Promoted by Miso Music Portugal, the Música Viva Festival – accomplishing 15 years in 2009 - is one of the major initiatives developed by the association, among its broad range of activities. Celebrating 15 years of existence in favour of contemporary musical creation, with particular attention to Portuguese music and its relations with technology (i.e., mixed music, electronic music, music with image, staged music), is certainly a good age to review the role this Festival has been playing regarding music and its creators, and those who enjoy it: the audience. Year after year, the festival is becoming a privileged space in what concerns to reflection and aesthetic and philosophical confrontation. Year after year, the festival makes history, redefines tradition, questions the present and speculates on future. In each edition, new creators stand out, new contexts arise, in a metamorphosis suitable to artistic creation promoted by the festival. In 2009 the highlights of the Festival’s programming are the (i) Retrospective-Prospective Cândido Lima, celebrating the 70 years of this Portuguese music figure; (ii) the questioning on the eroticism in music, giving place to the premiere of the performance Ficções Sonoras Eróticas (Erotic Sound Fictions); (iii) several Portuguese composers’ premieres, including the work commissioned by the CCB to Miguel Azguime for a chamber ensemble, electronics and narrator from Perrault’s text The Master Cat or the Puss in Boots; (iv) the Music Video and Cinema of Sounds concerts; sound installations and conferences, and a huge participation of electroacoustic creations for the Caminho Pedonal (Foot Path) coming from all around the world, integrated in the SoundWall project.