The colloquium will open with Hugo Vasco Reis’ performance Tateabilidade, followed by the communication of the keynote speaker, the anthropologist Pedro Prista. The meeting will proceed with the presentation and discussion of three short communications by the World New Music Days 2025 composers Barry Truax, Ville Aslak Raasakka and Miguel Azguime, after which Aske Zidore’s Lærkeanimationer, meaning “Lark Animations”, will be performed by the violinist Nuno Rodrigues. To wrap up the session, the colloquium opens to the public, promoting a joint reflection on the matter of the Thirst for Change.

Nuno Rodrigues · violin
Hugo Vasco Reis · Portuguese guitar
Pedro Prista · keynote speaker
Barry Truax, Ville Aslak Raasakka, Miguel Azguime · speaker

Full programme:

| 13h30
HUGO VASCO REIS (Portugal, 1981)
"Tateabilidade" (2023)

| 14h
Keynote speaker | PEDRO PRISTA · "Thirst for Change"

| 14h30
BARRY TRUAX · "Music, Soundscape and Acoustic Sustainability"
VILLE ASLAK RAASAKKA · "Bio-Composition – Biological Research and Collaboration with Scientists in Compositional Focus"
MIGUEL AZGUIME · "Listening to the Earth: Spectral Music, 'A Laugh to Cry' and Ecological Activism"

| 15h15
ASKE ZIDORE (Denmark, 1984)
"Lærkeanimationer" (2023)
ISCM Danish Section submission

| 16h
Debate

Full programme and more info at: https://www.misomusic.me/wnmd2025-calendar/20250605