News | Researchers of INET-md at the conference KISMIF'2024

The international conference KISMF - Keep it Simple, Make it Fast, this year devoted to "DIY Cultures, Democracy and Creative Participation", was attended by two integrated researchers and three PhD candidates of INET-md.

Bart Vanspauwen presented a paper titled "The 'dark' side of Lusophony in the songs/video clips "Versos que atravessam o Atlântico" and "Guetos de Guiné-Bissau"", a work integrated in the panel on "Redes de música pop-periférica lusófonas: alianças transversais, tensões e dissensos", held by the project "Redes de música pop-periféricas lusófonas: gêneros, formatos,performances e narrativas em fluxos no ecossistema digital", coordinated by the researcher Simone Pereira de Sá (Univ. Federal Fluminense).

Pedro Nunes, Maria Teresa Lacerda and Nathália Andrião Trotta contributed to the panel "Modern music/Modern love: fruition, consumption, publishing and production", coordinated by Luiz Alberto Moura (CESC/UM) and Pedro Miguel Ferreira (CES/UC), with the following papers:

Pedro Nunes | "’This could never happen anywhere else’: Batida, the nexus Príncipe Discos/Filho Único and the role of cultural intermediators in 21st century music making"

Maria Teresa Lacerda | "From Silence to Song: Creation of music albums by independent queer Portuguese singer-songwriters in contemporary Portugal"

Nathália Andrião Trotta | "Escritório: The Local Art Scene Through DIY in Rio de Janeiro"

For his part, Guillermo Blanes took part in the event with two activities: one presenting a documentary film entitled “Democratizing Playibilities - Presenting the MidiMbira and the live-looping of tradition. Par research into remix performance practices as a possibility for and alternative DIY Indigenous Futurity in Mozambique”; and a live looping performance using the Midimbira hyperinstrument – a digital-acoustic controller created in collaboration with May Mbira, a master mbiro from Maputo: "The DIY Midimbira and other traditional musical instruments from Mozambique in an ethno-digital live-looping performance".

For more information, access KISMIF webpage.

The participation of these researchers was financed by national funds through FCT — Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., with the project UIDB/00472/2020.