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, Intelligent, and Tangible User Interfaces.

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


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