núcleo de investigação em música, artes e espectáculo

NIMAE
NÚCLEO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM MÚSICA, ARTES E ESPECTÁCULO
DESCRIÇÃO sumária:
O NIMAE – Núcleo de Investigação em Música, Artes e Espectáculo – tem como missão desenvolver investigação de alta qualidade e promover o desenvolvimento artístico, teórico e tecnológico nas áreas de Música, Teatro e Artes Visuais bem como promover a comunicação e a cooperação entre investigadores e decisores políticos a nível regional, nacional e internacional que reflicta
e desenvolva os seus saberes específicos.
NIMAE address four areas of the performing arts: Creation, Interpretation, Technology and Theory,
applied to three main domains: music, theatre and visual arts. It is dedicated to providing artists
with the time and space to create, develop and discuss new works.
Núcleo de Investigação em Música e Artes do Espectáculo: designated by the acronym NIMAE
Recently created, NIMAE is rooted in Porto and located in the premises of two vibrant artistic institutions, the Superior School of Music and Performing Arts and the Fine Arts Faculty, within walking
distance.
It is a general objective of NIMAE to develop high-quality research, promote artistic, theoretical
and technological development in the areas of Music, Theatre and Visual Arts and to foster the
communication and cooperation between researchers and policy makers at regional, national and
international levels, which reflect their particular discipline-specific expertise.
NIMAE address four areas of the performing arts: Creation, Interpretation, Technology and Theory,
applied to three main domains: music, theatre and visual arts. We are dedicated to providing artists with the time and space to create, develop, present and discuss new works. Its programmes
of work combine teaching and knowledge transfer in practical training, education and research,
performance, production, documentation and publishing.
A broad suite of methods, including research about the arts to a more pro-active research model
involving practitioners researching through action and reflecting in and on action, as well as field
and laboratory-based studies, are used to meet our target goals.
Some ongoing activities fall into the following areas:
Music:
Composition and music Theory, Form and Memory in Improvisation, Music Development, Music
performance anxiety, Enhancing the acoustic behaviour of the Portuguese Guitar, Virtual acoustics
in music performance: the study on the preferred acoustic conditions for musicians; Portuguese
Piano Music. Other activities in the area include several recitals and/or lecture recitals.
Theatre:
The study of space and figure having into account the design and theatricality in the transversal
quality of contemporary and collaborative meaning; Design and sustainability: the exploration of
materials in the development of the visual imagetics of a theatre Play. Other activities in the area
include several theatre productions.
Visual Arts:
Music, Reason and/or Emotion in the context of performance practice; Photography and documental cinema on the electric substations of Oporto, IRI: Imagens do Real Imaginado (images of
the imagined reality); Ora & Labora (Photography, 300cmx180cm, Exhibition; Wire of The Hank
(Photography, 200x450cm, Instalation); Experience of Place , (Video and Photography, Instalation); Inversus - The sensitive machine, Multimedia; bePuppit - Play with virtual puppets/
Some Interdisciplinary projects:
The Magic Flute by Mozart: A project that involved music, theatre, visual arts and music production, performed at the main venues in Portugal, recorded and broadcasted on Euroclassics.
Several research seminars and dissertations emerged, in areas such as voice, stage design and
costume design, linking performance and research. Producer: António Salgado. Staging: Peter
Konwitschny.
Metamorphosis (1) and Euridice after Orpheus (2) by Dimitris Andrikopoulos: Projects of collaborative creation which depart from a given theme and explore composition and choreography through
a model of improvisation in real time. They involve performers from areas like cinema, costume
design, movement or composition and were commissioned by two of the most prominent Portuguese contemporary venues: Auditório de Caldas da Rainha and Avanca Film Festival.
Inside Music Machine: Combining scientific research and technology with musical performance,
this project/performance and its subsequently performances offers a multimedia experience where
both the muscular and neuronal activity of a violinist are shown in real-time, through the use of a
thermographic machine and an EEG (electroencephalography). Performed at the opening concert
of Festival de Leiria and the closing concert Festival FUTURISMOS at Casa da Música.