Alvaro Barbosa - Home Page

Past
Phd: MTG - UPF, Barcelona
Post-Grad.: EA - UCP, Porto
Undergrad.: ET Dpt. - UA, Aveiro
PT Delegate for EU COST Action Cost-287
Memberships:
AES #50266; ACM #2327450; ICMA ; EMF

Present
Visiting Scholar at CCRMA - Stanford University
Director of Sound and Image Dpt. EA - UCP, Porto
Researcher at CITAR - UCP, Porto
Associate Partner of BMAT, Bcn
PT Delegate for EU COST Action:
Sonic Inetraction Design Cost-IC0601

Linkdin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alvarobarbosa
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/abarbosavideos

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
Network Musical Performance Workshop 2010 (July 2010), Stanford University - California, USA
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

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.

Pulsing Heart - Pulsing Heart is an interactive installation project that was commissioned to Sofia Thenaisie, Renato Branco, Álvaro Barbosa and Luis Gustavo Martins by Porto's Casa da Musica in order to commemorate it's 5th Anniversary. The project consisted in an interactive system that measured real time heart pulses from visitors and mapped it in a periodic red light that covered the entire Casa da Musica from the outside to the inside. The closing of the project took place in April 14th of 2010 at Casa da Musica's hallways, with a live electronic performance that mapped it's musical outcome into pulses of light that spanned throughout the building.

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.

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).