In its 14th edition this year, the Música Viva Festival is both national and internationally recognised as a vast breathing space of renewal and as meeting point of today’s music metamorphoses.
19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 and 27 Sep 2008
JERÓNIMOS MONASTERY, CENTRO CULTURAL DE BELÉM, CALOUSTE GULBENKIAN FOUNDATION
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It is a privileged platform for exchanging and discussing ideas and aesthetics; a crossroad between music and technology and an occasion for dialogue with other realms of contemporary creation, in a field that extends from the instrumental and analogue to the virtual and electronic.
From improvisation to score music, Música Viva Festival 2008 offers once more the most prominent names alongside the youngest composers and performers.
The Festival reaffirms the Portuguese music creation’s full vitality and diversity by presenting performances with large orchestras, the Miso Music Portugal’s Loudspeaker Orchestra and its notorious electronic music concerts, chamber music, electroacoustic theatre, concerts for children, sound and video installations, and vocal performances.
For this Música Viva 2008 edition, to be held between September 19th to 27th, Miso Music Portugal will partner with the Centro Cultural de Belém, Jerónimos Monastery and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation to present a total of 24 different performances; 124 pieces (15 out of them were commissioned to Miso Music Portugal); 53 world premieres; works from 82 different composers of which 42 Portuguese composers.
Finally, there will be the new Sound Walk project and 6 sound installations at the festival’s Interactive Lounge.
All in all these numbers prove the extremely fertile creative activity one can witness today in Portugal and to which the Festival gives its voice.
MISO MUSIC PORTUGAL IS FUNDED BY THE MINISTÉRIO DA CULTURA / DIRECÇÃO-GERAL DAS ARTES
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MISO MUSIC PORTUGAL/CCB
