Alvaro Barbosa - Home Page
BiographySelected WorkArticles & Publications
Past
Phd: MTG - UPF, Barcelona
Post-Grad.: EA - UCP, Porto
Undergrad.: ET Dpt. - UA, Aveiro
Memberships:
AES #50266; ACM #2327450; ICMA ; EMF
Present
Sound and Image Dpt. Chair at EA - UCP, Porto
Researcher at CITAR - UCP, Porto
Associate Partner of BMAT, Bcn
PT Delegate for EU COST Actions:
Cost-287Cost-IC0601


Research Interest

Audiovisual Design; Sonic Arts; Networked Music; Gesture Controlled Audio Systems;
Sonic Interaction Design; Behavior-Driven and Tangible User Interfaces; Film Sound Theory.


Recent Guest Lectures and Talks
Music in the Global Village 2009 (December 2009), Budapest, Hungary

Summer School: Theories of Creative Design (September 2009), Gargnano del Garda, Italy
Forum Inner City: Cidade Criativa (Abril 2009) Portuguese Podcast and Summary , FAUP - Porto, Portugal

Public Sound ObjectsPublic Sound Objects

The Public Sound Objects (PSOs) . is a Shared Sonic Environment, for experimental music available as an installation or as a web based system. It is targeted to the general Public and it dos not require previous music knowledge. A user can join collaborative performance using a "Bouncing Ball Java Interface" by manipulating Sound Objects in a central soundserver. The project was originaly created by Álvaro Barbosa during his visiting research period at the MTG - Barcelona.

Public Sound Objects

Since September 2007 PSOs became a permanent installation at Casa da Música and is presently located at "Sala Renascença". Since then, the project development has been undertaken by CITAR - Porto.

PSO


O Trovão - Is a 3D Animation Short Film produced at UCP - Escola das Artes, featuring many experimental techniques in order to achieve a stylistic visual style complemented with a sonic and musical environment that converged to a highly gratifying result. The team that produced this project included faculty members and students from UCP, as well as a group of independent musicians from Porto working on the Closing Theme "Thunder Surf" (André Hollanda, Pedro Vidal, Eurico Amorim and André Indiana).

O Trovão


Photo Pages
Joshua Tree, AZ 1999
| ICMC, Singapore 2003 | Glowing Fish, BCN 2003 | ICAD, Sydney 2004
ANET Summit, Banff 2004  | NIME, Vancouver 2005 | Cost-287, Salerno 2005
| Snow, Dienten 2007
Cost-287, Reykjavik 2007
| ANET II, Banff 2008 | Siggraph, LA 2008 | Cost-IC0601, Laajavuori 2008