaging rural communities in contemporary music creation” -Carlos Canhoto e Helena Neves (Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco / UA)

5 minute break

10:45 -“Band on the Balcony – new sonorities, enriched communities” - Ângela da Ponte (ESMAE – P. Porto/CESEM) e Eduarda Freitas (Fundação Casa de Mateus)

5 minute break

11:30 – “Soneto Serrano” - Túlio Augusto (INET-md/UA)

5 minute break

12:15 – “Audience as agent in game-based musical narratives” - Daiana Maciel (INET-md/UA)

13:00 – end of day 2