ABSTRACT: This paper presents the program in electronic music composition and musical production at the School of the Applied Arts of the Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco. This study program offers a 1st cycle degree and is functioning since the academic year of 2005/2006. We will present the curriculum of the program and the next phase in the program development, which includes making contacts with people and institutions to further develop the program through ERASMUS exchanges of faculty and students, hiring of new faculty members, and eventual creation of an European partnership for (...)

ABSTRACT: The present text intends, in a summarized and therefore not exhaustive way, to give the reader a perspective on what is the digitization of sound and on the possibilities offered by this form of sound representation nowadays. After a brief description of the digitization process, a description will be given of the new possibilities that open up for analysis and manipulation of sound, as well as the advantages in the digital representation of sound in interdisciplinary artistic projects serving as a vehicle of interactivity between the digital arts. KEYWORDS: Sound Scanning; (...)

ABSTRACT: This paper presents the latest developments of the Public Sound Objects (PSOs) system, an experimental framework to implement and test new concepts for Networked Music. The project of a Public interactive installation using the PSOs system was commissioned in 2007 by Casa da Musica, the main concert hall space in Porto. It resulted in a distributed musical structure with up to ten interactive performance terminals distributed along the Casa da Musica& (...)